Data captured by Google Street View includes passwords and emails
Google confirmed last month that while snapping photos of the local flavor, the search giant was also inadvertently capturing packets of data from unsecured routers. …
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O2 UK to initially sell the iPhone 4 to current customers only
O2 UK announced today that it will only offer the iPhone 4 to current customers when the handset launches on June 24th. The wireless carrier …
Palm to discount all apps in the App Catalog by 50% in a limited time promotion
In a webinar for developers on Thursday, Palm announced that it will be launching a developer-friendly promotion on all paid apps in the App Catalog. Starting …
Apple iPhone 4 UK availability and pricing roundup
Apple’s iPhone 4 is a undeniably selling like wildfire both here in the States and overseas. Similar to the U.S., the UK iPhone is experiencing delayed availability with the …
Motorola to dump billions into its Mobility spinoff
Motorola means business when it comes to its upcoming breakup and it is throwing cash and moving debt around around like crazy. The split will …
Verizon Wireless to drop unlimited data plan, offer tiered pricing for LTE?
Verizon Wireless brass continue to drop hints that the advent of the carrier’s 4G LTE network will foster a change to the structure of its …
AT&T's acquisition of Alltel assets from Verizon Wireless close to completion
It seems like it was just yesterday, but one year has passed since AT&T and Verizon agreed to a $2.35 billion deal which would provide …
Toshiba and Fujitsu combine forces to create Japan's second largest mobile phone manufacturer
Toshiba and Fujitsu confirmed on Thursday that the two Japanese companies will be merging their mobile phone business units. As part of the merger, Toshiba will spin off its mobile …
OnLive gaming service launches with a free one year subscription
OnLive, the much ballyhooed online gaming service, has finally made its official debut. Having been in beta and available for select users since September 2009, …
AT&T to count 3G MicroCell usage against customer's data caps
AT&T may want to be the darling of the US wireless carriers, but some of its policies are seemingly designed to turn a customer into …
Apple iPhone 4 to include 512MB of RAM
While current Android handsets and Windows Mobile phones of yore boast of their prowess, by proclaiming the heftiness of their internal RAM, Apple has been …
Cellular South confirms it will offer the HTC Desire
HTC announced earlier today the Android-powered Desire was slated to land with select regional carriers in the U.S., but the smartphone giant did not name names. Rather than keep …
Telus lowers the pricing on its popular smarthphones for Dads and grads
Telus is jumping on the Fathers Day and Graduation sale bandwagon with a promotion targeting its popular smartphones. The sale begins on June 16th and …
Swype for Android now available for public consumption
Today Swype announced that its popular keyboard alternative is now available for public download for all Android users. The free-for-all beta download will be available …
Browser privacy issue with DROID Incredible and HTC Sense UI widget?
An astute reader stumbled upon an interesting bug with the HTC Incredible. The Incredible, with Sense UI, will periodically store screenshots of the contents of …
Amazon to roll out Kindle 2.5 update in the upcoming weeks
Kindle owners longing for the ability to share their fave passages with the world only have to endure a few more agonizing weeks of reading …
Pre-order iPhone 4s sold out, ship by date pushed to July 2nd
Folks who were stymied by the debacle iPhone pre-order today and decided to wait until tomorrow to try their hand at securing an iPhone 4 …
Samsung Galaxy S passes through the FCC with T-Mobile friendly 3G
The rumors of a T-Mobile branded Samsung Galaxy S received a healthy dose of credibility today. Spotted on its way out of the FCC was the aforementioned SGH-T959 with 850/1900 …
Adobe officially releases Lightroom 3 for Mac and Windows
Photo enthusiasts take note, as Adobe is rolling out the official retail version of Lightroom 3 today. Available as a public-beta since October 2009, the …
HTC Wildfire headed to T-Mobile UK on June 14th
The HTC Wildfire is receiving a glowing reception in the UK. Confirmed to be landing on Virgin UK, the mid-level Android handset is also slated …
Barnes & Noble announces Pubit!, new independent book publishing platform
With e-books and eReaders on the rise, this decade may go down in tech history as the coming of age of the digital book platform. …
Android 2.1 now available for the Sprint HTC Hero
At long last, the much anticipated Android 2.1 update for the Sprint HTC Hero has been released to the public. For those not already rocking …
iPod touch with camera spotted in Vietnam
That Asian Pacific pipeline of prototypes continues to flow with a new iPod Touch now gracing the front pages of blogs across the world. This …
Facebook signs five year deal with Zynga, crosses 500 million visitor threshold
Farmville fans rejoice as your painfully addicting fanciful Facebook game has gotten a new lease on life. The social networking giant anounced today that it has …
HTC Wildfire lands at Virgin UK
Virgin UK has come forward as the first carrier to officially support the newly announced HTC Wildfire. For those with short term memory loss, the …
Amazon brings Kindle to Android
Amazon is turning up the heat in the e-book market by porting their popular Kindle for iPhone and BlackBerry application to Android. The Android app …
Sony warily eyeing the tablet market?
According to a recent report from Bloomberg, Sony is in a holding pattern when it comes to the growing tablet market. Sony has been considering …
New updated MacBook with 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, NVIDIA 320M graphics in the works?
Vietnam is turning into the place to be for Apple prototype leaks. Earlier this week, Vietnamese blog Tinhte posted up images of a 4th generation …
Google admits to collecting private data during Street View sweeps
Google came clean on its blog yesterday and admitted to accidentally collecting personal data while canvassing positioning data during Street View sweeps. The potentially damaging …
Search warrant in Gizmodo iPhone case released to the public
Clifford Cretan, the judge who signed the search warrant in the Gizmodo iPhone case, issued a ruling on Friday that unsealed the contents of the …
