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Infographic: Flash Still Bests HTML5 by Most Measures In Web Gaming
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 11:25pm CET by Digg
Apple may have hitched its star to HTML5 with iOS-based devices like the iPhone and iPad, but Flash is still more secure, more available, and used for more multimedia overall. -
Infographic: I Won it on eBay
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:56pm CET by Digg
We couldn’t help taking a deep dive into Hunch data to see what the differences are between people who have bought or sold on eBay, and those who haven’t yet. -
Why Jailbreaking should be legal
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:20pm CET by Digg
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has selected some of the best submissions from the Copyright Office's review of whether it should continue to be legal in the USA to "jailbreak" your devices in order to make them more suited to their needs. In this post, we hear from a deaf man who jailbreaks his phone so that he can use it as an assistive device at work; a military worker in Kuwait who jailbreaks his phone so he can quickly access the flashlight function to scare off dangerous wildlife near the base; and a nurse whose jailbroken device allows her to "track my performance, treatments used on -
Patent Troll Claims Ownership of Interactive Web – And Might Win
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 7:53pm CET by Digg
The city of Tyler, Texas, is better known as the nation's -
Speed Tests: Mac OS X Lion vs. Windows 8 Developer Preview
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 6:47pm CET by Digg
Windows 8 promises to give Mac OS X Lion a run for its money when it comes to speed. -
Apple seeks revised patent rules
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 6:36pm CET by Digg
A letter from Apple's legal team reveals that the firm wants Europe to revise rules covering patents that are essential to industry standards. -
iPad 3 rumor rollup for the week of Feb. 7
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 6:28pm CET by Digg
Even as the Patriots' hopes and dreams were strangled in the Super Bowl, the iOSsphere rumors for iPad 3 mounted anew on wings like eagles. -
Silicon Valley Recovering Faster Than Nation
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 6:17pm CET by Digg
Even before Facebook Inc. goes public, Silicon Valley is experiencing a surge in jobs and per-capita income, in contrast to the weak economic situation dogging the rest of the nation. -
On Navy Warships, the Web Slows to a Crawl
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 5:36pm CET by Digg
The 40,000-ton assault ship U.S.S. Wasp can launch deadly sea and air attacks against enemies ashore and afloat. Just don't expect it to load a website in under three minutes. -
Microsoft starts protecting your data | ZDNet
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 5:27pm CET by Digg
Apple’s warming trend in the enterprise is about to get squashed: Microsoft’s new ReFS file system - due in Windows 8 Server - will be the -
Klout makes its first acquisition: Local-mobile app Blockboard
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 4:18pm CET by Digg
Klout, the San Francisco-based startup that measures people's "influence" across a variety of social networks, has made its first acquisition with the purchase of Blockboard, a Twitter-like mobile app that functions as a community bulletin board for posting messages viewable to your neighbors. -
Sprint Reports Strong iPhone Sales in Q4 2011
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 3:50pm CET by Digg
Sprint's Q4 2011 earnings report is out, and strong iPhone sales are among the highlights. -
Jeff Bezos-Funded Bigot Search Engine Powers Android Siri Rival
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 3:49pm CET by Digg
I'm sure Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos doesn't know about this, but he's funding a seemingly ultra-Christian search engine that is anti-abortion, anti-evolution, racist and even thinks that rape may be justifiable. It's called ChaCha, and it powers Android's most popular Siri competitor, Iris. -
Apple iTV detailed: It’s like a 42-inch iPad
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 2:34pm CET by Digg
In a rather unexpected twist, Canada's largest newspaper and newspaper of record has published details of Apple's upcoming iTV. -
Russia’s Largest BitTorrent Tracker Under Huge DDoS Attack
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 2:20pm CET by Digg
RUTracker, Russia’s largest BitTorrent tracker, has been dealing with the effects of a DDoS attack over the past 48 hours. -
Tribler Makes BitTorrent Impossible to Shut Down
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:42pm CET by Digg
While the file-sharing ecosystem is currently filled with uncertainty and doubt, researchers at Delft University of Technology continue to work on their decentralized BitTorrent network. Their Tribler client doesn't require torrent sites to find or download content, as it is based on pure peer-to-peer communication. -
The Most Prolific Hacker on the Internet: A One-Handed Shadow
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 6:22am CET by Digg
Stories about hackers are notoriously difficult to illustrate. In fact, there is one hacker so elusive that only two images of him exist in all the internet, despite the fact that he is the most prolific internet hacker of all time. Now introducing: The Shadowy, One-Handed Hacker of Death. -
Adobe confirms: no Flash for Chrome on Android
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 5:41am CET by Digg
Adobe has confirmed that Google's new Chrome for Android browser does not, and will not, support Flash content. And Adobe is done taking the Flash browser plugin to new environments. -
QuickSilverScreen Streaming Links Site Calls It Quits
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 5:31am CET by Digg
In the wake of the Megaupload raids and attacks on domains in the US and elsewhere, the administrator of yet another site has decided to call it quits. QuickSilverScreen (QSS) first appeared in 2004 but faced its first legal action 2 years later in 2006. Twentieth Century Fox asked the site to take immediate action [...]