Amazon's Cloud Crashed Overnight, And Brought Several Other Companies Down Too
The Amazon Web Services status dashboard is reporting an ongoing failure of its EC2 service on its servers based in Northern Virgina. Foursquare, Quora, and Reddit are reported to have been affected.
Exclusive: Apple to beat Google on cloud music storage: sources
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc has completed work on an online music storage service and is set to launch it ahead of Google Inc, whose own music efforts have stalled, according to several people fami...
Nokia and Microsoft Sign Definitive Agreement Ahead of Schedule
Key contributions to new global mobile ecosystem agreed and significant progress made on engineering of new products. — Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the signing of ...
Samsung countersues Apple over iPhone, iPad
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co has filed patent lawsuits against Apple over the U.S. firm's iPhone and iPad in a tit-for-tat case after Apple claimed Samsung's smartphones and tablets “slavishly” ...
Verizon activates 2.2 million iPhones in first quarter, 260,000 HTC Thunderbolts
Verizon delivered better-than-expected first quarter results and gave its tally of iPhone activations. The company activated 2.2 million iPhones in the first quarter and 500,000 4G devices, including...
Apple floats iPhone ‘4S’ with A5 chip to select developers to prepare for next-gen iPhone
The iPad 2′s A5 processor not only is a speedy, dual-core chip, but also works to provide nine times the gaming performance of its predecessor, A4. So, what's Apple to do for their best-selling gamin...
Researcher: iPhone Location Data Already Used By Cops
When British programmers Alasdair Allen and Pete Warden took the stage at the Where 2.0 conference to unveil their work on iPhone location tracking, it was clear they had some big news on their hands.
Why Groupon Sucks For Merchants and LivingSocial Doesn't
It doesn't matter whether you like Groupon or LivingSocial as a consumer or not, because this post is discussing why Groupon is like dealing with a child, for merchants. As many of you know, I own a ...
Apple's 92% earnings windfall: The bloggers nail it, the pros miss by a mile
The shortfall in iPad sales was one of the few categories the Street called correctly — Click to enlarge. — The Wall Street analysts who get paid to cover Apple (AAPL) got some things right.
Automatic Personalization and Recommended Sections in Google News
Last summer we redesigned Google News with new personalization features that let you tell us which subjects and sources you'd like to see more or less often. Starting today — if you're logged in — yo...
Amazon's tablet is coming, but what will it be?
It's something of an open secret that Amazon is working on an Android tablet and I am 99% certain they are having Samsung build one for them. Does the world really need yet another tablet? If it wer...
PlayBook Launch Better Than Expected: About 50,000 Units Sold
After mixed reviews detailing the unfinished state, not to mention the bugs and quirks that comprise RIM's new 7-inch tablet computer, the BlackBerry PlayBook, few expected yesterday's launch to be an...
Ballmer memo: Microsoft plans unprecedented boost in employee compensation, simpler reviews
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. (Microsoft photo) — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer this morning signaled a broad set of changes in how the company's employees are evaluated and compensated …
Ev's assholishness is greatly exaggerated
There's been a bunch of stories lately about Ev Williams, co-founder of Blogger and Twitter upon the occasion of him leaving Twitter to do his own thing. Some are outright calling him an a**hole. Th...
HTC Sensation Arriving June 8th? Google Says Yes
Let's just preface this right away with the idea that the June 8th date we are currently seeing as the rumored release for the HTC Sensation COULD be a Europe launch date. We've been hearing June sin...
Should Cops Be Allowed to Scan Your Phone During a Traffic Stop?
In Michigan, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a complaint alleging that Michigan State Police officers used forensic cellphone analyzers to snoop in drivers' cellphones during routi...
Page Sharing Service Bo.lt Lets You Copy, Edit And Share Almost Any Webpage
With $5 million in funding from Benchmark Capital, webpage sharing service Bo.lt launches today after about a year in private beta. Like a “Bit.ly on steroids,” the service lets you paste any URL int...
SanDisk and Toshiba announce world's smallest NAND flash memory chips for tinier gadgets
20 nanometer manufacturing processes, you say? We say pshaw, be gone luddite. Sandisk and Toshiba just announced the latest product from their joint venture: a 19nm 64Gb (8GB) X2 memory chip …
Tech jobs boom like it's 1999
SAN FRANCISCO — Some 20 recruiters sized up Scott Mersy as they would a star high school running back. But instead of timing his 40-yard dash or checking his percentage of body fat, they were interes...
In Europe, Apple iOS Ecosystem Twice the Size
comScore Releases First European Data on Media Tablet Users from MobiLens Service — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
Privacy Please! U.S. Smartphone App Users Concerned with Privacy When it Comes to Location
More and more mobile applications allow consumers to share information about where they are by voluntarily “checking in” to a location or by having their GPS-enabled smartphone automatically transmit ...
Foursquare co-founder makes unusual stop at Apple
Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley drew some attention Wednesday with a check-in at Apple's Cupertino headquarters. The post itself gave no clues but saw him check in at the same time as Holger Lue...