It’s an odd world we live in when a group of Internet denizens can raise a sufficient stink that a very influential member of the US House of Representatives has to issue a short statement refuting some audaciously false claims. That the statement was released on Facebook makes the moment all the more surreal. Paul Ryan, like...
Daily Archives: December 30, 2011
Here Are The Best Android Apps You Missed This Week (GOOG)
Image: Android Market See Also: This Alarm Clock App Automatically Adjusts Your Wake-Up Time Depending On How Crappy The Weather Is THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Pentagon Approves Android Devices For Department Of Defense COMSCORE: Android Has 47% Of The Mobile Market It was a slow week for Android. Well, a slow week for all of...
Be Careful Whom You Befriend on Social Networks
We all know that cyberspace can be a nasty place, but a new study from Bitdefender shows exactly how easy it is to compromise personal information across social media. The study found 100 people at random that fit into two categories – professional IT security workers and hackers – and used a phony social...
Newark NJ mayor Cory Booker takes to the web with a get fit challenge
It doesn’t get any more local than this, folks. Cory Booker, the popular major of Newark, New Jersey, has challenged his city to get fit and is using Facebook and Twitter to get them involved. Booker isn’t new to Twitter, with over a million followers he has become one of the most popular mayors...
R.I.P. The Golden Age of Tech Blogging (2009
The Age’s passing is being marked by a period of extended bickering in comments sections across the Web over the meaning of “age,” “blogging” and “tech” in their respective contexts. In keeping with the style of argument that marked the heyday of the Age, none of these arguments have reached any conclusions, though many...
Heading into the holiday rush, Microsoft’s mobile market share moved in one direction: down
Here at TNW we have been harping, and writing, on the importance of the holiday sales season for Windows Phone for some time, given that we view it as the chance for the mobile platform to turn around its fortunes and begin what could be a comeback; Windows Phone has been generally well received,...
AngelPad Looks Back: 37 Companies, 31 Funded, $25 Million Raised
AngelPad, the startup incubator launched by seven ex-Googlers in August 2010, is taking a look back at how far it’s come in the months since and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. So far, AngelPad has helped 37 companies get off the ground, but it wasn’t until this year that things really got...
Hosting a WordPress Blog on OpenShift
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 case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware helped virtualize 12 business critical database applications. If you’re using WordPress, the options you are mostly likely to...
Not a fan of Timeline on Facebook? Use IE7, Facebook stopped supporting it
It appears that Facebook has stopped supporting Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 browser, according to our friends at The Sociable. While this isn’t surprising since the browser is five years old, it is a bit of a hack for those who would rather not use Facebook’s Timeline feature to browse the site. It’s not perfect...
Who’s winning in Twitter photos? Hint: Not Yfrog or Lockerz
When Twitter debuted its native photo-sharing feature earlier this year, some people worried that it would harm the existing ecosystem of third-party photo-sharing apps. Sites such as Yfrog and Lockerz were built to let people share photos on Twitter well before the microblogging site decided to offer the capability itself. What would happen to...