Face blurring: when footage requires anonymity
As citizens continue to play a critical role in supplying news and human rights footage from around the world, YouTube is committed to creating even better tools to help them. According to the intern...
Earliest known photos of an Apple iPad prototype
Well before the iPhone, and going back all the way to the early 2000s, Apple had been working on tablet prototypes that would eventually form the groundwork for the original iPad It's well established...
Apple Must Publish Notice Samsung Didn't Copy IPad In U.K.
Apple Inc. (AAPL) was ordered by a judge to publish a notice on its U.K. website and in British newspapers alerting people to a ruling that Samsung Electronics Co. didn't copy designs for the iPad.
Researchers Say They Took Down World's Third-Largest Botnet
On Wednesday, computer security experts took down Grum, the world's third-largest botnet, a cluster of infected computers used by cybercriminals to send spam to millions of people. Grum, computer sec...
Memo to DOJ: Drop the Apple E-Books Suit
Restoring Amazon's monopoly in digital publishing is not in the public interest. — Recently the Department of Justice filed suit against Apple and major publishers, alleging that they colluded to ra...
McDonald's Denies Employees Assaulted Human Cyborg Steve Mann
In response to a storm of controversy surrounding its treatment of Human Cyborg Steve Mann, McDonald's has issued a statement, claiming that it has investigated the incident and determined that it “di...
Fab Seals The Deal On $105 Million In New Funding
Design-oriented flash sales site Fab has raised $105 million in new funding, the company announced today. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and was subsequently confirmed by Fab ...
EU regulators investigating Microsoft's Windows 8
(Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are investigating whether Microsoft blocks computer makers from installing rival web browsers on its upcoming Windows 8 operating system following complaints from s...
Apple Now Including Unique Identifiers for In App Purchase Receipts to Combat Hack
Following last week's launch of a hack that allowed users to obtain In App Purchase content free of charge by routing their purchase requests through a server run by a Russian hacker, Apple began taki...
Viacom says there's ‘no deal in sight’ to get channels back on DirecTV
It's hard to distinguish who's behaving like the bigger drama queen when it comes to the recent carriage fee dispute between DirecTV and Viacom. For the moment, DirecTV seems to be inching ahead, acc...
Evernote adds Activity Stream and Retina display support
Evernote for Mac has just been updated with a brand new notification center and improved graphics for Macbook Retina displays. — The new ‘Activity Stream’ works much the same way as the notification...
64GB Samsung Galaxy S III not canceled, set for release later this year
We had all but forgotten about it, but the 64GB version of the Galaxy S III is alive and well. We heard a few reports yesterday that the high-capacity variant was canceled — the source of the news wa...
Dropbox Has Hired Outside Experts To Investigate Possible Security Breach
The spam attack and related possible address leak over at Dropbox may be even more serious than we originally thought. According to a message posted by the company over on its forums, they've now bro...
Unsolicited advice for Marissa Mayer
OMG, did you see that Marissa Mayer is now CEO of Yahoo? — That was one of many messages I got from current and ex-Yahoos on yesterday's news. Having recently exited a short stint at Yahoo as an en...
AT&T gets into shared data: ‘Mobile Share’ plans coming late August
Just over a month after Verizon announced Share Everything, AT&T is getting into the burgeoning shared data game (as it's been saying it would) with Mobile Share, a tiered set of plans that allow subs...
With a $6 million Series A, Twist for iOS wants to ensure you'll never wait for someone again
There are times when we see a team and we know that the product that they're crafting is going to be great. When startup vets Bill Lee and Mike Belshe are behind a project, it would be one of those t...
Dotcom Extradition Judge Steps Down After “U.S. Enemy” Comment
For the greater part, Kim Dotcom and his co-defendants will have been pretty happy with Judge David Harvey, the man overlooking their increasingly controversial extradition case. — Things had been g...
Hardware hacker startup grabs $3.65M for computer/Lego hybrid toy
LittleBits is a maker/hacker startup through and through, and it's just taken a sizable round of venture funding from a few of the bigger names in Silicon Valley. — It's product is half building blo...
Google Quietly Acq-hires Part Of Design Firm Cuban Council For Google+
In the midst of today's news whirl, this tidbit slipped through the cracks; Part of the design team Cuban Council has apparently been acq-hired by Google, according to a note on their blog.
NSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate
The Senate Armed Service Committee isn't exactly pleased with the NSA's Google-like database. — Image: jim.greenhill/Flickr — In 2008, a team of software coders inside the National Security Agency...
Already Valued at $4B, China's Xiaomi Has Declared War on Apple
China's answer to Apple occupies the 12th floor of a staid office tower in a sprawling commercial area of Beijing. It has no signage on the building's exterior, so the only clue that suggests I'm in ...
Sony unveils 2012 Walkman range: Android 4.0 F series and refreshed entry-level E series (eyes-on)
The Walkman F800 is Sony's latest PMP; a 3.5-inch Android media player that replaces the company's middling Z series. Perhaps the most intriguing point is that the new media player will arrive …
Google launches Gmail SMS, letting users in Africa send and receive emails by text message
Google has rolled out a new service in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya that lets Gmail users send and receive emails using the built-in SMS features of their mobile phones.
Bringing Banking To Immigrants & Unbanked, m-Via Rebrands As Boom Financial, Closes On $17 Million In Funding
Global mobile money transfer service m-Via is officially rebranding as Boom Financial today as it announces the close of a $17 million round of funding, led by mobile operator Digicel Group Ltd …
With 110M Monthly Visitors, Dailymotion Debuts Update to Cloud Service
Today Paris and NYC-based Dailymotion, a web video platform that reaches more than 110 million unique visitors per month, announced an update to its Dailymotion Cloud product, which makes its suite of...
Foxconn planning $1 billion facility in Indonesia
New manufacturing plant will create 1 million jobs in the region, where the average monthly wage is $100 a month — The market leading computer manufacturer Foxconn is planning a new $1 billion facil...
FBI's Secretive ‘National Security Letter’ Demand for Phone Records Faces Rare Challenge
In a rare test of a tool expanded in the U.S. Patriot Act, a telecom company is fighting the government's use of a secretive tool called a national security letter to get access to customer records wi...
Judge rejects secrecy bids in Apple vs. Samsung battle
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge rejected several requests by Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd to keep portions of key documents out of public view in their high-stakes patent litigation battle set fo...
ARM-based OpenStack: it's like an army of cell phones powering cloud-based computing
RackSpace, HP, Canonical, and other OpenStack members are combining forces to build what they say will be the first-ever ARM processor based cloud. The goal is to build an extremely efficient, powerf...
Facebook and Washington state join forces to register voters
Collaborating with Microsoft, Washington state and Facebook partner to create an app that lets the state's residents register to vote via the social network. — Follow @darakerr — Washington State ...