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Wikipedia Goes 3-D
Only Wikipedia, the massively collaborative online encyclopedia, would want its users to know what's on the other side of its logo...in three dimensions. For those of you who still doubt the ability of Wikipedia to get the facts straight, the latest update should be a case in point for exactly how things work when everyone gets ...
Roommates Tip Led Cops to iPhone Finder
Police closed in on the man who found and sold a prototype 4G iPhone after his roommate called an Apple security official and turned him in, according to a newly unsealed document in the ongoing police investigation. The tip sent police racing to the home of 21-year-old Brian Hogan, and began a strange scavenger hunt for ...
Google Grabs Personal Info off Wi-Fi Networks
Google said its fleet of cars responsible for photographing streets around the world have for several years accidentally collected personal information that consumers send over wireless networks. The company said on Friday that it is currently in touch with regulators in several countries, including the United States, Germany, France, Brazil and Hong Kong, about how to ...
Gizmodo to Apple's Steve Jobs: 'Right Now, We Have Nothing to Lose'
The affidavit in the missing iPhone case contains an e-mail exchange that could spell trouble for the Gizmodo editor who resisted when Apple CEO Steve Jobs requested he return the top-secret prototype. Deputy District Attorney Chris Feasel told reporters on Friday that police are still investigating and that media organizations that commit crimes can be prosecuted. ...
What's a Facebook Fan Page Worth?
Vitrue, a social media research firm, has rolled out a tool for company's trying to figure out how to value its Facebook fan page. Dubbed Social Page Evaluator, the tool attempts to help companies determine the page's potential revenues and marketing impact. Visitors need only to input a Facebook fan page's URL into the search box ...
Rockin' out with the Fender G-Dec 3 Amp
In the past few years, as music has become computerized, many aspiring and homegrown musicians may have forgotten about that old standby, the practice amp. Fender's new G-DEC 3 attempts to correct that equation. You can plug your guitar straight into the amp and rock out, but additionally, as you could do with a music program ...
4th-Gen iPhone 'Found' in Vietnam, Contains A4 iPad Chip
My Vietnamese is terrible, but this video demo is still pretty clear. What you see is a newer version of the 4G iPhone that was bought by Gizmodo. This iPhone surfaced in Vietnam, and may or may not have been bought on the black market for US$4,000. It certainly looks legit, and in a more finished ...
Revamped Microsoft Office Will Be Free on the Web
Microsoft has created a chimera in its new Office 2010 software, part desktop software and part Web app. This latest version of Office, which includes applications like Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, is Microsoft's long-awaited effort to modernize one of its most lucrative products and to thwart rivals like Google that are nipping at its heels ...
NYU Students Aim to Invent Facebook (Again). We've Got Your Back.
Remember when Facebook really was a private club? In the days before we called anything a “social network?" When “sharing" and “connecting" wasn't bait for the switch of “monetizing" the stuff and nonsense of our lives? Well, four NYU students do, and they are so nostalgic for those halcyon days way back in 2004 that they ...
Move over Jobs, Android Just Passed iPhone in U.S.
Google's Android mobile operating system continued to shake up the U.S. mobile phone market in the first quarter of 2010, moving past Apple to take the number-two position among smartphone operating systems, according to The NPD Group. Based on sales last quarter the Android moved into second position at 28% behind RIM Blackberry at 36% and ...
