Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder, dead at 56

Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder and former chief executive who invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, from the personal computer to the iPod and iPhone, has died. He was 56. Apple announced his death without giving a specific cause. "We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today," the company said in a brief statement. "Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve." Jobs had battled cancer in 2004 and underwent a liver transplant in 2009...

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Facebook in Tracking Suit

FACEBOOK is being sued by a group of users over claims it tracks their online activity after they log off. The claims were exposed by an Australian technology blogger, Nik Cubrilovic, who conducted tests that revealed that when users log out, the site does not delete tracking ''cookies'' but modifies them, keeping information that can identify users as they surf the internet. The company has told users cookie files installed on their computers to track interactions with Facebook applications and websites are removed when they log off, according to a complaint in the US Federal Court in San Jose, California. Facebook admitted last week that...

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Latest iPhone 5 Rumors: '4G' Speeds, Voice Recognition?

This time next week, the iPhone 5 rumor frenzy will be over and we'll finally know what Apple plans to release. I imagine there will even be an iPhone 6 rumor or two floating around. But until then, we still have several days to wildly speculate about what the next-gen iPhone will include. An invite to Apple's October 4 press event finally landed in journalists' inboxes on Tuesday afternoon, and it said simply: "Let's talk iPhone." That one phrase prompted the blogosphere and analysts like Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster to speculate that Apple will add a long-rumored voice recognition feature to iOS 5. "In the past, Apple has used its invitation...

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New Leaks Suggest iPhone 4S and Sprint iPhone 5 Tuesday Launch

Whoops! New images are adding some strong evidence to the rumormongering that Apple's going to announce the release of the iPhone 5 on Sprint's network come Tuesday. And you can thank Radio Shack for this one. According to an alleged screenshot taken of a Radio Shack internal inventory page, both a 16-gigabyte iPhone 5 and a 32-gigabyte iPhone 5 are a-coming. It's a bit more a significant bit of evidence than the guessing game that arose from an earlier internal Sprint memo, which told company employees that vacations were blacked out between September 30 and October 15 due to the "possibility of a major phone launch." Sprint is still allegedly...

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Apple Confirms IPhone 5 Event Next Week, Amazon Shows Off Tablet.

Apple confirmed it will unveil the next iPhone on October 4, and Amazon showed off the Kindle Fire, its new tablet slated to go head-to-head with the iPad. News Under the Sun is a weekly column rounding up all the events on in the mobile industry. Want the news but don’t want it every day? Subscribe to our weekly Facebook or Twitter page. Apple Confirms IPhone 5 Event, Release to Follow Apple invited members of the media to a keynote event on October 4 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time at its own Town Hall Auditorium where it is expected to unveil the iPhone 5. The invitation to the event features the iOS icons for the calendar, clock, Google Maps...

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BitTorrent Contributed to Network Decongestion

Erik Klinker, BitTorrent’s Chief Executive Officer, attended the Broadband World Forum that took place in France. As a result, he came with a new solution for an old problem of network congestion because of P2P. A new open-source technology called Micro Transport Protocol or ?TP has already been introduced into the company’s application in order to increase the performance of network by decongesting it. Most of the information flying around the web is transmitted through TCP, which works by breaking it down and later reassembling at the other end of the network link. However, Klinker explained that this method is obsolete, because TCP defines...

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