Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption in the US East Region
Now that we have fully restored functionality to all affected services, we would like to share more details with our customers about the events that occurred with the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ("EC...
Hackers Claim to Have PlayStation Users' Card Data
Security researchers said Thursday that they had seen discussions on underground Internet forums indicating that the hackers who infiltrated the Sony PlayStation Network last week may have made off wi...
Sources: Apple utilizing ‘iCloud’ internally, service to be more than music
Apple has begun adopting the “iCloud” name within several products currently under development, suggesting the appropriately labeled moniker is indeed the frontrunner for the company's soon-to-debut I...
Google sued over Android data location collection
Two Michigan women are suing Google over location data collected by Android devices, a week after Apple was named in a lawsuit citing privacy violations with the iPhone logging similar data. — The $...
Price war! Amazon launches 69-cent MP3 store for top-selling tunes
Amazon.com, which is a distant No. 2 to Apple Inc. as a retailer of downloadable music, has upped the ante or, rather, lowered its prices to compete with iTunes. — The Seattle online company is now ...
The Complete Guide To Watching And Tracking The Royal Wedding Online
For any of you caught up in the frenzy over the royal wedding between England's Prince William and Kate Middleton, we've collected a comprehensive list of where to watch the festivities online, where ...
What 44 Billion Mobile App Downloads by 2016 Means
Think the mobile app economy is a passing fad? You might want to think again. ABI Research reported Thursday that an estimated 44 billion mobile applications will be downloaded within the next five ...
Worldwide Mobile Phone Market Grew 20% In Q1 2011, Fueled By Smartphone Boom
According to research firm IDC, the global mobile phone market ballooned in the first quarter of this year, growing 19.8 percent year-over-year, mostly due to the meteoric rise of smartphone shipments...
HBO Go hits iOS and Android, free for subscribers
Don't ditch that premium cable subscription just yet. The long-anticipated HBO Go app just hit the iOS App Store and Android Market, bringing original HBO series and a variety of blockbuster films to...
Microsoft tool aims to help developers migrate iPhone applications to Windows Phone
Microsoft released a developer tool on April 29 that is aimed at helping iPhone developers port their applications more easily to Windows Phones. — Microsoft officials described the new API …
Why Can't Anyone Make A Popular Tablet?
I've been thinking a lot about the popularity of tablets and the problems manufacturers face coming up against the iPad. The devices that we see here at CG are all pretty amazing - even the Playbook ...
Instagram Spawns a Photo Ecosystem
Instagram, the social-meets-photos app for the iPhone that transforms plain cellphone pictures into vintage-looking works of art, has attracted millions of users. In recent months, it has also begun ...
Twitter Confirms It Has Passed 200 Million Accounts, 70% of Traffic Now International
The number of people who have registered accounts on Twitter has now surpassed 200 million, a representative of the company said publicly yesterday. Katie Stanton, Twitter's Vice President of Interna...
Twitter Introduces Text Ads
Twitter is experimenting with sponsored text-ads on their website that show-up just after the “trends” section. The first round of text-ads mainly promoted Twitter apps and other services built aroun...
Amazon to take away 1,249 jobs in S.C. over sales tax beef
The Alliance for Main Street Fairness criticized the tax deal. — Amazon.com has been on a hiring binge, and its need to open more fulfillment centers across the U.S. has been a big factor. But the ...
Cable Company iPad Apps Are Killing It
Today's Time Warner Cable earnings call revealed that its iPad app was downloaded 360,000 times during its first month of availability. Cablevision revealed that it saw 50,000 downloads in the first ...
Some More On The Nokia Microsoft Partnership
Nokia Ääni blog, which is the Finnish equivalent of the Nokia Conversations blog, has just released in the past few days some interesting material regarding the Nokia Microsoft Partnership. The infor...
PayPal Acquisition Hints at Company's Approach to the Mobile Wallet
EBay-owned PayPal said in February it will conduct several pilot programs over the next year to enable consumers to use their PayPal accounts-at the register. — But it didn't say how it would overco...
Unintended Consequences Of Google's $900 Million Nortel Patent Bid: Creating New Patent Trolls
A few weeks back, Google got a ton of attention for offering a $900 million bid for a bunch of Nortel patents. Google made it pretty clear that it was seeking these patents largely to keep …
Intel SSD 720, 710 and 520 Series leak out, Larsen Creek and Paint Creek bring up rear guard
Remember Intel's Larsen Creek SSD? It's not alone. By the end of the year, it looks like Intel expects to ship five new solid state storage series in total — some of them even speedier than its curr...
Hulu Plus on Xbox 360 review: same skin, new frontier
As with most products, services, and other tech industry deliverables, there are two distinct elements. The first is the dream of the product — the Big Picture or the pitch, if you will. This is its...
Leaked Documents Show How The RIAA Plans To Spend The Limewire Settlement
The RIAA believes it is on the cusp of victory in its lawsuit against Limewire, thanks mainly to its large selection of damaging charts. However, it seems to be expecting the worst, if these leaked d...
Square To Beef Up Card Reader Security This Summer (And VeriFone Wasn't So Wrong, After All)
Yesterday was a big day for hot mobile payments startup Square. The company announced that it received a strategic investment from Visa, giving the company a big stamp approval.
Apple's Upcoming ‘Reading List’ for Safari to Compete with Instapaper and ReadItLater
Apple is working on a new feature for Safari in Apple's Mac OS X Lion that will bring a different kind of bookmarking functionality to the browser. Apple calls it “Reading List” and is meant to offer...
Why You Should Think Twice About Opting-In to the Delicious-AVOS Transfer
It takes “only 30 seconds” to transfer your Delicious bookmarks to its new owner AVOS, though few are aware that Delicious users are signing up to a vastly different set of terms. — Most people are ...
When Will Microsoft's Internet Bloodbath End?
“Online Services Division revenue grew 14% year-over-year primarily driven by increases in search revenue.” — That was Microsoft's statement about the Online Services Division in their earnings rele...
Jack Dorsey Shares Some Big Square Numbers: 341,688 Readers Shipped, $137M Total Flow
Square founder and CEO Jack Dorsey just tweeted a photo of the company's internal dashboard, and, aside from looking very sexy, it's boasting some impressive numbers. Among them: Square has shipped 3...