The Chinese government has denied U.S. accusations that it was responsible for hacking at least two U.S. satellites on multiple occasions during 2007 and 2008, saying instead that the American committee behind the suggestions had ulterior motives in making them.
Although the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission admitted …
From one spat to the next, the latest footnote to the chapter in the book that’s part of an ongoing legal series of thrust and counters involves Samsung demanding that Apple pony up the source code for its just-released iPhone 4S. Make this salvo number “I’ve lost count,” following Apple putting the kibosh on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 …
It’s Tuesday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
HP TouchPad for $150 with HP PC purchase: Prices vary at Best Buy
If you’ve been waiting for what seems like eternity for another crack at a deeply-discounted HP TouchPad tablet, your wait is over. Sort of.
You can get your hands on a 32-gigabyte model for just $150, with a …
FOLLOW-UP: Gmail App for iPad and iPhone Now Available
An official Gmail app for iPhone may be coming soon, providing an alternative to the feature-barren iPhone e-mail app that’s built into the OS.
The rumor, reported by M.G. Siegler, is based on multiple unnamed sources. The app may already be awaiting Apple’s approval, Siegler says,
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Apple iPhone 4S users are in the worst place Apple users can be: Somewhere between a possible iPhone 4S battery life pandemic and official acknowledgement of the issue by Cupertino with usage guidelines and a fix timeframe. Apple’s newest iPhone hit shelves in the U.S. on October 14, and since then threads have appeared across the web, …
Turns out you don’t need an iPhone 4S to run Siri, Apple’s new virtual assistant software. All you need instead are some serious hacking skills and, well, actually, a spare iPhone 4S.
Unfortunately, reports of the iPhone 4 running Siri are a bit overblown at the moment. Although 9to5Mac has video proof of the hack in action, you may …
It looks like the self-checkout concept may be moving from the supermarket to your local Apple Store. MacRumors reports, through an anonymous source, that Apple is planning to update its retail store iOS app to allow people to to buy off-the-shelf items via an EasyPay device within the store, with the charges going to customers’ iTunes
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When I first downloaded the Boggle app, I was agog over all the unfamiliar words — AAL, AIS, ANE, etc. — the game showed me I could have found in the 16-letter jumbles. But a few hundred rounds later (yes, I’m obsessed), I’m more interested in the words the good people at Hasbro won’t let me play.
FART and CRAP are off …
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. Yes, those geniuses over at Boston Dynamics have finally done it: created something even creepier than their last robot, BigDog. The Protection Ensemble Test Mannequin (a.k.a. PETMAN) is finally reporting for duty after a 13-month design phase and 17-month build phase.
The man-sized robot …
In an interview with Startup School’s Jessica Livingston this weekend, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that had he known what he knows now, he may have kept Facebook in Boston instead of moving out to Silicon Valley. The entire interview can be found here—the part with Zuckerberg starts near the 43-minute mark, and the …
First it was child-pornography sites. Now the hacker collective known as Anonymous is going after a Mexican drug cartel.
The Zetas are one of the biggest players in Mexico’s drug war, which has resulted in about 40,000 deaths since 2006. Earlier this month, a YouTube video showed a man in a Guy Fawkes mask who claimed to speak for …
The dream of an admittedly-overly-complicated way of ignoring existing copyright law in order to stream movies online is, it seems, over with the news that the lawsuit between the Motion Picture Association of America and website Zediva.com has been resolved, with Zediva agreeing to pay $1.8 million and permanently stop streaming video …
