« Previous  |  Next »

Week in Apple: Magic Mouse, ra1n & sn0w, iPhone chicanery

We gave you the lowdown on how well Apple's new Magic Mouse works, told you about a Dutch teen that used port scanning to find vulnerable jailbroken iPhones, showed how less-than-honest iPhone developers claim to have developed others' apps, and how ...

From CHRIS FORESMAN, Ars Technica,  7 Nov 2009

Google aims to "connect" users with shared interests

The new features start off with a several ways to poll users for information about their particular interests. From your Friend Connect account, you can create a poll to ask your users site-relevant questions about what they are into. Then, you can ...

From CHRIS FORESMAN, Ars Technica,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Les Paul,  Facebook Inc.,  America Online

Students suspended for racy slumber party pics, file lawsuit

The line between online and offline life continues to blur as yet another lawsuit is being brought against a school that punished students over pictures posted to an online social media website. Two sophomore girls at Churubusco High School in Fort ...

From CHRIS FORESMAN, Ars Technica,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: American Civil Liberties Union,  Facebook Inc.,  Harvard University

Web Open Font Format backed by Mozilla, type foundries

WOFF combines the work that Leming and Blokland on embedding a variety of useful font metadata with the font resource compression that Kew had developed. The end result is a format that includes optimized compression that reduces the download time ...

From CHRIS FORESMAN, Ars Technica,  2 Nov 2009

Adobe pushes Flash and PDF for open government, misses irony

Adobe has set up its "Adobe Opens Up" website to promote the use of Adobe technologies to achieve the goal of "opening up Washington," as well as highlighting ways in which federal, state, and local governments have implemented these technologies. ...

From CHRIS FORESMAN, Ars Technica,  30 Oct 2009

Motorola Droid lands at Verizon next week, $199 post rebate

Motorola and Verizon announced today that the new Motorola Droid smartphone will be officially launching next week. It will be the first smartphone to feature Android 2.0, the latest version of Google's Linux-based smartphone OS, as well as the new ...

From CHRIS FORESMAN, Ars Technica,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Motorola, Inc.,  Google Inc.,  Verizon Wireless

Roku sporting new hardware; channel store coming soon

Roku, makers of the popular Roku Digital Video Player set-top box, announced new hardware options just in time for the holiday shopping season. The new options include a lower priced, SD-only $80 option, while a new higher-end device will sell for $130. ...

From CHRIS FORESMAN, Ars Technica,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Major League Baseball,  Anthony Wood,  Motionbox

Apple abandons ZFS on Mac OS X project over licensing issues

Sun's ZFS filesystem, which the company has referred to as "the last word in filesystems," was widely expected to be adopted by Apple for use in Mac OS X. However, support never materialized, and the open source project to port the filesystem was ...

From CHRIS FORESMAN, Ars Technica,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Oracle

Nokia sues Apple, says iPhone infringes patents

Nokia is claiming that Apple is unfairly profiting from Nokia's hard work and âŹ40 billion investment in developing wireless communications technologies with its iPhone. The company has today filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple, alleging ...

From CHRIS FORESMAN, Ars Technica,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Qualcomm

Magic Mouse, iMacs, Mac minis lead Tuesday Apple update bomb

Apple dropped a hardware update bomb Tuesday morning with a brand-new desktop mouse, new iMacs, new low-end MacBooks, and a new Mac mini. All of the above had been rumored for some time, but a new mouse was the first to captivate Apple fans' attention ...

From JACQUI CHENG, CHRIS FORESMAN, Ars Technica,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Intel,  NVIDIA

« Previous  |  Next »

Who is This?

Help us add to our database, by linking this writer their entry in Wikipedia or Source Watch, or by suggesting that we remove it from our index.

Suggest an Entry