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How to Get Out of Tracking on Safari - Jennifer Valentino-DeVries - Mobile - AllThingsD | |

Mike Elgan - Google+ - The most expensive Starbucks drink possible costs $23.60… | |

Feds seize $50 million in Megaupload assets, lodge new charges | |

iPhone Antennagate Settled With $15 Payout - Peter Kafka - Mobile - AllThingsD | |

Google Tracked iPhones, Bypassing Apple Browser Privacy Settings - | |

Mac OS 10.8 Mountain Lion pushes iOS integration further - Chicago Sun-Times | |

Apple begins countdown to 25 billion downloads on iOS | |

Apple Posts Guide to 'Getting Started Developing iOS Apps' | |

Google Didn't "Track" iPhones, But It Did Bypass Safari's Privacy Settings | |

The company hasn’t officially said it wants to compete against Foursquare. Leaderboard’s addition to Google Latitude has been kept hush-hush. Google doesn’t even list Leaderboard as being a new feature on the Android Google Maps update. It only says it fixed bugs and has “improved battery performance for Latitude and Location History users.” Leaderboard is only available on the latest version of Google Maps, and not everyone has access to the feature yet.

Samsung to spin out LCDs as Samsung Display on April 1 | |

Photo of iPad 3 Logic Board with "A5X" System on a Chip - Mac Rumors | |

The box also appears throughout Google, when you’re on one of its various sites. You’ll see it within Gmail, Google Maps, Google News and so on.Disappointingly, the box has no intelligence to it. If you’re on Google Maps and want to share a link to a location, you have to use a different sharing option. On Google News and want to share the page you’re viewing? Copy and paste the URL is the option. Done a search and want to share those search results? Copy and paste again.

Bill Weir's Pitch to Steve Jobs for an Interview | Video - ABC News | |

Google acquires Cuil's remaining patent applications | Digital Media - CNET News | |

In a blog post titled "Google bypassing user privacy settings" Microsoft's IE Corporate Vice President Dean Hachamovitch states that "When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question: is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too? We’ve discovered the answer is yes: Google is employing similar methods to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies."

[Interview] Don't Break Search: Q&A with Google Lead Designer Jon Wiley (Jon Mitchell/ReadWriteWeb)

House of Anime, the developer behind other highly questionable App Store entries like Digimon+ and YuGiOh+, claims in the app's description that "all trademarks and copyrights are owned by their respective owners," as if simply saying as much provides legal protection for outright IP theft. And despite the developer's claims that the game is "just like the original," highlighted one-star customer reviews suggest the app is a "scam" that doesn't even work after the title screen. (Interestingly, the developer has posted an apology for the performance issues on its website while totally ignoring the fact that the game is not, in fact, theirs to profit from).

The U.S. still has a slight spectrum surplus at the moment. But at our current growth rate, that surplus turns into a deficit as early as next year, according to the Federal Communications Commission's estimates.

Google now facing class-action suit over Safari cookie circumvention | |

NAND Flash Memory - A Future Not So Bleak After All | PC Perspective | |

eople who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits of information will soon have another option: a pair of Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time. According to several Google employees familiar with the project who asked not to be named, the glasses will go on sale to the public by the end of the year. These people said they are expected “to cost around the price of current smartphones,” or $250 to $600.

Bluer Skies For Shanghai? U.S. Start-Up Strikes $1.25 Billion Deal To Convert Chinese Coal To Natural Gas - Vent...

A more truthful answer could have been something like “This isn’t what the final launch screen for Office on the iPad may end up looking like.” But because the Softies aren’t yet ready to raise the curtain on the coming iPad app (and yes, I do believe such an app is coming) — they tried to discredit the whole report, hoping that those reading would say “nothing to see here” and move along….

Motorola has broken its promise. Motorola is on a path to use standard essential patents to kill video on the Web, and Google as its new owner doesn’t seem to be willing to change course.