This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. It appears that Amazon Web Services has suffered another outage tonight. The AWS...
Here’s another good reason to cancel your pay TV subscription and just rely on Netflix and Hulu instead: It will save you a bunch of money on your energy bill, and help fight global warming in the process. A recent study by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) showed that U.S. set-top boxes collectively...
It’s back up again
Are you trying to use the web right now? Just stop. It’s largely broken. As indicated by about 20 tips in the last few minutes and pretty much all of Twitter, Amazon’s EC2 service appears to be down. That means services like Reddit, Heroku, Foursquare, Instagram, Fab, Quora, Turntable.fm, Netflix and many, many others...
Can a government build an effective Facebook for education? The government of Rajasthan, one of the largest states in India, is building out extensive infrastructure for Information and Communication Technology resources and training, with the collaboration of multiple international agencies including the World Economic Forum. Next month, the state’s information technology department plans on...
Sonos, the Santa Barbara, Calif.-based maker of digital music players wants to become the hub of digital music inside your home. Bolstered by the success of its partnerships with services such as Pandora, Rhapsody, Rdio and Spotify, the company now apparently wants to launch an API that would allow any music service to integrate...
While I may have created some sweet spaceships in my days constructing LEGO, I never guessed how serious people would get with their blocky creations. Guns, computer cases, even a Tetris-playing device and a robotic hand. So I shouldn’t be surprised that someone has created a CNC mill with their Mindstorms NXT set. It...
Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s Co-founder and CEO of easy payment company Square, is reportedly investing in a “new kind” of marketing firm lead by ex-Apple marketing exec Allison Johnson, reports All Things D. The goal of this new marketing firm is supposedly to bridge the communication gap that exists between larger companies and brands in order...
While it is fashionable to focus on data, one has to remember that what matters is what you can do with the data and how it can help grow a business. That is the rallying cry in the web world from Twitter to Facebook but also in an unexpected place – a Seattle hospital....
While the real-world markets take a nosedive, a virtual world’s economy is on the up and up, and its parent company is reaping the rewards. Second Life, the user-generated virtual world, generates almost $100 million in revenue a year, according to a new report on LAUNCH. A “company insider” says that Linden Labs has...