Obama's win a big vindication for Nate Silver, king of the quants
Despite some incredulous political pundits, the FiveThirtyEight statistician appears to have correctly predicted the winner in all 50 states in the presidential election. — In the end, big data won.
Apple Store App Updated With Siri and Gift Card Passbook Support (Theoretically)
Apple has updated its Apple Store app [App Store] with support for Siri, and the ability to email Passbook enabled gift cards to friends via the app. However, despite being in the release notes …
Airbnb Partners With NYC.gov To Provide Free Housing For Hurricane Sandy Victims
Last week, Airbnb waived fees for users affected by Hurricane Sandy. It also encouraged hosts with listings in affected areas to lower their prices and take in those without food, power, or housing.
Bolstering our infrastructure
Last night, the world tuned in to Twitter to share the election results as U.S. voters chose a president and settled many other campaigns. Throughout the day, people sent more than 31 million electio...
MasterCard rolls out credit card with display and keypad
The next-generation 2-in-1 card features an embedded LCD display and touch-sensitive buttons for generating one-time passwords. — Next time you get a new card from your bank, don't be surprised if i...
Apple's Eddy Cue joins Ferrari board of directors
Eddy Cue, Apple's head of Internet software and services, has joined the Ferrari board of directors, in a move that could hint that Apple is interested in moving into users' vehicles. — Ferrari anno...
Bradley Manning Offers To Admit To Leaking Secrets To WikiLeaks In Court Plea
Updated with a clarification from Bradley Manning's lawyer. — In the more than 900 days since Bradley Manning was first jailed as the suspected source of the WikiLeaks' bombshell releases of 2010 an...
DC Comics Announces Deals To Sell Digital Comics In Big Three E-Bookstores, Says Digital Sales Have Grown 197%
DC Comics is announcing the next big step in its digital plans today, saying it will sell monthly comics in the Kindle Store, iBookstore, and Nook Book Store.
Hurricane Sandy Proved How Hard It Is to Break the Internet
All the damage to the communications infrastructure brought on by Hurricane Sandy is sure giving the people who keep track of the technical underpinnings of the Internet a lot of fodder to see how wel...
Apple Granted Patent for Original iPad Design
Apple was granted a design patent for the original iPad Tuesday. Image: USPTO — Can you patent a rectangle with rounded corners? Absolutely. And Apple has done it again. On Tuesday, the U.S. Pat...
Voters boot three SOPA-sponsoring Hollywood allies from Congress
Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), a key supporter of the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act dedicated to her late husband, lost her seat in Tuesday's election. — US Congress — When the new Congress takes...
The rumour was true: UK Prime Minister and senior government figures have their own app
Remember those reports from last year, suggesting British Prime Minister David Cameron was to receive a personal iPad app, providing real-time access to key public data?
Microsoft's chief patent counsel Bart Eppenauer: ‘We believe our patent laws have served the country very well.’
But will he accept our challenge to write his next legal document with a stylus? — Bart Eppenauer is Microsof't Chief Patent Counsel — the man who oversees the company's enormous portfolio of 20,000...
Exclusive: Microsoft Office for iPhone, iPad, and Android revealed
Office Mobile will arrive in early 2013 — Microsoft's Office for iPad, iPhone, and Android is a reality. Although Office Mobile has been rumored and reportedly spotted in the wild, Microsoft has re...
On Election Day 2012, Twitter Kills The Great White Fail Whale
In one pithy, three-word sentence, Twitter creative lead Doug Bowman summed up the microblogging service's election day perfectly. — “RIP Fail Whale.” — Indeed, all throughout November 6th, that c...
Me.ga Hackers: We're Real Pirates & We'll Sell Dotcom's Domain To Universal
On January 20, 2013 Kim Dotcom is set to launch the successor to Megaupload, along with a promise for it to be bigger and better than before. — In anticipation of opposition, Dotcom previously revea...
AT&T will spend $14B to pump up wireless, wireline network
The telecommunications giant is investing heavily in its infrastructure in a bid to spark accelerating growth. — AT&T today laid out a broad plan to upgrade both its wireline and wireless networks a...
Foxconn's Gou says tough to cope with iPhone demand
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group said on Wednesday the company's flagship Hon Hai unit is finding it difficult to cope with the massive demand for Apple Inc's iPhones. — “It's no...
Microsoft's Xbox SmartGlass app now out for iOS
It's been a couple of weeks since the Android app launched, but Xbox-owning iOS users can finally get their first look at SmartGlass in action today. Microsoft has released SmartGlass as an update to...
Apple tech can illuminate ‘invisible’ touch controls, displays
Apple on Tuesday was granted a patent for an invention that creates microperforations in a device so small as be imperceptible to the naked eye, but large enough to allow the passage of light, that ca...
AT&T selling Nokia's Lumia 920 for $450 off-contract
It's an understatement to say that the Lumia 920 is priced “to sell,” and that doesn't just mean with AT&T's carrier subsidy. If you'd prefer to own your smartphone outright, you can snag the handset...
Inside the Secret World of Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win
“The cave” at President Obama's Election headquarters in Chicago — In late spring, the backroom number crunchers who had powered Barack Obama's campaign to victory noticed that George Clooney had an...
Sony PlayStation certificate sparks talk China may lift console ban
(Reuters) - Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 has received a certification of quality from a Chinese safety standards body, sparking speculation that China will end a decade-old ban on home game consoles.
Broadband ‘2,000 times’ faster aim of Bangor scientists
The Bangor University team hope the high-speed fibre optic technology can be developed using cheap ‘off-the-shelf’ components — Broadband speeds that are 2,000 times faster without a massive hike in...
Microsoft will invest $100 million in Rio de Janeiro with new tech center
Microsoft is set to invest around $100 million USD in Rio de Janeiro over the next four years while the opening of its first advanced technology center in Brazil, Agência Estado reports.
Social commerce startup Fab buys Indian tech startup and longtime partner True Sparrow
New York-based social shopping firm Fab.com has acquired Pune, India-based True Sparrow, a technology startup that shares a lot of common history with Fab's founding team.
Sprint buys spectrum and 585,000 customers from U.S. Cellular for $480m in cash
Sprint Nextel (Sprint) today announced that it will acquire PCS spectrum and more than half a million customers in parts of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio from U.S. Cellular …
October 2012 Traffic Sources Report: StumbleUpon Share of Traffic Down 53% Since July
Welcome to Shareaholic's monthly traffic sources report, where each month we take a look at the traffic trends for our 200,000 publishers who reach 300 million people each month and take a look at the...