Currently, we will be able to play Facebook videos on iPhone only if we use Facebook Video player. Since it is designed for iPhone, it won’t work great on the iPad. While it seems nearly impossible to wait for the Flash on iPad, Facebook is actually working to fix that. Starting today, users may found some uploaded videos on Facebook are playable on the iPad. They are transcoding the videos to mp4 format which is friendly for iPad and...

Scammers are distributing e-mails designed to trick iPad owners into downloading software that they think is an iTunes update, but which turns out to be malware that opens a back door on the computer, researchers warned on Monday. The e-mails have a subject line that says “iPad Software Update” and offer a link to a Web page that looks like a legitimate iTunes download page, according to BitDefender. Instead, the link installs...

Police department is getting serious about the lost iPhone 4G case. The California’s Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team has searched Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s home. Jason was not at home during the team arrived. He saw the team was still here when he had the dinner. Jason was told that he is not arrested. Gawker Media legal representative, which owns Gizmodo, quickly responses to the action. He said the search warrant is invalid...

Believe it or not, Sony managed to shift 12 million 3.5-inch floppy disks in Japan last year — presumably to die-hard old schoolers. Alas, time waits for no one, and the venerable data transporter that started its life way back in 1981 is going to all but cease production by March of next year. Sony was the last of the major manufacturers to keep churning these bits of plastic out, but soon that too shall be no more. Having already...

For all the talk of HD webcams, we’ve seen precious little at the Skype shop — until now. Freetalk’s Everyman HD (Talk-7140) features on-board H.264 hardware encoding for up to 720p video at 22fps, with minimum system requirements of WIndows XP, 1GB RAM and a dual core 2GHz CPU. Apparently, Mac users (OS X 10.4 or better) can expect VGA quality at 30fps (sorry, guys). Available soon, pre-order now for $50. 【Via...