Facebook Open Sources Its Servers and Data Centers
Facebook has shared the nitty-gritty details of its server and data center design, taking its commitment to openness to a new level for the industry by sharing its infrastructure secrets much like it ...
Intel Said to Lead $30 Million Funding of Education Startup Kno
Intel Corp.'s venture capital arm is investing in digital textbook and tablet maker Kno Inc., the companies plan to announce in the next week, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
New York Times Paywall Cost: More Like $25 Million
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. insists a $40 million estimate for building New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Co.'s pay scheme is “vastly wrong”. But that's where the NYTCo chairman stopped in a Q&A at Columbia Univ...
Apple Blows us Away with Smart Bezel Details!
Apple has been teasing us with various smart bezel patents over the last year but a new patent application revealed by the USPTO today, provides us with how they're intending to implement this feature...
75-Year-Old Woman Cuts Off Entire Nation's Internet Service
A 75-year-old Georgian woman is facing jail time after she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and caused all Internet services in neighboring Armenia to crash. — As the BBC is reportin...
Google begins tablet version of Chrome OS
A Google mock-up from last year of a Chrome OS tablet is coming to fruition. — Details in Google's source code reveal that company programmers have begun building a tablet version of Chrome OS, its ...
US to use Facebook, Twitter to issue terror alerts
WASHINGTON - The government's color-coded warning system is being replaced with a more specific and informative plan that would offer two levels of alerts — elevated and imminent. — According to a d...
We Filed A Request For Declaratory Judgment With Viacom This Afternoon
Last week, we pulled a number of channels from our iPad app. The Internet - not exactly a haven for measured discourse or patience for complex ideas - lit up with verbiage more commonly found in war ...
White Nexus S with AT&T 3G bands hands-on! (video)
Well, what do we have here? Sure enough, it's that coveted white Nexus S with AT&T-compatible 3G that we mentioned yesterday, and we just got our dirty little paws on it thanks to a friendly tipster....
Six states use nearly half of all pirated software in the U.S.
Six U.S. states are responsible for nearly half of all the suspected cases of corporate software piracy, the Business Software Alliance reported on Wednesday. — The BSA, which collects piracy tips f...
World's information consumption: 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes per year
Three scientists at UC San Diego have rigorously estimated the annual amount of business-related information processed by the world's computer servers in terms that Guttenberg and Galileo would have a...
Breaking: Expedia to split into two companies, separating out TripAdvisor
Expedia announced today that it plans to separate into two publicly-traded companies, one which will operate the more traditional online travel business and the other around the travel review site Tri...
Uh Oh, Now Verizon iPad 2 Owners Can't Connect To 3G
So much for all the excitement that the iPad 2 is available for a carrier other than AT&T. — Verizon iPad 2 owners are flocking to this discussion forum on Apple.com saying they can't connect to 3G.
Apple to release iOS 4.3.2 in the next two weeks
We've just been told by one of our Apple ninjas that the company is working on another iOS 4.3.x release: iOS 4.3.2. It's said to include a few enhancements, address security issues, and it will also...
Augmented Reality Comes Closer to Reality
Last week I wrote about how cyber politics and crime on the Internet had been foreseen with eerie accuracy by science fiction writers. For example, the computer scientist Vernor Vinge's classic 1981 ...
Pandora sends user GPS, sex, birthdate, other data to ad servers
Pandora's Android app transmits a plethora of personal information to third parties after all, at least according to an analysis done by security firm Veracode. The company decided to do a follow-up ...
The Unlit Social Graph
A few years ago, it was not uncommon to hear search people talk about The Dark Web (also known as Dark Net or the Deep Web). Basically, the Dark Web is made up pages or files that are unreachable by ...
Google Latitude Check-In Offers Go Nationwide
A few weeks ago, just in time for SXSW, Google launched check-in offers for Latitude, its location-based service and social network. At the time, these offers were only available at a limited set of ...
A Colorful Weekend
This past weekend, I headed down to Mexico with a group of friends for a bachelor party. It was a lot like The Hangover — if you replace tigers, Mike Tyson, and Zac Galifianakis with Macs, iPhones, a...
Google Apps gets ability to force encryption, reset PINs on Android devices
Google's move duplicates some of the security capabilities previously available only via Exchange ActiveSync, plus adds a “find my phone” feature — Google is trying to make Android more appealing to...
Gartner Says Android to Command Nearly Half of Worldwide Smartphone Operating System Market by Year-End 2012
Worldwide smartphone sales will reach 468 million units in 2011, a 57.7 percent increase from 2010, according to Gartner Inc. By the end of 2011, Android will move to become …
Founders Now Take the Money and Maintain Control
In a small office in San Francisco, electronic music blared as several programmers loomed over two computers. David Morin, the founder of Path, a social network start-up, gave the signal and the comp...
500 Startups plans a fund that's all about designers
People in Silicon Valley like to talk about the importance of design, but now incubator and early-stage investment fund 500 Startups is creating a new fund around that idea. — Enrique Allen, the fir...
Apple Pushing Eastward, Has Plans For Moscow Store
Top executives of Apple's retail team visited Moscow (Russia) last month to finalize a decision on leasing space inside the trade gallery of the historic and reconstructed Hotel Moskva, just steps awa...
Atari Brings 100 Retro Titles to iOS in “Atari's Greatest Hits”! [Out Now]
Retro gaming junkies, you may want to sit down for this. In a launch that's sending pixellated shockwaves across the App Store, Atari has just released Atari's Greatest Hits [NZ App Store], a Univers...
Samsung's Series 9 Makes a Statement
I am writing these words on an extremely thin and stylish, but very light, laptop made of metal. Despite its slender body, it has a full-size screen and keyboard, good performance and claims strong b...
Dell Plans to Spend A Billion Dollars to Build 10 New Data Centers
Dell is announcing a big push around cloud computing services today, and is promising to spend $1 billion in an effort to build 10 new data centers around the world between now and 2013 as key aspect ...
FCC to vote on mandatory wireless-data roaming
The Federal Communications Commission may soon set new rules that could help ensure that your smartphone is able to access the Internet anywhere in the U.S. that wireless service is offered, even if y...
Color turns S. Limestone into Big Blue Tech Lab
This article appears on page 4 of the April 7 Ace. — Nearly 500 articles were written about “Color” when the app launched March 24, making even bigger news when it was announced that the company had...
Rome2Rio launches travel search with planes, trains, and automobiles
There's no shortage of ways to find flights online, but what if you're traveling somewhere that's best-reached by train? Or ferry? Well, there's a new travel search engine launching today called Rom...
ESPN's New iPhone App Streams Full ESPN, Live To Your Phone — Only If You're A Cable Customer
Only If You're A Cable Customer — For years, you've been able to get some of ESPN's live programming on your phone, via a watered-down “ESPN Mobile TV” channel on MobiTV. — But via ESPN's new Watch...
Scarred by the Dot-Com Bust, Reinvented for Social Media
SAN FRANCISCO — Thomas Weisel doesn't have much personal experience with social media. He has never opened a Facebook or Twitter account, and he has resisted buying an iPhone. — But Mr. Weisel know...
SpotMixer to Launch New Social Video Editing App Called Vlix
The social photo-sharing craze has a natural corollary in video. But everything is harder about videos: they take more time to record, they are more intimate, have a greater capacity to entertain or ...
The Money Network
Facebook, Zynga, Groupon, Twitter and LinkedIn have come to define the social Web. Founded within the last five years, the quintet of start-ups is now estimated to be worth more than $71 billion. — ...
AVG Enters Cloud Backup w/5 GB Free, Unlimited Option
AVG has formally launched its cloud-storage backup offering, dubbed LiveKive, that the company says will be truly unlimited in capacity. — AVG is pitching LiveKive as a replacement to Mozy, which di...