Two researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown they can reverse engineer a person's Social Security number using, ironically, nothing more than data from publicly available data on government sites, and the data you share ...READ»
Microsoft's interactive table, dubbed Surface, brings the heady dream of interactive computing closer to reality. As developers find ways to make Surface's gorgeous multi-user interface shine, more and more companies are turning to ...READ»
Star bank holding firm Goldman Sachs has been getting its fair share of antipathy this month. First it was Rolling Stone's polemic against the bank; then it was BusinessWeek's sobering review of how the 140-year-old firm will be ...READ»
According to the TimesOnline, the chief of British intelligence agency MI6 was outed from his cover-name by his wife, who posted to him affectionately on Facebook wall using the moniker, "C".
Sir John Sawers, the agent in question, ...READ»
Cherry is going to have T-Mobile and AT&T more than a little worried. The Belgium-based startup modifies your GSM smartphone to allow it to switch seamlessly between WiFi and cell network calling, all at ultra cheap "WiFi calling" ...READ»
A Danish site has scored spy photos of Sony Ericsson's gutsy foray into the Android phone market. Part of the Xperia line of smartphones, the new phone is codenamed "Rachel" and boasts a killer 1GHz processor made by Qualcomm. For ...READ»
This week, Comcast announced it would begin the first official commercial rollout of 4G wireless broadband in the U.S. in Portland, Oregon, after using Baltimore and Atlanta as test markets. The company plans to bundle the WiMAX ...READ»
Today Facebook held a Web cast marking the launch of a new privacy PR blitz, meant to convince users (and governmental regulators worldwide) that the Palo Alto company is treating the issue of privacy with consummate care. Facebook ...READ»
Way back in December, Nokia announced its new flagship smartphone would roll into town ready to take on the iPhone for touchscreen dominance. It's nearly the end of June and the N97 has finally made its appearance. Yes, it took a ...READ»
A new Nielsen study says that adults use the Internet more than teenagers do. Is that actually a surprise?
The Wichita Eagle summarizes the study as disputing "several popular notions about teens, including the idea that ...READ»
Yes, the King of Pop has gone to meet the Emperor of Pop, and taken much of his patented weirdness with him. Lest you forget that Earth is strange enough even without the scion of Neverland Ranch, here are a few of this week's viral ...READ»
At a media event yesterday in New York, representatives from smartphone maker HTC passed around their latest creation: an Android-based device they're calling Hero. And... wow.
It bears saying I am not traditionally a fan of ...READ»
At a media event yesterday in New York, representatives from smartphone maker HTC passed around their latest creation: an Android-based device they're calling Hero. And... wow.
It bears saying I am not traditionally a fan of ...READ»
That's the question being asked by Google's new coding site for developers, code.google.com/speed. The search giant, famous for its spartan, utilitarian Web interfaces and monster server farms, believes that making pages on the Web ...READ»
On June 21, FastCompany.com reported on speculation that Apple's mercurial chief executive had undergone a liver transplant, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Yesterday, the surgery was confirmed by the operating hospital, ...READ»
In May, we brought you a list of 11 full-featured applications tailor-made for Microsoft's interactive table computing platform, Surface. With so many talented development teams hard at work on Surface, we missed a few--and the new ...READ»
The Virginia Quarterly Review took a close look at Wired editor Chris Anderson's upcoming book Free, and discovered that entire passages appear to match entries in Wikipedia verbatim. Says reviewer Waldo Jaquith:
"... ...READ»
In a strange display of awkwardness, Virgin Group unveiled its new travel Web site in New York today with founder and CEO Richard Branson and his two children, Holly and Sam, playing an ad hoc game of Twister on an impossibly large ...READ»
Last week I had the privilege of visiting the nice folks at Google's New York City office for lunch. Lair of creativity and Web savvy that it is, I wanted to know which of Google's tools fascinate their own ranks most. One of the ...READ»
According to MSNBC, Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have begun his current six-month hiatus from Apple in order to recover from a liver transplant he received in Tennessee. A survivor of pancreatic cancer, Jobs appeared increasingly thin ...READ»
Put an end to blindness, bullshit, copyright laws and Time Warner's dark hegemony? Sure: the top tech stories of the week are all about the death of things that Web nerds hate--and that includes Bing, whether you like the idyllic backgrounds or not.
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Earlier this year, Time Warner Cable began trialing the use of data caps on its broadband service. It later abandoned the project after a welter of bad publicity, but the encounter scared a lot of Web users into believing we need ...READ»
According to The Wall Street Journal, Google will release the successor to its G1 phone next week, and they may well be calling it the myTouch 3G. Thankfully the new device--which has also been dubbed Ion or Magic in other ...READ»
On the spectrum of menacing devices, the lowly server falls somewhere between a toaster and... an evil toaster. Which is to say that most people don't think the "clouds" that store so much of their email and files as being ...READ»
A few weeks ago, I attended a panel discussion about climate change where former Vice President Al Gore referred to the United States as an oil "junkie." At the time, it occurred to me that Americans have another ...READ»
