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With at least 17 languages spoken by the 32 teams in the World Cup, it is impossible for referees to understand all of them.

The tension between what Apple says and what it does belies a tension between Apple's closed, curated App store, and what it says is its respect for the web and HTML 5. With Safari Reader, Apple is showing where its allegiance truly is, and it leaves itself in a fairly indefensible position unless it allows ad blocking of iAds.

Pulse News Reader, were ecstatic to be mentioned first–as one of the most promising developers for the new tablet device–in his keynote speech by Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. But, by the afternoon, that flush of entrepreneurial success had turned sour....

Technological advances in the mobile phone space have been nothing short of incredible over the past decade. Major players like Nokia, Research in Motion, Apple, Palm and Motorola continue to push the envelope as more and more people equip themselves with smartphones.

The football used in the FIFA World Cups has evolved significantly. Here is a brief description of how the Adidas ball evolved from 1970 to modern times.

Watching Youtube’s Flash videos in full screen can be a very disconcerting experience for Linux users (I don’t know how it is on other platforms.) How cool would it be if you can load a Youtube video in your favorite movie player with a click of one button? Well here is a little hack that would make your life Flash free.

"Goodbye, Apple. I'm ditching my iPhone. Seriously, I'm gone," writes Newsweek senior editor Dan Lyons on his Newsweek blog. In his alter ego of "Fake Steve," Lyons also comments on all things Apple on his parody website The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs.

Linux saved me and the company I sub contract to, a large fast food giant, from near-total disaster. Last month McAfee posted a virus definition update that flagged SVCHOST.EXE as a virus. This is my story of what happened.

Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites have reportedly been passing very granular user data to advertisers without informing users about it, in violation of their own privacy policies.

Sheldon Cooper's fave Linux Distro is Ubuntu! Though knowing him for 3 years, I would've thought he would go for Gentoo or even Linux From Scratch!

In reply to Dreamworks: As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country in northern Europe. Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here. For your information, no Swedish law is being violated.

Last week I attended my first dance competition with my daughter. It was a lot of fun to see girls of all ages strut their stuff on the stage and do an amazing job at it. The talent in these young ladies was amazing to see.

What I wasn’t ready for was seeing young girls in fishnets, tight boy shorts and thigh high leather boots.

Folks, we have a Nexus One. We also have Froyo. In fact, we have the two mixed together in the most delicious frozen-yogurty Android 2.2 kind of way you can imagine. Not much has been officially released

The Air Force bought 1,700 160GB PlayStation 3 units in January, all meant to run Linux in a 500 TeraFLOPS cluster. But with the Linux option now removed, the Air Force has no upgrade or repair path.

Inspired by Shitmydadsays

As the media focuses on the fact that the suspect in the failed Times Square bomb plot is a Pakistani Muslim, what about the man who first noticed the smoke rising from the SUV? A street vendor, a Muslim immigrant from Senegal, says he first sounded the alarm and helped stop the plot. [Includes rush transcript]

We’ll start with “window indicators”, or “windicators” for fun. Windicators are indicators displayed in the window title bar that behave just like the indicators in the panel: they have an icon which shows state, and clicking on the icon brings up a menu. Applications can create, update and remove window indicators using an API...