Visit the CenturyLink resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. One of my favorite film directors is Wes Anderson, who has made some very quirky movies...
Twitter has had a complicated relationship with its sprawling developer ecosystem but made a big move this morning to provide independent developers a fast, lightweight, attractive and consistent tool-kit that can be used to implement the front end of web applications. It’s called Bootstrap and the company said today that it “uses some of...
That streaming videos makes up a huge percentage of the Internet’s traffic is by now well-known. Netflix alone makes up nearly 30% of all downstream traffic and we’re now accustomed to hearing about the extraordinary amount of bandwidth eaten up by videos streaming during major news events. For example, during President Obama’s inauguration, content...
In other words, if one user chose not to save passwords for a dating site, their fiancé could also see what sites Firefox should not save passwords for. The bug was filed by a woman who discovered (through the Firefox bug) that her significant other had been perusing dating sites and consequently ended a...
Australian educational blogging platform EduBlogs announced this week that it now hosts more than 1 million blogs published by teachers and students. The six year old, 15 person company offers free blogs, paid blogs and campus-based blog networks. It’s all built on top of WordPress and parent company IncSub says Edublogs is the second...
SAN FRANCISCO — Texting and driving don’t go well together – though not in the way you might think. Computer hackers can force some cars to unlock their doors and start their engines without a key by sending specially crafted messages to a car’s anti-theft system. They can also snoop at where you’ve been...
ReadWriteWeb: Since Monday, I think a lot of the regular old analysts have gotten together into one big pool, and they’ve all decided to agree on the idea that the whole reason behind Google’s bid for Motorola Mobility was so they could have MMI’s patent portfolio. Is there any contrarian view to that at...
Microsoft is likely set to distribute a pre-release version of Windows 8 at the BUILD conference next month. But what about those who cannot attend? The company spoke today in an attempt to assuage the fears of those who are fretting about being locked out of any Windows 8 distribution due to their non-attendance of BUILD....
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Now closing on its second month, the Google+ social networking platform has seen rapid growth — and lots of attention — in its short lifetime. But new research indicates that the lion’s share of Google+ users do not actually pitch in on the site very often, if at all. Here are some interesting tidbits...
This morning, Union Square Ventures’ principal and prolific blogger Fred Wilson posted that he’s decided to make DuckDuckGo his default search engine for the next month to see if he missed Google. Wilson became curious after reading a post by DuckDuckGo’s founder Gabriel Weinberg on how he got DuckDuckGo into Time’s top websites of 2011. For a...