Ready for something like Mozilla’s Firefox on your mobile phone? Okay, you can already get that if you’re an Android user. So how about something like Firefox running in its own Mozilla-crafted mobile operating space?
Heads up Apple and Google, it sounds like the company that wrapped a fox around a globe (and a browser around much of …
Despite a smattering of bad press thanks to some security loopholes, Dropbox remains one of the most widely used services on the web, now with over 25 million users. The way they got there is simple, really: Not only were they one of the first to offer free cloud-based storage, but they streamlined the process to make storing and sharing …
Retail giant Walmart is putting its recent purchase of VUDU to work with the full integration of the service’s on-demand movie and TV show offerings on the Walmart.com website.
Aside from offering a 99-cent “Movie of the Day,” the service seems similar to on-demand offerings from the likes of Amazon and others. New-release rentals go …
Security company Imperva released the results of a study that found “web applications, on average, experience twenty seven attacks per hour, or roughly one attack every two minutes.” The company monitored 10 million attacks between December of last year and May of this year “targeting 30 different enterprise and government web …
If you like to read your feeds through Flipboard, don’t be too surprised if you start seeing advertisements over the next few months; the social reader has signed a deal with magazine heavyweight Conde Nast that will see ads appear on content from that particular publisher, starting with American Express now and Lexus ads beginning in …
Why stuff your website with search-optimized keywords when you can buy fake social media buzz instead?
A site called Plusem.com (hat tip to The Atlantic) is riding the wave of interest in Google+ and selling bundles of +1s — Google’s answer to Facebook’s “Like” button — to attention-starved websites. The site has no qualms about the …
Forget about Apple’s store on Fifth Avenue – soon you might want to head on over to Grand Central Station instead. Want to grab an iPad while you’re waiting for your next train? That might be a closer reality than you think.
Apple has proposed a new storefront within New York’s iconic Grand Central Station. The Metropolitan …
Gamers have grown accustomed to waiting for the other shoe to drop when a grisly crime–especially one involving guns or murder–happens. Sooner or later, some media outlet somewhere is going to try to find a link between video games and the horror that one person visits upon another.
Usually, dubious connections are made via …
Everyone with a console knows that this fall’s biggest FPS showdown will be when EA’s Battlefield 3 and Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 come out within weeks of each other. And, as fans leaning toward one title or another have fired shots on comment threads all over the web, speculation’s run rampant over which war title will …
It looks like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google and the Wall Street Journal all have one thing in common: they’ve been forced to comply with Apple’s controversial App Store rules. What’s more, Google’s apparently said to heck with it, and yanked its app from the store entirely.
Onward, tangled web! Recall the controversy in February, …
In another sign that Amazon is cutting corners on its rumored tablet to make it as cheap as possible, a new report suggests that the device’s screen will be less capable than those of its rivals. Or not.
Whereas the touch screen on Apple’s iPad supports input from up to 10 fingers at a time, Amazon’s tablet will use a cheaper touch …
Remember Zuck’s “awesome” announcement that had lots of us expecting Facebook to announce their official iPad app? If you don’t, that’s okay: The Skype integration was seen by lots of people as decidedly ho-hum.
In case you haven’t heard yet (with a hat tip to MG Siegler at TechCrunch), the sleek new iPad app was found in a line of …
