|
Facebook said today it has paid more than $40,000 to people who have uncovered bugs on its Web site in the first three weeks of its Bug Bounty program. The company launched its bug bounty program at the end of last month as a way to compensate people who find and report bugs that might otherwise go [...]
VMware Chief Executive Paul Maritz, who once ran Microsoft’s Windows empire, told the 19,000 attendees at the VMworld conference here this afternoon that the computing industry is entering the post-PC era. Paul Maritz giving the keynote address at VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas (Credit: Jay Greene/CNET) Maritz, who in the late 1990s was Microsoft’s third [...]
Apple frequently saves its newest features for the latest versions of its hardware and software, though a notice on a preference pane from an older version of Mac OS X suggests the company could be adding functionality from its upcoming iCloud service to the previous version of its operating system as part of a future software update. [...]
A purported mishandling of Google+ invitation links that keeps them from surfacing on Facebook user news feeds has resulted in a “he said, she said” match between the two companies. A video that was posted earlier today on YouTube by a Google employee depicts an unusual behavior, with Google+ invite links that have been shared with [...]
Verizon Communications plans to suspend health-insurance coverage and medical benefits for any worker still on strike, applying further pressure on employees who have been off the job for more than a week. It’s the latest escalation in a contract dispute between telecommunications workers facing competitive pressure on its legacy landline business and workers who [...]
Facebook says its inspection of a computer belonging to a man who claims to have a contract that entitles him to half-ownership of the social-networking giant has turned up an “authentic contract” that does not mention Facebook. Forensic analysis proves that the alleged 2003 contract between Paul Ceglia and Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg [...]
There’s no question that the mobile market was turned on its head yesterday when Google announced its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola. So what’s it mean for the rest of the industry? Typically, industry consolidation begets more consolidation. CNET offers five predictions for how this mega-merger may affect other players in the mobile market from [...]
Google has disabled a feature that could allow people to remove websites from its search index following a problematic discovery by an astute observer. James Breckenridge, operations director at UK Web Media, wrote on his personal blog that he was using Google’s webmaster tools, used for maintaining websites, and found he could delete any website from [...]
Apple is contributing more than half the total $4.5 billion price tag for Nortel patents, with partners including Microsoft and Sony combined kicking in the rest. Apple reported on Wednesday in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it will contribute about $2.6 billion toward the cost of the Nortel patent acquisition. After [...]
Apple said today that customers had downloaded more than one million copies of Mac OS X Lion from the Mac App Store in the upgrade’s first day of availability. In a statement, Apple boasted of the initial success of Lion with wording that hinted it had raked in about $30 million. “In just one day, over one [...]