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Pandora Ends the Tyranny of 40-Hour Listening Caps
Remember back in the day when you listened to Pandora and hit your 40-hour listening limit? “Wait, what? No more music?” you ask, brow furrowing as you slowly remove your earbuds. “Geez, 99 cents? For...
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Napster No More: Rhapsody Nabs Subscribers, Assets
Napster’s long, troubled life is finally coming to an end, with Rhapsody acquiring the service’s subscribers and assets from Best Buy. The Napster brand will be phased out as part of the deal. Napster...
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RIM Launches BBM Music, and It’s Doomed Already
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is forging ahead with its BBM Music offering, an attempt at creating a viral music service that will probably fall flat. BBM Music launches today with a free 60-day...
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The Consequences of Apple’s Walled Garden
At the SysCan conference in Taiwan this week, security researcher Charlie Miller will describe a flaw he discovered in the iPhone’s web browser that allows a malicious app installed on the phone to...
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SOPA Won’t Stop Online Piracy, Would Censor Everyone Else
In short, SOPA, if passed, would allow the U.S. government to blacklist any website found to have infringing material, inhibiting access to those sites using DNS filtering techniques similar to those...
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Flipboard Launches Android Version of Its Popular News Reading App
Good news, Android users. Flipboard is officially available in the Google Play store.
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How to Fix RIM: A Twitter Symposium
A bunch of operating-system strategy suggestions for the ailing smartphone maker.
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New York Comic Con: Dim Sum Warriors iPad Comic Gives a Taste of Chinese Culture
Dim Sum Warriors aims to give Chinese language learners of all ages a taste of Chinese culture — and help Chinese speakers practice their English.
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Experts Say Facebook’s Recent Security Leak Is More Extensive Than the Site...
Last week, Facebook apologized for leaking contact information for an estimated 6 million users of the world’s largest social network. But according to computer security experts, the site may be...
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Boston University Patent Lawsuit Targets the iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air
I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned my alma mater, Boston University, in a article I’ve written about technology. But BU is all over Techmeme today: It’s suing Apple over a 1997 patent. The university...
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Microsoft Head Gives Teary Goodbye
Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave an impassioned, tearful goodbye this week in his last employee-wide meeting atop the company he’s led since 2000. “I just want to enjoy this for a minute,”...
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Facebook No Longer Lets Users Hide Their Profiles in Search Box
Facebook announced Thursday its plans to finalize the removal of the privacy setting that allows users to control who can search their name on the social-media site. The company first rolled out its...
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Volvo’s Self-Driving Cars Will Max Out at 43 MPH
Volvo is aiming to be the first car maker to bring self-driving vehicles to the public. To do so, it has partnered with Sweden to bring 100 self-driving Volvos to the streets of its second-largest...
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U.S. Navy Launches Aerial Drone from a Submarine
Just in case military drone strikes weren’t scary enough, now the Navy has demonstrated that it can launch aerial drones from a submerged submarine. Powered by an electric fuel cell, the eXperimental...
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Anonymous Hackers Plead Guilty to PayPal Cyber Attack
A group of defendants belonging to the hacktivist group Anonymous have pleaded guilty in federal court to a cyber attack on Paypal’s website. Eleven men and two women were charged with the December...
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NSA Uses Cookies to Pinpoint Hacking Targets
For years, privacy advocates have criticized the commercial use of “cookies” and other tools to track online customers — now it appears that the National Security Agency (NSA) has used these same...
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Harlem Gets Wired: Free Public Wi-Fi to Launch Early Next Year
The northern reaches of Manhattan will soon be home to the nation’s largest wi-fi network. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday that the Harlem neighborhood will soon get a new...
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Google Adds More Robots to Its Robot Army
Google strengthened its foray into robotic technology Friday after acquiring an engineering company known for its development of uncannily deft robots. Boston Dynamics, an engineering company...
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10,000 Racial Slurs Are Tweeted Each Day
According to a new study by think tank Demos, 10,000 tweets containing a racial slur of some sort are posted on Twitter every day. To arrive at that figure, the group’s social media unit analyzed a...
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In the Absence of Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn Expands Into China
Online professional networking titan LinkedIn has launched a new Chinese-language version of its site. According to Forbes, the company is hoping to wrangle up to 140 million members with its Chinese...
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