Facebook disables rogue phishing apps
Handful of rogue apps were sending Facebook users to a phishing site, stealing passwords and then spamming users' friends.
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Nintendo: We killed the DS lookalike app
Company confirms it requested the removal of the Nintendo DS lookalike app, DS DoubleSys, from Apple's App Store.
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Report: Palm spurned Apple offer on hiring
Steve Jobs in 2007 wanted to stop Apple execs from jumping ship to Palm, but Palm's then CEO Ed Colligan wouldn't strike a deal, Bloomberg News reports.
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Report: Cloud services can't handle the pressure
Commercial cloud providers have a lot of work to do in order to make their service robust and reliable, according to a new research report.
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Google Apps Script gets green light
The tool works mainly within the Spreadsheets app to automate various processes. Google's enterprise team also unveils a tool called Side-by-Side search.
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Micro injections: Score 1 for needle-phobes
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have designed a painless patch of "microneedles" that could replace hypodermic needles and even annual flu shots.
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Time to drop the Netbook label
As cheaper, ultrathin notebooks hit stores, the term Netbook no longer offers much distinction.
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iPod-toting geek, er, Greek gods
San Francisco artist Adam Reeder meshes geek culture with classical sculpture to make some tech-focused art.
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World of Warcraft jumps into print
Five years after the massively popular online game came out, its 11.5 million users will get a new view into its lore, its artwork and its processes with World of Warcraft: The Magazine. But will anyone buy it?
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The un-Netbook: Acer laptop hits $279 at Best Buy
Netbooks based on Intel's Atom processor faced a fresh assault this week: the $279 AMD-based Acer laptop.
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Does Kindle stop you buying a book by its cover?
Perhaps one of the unsung influences of Kindle is the way that it has reduced, or, some say, even eliminated, the influence of book cover design.
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Xmarks extension alpha for Chrome arrives
The widely used bookmark synchronization plug-in is available in alpha form to those selected to test it. Xmarks hopes to open testing to more people soon.
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New Postbox tidies up for final release
As the social-networking e-mail client Postbox approaches its announced general release date, the cross-platform program updates with what looks to be more a "tidying-up" release.
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Symantec identifies 'Dirtiest Web Sites of Summer'
Symantec has come out with a list of the "Dirtiest Web Sites of Summer 2009," which, on average, has 18,000 malware threats per site.
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Adobe tests raw support for Olympus E-P1, new Nikons
The release candidate of a Photoshop plug-in lets those with Nikon D3000 and D300s SLRs and Olympus' E-P1 handle those cameras' raw image formats.
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Source: iLike to debut downloads on Facebook app
It's not confirmed yet, but one high-level music industry source says iLike may bring downloads to Facebook via its app as soon as this week.
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Not so fast, Twitter: 'Tweet' isn't yours
Although Twitter applied for the "tweet" trademark, it doesn't look like the company will be able to secure it, according to a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office document.
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Microsoft details a fix for 'white space' interference
Microsoft researchers tell MIT's Technology Review that it has a new algorithm that could be used to turn unused analog TV spectrum into new wireless broadband services.
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Apple releases fix for MacBook Pro hard drive issues
Apple released a firmware update that it says will fix strange noises and freezing issues with its MacBook Pro line.
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Smartphones moving to fancier flash drives
Better flash memory for smartphones will be comparable to the solid-state drives found in laptops today, according to Micron Technology.
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