UPDATE 2: From CNET: “SF police confirm search for lost, unreleased iPhone”
UPDATE 1: Ah, this might help explain things somewhat. From SF Weekly: “Lost iPhone 5: Bernal Heights Man Says Visitors Impersonating Police Searched His Home (Exclusive)”
This case needs a Sherlock Holmes.
A couple of days ago, CNET got wind that yet …
“Given that the full database file is downloadable from hundreds of sites there is only one internally rational action.”
That’s one of the updates from WikiLeaks’ Twitter account this week, alluding to the organization’s recent spat with U.K. newspaper the Guardian, which published a WikiLeaks-related book back in February that …
A woman buys a plank of iPad-shaped wood, liquid cremation hits the big time, and Apple loses yet another secret iPhone in a bar. All that and more as we take a quick look back at what happened in tech this week.
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FOLLOW-UP: WikiLeaks has published 250,000+ U.S. Embassy cables to a searchable online database…
As the story goes, some 100,000 or more secret U.S. diplomatic cables found their way onto the internet recently—the cables had been rounded up by none other than WikiLeaks, the non-profit, secret-leaking organization with the simple
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After months of speculation, it’s time for the sale of streaming video site Hulu to turn into a bidding war. Six companies have submitted informal bids for the site this week, according to those in the know, including three big names eager to own what could be turned into a Netflix streaming video killer.
It only took the better part of two decades for Germany to realize id Software’s Doom and Doom II aren’t going to debase its youth. Yep, the Fatherland just officially lifted a 17-year ban on sales to minors of the first-person shooter (and its sequel) that more or less engineered and defined the genre when it launched for PCs back in …
When I first saw Jetpack Joyride a few weeks back, it was still being called Machine Gun Jetpack. It was after my demo of Fruit Ninja Kinect–also made by Australian dev studio Halfbrick–that I saw a quick run-through of the still-brewing iOS game. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it in the months that have passed.
The …
Extra! Extra! Both CNBC and Mashable are reporting that Facebook plans to launch a music service next month. Nothing is for absolutely certain, but it’s been said that Spotify, MOG and Rdio might be partnering with Facebook as part of the new feature. Mark Zuckerberg is probably jamming out to this tune if it’s true. Wonder what Facebook …
Is Yahoo about to buy the New York Times Company?
The unexpected rumor has appeared online via a three sentence story on Business Insider‘s website, referencing a tweet from Benzinga.com, which claims to bring readers “business news before it’s news.”
(MORE: Yahoo, Facebook Want to Find Out if It’s a ‘Small World’ After All)
If …
Updated at 11:53am Eastern with Justice Department press release and statement from AT&T…
The Justice Department has filed an antitrust complaint against AT&T in the hopes of preventing the $39 million T-Mobile-AT&T merger proposed earlier this year.
The filing states that, “AT&T’s elimination of T-Mobile as an independent, …
Based on critical reception alone, the newest Deus Ex will likely be a hit. And that’s with good cause. Human Revolution is a great game, designed to support a variety of approaches and chock full of the kinds of nuts-and-bolts customizations that make a player’s experience feel really unique.
But it’s also a huge title and the …
Selective shoppers looking to save some money thanks to the Internet, beware: This particular sale may be ending sooner than you’d expect.
In the last week, not only has Facebook discontinued its Facebook Deals service, but Yelp is also rumored to be planning on “scaling back” its own Yelp Deals service, with 50% of the workforce …
