In January, Wired noted that “Twitter beta-tested a spine.”
During the height of the WikiLeaks bruhaha, the U.S. government slapped the company with a court order, demanding user information of a few of the key WikiLeaks conspirators, including Pfc. Bradley Manning and Julian Assange. Instead of coughing up the information (mainly …
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google has earmarked “$500 million to potentially resolve a case with the Justice Department” involving advertisements Google accepted from online pharmacies that violate U.S. prescription laws. The ads in question have appeared alongside search results as part of Google’s popular AdWords marketing …
Call it a win-win for T-Mobile, as Reuters is reporting that AT&T may have promised to slide T-Mo a cool $6 billion if the $39 billion mega-merger announced earlier this year doesn’t make it past regulatory approval.
Reuters quotes “two sources who asked not to be named,” so take this information with a spoonful of skeptic syrup if …
Filesharing service Limewire will pay the record companies that took it to court $105 million. The two sides reached a settlement after five years of legal argument.
A consortium of 13 companies was suing Limewire for copyright infringement on a “massive scale”, and accused it of being responsible for as much as a billion dollars in …
I spent most of Tuesday and Wednesday this week at Google’s massive I/O developer shindig in San Francisco. And then I wrote a Technologizer column for TIME.com on the first day’s keynote, which was jam-packed with Android news. But I could just have easily written a column about day two’s keynote, which was devoted to Google’s Chrome …
Osama bin Laden was a prolific user of email for many years, evading the global intelligence community by using simple, cheap tech: USB sticks.
His system depended on couriers who would use internet cafes, checking in to his anonymized email accounts and copying incoming messages to a simple USB memory stick.
They’d take he stick …
Bloggers at Google-owned blogger.com were locked out of their blogs for a number of hours overnight, apparently after a behind-the-scenes update that went awry.
Users were warned on Monday that there would be an hour-long outage on Wednesday, for maintenance. But according to Netcraft, the site went down on Thursday and has largely
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Game trade-ins may be a games publisher and developer bugaboo, but it looks like they may also be a bellwether of customer discontent when it comes to Sony’s ongoing PlayStation Network outage.
Case in point, games-mag Edge says UK-based retailers are reporting a rise in PS3 console trade-ins for Xbox 360s. Edge’s source also says …
Due to a strict adherence to Sharia law, the Taliban have long shunned modern technology, particularly personal televisions and computers. But in the wake of a recent offensive campaign in the Afghan city of Kandahar, the group has emerged on a new, if unlikely, modern platform: Twitter.
At the the time of writing this, the account in …
As the story goes, a blogger named Chris Soghoian recently got an e-mail from a big-name PR company with a somewhat odd proposition.
The e-mail begins as follows:
“Mr. Soghoian,
I wanted to gauge your interest in authoring an op-ed this week for a top-tier media outlet on an important issue that I know you’re following closely.
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Passwords are such a pain. They’re so essential to modern life, but no-one likes using them, or remembering them, or inventing new ones.
Biometrics company Hoyos says it has the solution, with a little hand-held gadget called EyeLock.
Hold it in front of your face, and it scans and recognises the unique patterns in your iris. Once it
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With the boom in online and mobile shopping, it just seems a little obsolete nowadays to pay with a good ol’ credit card. Well, Visa thinks so, too.
In a bid to gain more territory over digital payments, Visa plans to roll out a digital wallet in the fall that allows customers to pay for items with a single click. This service will …
