Daily Archives: June 2, 2011

Windows 8 Is Gorgeous, But Is It More Than Just A Shell? (Video)

June 2, 2011

Yesterday, Microsoft showed off Windows 8 for the first time, and it’s gorgeous (check it out in the video above). It’s also the biggest change to the look and feel of Windows since Windows 95. Windows 8 is all designed around a touch interface, with tiles replacing icons and swiping replacing drag-’n-drop. Instead of...

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.CO Domains Hit the One Million Milestone

June 2, 2011
.CO Domains Hit the One Million Milestone

Domain registration operator .CO Internet announced today that the company has registered the one millionth .CO domain name, less than a year after launching in July 2010. .CO Internet thanks Overstock, Amazon and Twitter (among others) for the rapid growth. Overstock internationally rebranded its operation O.CO and the domain name has been featured across...

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How British intelligence thwarted an online al-Qaeda magazine

June 2, 2011
How British intelligence thwarted an online al-Qaeda magazine

An interesting report has emerged from the Washington Post, claiming that British intelligence intercepted an attempt by an al-Qaeda affiliate to publish an online jihadist magazine in English. The magazine, called ‘Inspire’, was launched on June 30th 2010. It was billed as “the first magazine issued by al-Qaeda in the English language”, and it...

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Grilled Cheese Sandwich Gets $10 Million In Venture Funding

June 2, 2011
Grilled Cheese Sandwich Gets $10 Million In Venture Funding

Image: Wikimedia Commons Ryan Tate Jill Abramson Replacing Bill Keller as NYT Editor While We’re At It, Let’s Free All Nonviolent Drug Offenders VS Naipaul: Women Writers Suck German E Coli Outbreak Caused By New ‘Mutant’ Strain Baby Rats Ground Qantas Passenger Jet See Also: This New York City...

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What We Know About iCloud, and What We Don’t

June 2, 2011
What We Know About iCloud, and What We Don’t

Late Wednesday evening, the registration for the iCloud.com domain switched on to reveal that Apple is indeed in possession of the address as originally reported by GigaOM. Apple also began registering the iCloud trademark in Europe on Wednesday, signalling that it’s all systems go ahead of the iCloud product unveiling at WWDC next week....

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Google’s +1 Has Arrived — Here’s How To Add It To Your Blog (GOOG)

June 2, 2011
Google’s +1 Has Arrived — Here’s How To Add It To Your Blog (GOOG)

Dylan Love | Jun. 2, 2011, 10:36 AM | 652| See Also: How To Protect Your Privacy On Google +1 LEAKED PHOTO: Is This Google’s Next Nexus Phone? Google +1 Buttons For Websites Are Live! Google’s much-awaited +1 product landed earlier this week. The company’s history with social is less than stellar, so we’ll...

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Foxconn’s Explosion-Damaged iPad Plant Resumes Operations

June 2, 2011

Foxconn’s manufacturing plant in Chengdu, where many iPads are produced, has today reopened following an explosion that killed 3 employees in May, AllThingsD reports. The manufacturer immediately shut down the plant to conduct an internal investigation at the factory, with report suggesting that the incident may have been caused by the explosion of the central...

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TI’s New Chip Ready for Smartphones, Tablets, Even Windows Laptops

June 2, 2011
TI’s New Chip Ready for Smartphones, Tablets, Even Windows Laptops

Texas Instruments today announced a new chip for mobile devices that boasts an 80 percent boost in web browsing performance along with 2.5 times better graphics. The OMAP4470 processor improves upon the current TI chips in use for smartphones and tablets, but is also poised to power laptops that run on either the open...

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Newsy Upgrades iPad App: Faster Loading Times, Push Notifications, One-Tap Sharing

June 2, 2011
Newsy Upgrades iPad App: Faster Loading Times, Push Notifications, One-Tap Sharing

News junkie? Smart enough to realize you should check multiple sources covering the same news item to absorb as much information about the topic at hand as you possible can? iPad owner, by any chance? If you’re like me and that results in three ‘checks’, you definitely need to give the new iPad app...

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Let’s Not Get Too Cocky About The Blubble

June 2, 2011
Let’s Not Get Too Cocky About The Blubble

It was just a little over a month ago that I wrote “We’re In The Middle Of A Terrible Blubble!” – a post about the difference between the Internet bubble of 2000 and the “blubble” (as I call it) that we’re in today. The short version of the post is this: venture capitalists like...

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