Posters in the growing thread on Apple’s discussion board complaining about iPhone 3G signal issues were excited by the possibility that the new firmware update might correct their problems. Apple has not acknowledged any issue with the iPhone 3G’s ability to maintain a connection to worldwide 3G networks, but complaints have been pouring in [...]

The Los Angeles station was part of a U.S. Department of Energy hydrogen research program with Shell and General Motors. But Shell will build a few more stations in Los Angeles area on its own in coming months, Macleod said.

BOSTON–Shell is preparing to open a fueling station in west Los Angeles later this month that [...]

In this podcast, Naraine and Vamosi talk about the changing nature of threats today and what we might see in the future.

Naraine recently spoke at a conference on emerging security threats sponsored by the Georgia Tech Information Security Center about the increasing risks of malware on social networks, such as Facebook pages that to lead [...]

When we reviewed the Sony PSP Headset a few months ago, we determined that it worked perfectly fine with the console’s newly enabled Skype feature–so long as you scrounged up the accessory extension cable needed to enable the two-way communication function. The problem was that the headset didn’t include the cable: you needed to buy [...]

I mentioned the other day that a significant customer uptake for Zimbra would be much more meaningful than IBM and Microsoft trading customers back and forth. Well, 20 million paid mailboxes spread over 30,000 customers is much more significant than IBM beating its chest over nabbing 5 million mailboxes from Microsoft.
However, to get there Zimbra/Yahoo [...]

So where does American Apparel chuck its ads: On the social networks that its young customers fill up with photos of themselves. Fox Interactive Media, which owns MySpace, is American Apparel’s top advertiser, making up nearly a quarter of the retailer’s ad impressions. Facebook was next with 18 percent, followed by AOL (which owns Bebo) [...]

This point was exacerbated by the fact that the build that developers were given a chance to take home last week doesn’t have the new taskbar that represents the most visual difference between
Windows 7 and today’s Vista desktop.

The company is also trying to reduce all of those annoying notifications that pop up along the right [...]

TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid asks, “Since when did my data become a bartering tool?”

Kincaid’s complaint stems from Web mail providers purging user e-mail in order to free up storage and drive the upselling of premium Web mail products. Surely, if Yahoo is wreaking havoc with a user’s email, another provider can offer a better retention policy [...]