Google tosses RSS feed Reader as house cleaning continues
Google said it was tossing its Reader service and seven other products under a house cleaning campaign that has closed 70 of the Internet giant’s features in the past two years. “These changes are...
View ArticleReuters editor Matthew Keys charged with aiding ‘Anonymous’ hackers
A Reuters editor has been indicted in a California district court for allegedly conspiring with the hacker group Anonymous to access and alter a web site of the Tribune Company, his former employer....
View ArticleSong creation app wows crowd at South by Southwest
Two brothers from Australia pulled big crowds at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival with a novel app that lets anyone create a song just by crooning into a smartphone. Jam, released eight weeks ago...
View ArticleDropbox buys startup designed to deal with email overloads
Online storage firm Dropbox on Friday announced that it has bought Mailbox, a hot startup devoted to making it simpler to deal with email overloads. Financial terms were not disclosed. “Like many of...
View ArticleFacebook may start using hashtags as next advertising ploy
Copyright ImageClick to View In this 2011 file photo, a Facebook User Operations Safety Team worker looks at reviews at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The Wall Street Journal reports that...
View ArticleGoogle Maps adds view from Mt. Everest
Google on Monday added views from some of the world’s tallest mountains to scenes woven into its popular online map service. Arm chair explorers were invited to take virtual adventures with members of...
View ArticleSupreme Court upholds $220,000 fine for music piracy
The US Supreme Court refused Monday to take up the case of a woman ordered to pay a $220,000 fine for illegally downloading music off the internet. The country’s top court upheld without comment the...
View ArticleBlackBerry CEO calls iPhone interface outdated
BlackBerry CEO calls iPhone interface outdated (via The Christian Science Monitor) Copyright ImageClick to View In this May file photo, Thorsten Heins, president and CEO of Research In Motion (RIM),...
View ArticleFlorida investment adviser charged with selling $8 million of fake Facebook...
A Florida investment adviser was charged Tuesday with selling $8 million of fake Facebook shares ahead of the social network’s highly anticipated public offering, officials said. The Justice Department...
View ArticleAmazon’s Jeff Bezos recovers engines thought to have piloted the first Moon...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos claimed success Wednesday in his mission to recover Apollo 11 moon mission engines that plunged into the ocean decades ago. “We found so much,” Bezos said in a blog posting en...
View ArticleJury awards Apple $290 million in Samsung patent case
A US federal jury Thursday ordered Samsung to pay $290 million in damages to Apple in a partial retrial of the blockbuster patent case involving the two smartphone giants. The award comes instead of...
View ArticleU.S. regulators to propose use of cell phones in flight
US telecommunications regulators will consider next month allowing people to use cell phones and other broadband services during flights, officials said Thursday. The proposal would allow people to...
View ArticleiPhone maker Foxconn invests $40 million into boosting U.S. operations
Taiwan’s Foxconn, the maker of iPhones, iPads and other electronics in China, is to invest $40 million in the United States to ramp up manufacturing of high-end products. The world’s largest contract...
View ArticleAldous Huxley: Prophet of our brave new digital dystopia
CS Lewis may be getting a plaque. But Huxley, for his foretelling of a society that loves servitude, is the true visionary On 22 November 1963 the world was too preoccupied with the Kennedy...
View ArticleLG admits collecting data on viewer habits but promises to correct ‘bug’
South Korea’s LG Electronics said Friday it would correct a “bug” on some of its smart TVs after admitting they send information about viewers back to the company without their permission. The world’s...
View Article‘Monstrosity! Ludicrous! Insane!’ Huge ‘Youabian Puma’ car raises eyebrows at...
One car among the hundreds on display at the LA Auto Show this week has generated a flurry of headlines — not all of them complimentary. Despite its whopping $1.1 million price tag, the bright blue...
View ArticleInternet founder Tim Berners-Lee warns growing surveillance ‘threatens...
The growing surveillance and censorship of the Internet “threatens the future of democracy”, the inventor of the world wide web said on Friday. Tim Berners-Lee was speaking at the launch of his World...
View ArticleTwitter toughens encryption to thwart online snooping
Twitter on Friday announced it has toughened the encryption of traffic at the globally popular one-to-many messaging service to thwart online snooping. Twitter followed in the footsteps of Google and...
View ArticleElectric carmaker Fisker files for bankruptcy
Fisker Automotive, whose high-end electric cars caught the eye of Justin Bieber and other celebrities, has filed for bankruptcy protection. The California-based company also announced it had entered an...
View ArticleBug-hunter gets $5,000 for ‘high-impact’ Gmail exploit
Google is reporting it has fixed a bug in its password-reset system that would have allowed anyone able to spoof a reminder from Gmail to take over all a user’s Google accounts and threaten any to...
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