Apple's in-app purchasing process circumvented by Russian hacker
Today we received some disturbing tips that a Russian developer has published a method of obtaining in-app purchases from iOS apps for free. First noticed by Russian blog i-ekb.ru, the “in-app proxy"...
Announcing an audacious proposal
The overwhelmingly positive response to my blogpost, What Twitter could have been has been inspiring. The post has generated 80K pageviews thus far. Without really meaning to, I touched a nerve. Th...
Google's Nexus tablet selling fast across retail chains
(Reuters) - Google Inc's “Nexus 7” tablet is off to an encouraging start, with major retailers running out of the gadgets as the Internet company's first entry in an increasingly crowded market showed...
Apple contacted U.S. carriers and retailers to demand removal of banned Samsung products
During the last 24 hours there have been various filings with the Federal Circuit in the cases relating to Apple's preliminary injunctions against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Galaxy Nexus smartphone.
If you haven't heard the news, I'm thrilled to announce that Digg is now in the hands of Betaworks
(makers of bitly, chartbeat, news.me, and other great products). I've been a big fan of John Borthwick ( http://foundation.kr/11/ ) for awhile now and I'm excited to see where his team takes the prod...
RIM Is Bleeding Developers
Research In Motion's sad decline is having all manner of ill effects on the company's long-suffering developer community. — Disillusioned with repeated delays to RIM's next generation BlackBerry 10 ...
BBC Launches Localized iOS, Android Olympics Apps (Video Not Included Internationally)
The two-week countdown to the Olympics is on, and the big broadcasters are getting their ducks in line for how they will be streaming, tweeting, sharing, and generally filling your digital life with t...
Street View goes on a road trip through California's national parks
One hot summer day in Yosemite National Park in Northern California, I sat under a tree along a lazy river in awe of the natural beauty around me. I looked out at the majestic granite mountains, the ...
Android Forums hacked: 1 million user credentials stolen
Summary: Phandroid's AndroidForums.com has been hacked. The database that powers the site was compromised and more than 1 million user account details were stolen. If you use the forum, make sure to...
How many Lumia phones were sold in the US?
Nielsen and comScore survey US consumers through different methodologies, however they both try to paint a picture of the smartphone patterns of ownership and consumption. — I regularly report on co...
Apple reverses course: Apple products go back on EPEAT, letter from SVP Bob Mansfield
Following complaints, Apple has reversed its decision to pull its elgible products from the EPEAT standard. Apple's SVP of Engineering has issued a letter:
Microsoft may scrap full retail edition of Windows 8, offer OEM and upgrade only
Microsoft is reportedly planning to kill its retail full edition of Windows 8, offering simplified upgrade and System Builder options for home users. The software maker has typically sold upgrade, fu...
Social networks scan for sexual predators, with uneven results
(Reuters) - On March 9 of this year, a piece of Facebook software spotted something suspicious. — A man in his early thirties was chatting about sex with a 13-year-old South Florida girl and planned...
Ads up, games down: The ugly, profitable details about Xbox Live advertising
Xbox Live is the online platform for the Xbox 360 that allows people to play against each other online, chat across games, and manage their friend list. Xbox Live is also a for-pay service …
Amazing Alex Shoots to No. 1 on First Day
Rovio doesn't need birds to fly it to the top of the app charts. Its new non-Angry Birds game, Amazing Alex, is already No. 1 in many regions, just a day after it was released, with particular streng...
Report claims Microsoft will reveal Office 2013 to the public on July 16th
A new report by USAToday suggests that Microsoft will finally unveil Office 15, the company's next generation office productivity suite, to the public. Office 15, or Office 2013, was originally rumor...
Retina MacBook Pro Shipping Estimates Improving for the First Time
For the first time since its launch just over one month ago, Apple's Retina MacBook Pro has begun to see improvements in shipping estimates for new orders placed through the company's online store.
Korean company's tiny quad-core ARM Linux computer packs a punch at $129
Hardkernel's little Linux computer, with a quad-core Samsung Exynos CPU — Little Linux computers have attracted a lot of interest from hobbyists this year. The $35 Raspberry Pi ARM board, which met...
Skout Reopens Social App for Teenagers
Just one month ago, Skout, a mobile app, was forced to close down its social network for 13- to 17-year-olds when three adults were arrested after using the app to prey on minors and, authorities said...
Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners calls NASDAQ & Morgan Stanley Criminals in Facebook IPO Debacle
Roger McNamee, co-founder of Elevation Partners, appeared on Bloomberg TV's “Money Moves” with Deirdre Bolton today and said that NASDAQ and Morgan Stanley conduct in Facebook IPO is “criminal” and ex...
Facebook Starts Automating Home-Page Ad Buying
Premium Ads Now Available Through Third-Party Sellers — Two months after announcing it would automate the buying of premium ads that appear on user home pages and in their news feeds, Facebook has o...
Does an app store's size matter if content is the killer app?
Apple claims 500,000 apps in its App Store for the iPhone and over 700,000 when iPad apps are added in. Google Play claims 600,000 apps for Android. Windows Phone is estimated to have 100,000 apps i...
Facebook for Android update lets you use the front-facing camera
Facebook version 1.97 for Android is here, and it comes with the usual array of minor interface tweaks and bug fixes. One feature of note, however, is that you're now able to take and upload photos u...
RIM hit with $147.2 million verdict in California patent lawsuit
(Reuters) - A northern California jury directed Research in Motion Ltd to pay $147.2 million in patent litigation over a remote management system for wireless devices, according to an attorney for the...
Can Tumblr's David Karp Embrace Ads Without Selling Out?
It's been said (by Steve Jobs, no less) that good design is not just about how a thing looks but rather about how a thing works. But maybe design is also about how a thing feels. — The design of Tu...
LinkedIn Today gets Facebook-esque commenting, liking and trending features
Now that LinkedIn has gotten rid of all of the Twitter spam from its service, the company is now focusing on bubbling up great content via its “Today” product. — Today, the company announced some ne...
BlackBerry eschews China for security reasons
BlackBerrys, the mobile devices favored by government agencies worldwide, are not manufactured in China because that would compromise their much-vaunted security advantage, according to the CEO of Res...
U.S. Pursues Richard O'Dwyer as Intermediary in Online Piracy
Richard O'Dwyer, an enterprising 24-year-old college student from northern England, has found himself in the middle of a fierce battle between two of America's great exports: Hollywood and the Interne...
Jetpac's Social Travel iPad App Grabs $2.4 Million From Khosla Ventures, Jerry Yang And Others
Jetpac, a gorgeous social travel application for iPad, has just scored $2.4 million in Series A funding from Khosla Ventures, Morado Venture Partners, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang and [redacted] …