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Yesterday Gawker Media denied reports that their database of 1.5 Million usernames, emails and passwords had been hacked. Comments broadcast via the apparently compromised Twitter feed of Gawker Media’s tech and gadget site Gizmodo strongly suggested a security compromise. Gawker Editorial Director Scott Kidder claimed through his own Twitter feed that “No evidence to suggest any Gawker Media’s user accounts were compromised, and passwords encrypted anyway.”

live from the Google Media Party - using the Nexus S

Next month, at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer is expected to announce a number of devices from Samsung and Dell, among other manufacturers, it says. Microsoft apparently hopes these slates will offer an alternative to the iPad because they move "beyond play".

"Verizon’s volumes grew from 2.7 million in Q1 to 3.3 million in Q3," the site reports. "Not a bad story in itself. However, the iPhone at AT&T went from 2.7 million to 5.7 million in the same time frame. Relative to just the iPhone, Verizon has been underperforming over the last quarter."

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s suit against 11 companies, including Apple, Google and Yahoo, has been dismissed, with the judge finding the allegations unclear. Rate This Article: Poor Best E-mail Print PDF Version Print Version Sponsored By The patent infringement lawsuit that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen filed against Apple, Google and a handful of other companies in August has been dismissed by a district judge, ABC News has reported.

"We built Google for users, not websites, and our goal is to give users answers," a Google spokeswoman said in a statement. "Sometimes the most useful answer isn't '10 blue links,' but a map for an address query, or a series of images for a query like 'pictures of Egyptian pyramids.' We often provide these results in the form of 'quick answers' at the top of the page, because our users want a quick answer."

Christmas presents for the TWiT hosts ready to mail. (@ TWiT Cottage)

The Air Force is barring its personnel from using work computers to view the Web sites of The New York Times and more than 25 other news organizations and blogs that have posted secret cables obtained by WikiLeaks, Air Force officials said Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube, the video site owned by Google, is in talks to buy Next New Networks, a Web video production company, according to two people briefed on the discussions. The acquisition would be YouTube’s first major foray into producing original content, and shows how intently YouTube is focused on offering professional shows, not just amateur videos and other short clips.

@brockm I try hard to vary our TWiT panels - balancing regulars with guests. It's a pretty diverse bunch:

@loriBear Cooliris's Discover is a very pretty Wikipedia app for iPad.

@jasonclarke You don't think open is important? I'll let xkcd speak for me: