Sony confirms external attack brought down PlayStation Network
Sony acknowledged today that its PlayStation Network online entertainment service was brought down by an external intrusion, according to a blog post this evening. — The network has 70 million regis...
Facebook Climbs Toward 700 Million Users Worldwide, With Steady Growth in the US
Discrepancies among third party measurement services partially obscure what still looks like a steady growth rate for Facebook in the US and around the world. — According to the data we track …
Firefox 4 About To Hit 100 Million Downloads After A Month
Mozilla released its new Firefox 4 exactly a month ago today and within a day it had more than twice as many downloads as Internet Explorer 9 after its launch. Some where around midnight tonight the ...
Exclusive: Apple testing iPhone for T-Mobile USA
That's right, you're looking at photos of an iPhone prototype with T-Mobile USA 3G bands. The actual internal model is N94, and if you remember, the Verizon model is N92 while the standard GSM varian...
The AWS Outage: The Cloud's Shining Moment
So many cloud pundits are piling on to the misfortunes of Amazon Web Services this week as a response to the massive failures in the AWS Virginia region. If you think this week exposed weakness in th...
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 leaks, takes second stab at MacBook Air
Lenovo's decision to back out on the ThinkPad X301 may have just been a temporary measure as a pair of Swiss stores have prematurely shown a sequel built more consciously to take on the new MacBook Ai...
Wal-Mart tests online grocery delivery in California
(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc has begun testing an online grocery delivery service in San Jose, California, a company spokesman said on Saturday. — The world's biggest retailer had been rumored to...
White iPhone 4 lands at Best Buy on April 27th
Our sources in Europe have already told us that the white iPhone 4 is launching on Wednesday, April 27, in the Netherlands at least, and now other sources are pointing to a launch on that same day in ...
Mac vs. PC: A Hunch Rematch
Our latest data project was to analyze how self-described Mac and PC people are different. The infographic below, designed by the talented folks at Column Five Media, breaks it down. Keep reading af...