From a Facebook Founder, a Social Network for the Office published on Mon, 21 May 2012 04:50:05 GMT
Asana, created by a Facebook co-founder, Dustin Moskovitz, is a shared to-do list for a company looking to make managing tasks at work a little easier. ...
DealBook: Yahoo Approves Plan to Sell Part of Alibaba Stake published on Mon, 21 May 2012 10:29:05 GMT
Under the deal, the Alibaba Group will buy back half of Yahoo’s stake, and Yahoo will sell an additional 10 percent when Alibaba goes public. ...
Link by Link: U.C.L.A. Professor Makes a Case for Google as Publisher published on Mon, 21 May 2012 05:25:55 GMT
A law professor, Eugene Volokh, argues in a paper that Google is a publisher, with First Amendment protection. But sometimes it benefits Google to be seen as a mere connector. ...
China Clears Google Purchase of Motorola published on Mon, 21 May 2012 05:53:01 GMT
Chinese regulators attached a big condition: that Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices remain available at no cost for the next five years. ...
Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over Cartoon Contest published on Mon, 21 May 2012 04:52:04 GMT
The government blocked access to the social networking service on Sunday, after holding Twitter responsible for promoting a blasphemous cartoon contest, officials said. ...
It's the Peripherals, Not the PC published date n/a
Apple and analysts quietly suspect that iPods and iPhones may be selling Macs nearly eight times faster than any major PC brand....
Apple's Keynote '08 Delivers Simple Sophistication published date n/a
Review: Apple is stressing Keynote's ease of use, billing the application as a means for anyone to create "cinema-quality presentations."...
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WikiLeaks Inspires Online Oversharing published on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:00:00 GMT
WikiLeaks wannabes take aim at everything from Russia's oligarchs to porn stars. Just how good are they? ...
App-Searching App Re-Imagines Mobile Search published on Mon, 23 May 2011 20:05:00 GMT
A new search app for the iPhone rejiggers search so your queries go to apps that are relevant, rather than to a general search engine. It's clever and might just be useful enough to become your default search on a mobile...
Yes Virginia, That Is Linux Running on JavaScript published on Wed, 18 May 2011 15:10:00 GMT
Thanks to today's web browsers, JavaScript has become a very powerful language. Powerful enough to run Linux inside your web browser. ...
BoxyTunes App Streams DropBox Music to iOS published on Tue, 17 May 2011 14:07:00 GMT
BoxyTunes does one thing: It plays music stored in your DropBox folder. It is arguably what Google Music Beta should have been, and it is also a native iOS app. ...
Angry Birds Attacks Web; Web Wins published on Thu, 12 May 2011 15:19:00 GMT
Rovio brings the popular Angry Birds to the web, letting you smash pigs in your favorite browser. And it didn't take long for someone to figure out a way to unlock every level for free. ...
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ElcomSoft's Phone Forensics Software Offers Near Real-Time Access to iCloud Backups published on Fri, 18 May 2012 13:11:08 PDT
Russian forensics firm ElcomSoft earlier this week announced that it has discovered a way to easily access iCloud backups of iOS devices, incorporating the functionality into its Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker software...
Apple in Talks to Open R&D Facility in Russia's Skolkovo Innovation Centre? published on Fri, 18 May 2012 10:15:57 PDT
Russian newspaper Izvestia reports [Google translation] that the organizers behind the Skolkovo technology park near Moscow are currently in talks with a number of high-profile companies including Apple, Google, and Face...
Apple's Annual iTunes Festival in London Moves to September published on Fri, 18 May 2012 08:21:17 PDT
Each July since 2007, Apple has held its iTunes Festival in London, offering a month's worth of free concerts from some of the industry's top performers. Apple is now beginning to unveil this year's plans, and the most ...
Steve Jobs 'Worked Closely' on Design of Next-Generation iPhone with Larger Display published on Thu, 17 May 2012 17:50:45 PDT
Bloomberg reports that Steve Jobs was intimately involved in the design work for the next-generation iPhone scheduled for release later this year, reiterating claims that the device will be a substantial change from prev...