News

Powered by TechAbout

1362 Stories

Twitter Pushes https, Plans to Make it Default

Twitter Pushes https, Plans to Make it Default

With security being a major concern for Twitter over the years, they have been continuously making improvements and securing internal...

Proof That The Game Console Is Dead

Proof That The Game Console Is Dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qulUJrnriOI What happens when you take an iPad 2, an iPad game, and a 50-inch HDTV and put them together?...

Head of Flickr Bails: Another Reason Why Facebook Should Buy Them

Head of Flickr Bails: Another Reason Why Facebook Should Buy Them

Matthew Rothenberg, the man who most believed ran Flickr for Yahoo!, announced his departure in a Tweet today. He was...

Google Circles: It’s (probably not) Coming

Google Circles: It’s (probably not) Coming

Update: The most recent word from AllThingsD is that the product does not exist in any form other than in...

Google Going for YouTube Gold

Google Going for YouTube Gold

YouTube has always been a "nice to have" property for Google. The traffic, the domination of a segment, the feather...

Microsoft’s Oh My F****** God Moment

Microsoft’s Oh My F****** God Moment

While Microsoft was preoccupied with its conquest for desktop supremacy, something crazy happened. They called it the mobile revolution. This...

iPad 2: Apple’s Secret Weapon is the Ease of Ownership

iPad 2: Apple’s Secret Weapon is the Ease of Ownership

So, today the entire tech world was postively shocked to find out that the iPad 2... was exactly what we...

Microsoft Kinect Could Take 3D To The Next Dimension

Microsoft Kinect Could Take 3D To The Next Dimension

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVhgUs3_RGU Steven Bathiche might have just become Microsoft's most popular developer for the time being. He has created a slew...

Gmail Bug Compromises the Cloud

Gmail Bug Compromises the Cloud

If you don't already believe in the poofy white safety of the cloud... keep disbelieving. A Gmail bug has deleted...

Why the Facebook Like Button Change is a ‘Bait and Switch’

Why the Facebook Like Button Change is a ‘Bait and Switch’

Sunday, Facebook rolled out a change in the functionality of the Facebook "Like" button on websites across the Internet, essentially...

Thunderbolt. Light Peak. Wow.

Thunderbolt. Light Peak. Wow.

When it comes to speed, you put the minds at Intel together with the hardware at Apple and Thunderbolt is...

Apple Wants To Please Audiophiles: Wants Higher Quality Music

Apple Wants To Please Audiophiles: Wants Higher Quality Music

If you have ever downloaded a music track from Apple iTunes, a few of you might be shocked to know...

Want iPhone 5 Rumors? You Got ‘Em!

Want iPhone 5 Rumors? You Got ‘Em!

It's another day in the tech world, and, as one would expect, that means there are more Apple rumors being...

Understanding the JC Penney Link Scheme that Landed them in Google’s Crosshairs

Understanding the JC Penney Link Scheme that Landed them in Google’s Crosshairs

It's inevitable. No matter how big a company is, how carefully they go about doing it, or how sorry they...

The Google 2-Step: Security, Squared

The Google 2-Step: Security, Squared

With online security filling the news, even becoming a government issue with the National Internet ID on the horizon, Google...

Google Search: We Use It For The Doodles

Google Search: We Use It For The Doodles

I have a question: how did you arrive to this article? Did you find your way here from Google Search?...

Xserve: The Short Goodbye

Xserve: The Short Goodbye

In case you just can't get enough of Apple's Xserve, you'd better take some time out to order a few...

A Private School Makes Apple iPad Usage Mandatory

A Private School Makes Apple iPad Usage Mandatory

There was a day when schools supplies consisted of backpacks, calculators, and plenty of lined paper. But at Webb School,...

Verizon’s Knockout Punch: Unlimited Data for iPhone

Verizon’s Knockout Punch: Unlimited Data for iPhone

It was never quite certain when Verizon would get its hands on the iPhone, but we recently learned that it...

The Google Shakeup

The Google Shakeup

When is the best time to change CEOs if you're a major company? How about shortly after announcing fourth-quarter earnings...