Yesterday, a white hat hacker (the good kind) made the public data from 100 million Facebook profiles available to everyone. Today, somebody found out who's interested in it. The names include Apple, Disney, the Church of Scientology, Halliburton, and the UN.READ»
On Friday, as Steve Jobs was explaining just why the iPhone 4's antenna woes were not exclusive to his smartphone, Google quietly released a very short item of news on its blog. Two months after shutting up its online shop, its first ...READ»
So, first things first: We have no idea if these documents are real. They're all plausible, if ambitious, and have the same layout as other Verizon documents we've seen. But we've had no confirmation from Verizon, so take everything ...READ»
Lining up against each other today in the arena of augmented reality football apps are two teams: one from Germany, the other from the U.S. Both sides play mightily different football--while Germany's is a model of teutonic ...READ»
A is for apps--and agitated cell phone networks. They've formed a consortium in an attempt to fight back against the overwhelming dominance from Apple and Google in the smartphone market, and make some money from the mobile app ...READ»
This weekend in Amsterdam you may see a whole bunch of people waving their smartphones around at once. It's the first social net/augmented reality flashmob, aka a fabulous way to combine three novel Net memes into one event.The ...READ»
Microsoft's only just announced its months-off revamp to WinMo, now Windows Phone 7, and the SDK release is ages away too. But someone's just leaked the app developer agreement documentation...and revealed it's a lot like ...READ»
It's okay, Mr. Murdoch. We think we finally understand why you hate Google and the Net so much--you gave it away in your rant during News Corp.'s finances: It's because you really don't get technology--or people--very much.
I'm ...READ»
Around this time last year, the deathwatch for sustainability was on full alert. Many wondered whether the "green bubble" would burst the same way the tech bubble and the housing bubble did. Would sustainability follow Lehman Brothers into the pages of history, a relic of the good times?READ»
Google's just revealed the Nexus One next-gen Android phone, and in general its tech specs are nothing, really, to write home about. But there's a secret superpower. It's voice controllable. Everywhere.
Simultaneously to the press ...READ»
The iPhone 3G S is only six months old, but in France the public and cell phone networks think time is ripe to stir things up a bit--by slashing prices to levels that'd make U.S. consumers swoon.
France is one of the many countries ...READ»
Let's play word association: intern + texting = ____. Setting up a date? Skipping out on work? Sexting? At IBM, how about saving millions of lives?
A new initiative called SMS for Life, born from the minds of a group of IBM's Extreme ...READ»
It's been a day of significant contrasts at Copenhagen as the end of the first week of COP15 draws to a close.
The day started with a clear challenge at the Climate Summit "Business Day" from Yvo de Boer, the UN's chief ...READ»
Company recognized for developing and applying highly transformational and innovative technologies that bring video to any 2.5G/3G mobile phone, PCs and set top boxes.READ»
This is way too long for a blog, but what the heck...
“There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system”- Machiavelli (1469-1527)
One of the ...READ»
O2 have enjoyed a monopoly on the iPhone in the UK since its launch in 2007. This week though marks a new dawn for consumers, with Orange and Vodafone both committing to offer the iPhone alongside O2 in the near future. We look at the choice ahead for consumers.READ»
Back in June we reported on what could be considered as the first real smartbook device--a hybrid smartphone/netbook machine that could be the next big thing in mobile computing. Now it looks like the xpPhone's ready for the ...READ»
Nokia just revealed it won't let phone networks apply any proprietary customization to its hot little MID/smartphone the N900. It's another sign that in the future your cell-phone network will be way less important than it thinks it ...READ»
Select members of the tech elite are leading a backlash against Apple's smartphone and its perceived failures. This silly backlash needs its own backlash. We're here to help.READ»
David Pogue's got a fascinating new campaign underway: Under the rallying call of "Take Back the Beep!" he's trying to force cell-phone networks to stop ripping us all off with those annoying 15-second voicemail intro messages.
You ...READ»
