Apple facing class action suit over iOS data collection
Apple and several other app developers are the target of a class action lawsuit filed late last week in the Northern District of California. The lawsuit alleges that some apps are collecting so much analytic information that user...
Apple rumor: we’ll sell 21 million iPhones in first quarter of 2011
Apple expects to move as many as 21 million iPhones in the first quarter of 2011, up from initial estimates of 19 million. Sources inside Taiwanese component suppliers told DigiTimes that the total included as many as six million......
Forget getting Netflix or Hulu Plus on TiVo-made cable DVRs
TiVo's Premiere-series DVRs offer access to Netflix's Watch Instantly streaming service, and the company has announced that Hulu Plus support is coming soon. But if you get your TiVo Premiere from your cable company, you won't be...
Google regrouping on Google TV; Toshiba, LG to delay products
Google has asked a number of TV and set-top box makers to delay plans to release new Google TV products at the beginning of next year. According to a New York Times report, Google plans to revamp the software...
Nexus S torn asunder, Contour Display secrets revealed
Online fount of DIY repair knowledge iFixit has gotten its hands on the Google Nexus S, and immediately set to work taking it apart. The device doesn't differ too much from the rest of Samsung's...
882 Novell patents now shared by Microsoft, Apple, EMC, and Oracle
Novell sold itself to software company Attachmate last month for $2.2 billion. In the process, it also sold the rights to nearly 900 patents to an unnamed consortium of companies "organized by Microsoft." According to information...
Opera 11 now available with extensions, tab stacks
Opera announced on Thursday that the eleventh major version of its eponymous Web browser is now available for download. Opera 11 includes performance and standards compliance improvements in its Presto rendering engine, but...
Users get voice control, better movie results with Google TV update
Google launched Google TV—yet another attempt to meld the Web and TV—this past October. Early adopters have seen many networks shutting off access to their online content, but that hasn't stopped Google from working o...
AirPlayer hacks your Mac to play back AirPlay video
If you use a Mac for viewing movies, or as part of a home theater setup, you're probably painfully aware that there is not a way to stream video content to that Mac. Worry not, though: developer Erica Sadun...
Google beefs up voice search with personal recognition
Google originally launched its patented cloud-based voice recognition system in 2007 to power its GOOG-411 information service. By gathering data from hundreds of phone calls, it improved the service and now uses it to power auto...
iPhone jailbreaker set to bring Cydia to Mac OS X
Cydia is somewhat of jailbreak equivalent of the App Store for iOS devices. It enables users to find and install open source packages as well as buy special modifications made for jailbroken phones—often with features......
