Protecting People On Facebook
Facebook, like every significant internet service, is frequently targeted by those who want to disrupt or access our data and infrastructure. As such, we invest heavily in preventing, detecting, and ...
To get products into more hands, Google will open its own stores by the end of the year
An extremely reliable source has confirmed to us that Google is in the process of building stand-alone retail stores in the U.S. and hopes to have the first flagship Google Stores open for the holiday...
Skype Video Messages launches for Mac, iPhone, and Android (hands-on)
Microsoft is launching a new Video Messages feature for Skype this week. The company has been working on the feature for a number of months, having previously revealed it a little early, and it debut...
Jonathan Ive gets gold Blue Peter badge
Sir Jonathan Ive was presented with the award by Blue Presenter Barney Harwood — The BBC's Blue Peter programme has honoured Apple's design chief Sir Jonathan Ive with its highest accolade - a gold ...
Touch-based Ubuntu preview coming February 21st, will work on Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4
It's not like we didn't have ample warning, so by now anyone wanting to try out the new Ubuntu smartphone OS should have gotten hold of a Galaxy Nexus to be their test device. Still don't have one?
Posterous shuttering for good on April 30th to focus on Twitter, offering data downloads until then
Blogging platform Posterous has announced via its company blog that it will be shutting down as of April 30th. The company was acquired by Twitter just under a year ago.
Does Apple really assign engineers to “fake” projects as a loyalty test?
“Apple Makes New Employees Work on Fake Products Until Apple Can Trust Them”, blared a headline—and many others like it—last January. In the Apple-watching world, it has since become common wisdom th...
The Fall TV Lineup May Include Apple Dominating Gaming
What I'm about to say is undoubtedly going to piss some of you off. And that's fine. Because in a few years, I'll be right and you'll look silly. — While everyone is focused on the next generation...
EA and Zynga reach settlement in lawsuit surrounding The Ville
Inside Social Games has learned that Zynga and Electronic Arts have reached a settlement and are moving to dismiss the lawsuit that was filed last summer surrounding The Ville. The decision is now in...
Facebook in futile attempt to block perverts from Graph Searching for teens
Flawed system relies on kids - and adults - being honest about their age — Facebook has attempted to flatten fears about perverts using the company's Graph Search function to prey on teenagers on th...
A world of hurt after McAfee mistakenly revokes key for signing Mac apps
Just allow untrusted certificates, one customer told. — Travis Nep Smith — A McAfee administrator accidentally revoked the digital key used to certify desktop applications that run on Apple's OS X...
FlightCar brings the sharing economy to airport car rentals, launches at SFO with $570k in Seed funding
On the scale of frighteningly ambitious startup ideas, taking responsibility of a stranger's car and handing it over to a second stranger is pretty high up there.
Next Sony PlayStation to Stream Games
Sony Corp. is planning to offer technology to stream games to its next videogame console, people familiar with the company's plans say, alongside other enhancements to bolster its position in the mark...
Big changes in Office 2013 and Office 365 test Microsoft customers' loyalty
Summary: Microsoft's new license terms for retail editions of Office 2013 have received intense scrutiny this week. But those changes are just part of a much larger story. Look closely at Office 201...
LinkedIn overhauls its jobs service with a fresh design and better discovery features
Finding a job can be difficult. We've all been there: going onto sites like Craigslist, Monster.com, Yahoo, and LinkedIn. And while there are certainly open positions out there, finding the one that...
The Science of Investing: Hearst's New Venture Arm in $30 Million Funding Deal With Los Angeles Tech Studio
Hearst Ventures, the investment arm of media giant Hearst Corporation, said it was making a minority equity investment in Science, the Los Angeles area tech “studio.”
Who needs HP and Dell? Facebook now designs all its own servers
Nearly two years ago, Facebook unveiled what it called the Open Compute Project. The idea was to share designs for data center hardware like servers, storage, and racks so that companies could build ...
Dreaded Auto-Play Video Ads Could Be Coming To Facebook, CMO Confirms
TV commercials that automatically play could soon hit Facebook's news feed. This week Facebook CMO David Fischer admitted auto-play video ads might be distracting, but said “I believe there are ways ...
Judge allows case over HuffPo ownership to go forward, adds fraud claim
In a major development in the bitter court fight over the founding of the Huffington Post, a New York judge has for the second time refused the request of media moguls Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer...
Opera buys mobile video optimization specialist and browser maker Skyfire for up to $155m
Opera revealed plans to transition its Web browsers to WebKit this week, and the Norwegian firm is making more moves after announcing the acquisition of Skyfire Labs, a mobile video optimization speci...
Source Code for Original 1990 Version of Adobe Photoshop Released
Starting today, you can download a free and legal copy of Photoshop. That's right — free and legal. There's a catch, though: it's the original 1.0.1 version of the program that was released back in ...
Chubby Checker Sues Two Companies For $500 Million Over Wang-Measuring App Downloaded 84 Times
Here's a question that has been keeping me awake for the past several years: what would I call a smart phone application designed to approximate the size of my naughty parts?
Google must act quickly on libellous Blogger posts, says appeal court
Landmark ruling that tech giant could be liable for comments if it has been notified of them and failed to remove them — Google may have to act quicker to remove potentially libellous posts from its...
Facebook can stick with its real name policy for now, German court rules
It is the first step in a litigation process that can take years, the regulator said — Facebook can stick with its real name policy in Germany, and doesn't have to allow nicknames on its platform fo...
Livescribe renames Sky smartpen after losing trademark dispute with BSkyB
Livescribe v BSkyB was one of the stranger trademark battles we've seen recently, because the two companies operate in such different spheres — one makes smartpens, the other runs TV and internet serv...
US Cellular to spread its LTE wings to 87 percent of customers by year's end
While it's only the nation's eighth largest carrier, US Cellular is said to be well on its way to covering 87 percent of its customer base — that's more than 3,800 additional cities and towns — with t...
Amazon to investigate claims of worker mistreatment at German warehouse
Amazon has agreed to look into complaints from staff at one of the online retailer's fulfillment centers in Germany. The investigation comes after a German TV station aired a documentary that depicte...