Dude, where’s my stolen MacBook?

Smile! You’re on hidden camera. When one laptop owner found his computer missing, he activated remote monitoring software to snap a picture of the thief which ultimately led to the criminal’s capture.

After alerting police of his stolen … Read More

China: Google hack allegations are a “fabrication”

Beijing has adamantly denied it was involved in accessing hundreds of Gmail accounts belonging to senior U.S. officials, journalists, military personnel and political activists.

Indeed, Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry official Hong Lei termed Google’s allegations little more than … Read More

DC’s future full of #1s

DC Comics is resetting all of their comic book lines later this year. Will it be the kick they desperately need or just another fruitless stunt?

DC announced yesterday that 52 of their titles are being relaunched this September, … Read More

Sony will stream E3 press conference live in Home

Just a couple weeks after it restored access to its online community, Sony will be pulling off a pretty cool online stunt on the PS3.

Next week, the world’s biggest video game trade show kicks off in Los Angeles. It’s … Read More

PlayStation Store back online; other Sony properties hacked in the meanwhile

The Sony PlayStation Store and Music Unlimited by Qriocity are back online across the world, excluding Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. Sony has also gone ahead and updatedPlayStation Plus, its premium subscriber network, with new avatars, betas, free … Read More

Thunderbird follows Firefox with its first beta under the quick release schedule

Recently Mozilla changed to a quicker release system for Firefox, and Thunderbird was to follow suit. Today is its first delivery on that goal.

Since Firefox and Thunderbird share so much common technology (XULRunner) Thunderbird would have to adapt to … Read More

(Another) Thunderbird Unity extension for Ubuntu 11.04

Display unread messages in Thunderbird thanks to a new experimental extension by Huahe.

But, and here’s the great bit, Huahe told us that his extension “does not need a Thunderbird alpha” and ‘works with the one [available by default] … Read More

Mac Defender variant sidesteps Apple’s security patch

A new variant of Mac Defender has been spotted in the wild. The latest iteration of the malware is apparently capable of neatly sidestepping a recently released OS X security update targeting the original Defender.

According to ZDNet’s … Read More

Twitter+search+pictures = ?

Twitter is rolling out advanced photo search capabilities. The idea is to create a richer search experience within the social networking site itself so users aren’t tempted to go elsewhere to find what they are looking for.

For  example, … Read More

Zynga launches its ‘most social game’ yet

Zynga, the video game maker most known for its Facebook game Farmville, has just launched an ambitious new title.

Empires & Allies is now available for the millions of registered Facebook users. Unlike Zynga’s traditional, casual titles, this new excursion … Read More