The iPhone is not currently available anywhere in the UK%2C and customers may have to wait for the putative 3G Apple iPhone.

Stock of both the 8GB and the 16GB Apple iPhone models, have flown off UK shelves, forcing service provider O2 to admit that no stock remains and the original iPhone will not re-appear. However, with no definite UK release date for the 3G…

What seemed like a vague industry possibility just a few months ago now seems like an inevitable certainty. Multiple carriers in North America are now either employing or considering monthly caps where users pay per gigabyte should they “over eat.”

Why Not Just Make Gluttons Pay For a Business-Class Tier?

The US State Department has lost over 1000 laptops according to an audit report. Some of the laptops contain high security data.
Nita M. Lowey, a representative on the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees State Department operations, told Congressional Quarterly that she is concerned? about the security revelations.

Nita M. Lowey, a representative on the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees State Department operations, told Congressional Quarterly that she is “concerned” about the security revelations.

Computer attacks typically don’t inflict physical pain on their victims. But hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation’s Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images. The breach triggered severe migraines and near-seizure reactions in some site visitors who viewed the images.

“I count this in the same category of teenagers who think it's funny to put a cat in a bag and throw it over a clothesline ' they don't realize how cruel it is,” said Paul Ferguson, a security researcher at antivirus…

Wall Street Journal has reported that Microsoft and Facebook are in talks with each other over possible merger.
A Microsoft source claimed that its financial team is in contact with Facebooks team to see if they are willing to sell or not. The talk is in early stage and no time frame could be given for the deal.

A Microsoft source claimed that its financial team is in contact with Facebook’s team to see if they are willing to sell or not. The talk is in early stage and no time frame could be given for the deal.

AT&T’s iPhone website (under ‘Plans’ tab) has been updated to reveal that each iPhone plan now includes access to their “more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots, including Starbucks all for use in the U.S.”
It was first revealed last week that AT&T had quietly begun offering iPhone users access to thei…

Thursday May 08, 2008 12:02 AM EST; Category: iPhoneWritten by Arnold Kim

If you’re an independent Mac software developer, having a wicked cool icon for your application is both a blessing and a curse. Users will remember you for the sleek, Leopard-ready goodness of your icon … and other unscrupulous marketers will rip you off shamelessly to promote their own products, rather than ponying up for an original design.

What really gets my fur up is that if you are going to rip something off, at least have the decency to make it look good. The window on the box is “tilted” inwards, the 1Password icon is “flat”, and the entire box is…

Indian officials have accused China of methodically attacking the country’s servers for the past 18 months. Detecting attacks, however, is one thing?proving they originated from the desks of government-sponsored Chinese hackers is quite another.

The degree to which the Chinese government is actually involved in these attacks is still an open question, The Times' rhetoric notwithstanding. A continuing series of sophisticated and methodical assaults is no longer proof of another…

TUAW has info on the latest version of the iPhone SDK firmware (beta 5). Join us as we liveblog about new information as we get it.

I believe the change in size is due to the fact that they've removed the documentation from the download. At least that's the impression I get from the release notes. It suggests you get the index included with the download and can choose…

The feature Google Reader user have been waiting for. Include notes with items you share so your friends know why you're sharing it!

Share items with a note - If you are like me, you might want to share something in Reader, but think your friends might not “get” why you are sharing it. Use the “Share with note” button on the item toolbar to create a copy…

Check out the list of 20 most profitable tech companies.

Among Fortune 1000 techs, Microsoft remains on top, taking in $14.1 billion in earnings last year.

Google officially announced the launch of the new interface for Google Apps for iPhone including 13 languages in 33 new country .

Google officially announced the launch of the new interface for Google Apps for iPhone including 13 languages in 33 new state, announced at the Macworld about three months ago, the new interface gives the user the easiest and fastest way to use…

Over the last few days a number of popular bloggers have complained, loudly, that its time to ditch Twitter and move to a decentralized version of the service that wont go down every time usage spikes…Chris Saad, co-founder of DataPortability and founder of startup Faraday Media, thinks he knows one way Twitter can be decentralized effectively.

I read blog posts and comments about twitter’s scalability problems for a while now. What i keep wondering is how come no one is looking at the traditional ways the software industry is scaling large scale data distribution issues. Look…

Audi, the luxury unit of Volkswagen (VOWG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research), sees great opportunities in electric cars and will offer automobiles with no exhaust emissions within ten years, its top executive told a German weekly. Rupert Stadler told Welt am Sonntag in an interview published on Sunday that he expects diesel and battery technology to dom

Asked if Audi was not lagging domestic rivals Mercedes (DAIGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) and BMW (BMWG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) in the development of lithium-ion batteries that are more powerful than batteries used now…