Apple’s latest iPhone update (iOS 4.3.3) addresses the concerns raised by security experts regarding the automatically generated databases of user locations being saved to Apple devices and backed up via iTunes.
The new update now reduces the size of the location database—early reports had indicated that it may have held a year or …
You know what’s sick and disgusting? As much as I’m a little nauseous about the ZOMG KATE BIN LADEN-MIDDLETON fiasco on my Facebook Newsfeed, this story over status updates makes me want to seriously hurl into the nearest bin.
Ramazan Acar, a 24-year-old father in Melbourne, Australia, announced to Facebook and the rest of the …
If you use LastPass, the secure password storage service, listen up: you need to change your master password there as soon as possible. Turns out it wasn’t, unfortunately, the “last” password you’d ever need after all.
The LastPass team noticed something weird happening with their servers yesterday – data was flowing in and out in a …
He said, she said. In an internal document from Sprint, it would seem BlackBerry’s PlayBook is getting delayed again… indefinitely.
The CDMA variant of BlackBerry’s PlayBook was supposed to launch over the summer. Previous release dates had the PlayBook to debut on April 19th, and the latest one says that it will come in a few …
Reuters has reported that Facebook and Google want to get involved with Skype, after the company has delayed going public. The company is still expected to go public during the latter part of this year.
Both companies are looking to form individual joint ventures with Skype, according to two unnamed sources. Both talks are supposedly …
If you thought it was impossible for entertainment juggernaut Warner Bros. to have even more under its belt beyond the WB Network and – of course – the Harry Potter films, then a little announcement today might persuade you otherwise.
With ambitions to expand its digital rollout, the company has agreed to purchase popular …
Remember that scene in Pulp Fiction where Harvey Keitel’s character — the nicely-named Winston Wolf — comes in to help assassins Jules and Vincent tidy up an especially messy murder? “How come I’m on brain duty?!”
Well, it looks like Sony has called in the equivalent of three Winston Wolfs to begin cleaning up the security mess that …
If you’re one of those people who starts getting all twitchy the moment you’re out of range of a wifi hotspot, we have good news for you: soon, you’ll be connected anywhere you can take a car.
Ford is updating its in-car SYNC with MyFord Touch technology to add a rolling wifi hotspot for passengers to connect to.
It will support up …
You’d think that the trailer for Rise of The Planet of The Apes would be enough to remind people that screwing around with nature can lead to disasters even James Franco can’t endure. Apparently not, in light of news that researchers have bred a new species of all-female lizard under lab conditions.
The team, led by biologist Peter …
Being a super genius sure is hard. You have all these great theorems about how gravity works and whatnot without the proper means to prove if they’re viable or bunk. In Einstein’s case, it wasn’t until recently — 56 years after his death — that technology finally caught up to the inner machinations of his astounding …
The final installment of BioWare’s sprawling space opera apparently needs a bit more time in hyperspace, as the EA-held dev studio announced that Mass Effect 3 won’t be out until the first quarter of 2012.
In a statement that went out on Facebook and BioWare message boards, executive producer Casey Hudson said:
“Today we have
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It’s Star Wars Day, that wonderful time of year where the collective Internet body comes together to make cheeky puns about our favorite fantasy universe.
Let’s face it: Star Wars Day is an Internet holiday, something to distract us between water cooler breaks and office memos, but it’s joyous nonetheless. Today, Lucas Film announced …
