In an effort to control how the troops engage with the open web, the US Marine Corps has banned the use of social networking sites from its network. The ban on popular websites like Twitter and Facebook is effective immediately and will be in place for at least a year.
The corps says the reason for [...]
Sony Corp’s digital book reader will go on sale this month. At just $199 for the 5 inch screen, it is the cheapest reader on the market, which will cut into the Amazon Kindle sales. The larger screen will be available for $299 at outlets like Wal-Mart and Best Buy.
To build demand, the company will [...]
Google will be launching a developer version of its browser, Chrome, in a week that will allow for cloud-based bookmark syncing, in competition with Mozilla’s Weave and bookmark discovery service Xmarks.
The Chromium mailing list got an email from Google Engineer Tim Steel on Friday saying that the new synchronization code would appear in developer builds [...]
eBay currently powers Skype’s P2P connections via technology provided by Joltid, a Swedish firm which is owned by the original founders of Skype. eBay may have to come up with a workaround for this technology as Joltid says that they are terminating the license agreement which eBay went against as it said that could not [...]
As of 15:00 UTC, the FirefoxCounter Tweeted that the browser has officially registered over 1 billion downloads. The count includes all versions of the software dating back to its first release in 2004.
TechCrunch reported yesterday that Mozilla’s browser had passed 999 million downloads during the morning. It took just about 19 more hours to hit [...]
The owners of Pirate Bay have been given 10 days to block traffic to and from the Netherlands, or they will face 3 million Euros in fines. The ruling was handed in on Thursday and the site was ordered to shut down to stop further infringement of copyrights held by the members of a Dutch [...]
Who would’ve though jailbreaking an iPhone could be dangerous? Apple has informed the US Copyright Office that iPhones that are jailbroken can actually cause cell phone towers to crash and allow drug dealers to make anonymous phone calls. This was done in response to the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) proposal that modifications to the iPhone’s [...]
Twitter has just put up a new front page that features a very prominent search box. It appears that this has been done to attract new users to the micro-blogging service.
In the last year, Twitter has emerged as a force in the micro-blogging circles, with users posting up-to-date and relevant information using hashtags. The new [...]
A 10 year partnership has been signed between Microsoft and Yahoo in an effort to combine forces and take down Google. Through this deal, Microsoft will power Yahoo’s search engines, while Yahoo will handle the sales force for both companies’ search advertisers. It is expected that the deal will be closed in the start of [...]
During a conference call this morning, Verizon executives confirmed that they will be releasing the latest in Palm early next year. The only reason Verizon isn’t starting this initiative up sooner is the agreement between Sprint and Palm, whereby Sprint has exclusive wireless carrier rights till the end of 2009.
The Palm Pre will use Palm’s [...]