Careful, Twitter — remember what happened to MySpace and Digg
remember what happened to MySpace and Digg — Twitter sent some shock waves through the technology community with a blog post on Friday that talked about its plans for the future, and suggested that t...
MobileMe rides into the sunset by Sunday
The sun is setting on the MobileMe era. By the time Sunday rolls around—on June 30 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time to be precise—the cloud storage and syncing service that Apple debuted in 2008 will fade ...
Replying to App Store reviews
In the wake of the recent announcement that Google Play will allow developers to respond to user reviews of apps (Google Play being the Android version of Apple's iOS App Store, iBookstore and iTunes ...
It Only Took the Army 16 Years and 2 Wars to Deploy This Network
In October, the Army will do something it's wanted to do for more than a decade: send a pair of combat brigades to a warzone equipped with a new data network, and the hardware to operate it.
Amazon cloud outage takes down Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, & more
An outage of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia has taken down Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram, and other services. According to numerous Twitter updates and our own checks, all three ser...
Could Instagram And Other Sites Avoid Going Down With Amazon's Ship?
When we heard about Instagram (and other sites) going down when Amazon Web Services' North Virginia hub was hit by a storm — not the first time AWS has gone down (April 2011 was another notable outage...
Researchers use spoofing to ‘hack’ into a flying drone
Drones are mostly used for military operations — American researchers took control of a flying drone by hacking into its GPS system - acting on a $1,000 (£640) dare from the US Department of Homelan...
ITC defers ruling on Motorola's Xbox ban
The International Trade Commission's six-member deciding panel deferred judgment today on a patent dispute between Google's Motorola Mobility and Microsoft, pushing the possibility of a ban on the Xbo...
waywire, Cory Booker's Personalized News Startup, Uses Video To Give Youth A Voice
“There's an oligarchy in the media and that needs to be broken up” Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker tells me. So he's building #waywire, a news site that features original and syndicated video content …
Google Takes Its Google+ Platform Mobile With Android, iOS SDKs & Social Plugins For The Mobile Web
Google+ is obviously a major focus for Google these days, but until now, the company hasn't really focused on extending the Google platform beyond its own services and its +1 buttons.
Cellphone Companies Will Share Your Location Data - Just Not With You
Cellphone companies hold onto your location information for years and routinely provide it to police and, in anonymized form, to outside companies. As they note in their privacy policies, Verizon, Sp...