Craig McCaw, Clearwire Chair, has left the company. Clearwire says no disagreement prompted McCaw’s resignation, but the company’s fate is now even more in question. Clearwire has had a difficult year. Early on, they were expanding 4G into NYC, LA, and San Fran. The very next month, they were cutting 15% of their staff and [...]
According to @redsn0w_testers, RedSn0w 0.9.7b4 will be released today. Today’s beta4 will eliminate separate usbmuxd process (so many more Mac users can use it). After that, expand to Windows. This is the 4th beta of the new “backup method,” which redsn0w calls “Jailbreak Monte.” Currently, this jailbreak technique disables bluetooth and there are reports of [...]
It has been expected that Skype would soon bring its video calling feature to the iPhone and most expected them to announce it at CES. It looks like Skype had something to prove after their recent outages and has made video calls available in the latest version of the iPhone app. This gives you options [...]
Don Cheadle, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Jerry Weintraub have announced a partnership with Google, the U.N., and several anti-genocide organizations to launch a satellite surveillance project to monitor the Sudan region. No, this isn’t another Ocean’s Eleven sequel, it’s a move by a group called Not On Our Watch to help prevent [...]
One of the most well-known Android handsets is the EVO 4G. Not only is it the first 4G phone, but it’s easy to spot one given their 4.3″ screen. Some have said it’s one of the Android devices that can challenge the iPhone. It’s no wonder that HTC will reuse the same form-factor in the [...]
Earlier this month, Gawker was attacked, resulting in a huge leak of Gawker network account passwords. Earlier today, it was found that a security researcher stumbled upon a database of 44,000 usernames and passwords associated with accounts registered on the Mozilla add-ons website. The partial database of user accounts was mistakenly left on a Mozilla [...]
According to 4chan’s status blog, they are down due to a DDoS attack. Site is down due to DDoS. We now join the ranks of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, et al.—an exclusive club! If you recall, a group calling themselves Anonymous launched similar attacks against those who refused to work with Wikileaks. Sites included Paypal, MasterCard, [...]
Amazon.com announced today that the third-generation Kindle is now the bestselling product in Amazon’s history. In just five months, the new Kindle took the title of bestselling product from “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7).” Amazon also shared that customers ordered more than 13.7 million items worldwide across all product categories on its [...]
One of the goodies expected to be featured at CES 2011 is the Android-based Galaxy Player. The 9.9mm thick Galaxy Player (YP-GB1) will be running Android 2.2 Froyo and is inspired by the successful Galaxy S phones. It will also look good next to the 7″ Samsung Galaxy Tab, which launched in September and has [...]
Your Apps May Be Snitching For an increasing number of techies and non-techies alike, smartphones are becoming a central part of life. It’s no wonder that these devices store some of our most personal secrets and information. While the relationship with our smartphones seems intact, it looks like the apps we run on those phones [...]
Google and NORAD (North American Aerospace Defence Command) have teamed up to bring you realtime coverage of Santa’s sleigh-ride around the world. You can follow Santa as he travels the world sliding down chimneys, dropping off presents, and eating entirely too many chocolate chip cookies. NORAD has confirmed that Santa and his fully-loaded, reindeer-powered sleigh [...]
While Time magazine named Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg person of the year, Financial Times opts for Apple CEO Steve Jobs. It’s easy to see how both leaders could be considered for such a title. Both run high-profile companies who set the standards in their respective industries. It’s hard to argue against FT’s logic: Apple had [...]
Google latest doodle is their most ambitious one yet. It features a collage of artwork with the images representing the letters and colors of the Google logo. Michael Lopez, who has been “chief doodler” for the past 18 months said, “”We want to end the year with a bang.” For Micheal Lopez, creating this years [...]
Skype was down for millions of users today. Twitter was buzzing with users saying they couldn’t login. Initially, Skype engineers weren’t sure what the problem was and directed users to monitor @Skype on Twitter for updates. According to Om Malik, this response was simply not good enough: Sorry, not good enough! Skype is one of [...]
Yesterday, the FCC voted in favor of net neutrality. Many argue that, while this is a step forward for net neutrality, the rules that have been put in place aren’t nearly enough. One of the main concerns for those in favor of net neutrality are the rules regarding mobile broadband. Engadget has found some interesting [...]
