uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions
uTorrent for Windows saw its first public release in September 2005 and soon became the most widely used BitTorrent application. Today over 125 million users worldwide use the client regularly and th...
Malaria is no excuse for patent trolling, Mr. Myhrvold
Nathan Myhrvold, CEO of Intellectual Ventures, took issue with GigaOM this week after we expressed skepticism about his company's plans to hire a “VP of Global Good.” — In an interview with tech sit...
The unibody iPhone
This is could be one of four things — 1. A very elaborate hoax. If it's a hoax, kudos to whoever made it because it would require the same amount of design and engineering effort that would go into...
Outlook.com team hints at IMAP support, admits Mac client support 'isn't great'
Microsoft launched its all-new Outlook.com late last month, but Mac users and fans of IMAP were left out in the cold. Although Microsoft has never officially supported IMAP in Hotmail, a large number...
F.T.C. Will Reconsider Letting Companies Settle While Denying Guilt
WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission finished a settlement with Facebook on Friday over allegations that the company had violated its privacy policy, and in the process said it would re-examine i...
How YouTube Will Escape Google's New Pirate Penalty
Google has announced that it will soon penalize sites that are repeatedly accused of copyright infringement. But one site in particular doesn't need to worry: Google's own YouTube. It has a unique i...
Piracy witch hunt downs legit e-book lending Web site
commentary: Several authors on Twitter mistook an e-book lending Web site for a piracy hub, a mistake that eventually took the site offline. As the dust settles, a disturbing picture of file-sharing ...
Stratfor emails reveal secret, widespread TrapWire surveillance system
Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology — and have installed it across the US under the radar of most A...
You Either Die A Hero Or You Become The Villain
Over the past month, I've been watching Dalton Caldwell's App.net experiment with much interest. Essentially, he's trying to rebuild Twitter from the ground up, only as a fully user and developer-sup...