Never mind NASA, I’ll slurpee myself to the moon. You had to know it would come to this someday. No longer content to give away free iPads or earth-bound vacations, the social media world is about to shoot one of its own into space. (Presuming the Wuffie flows, that is.) Social network Foursquare has...
What Does iCloud Do? By default, users’ “everyday” apps will be automatically enabled for iCloud with iOS 5, including iTunes, Contacts, Calendar, Mail, Photos (now called Photo Stream), iBooks, iWork and iTunes. iCloud will also perform daily backups of personal data, like text messages, MMS messages, device settings, application data and more, all over...
The Internet Archive is arguably one of the most important projects on the Web, with its mission to preserve the Internet and make available to the public the rich collection of all the digitized material therein: websites, music, videos, as well as public domain books. It’s the latter – the ongoing efforts to digitize...
How the time flies. World IPv6 Day, a 24-hour test of the new version of the Internet address protocol IPv6, is slated to begin on Wednesday, June 8, at midnight UTC– which is Tuesday, June 7, at 5:00 PM Pacific Time. It’s been clear for years now that a shortage of available Internet addresses...
In an interview at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley headquarters, the company’s Corporate Vice President Dan’l Lewin, who works as the firm’s envoy to the Valley, answered questions before the Silicon Valley Association for Startup Entrepreneurs. The Wall Street Journal has an edited transcript of the event. What follows are the important points from his answers: Microsoft doesn’t...
Alright, everyone. You can go home. E3 2011 is a mainly bust besides Nintendo’s amazing Wii U. Microsoft added Bing to the 360 and Sony announced the name of the NGP, the Vita. Sure, there are several clever games like Battlefield 3, Modern Warfare 3, and several new Zelda games. But there really isn’t...
There’s been a lot of talk about the fierce competition for talent among the top players in the tech industry. As the story goes, Facebook has been the primary source of anguish for its competitors, seemingly bearing the gravitational pull of a giant sun. Even the ubiquitous Google was forced to take some extraordinary...
RunKeeper, which began as a way to track runs for users, is now poised to become a full-fledged fitness network with the release of a Health Graph API that lets developers and device makers tap into its growing data set and community. The API opens up the RunKeeper experience enabling a host of apps...
I remember sitting in the front row of TechCrunch: Disrupt when CloudFlare was giving its pitch. At the time I commented to some other people around about how the service was answering a lot of questions, but probably wasn’t consumer-focused enough to win the competition. I was right, as Qwiki emerged as the winner...
Amazon’s success with its Kindle business is hitting an inflection point as it nears a full one-tenth of the company’s total revenues, according to an analyst report. The online retailer is likely to see Kindle-related revenue hit 10 percent of its total revenue by next year, said Citi analyst Mark Mahaney. Mahaney said based on...