Today in Tech: bin Laden news sets Twitter record, Sony Online hacked, too

• Today in Tech: iPad 2, Zuckerberg on SNL

  A curated selection of the weekend's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

  Actor Jesse Eisenberg hosted last weekend's episode of Saturday Night Live and was joined -- albeit briefly -- by none other than Mark Zuckerberg himself. The Facebook CEO, played by Eisenberg in The Social Network, popped in during the actor's introductory monologue, where among other things, he jokingly took credit for inventing "poking." Check it out.
  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jan 31, 2011 3:00 AM ET
  Posted in: Amazon, Andy Samberg, Egypt, Facebook, iPad 2, Jesse Eisenberg, Julian Assange, Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix, new iPad, Saturday Night Live, social network, WikiLeaks

• Today in Tech: iPad 2 details, Groupon plans Asian expansion

  A curated selection of the long weekend's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

  A flurry of rumored iPad details hit the Interwebs over the weekend, adding more fuel to the flames. The thinner, sleeker Apple tablet could sport a dual-core 1GHz ARM CPU with a new SGX543 graphics and video core offering twice the processing power at the same clock speed, a new screen technology similar to -- but not MORE
  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jan 18, 2011 6:00 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Engadget, Goldman Sachs, Image resolution, iPad, iPhone, iPhone 4, Julian Assange, Maria Bartiromo, Mobile, Retina Display, Steve Ballmer

• Apple deletes WikiLeaks App - Update

  Has it found common cause with Amazon, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Bank of America?

  Igor Barinov's WikiLeaks App didn't get much attention when it appeared on the App Store last Saturday.

  That's not a big surprise. After all, the iPhone app wasn't an official WikiLeak's project and it didn't bring much to the party. For $1.99 ($1 of which was apparently donated to Julian Assange's organization) you didn't get anything you couldn't MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 21, 2010 8:13 AM ET
  Posted in: App Store, Apple, Bank of America, iPhone, Julian Assange, Mastercard, PayPal, Wikileak, WikiLeaks

• Why Mark Zuckerberg, not Steve Jobs, is Time's Person of the Year

  It's mostly about timing. Apple is a story for the decades. Facebook is a story for this year.

  In Time's online poll, Wikileaks' Julian Assange was the people's choice -- and would have been ours as well. Steve Jobs was No. 7. Mark Zuckerberg was No. 10.

  But the editors chose Zuckerberg. Why? Here's managing editor Rick Stengel's explanation:

  For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 15, 2010 10:33 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Facebook, Julian Assange, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stengel, Steve Jobs, Time, Time Person of the Year

• Today in Tech: Yahoo, Gawker hacked, and Zynga

  A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

  According to a Tweet from Yahoo senior software developer Zach Graves, company layoffs began late last week ahead of schedule. Said Graves: "The number of people carrying boxes out of Yahoo tonight is not surprising, nor the last of it." As reported by various outlets including Fortune recently, the Internet company is cutting at least 10% MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 13, 2010 6:00 AM ET
  Posted in: Bing News, Financial, Gawker Media, iPad, Julian Assange, Mobile, Tablet, Twitter, Wall Street Journal, Wikileak, YouTube

• Today in Tech: iPad 2, Chrome OS netbook, and WikiLeaks

  A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

  To prevent sensitive documents from leaking out in the future, Major General Richard Webber, commander of Air Force Network Operations, issued the "Cyber Control Order" to "immediately cease use of removable media on all systems, servers, and stand alone machines" on the Defense Department's network. Other military branches have made similar directives. (Wired) The first member of the MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 10, 2010 6:11 AM ET
  Posted in: Andreesen Horowitz, Apple, Cameron Winklevoss, Chrome OS, CR-48, Facebook, Financial, Flipboard, Google, iOS, iPad 2, iPhone, Julian Assange, Mac App Store, Marc Andreesen, Mark Zuckerberg, Mastercard, Mobile, Tablet, Tyler Winklevoss, Wayne Chang, WikiLeaks

• Why Steve Jobs will not be Time Magazine's Person of the Year

  Hint: It's not because he hasn't done enough to deserve it

  Google's Marissa Mayer thinks Steve Jobs should be Time's Person of the Year (see here). So, apparently, do the nearly 11,000 readers who, as of Monday morning, had voted for Apple's (AAPL) CEO on Time's website.

  But readers don't choose the winner. If they did, Recep Tayyip Erdogan would be this year's POY, and I can pretty much guarantee that's not MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 15, 2010 6:34 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Julian Assange, Mobile, PCs, Sarah Palin, Steve Jobs, Tablets, Time, Time Person of the Year, Wikileak

• Today in Tech: News around the Web

  Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the weekend's most newsworthy bits below.

  Controversial Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's latest actions -- releasing nearly 400,000 classified documents from the Iraq war -- hasn't gone over well with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who accused the online whistleblower MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 25, 2010 6:45 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Facebook, Google, Iran, Julian Assange, Melinda Gates, Steve Ballmer, UberCab, WikiLeaks