Iran is using European telecom technology to track all Internet data moving in and out of the country, according to the Wall Street Journal. The equipment that was sold to Iran by Nokia Siemens Network was done so under the concept of “lawful intercept,” or… Read More »
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The iPhone 3GS has been released and, as is geek tradition, torn apart to see what’s inside. RapidRepair went over to France to pick one up from Orange and then promptly disassembled it, only to discover that much of the machine is similar to the… Read More »
Major League Baseball has added live video streams of baseball games to its $9.99 iPhone app, starting today. The games can be viewed over Wi-Fi or via the iPhone’s 3G connection — unlike the Sling video-streaming app, which only works over Wi-Fi because of… Read More »
It was a popular game at Valleywag, a prior writing home of mine, to strip down interminably long essays from folks like Cringely or Arrington to shorter, easily digestible versions of stories. We called it the “100-Word Version.” As Valleywag is now… Read More »
The more broadband providers a consumer has to choose from, the less they pay, according to the latest Pew Internet & American Life Project poll on U.S. broadband trends. Other findings: Home broadband adoption as of the end of May stood at 63 percent, up… Read More »
Anonymous bloggers in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, consider yourselves warned. A UK court has revealed the identity of a police officer who anonymously wrote an award-winning blog that shared certain details of cases on which he’d worked. The judge ruled that Richard Horton had… Read More »
It might not be a Google-killer (yet), but Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, is certainly raising hackles at the Googleplex. The New York Post reports that Google co-founder Sergey Brin is personally leading a team inside the company to analyze Bing’s search engine and make… Read More »
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Has Twitter jumped the shark already? It was featured on the cover of Time magazine last week, and now Washington Post media columnist Howard Kurtz has dedicated a large chunk of his column to the service. Still no mention of how Twitter might make a… Read More »
Here in the U.S., getting a bunch of mobile carriers together to agree on anything is a bit like herding cats. North of the border, however, Canada’s three carriers — Bell Canada, Rogers and TELUS — have joined forces to create Zoompass, a top-to-bottom, designed-for-mobile,… Read More »
Who says Twitter isn’t making any money? Dell claims to have made more than $2 million in revenue, directly from its @DellOutlet account, on which the company tweets special offers on refurbished or slightly damaged merchandise. If it counts purchases made after users clicked… Read More »
AOL announced two locally focused platform acquisitions today: Patch, which is designed to bring news and other information to local communities, and Going, which helps people find stuff to do in their areas. In the press release announcing the acquisitions, new AOL CEO… Read More »
Cablevision’s offer of free Wi-Fi for its Optimum Online high-speed Internet customers service has proven to be hugely popular. The service has logged 2 million sessions since its launch last year, and is currently averaging more than a million minutes of use per day.… Read More »
It’s long been true that electricity cannot be stored efficiently in large quantities. If you need more power (on a large scale), your local power plant must provide it in real time. This drives the cost of electricity up during peak times, and leaves a lot… Read More »
Bit.ly? SU.PR? Those are so yesterday. Today’s URL-shortening service is GCut.to. The service (launched anonymously) allows you to create a shortcut link that will go to the first result for a particular Google search — the same result that the “I’m Feeling Lucky”… Read More »
Virgin Mobile today announced its contract-free pay-as-you-go mobile broadband plan, dubbed “Broadband2Go.” The service, which runs on Sprint’s 3G network, offers a variety of data plans without a yearly contract or credit check, for much more money than comparable contract-based plans. So, is the service… Read More »
StumbleUpon has launched a new URL-shortening service to compete with Bit.ly et al, called SU.PR. Om hypothesized earlier this year that services like Bit.ly could challenge Digg for social news supremacy, in part because Bit.ly tracks how many users click each particular… Read More »
T-Mobile confirmed today that its network was indeed hacked, but said it doesn’t believes any of its customer data is at risk and the penetration is not nearly as deep as the purported hackers alleged. The anonymous group claimed to have databases, confidential and financial… Read More »
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