The company's big announcement at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival was its new way to integrate Twitter data into partner sites.

Top talent choosing sides - or bailing The battle between Apple and Google is heating up, with execs taking potshots at each other and Silicon Valley insiders choosing sides - some by getting new business cards.?The power of collaboration within unified communications

Joanne Bradford, senior VP of U.S. revenue and market development, plans to leave company for post at online content upstart Demand Media.

Army intelligence worried that Wikileaks.org could harm military operations and speculates that criminal prosecution could deter disclosures, document posted Monday indicates.

Orders for Apple's iPad fell off sharply over the weekend after a big opening day Friday, an investment blogger claimed today.

This week the FCC will finally unveil the complete details of the National Broadband Plan, and the arduous task of working to implement the ambitious initiatives can begin.

Perhaps you missed Boing Boing's interview on Friday with South African rap-rave zef gangsters Die Antwoord? And the news that the recently-minted internet stars shook hands (and pinched cheeks) with Interscope Records, tapped District 9 helmer Neill Blomkamp to direct ...

BlackBerry users may be ready to move on to other smartphone platforms, suggesting that RIM isn't keeping up with consumer demand in its efforts to combat growing encroachment from the likes of iPhone and Android. In fact, two in five BlackBerry owners plan to swa...

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Trailrunner7 writes "Robert Hansen, a security researcher and CEO of SecTheory, has been gleaning intelligence from professional attackers in recent months, having a series of off-the-record conversations with spammers and malicious hackers in an effort to gain insight ...

Corporate VP of Microsoft Online Services Ron Markezich discusses the joys and pitfalls of productivity apps in the cloud, how to mix your own data center with Microsoft's cloud model, and the rising tide of BPOS competitors. Hint: It's not just Google.

By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews As expected, Microsoft is taking the first (probably the only) release candidate for Silverlight version 4 live today for developers, who have been playing with the beta in Visual Studio 2010 since last November. The message of the day...

A package of legislation designed to combat copyright infringement in Britain is stirring more controversy as it moves through Parliament.

The only thing worse than being lost is being lost while stuck in traffic. Come to think of it, being stuck in traffic is pretty bad to begin with...

Will memory makers finally begin seeing some green?

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Above, Boing Boing debuts the new video from David Byrne with Santigold, "Please Don't," from Here Lies Love, a musical biography of sorts about Imelda Marcos. David Byrne explains, We did a photo session for a magazine the other day, and I told the interviewer that on ...

'Visually identical' pads siphoned customer data Crooks planted bogus payment card processing terminals at multiple locations operated by the Hancock Fabrics chain store that allowed for the theft of sensitive financial data from customers, the company warned.?Web threa...

The MacBundles has put a new spin on the now well established software bundling promotion. In addition to offering the usual "batch of a dozen software titles...

When independent filmmaker David Hoffman set out to make a documentary on the Sputnik hysteria that swept the US in the 1950s, he styled the piece as an hour-and-a-half feature film. He relied heavily on old news clips from the time, none of wh...

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waderoush writes "E Ink, which makes the monochrome electrophoretic screens used in the Amazon Kindle, the Barnes & Noble Nook, the Sony Reader line, and other e-readers, is gearing up to supply manufacturers with the first color versions of its displays by early next y...

The good people at NASA dropped a lightweight helicopter from 35 feet to watch it crash. This was the same helicopter that was dropped in December for crash testing. The first time, the helicopter suffered minimal damage due to a new "expandable honeycomb cushion" that ...

The agency takes the wraps off a major proposal, to be presented to Congress this week, that could cost as much as $350 billion of public and private money.

The Q1 UMPC failed, but Samsung is giving a slate-like PC another try.

The beverage giant has reached out to the social-media crowd like nothing else. So what does it hope to get out of its SXSWi marketing blitz?

Microsoft is rushing to patch what's described as a serious flaw in Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 after the code for exploiting the security hole was published online. Internet Explorer - Internet Explorer 7 - Internet Explorer 6 - Micros...

In this two-year-old classified Army Counterintelligence Center report (hosted on wikileaks.org, where else?), American spooks set out to destroy Wikileaks by intimidating its sources. They cite as justification for this the fact that Wikileaks has outed American embarr...

Sean Bonner made this coffee-themed t-shirt (the line is a Big Lebowski reference)....

Already implicated in post-transaction marketing practices officials have called a "scam," the site is now accused of duping users into upgrading memberships.

BPM vendor Pegasystems is buying CRM player Chordiant for $161.5 million.

Snakes "see" heat by employing the same gene that humans use to taste spicy mustard.

Yvonne asked the Answer Line forum for help recovering missing files.

The Ruckus ZoneFlex 7363 Access Point may not be quite as speedy as some of the companies other products, but it makes setting up a mesh network easy.

A paper released in Science last week detailed research that showed globular clusters may be more noncommittal than previously thought. The spherical collections of stars are normally anchored to a single galaxy, but a new study shows that there may be some glob...

Behold Larriva's wind-up tribute to the great Carl Sagan, "It is cast in rock hard, Durham's Water Putty and is hand painted in acrylics. The hair is wool and the metal parts are from a wind-up toy." It is sold out on etsy, but you can but Larriva's Hopgoblin wind-up to...

Joseph Casias has sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor and takes medical marijuana, which is legal in Michigan. He was fired from the Michigan Walmart where he had been working for the last five years after he failed a drug screening test there. At his doctor's re...

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The Internet can simplify doing your taxes -- but can't replace good judgment. Here's a look at your main online tax software choices and key issues to keep in mind, from import gotchas to professional consults.

Crap snoop app escapes whack-a-mole policy A bogus application that lures Facebook users by falsely offering to show who has been viewing their profile has been exposed as a scam.?Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

An anonymous reader writes "This document is a classified (SECRET/NOFORN), 32-page US counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks (PDF). 'The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the US government are providing sensitive or classif...

Pegasystems said it would buy Chordiant for roughly $161.5 million, adding CRM and analytics capabilities to its business process management stable of applications.

Reporters Without Borders names several countries, including China and Iran, as Internet enemies for clamping down on online freedom and prosecuting bloggers.

More cores, fatter disks, and Fedora 12 Server and desktop virtualization giant VMware has opened up beta testing on its latest desktop hypervisor, Workstation 7.1.?Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Those little black and while boxes are a physical bridge from the real world to the web world.

Already a subscription service on the Web, the company will launch radio- and playlist-focused apps for the iPhone and Android platforms this spring.

Brian Stelter of the New York Times reports on the International Amateur Scanning League, consisting of volunteers who are copying the 3,000 DVDs at the National Archives and Records Administration. The videos will be uploaded to the net for all to enjoy. Dust off a dis...

If I were a lawyer, I would be a Space Lawyer, as long as that could be printed on my business card. During the next academic year, Sunderland University students can sign up for a course module devoted legal questions surrounding space exploration, tourism, safety, and...

The 2.6.32.10 and 2.6.33.1 stable kernel updates are out. They are both massive, with 145 and 123 patches, respectively.