The Wikileaks security gaffe earlier this week that resulted in the distribution of a quarter million unredacted cables, like any sufficiently-sized SNAFU, will progress in phases. Today, it entered the second phase—finger pointing. More » Gizmodo
Long since gone are the days of sitting at the breakfast table, drinking a cup of coffee and sharing the Sunday paper… or are they? The New York Time’s R&D Lab is developing a “kitchen table” based-on Microsoft Surface touchscreen technology, designed to take individuals that are normally face down in their iPads, back to [...]
Late last month, Twitter made an obvious choice by putting ads from companies we follow into our feeds. Good! Now they’ve taken it one step further by allowing ads from brands we don’t follow to slip through. Not so good? More » Gizmodo
The next OTA update for iOS 5 is out for developers. We’ll know shortly what kind of goodies it has in store. [9to5 Mac] More » Gizmodo
CNET is reporting that Apple has lost another iPhone in another bar. This time, it appears to be an iPhone 5 that’s gone missing. More » Gizmodo
We caught a sneak peek of Acer’s Aspire 3951 Ultrabook in the wild a few days ago, and now we have some unofficial specs and pricing to complement the svelte laptop. A report over on Notebook Italia points to an Italian retailer’s live pre-order page for an Ultrabook S3 — naming that matches the Aspire [...]
You heard right. Bloomberg is reporting that the United States government (!) just filed court papers in Washington, D.C. to block the much ballyhooed tie-up between AT&T and T-Mobile USA. Oddly enough, T-Mobile and AT&T promised this morning that a total of 5,000 jobs would be hand delivered to the US if the two telcos [...]
If you’ve your T-mobile coverage at home is spotty at best, don’t cancel your service just yet. If you wait until Wednesday, September 7th, T-Mo might just give you a free in-home signal booster to get you to stay. More » Gizmodo
Mozilla released a sneak peak at Firefox for Tablets today, a version of the popular web browser built on the Firefox Mobile engine but optimized for a tablet’s roomier screen. More » Gizmodo
Stem has just announced their iZON Remote Room Monitor – which does look like some sort of modern day droid who was programmed to watch over the room with its plethora of sensors. Actually, it isn’t (sorry for the disappointment!), and R2-D2 need not worry that he would be out of a job anytime soon. [...]