Update on PlayStation Network and Qriocity
Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve the current outage of PlayStation Network & Qriocity services. We are currently working to send a similar message to the one below via email to al...
Amazon: Some data won't be recovered after cloud outage
Post mortem wait — Amazon says that about 0.07 per cent of the EBS storage volumes in the East Region of its infrastructure cloud are not “fully recoverable” following the extended outage that hit t...
Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names
Kevin Rose has completed a hefty $1.5 million angel round for his new mobile development lab, which we first reported in March, Milk. Rose went for the more-is-more approach, pulling in a wide-syndic...
Yahoo Mulls Spin-off for Hadoop Software Unit
Yahoo Inc., which generates $6 billion in annual revenue by selling online ads, is considering a new strategy to exploit what analysts say could be another billion-dollar business: Hadoop. — Over th...
Exit interview: Jaiku's Jyri Engeström
“Jaiku was not much more than a year old when we were acquired. It was like hitching a ride on a firecracker!” says Jyri Engeström, co-founder of Jaiku. — “I poured my heart and soul into designing...
AOL's Patch Adding 8,000 Bloggers in ‘Full-On Course Correction’
Ah, memories. Image via Wikipedia — Arianna Huffington must not be taking that class action lawsuit against her too seriously. Not only is AOL's new content chief not cutting down on the use of un...
Sony S1 and S2 dual-screen Honeycomb tablets get official
Sony's hosting a press event in Tokyo today where it just made it's first announcement: a pair of Android 3.0 tablets. The first is the S1 media tablet with a curved top much like a folded magazine a...
Android Passes iPhone as Most Desired Smartphone. Barely
Android has been outselling the iPhone recently but Apple's iPhone was still the most desired smartphone in the U.S., according to the Nielsen Co. Not anymore. Nielsen said 31.1 percent of respondent...
Microsoft: Windows Phones Do Not Store Location History
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Phones don't store location history in a manner similar to the iPhone, which records the location data in an unencrypted file. The news that some iOS devices keep...
Amazon.com tries to toss Apple ‘app store’ trademark suit, cites Steve Jobs in its own defense
Amazon.com today responded in court to Apple's lawsuit over the name of its Android Appstore — calling the iPhone maker's claim to the “App Store” trademark baseless, and pointing to a statement …
Twitter: Yes, Jack Dorsey is leading product “full-time”
One of the more confusing pieces of tech news in the past few months was the announcement that Twitter creator Jack Dorsey (pictured) was returning to the company to lead its product team. That seems...
The Dark App Rises: New iPhone TweetDeck Is Here
You all enjoyed the trailer, but now the year's biggest blockbuster has arrived at last. iPhone TweetDeck v2.0 is here! — In Hollywood they would call it a “re-imagining” - keep the essence of the o...
Sony Shuts Down PlayStation Network Indefinitely
Internet gamers were frustrated last week when Sony shut down its PlayStation Network. Now, they might have reason to be worried. … On Monday, the Japanese electronics giant said it is keeping its Pl...
Stop Blaming the Customers - the Fault is on Amazon Web Services
Almost as galling as the Amazon Web Services outage itself is a the litany of blog posts, such as this one and this one, that place the blame not on AWS for having a long failure and not communicating...
Android Momentum Plateaus, Says New Developer Report
Momentum surrounding the Android mobile platform has reached a plateau, with developers now refocusing their efforts on building apps for Apple devices. This somewhat surprising conclusion is just on...
Shocker! Instant messaging gains popularity as TXTing declines, BBM to blame
Apparently, those young'uns just love their BBM. According to a report by the research group Mobile Youth, young folk (read: those of you between 15 and 24) are increasingly abandoning SMS in favor o...
How Google Killed GDrive and Spiked Its Skype Acquisition
This weekend I spent some time reading Steven Levy's “In the Plex,” an account of the history of Google based on Levy's deep embedding within the company (see Kara's video interview with Levy from las...
iPhone location tracking: patent stash reveals bigger plans
The iPhone location tracking story just rolls on with folk dredging through patents as they ponder Apple's thinking. Since Apple has kept schtum about the issue, that's really not surprising. Gawker...