If you have the same fascination with the wild, wacky and interesting things that pop up for auction on eBay as we do then you’re going to love the site’s new Top Shared section. It was introduced just a couple of days ago via Twitter and has been getting some love from Twitter users...
Attention webscale aficionados, Twitter says it is planning to open source Storm, its Hadoop-like real-time data processing tool. In a blog post Thursday, the microblogging network said it plans to release the Storm code on Sept. 19 at the Strange Loop event in St. Louis, Mo. The question is — does the world need another...
There’s a lot of innovation going on in the browser wars these days, with huge strides in features and performance from all the top vendors. And there’s a new feature on the horizon that’s going to make web apps even more powerful and flexible: Web Intents, which will allow web apps to communicate with...
Users of the on-demand music streaming service Rdio now have a much prettier interface from which to browse and listen to songs on their iPads. The service’s official iPad app finally launched earlier today. The new app gives Rdio a slight leg up over its newest and most buzzed-about competitor Spotify, which does not...
Using your phone as a remote for your DSLR isn’t exactly the newest idea out there — a ton exist for iOS — but Android historically hasn’t seen that same kind of love. There have been attempts to make it work, some better than others, but a common theme among them is that you...
Well, it’s been a fun 24 hours in the increasingly contentious world of tech patents with Google claiming Android competitors were conspiring to strangle the mobile OS with “bogus” patents only to have Microsoft fire back that it actually offered to go in together with Google on a bid for the Novell wireless patents last...
The great things about open source software stacks such as OpenStack and Hadoop is that they’re free and they work. The not-so-great thing is that — like many open source projects — they can be difficult to configure and manage. Luckily, hardware vendors are stepping in to fill the void. The hardware crew Dell...
If you like Class Actress, you probably dig Dragonette. If you like Joe Goddard, you’ll probably like Tanlines. And if you like Justin Bieber, please stop reading this article. So, Headliner.fm, a new web service is betting that it can helps bands monetize through social media by connecting similar musicians and allowing them to...
Google’s lashing out at competitors over patent claims has set off another round of discussion about the role and value of software patents (be sure to read Microsoft’s response). It’s an issue that lawyers and technologists have been discussing for a long time. The nuances of such a debate are beyond the capabilities of...
Gmail just posted on the Gmail Blog about a new Labs feature that lets you add a two-column view to Gmail on a computer. It’s similar to how Gmail looks when you view it through the web app on an iPad, and how the iPad’s mail app looks. In fact, it looks a lot...