Twitter experimenting with customized ‘who to follow’ lists based on browsing behavior
We reported today that Twitter has begun implementing the "Do Not Track" privacy option for its users, and we're now getting a better idea of why the company may have rolled it out: it's testing "who to follow" lists custom-tailor...
One’s Street Tweeter paints your political statements on the pavement
We've seen tweets printed out and read aloud, but what about tweets painted onto asphalt? That's what advocacy group One has created with the One Street Tweeter. Described as a "gigantic ink-jet printer on wheels," the Street Twee...
Budget MVNO Voyager Mobile postpones launch, blames ‘malicious network attack’
Last night we reported on Voyager Mobile, a new MVNO that planned to offer unlimited voice and texting plans starting at $19 a month. Voyager's website was set to launch this morning, but was taken offline almost immediately there...
Bing’s social network-infused redesign rolls out to all US users
Microsoft unveiled a new look and a plethora of new features for its search engine BIng last week, and we liked a lot of what we saw. If you'd like to get your hands on it yourself, you're in luck: the redesign is...
MVNO Voyager Mobile launching with no-contract plans starting at $19
Cellular customers looking for a budget option will have another company to choose from with the launch of a new MVNO dubbed Voyager Mobile. Using Sprint's 3G and WiMAX networks, the company will offer unlimited voice and texting ...
Meizu website mysteriously shut down for having a ‘negative impact on society’
The website for Chinese electronics manufacturer Meizu has mysteriously gone dark over the past few days, replaced instead with a bulletin that raises more questions than it answers. The message is in the company's native Chinese,...
Watch this: 4Chan’s Chris Poole on the transformation of online culture
When we visited ROFLCon this year, it was clear that memes — once the province of select internet denizens — have become mainstream entertainment in their own right. 4Chan founder Christopher Poole hosted a solo panel ...
Baidu introducing new Cloud OS next week, purported device pictures leak
Last year Chinese search engine Baidu announced its own fork of Android called Yi, and the company is now readying the next iteration of the mobile operating system, called simply Baidu Cloud. Reuters spoke with the company's head...
Inside Hitachi’s risk-taking path to profitability
Once a well-known consumer electronics brand, Hitachi has undergone a radical transformation in recent years, and racked up two years of impressive profits in the process. The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the man behind the...
Apple: Samsung has destroyed ‘vast quantities’ of evidence ahead of infringement trial
Apple and Samsung aren't scheduled to go to trial in Apple's infringement case until July at the earliest, but the company's legal teams continue to trade blows. In a recent filing, Cupertino's attorneys accused Samsung of allowin...
Judge hits Google with additional infringement count as both sides struggle to shorten trial
It was the clearest indication yet of just exactly where this trial is headed. During the day's second recess, Google counsel Robert Van Nest huddled with Oracle attorneys David Boies and Michael Jacobs, all three talking in the m...
Yahoo director in charge of Scott Thompson hire to step down from board
May has been a particularly rocky month for Yahoo since it came to light that CEO Scott Thompson was misrepresenting his educational background, falsely claiming to hold a computer science degree from Stonehill College. Things hav...
