Just like the party on Times Square, the Rose Parade is an essential part of how we celebrate the beginning of a new year. The Tournament of Roses Parade, which is how it’s officially called, has been happening in early January for more than 120 years. Each year, dozens of floats built entirely out of...
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There were reports of widespread outages of Twitter’s main Web site Saturday, with speculation centering on the problems stemming from a flood of New Year’s greetings. We asked Twitter for comment and will update as soon as we hear back. “Our engineers have identified the issue and Twitter is now almost fully recovered,” Twitter...
Email. It’s quickly becoming the bane of our existence, even though it’s the biggest social network in the world. Yes, even bigger than Facebook. More people use email than they do any other service on the web, and if mis-managed, it can keep you awake at night. If I had a buck for every...
“No matter how you slice the data,” Vivek Wadhwa said on Twitter, “the exponential growth in Social Media is no more. Just gradual growth now.” Wadhwa is an astute observer of long-term technology trends and is likely correct within a particular understanding of the situation. For one thing, I can’t help but imagine raw...
Apps are, at the end of the day, very personal pieces of software. And your favorite mobile app isn’t mine. So we decided to poll the staff here at GigaOM to see what apps changed our lives in 2011. It could be apps that just launched this year, or it could be programs that...
Image: Getty Images / Justin Sullivan He has every reason to be thrilled. But he’s not killing Google. Henry Blodget For the past couple of years, one meme has grown ever louder: Facebook is killing Google. Facebook is taking over the Internet, this story goes. Facebook now has ~800 million global users, half of...
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We’ve heard many stories that camera phones are changing the world, they’ve long overtaken standalone shooters on Flickr, for example, but in Japan it seems that the rise of the camera phone has seen an increase in complaints on voyeurism. A report from Mercury News states that, according to Japan’s National Police Agency, 1,741...
« First ‹ Prev Page 6 of 6 Be the consumer-focused innovator By Dan Hesse, CEO, Sprint (As told to Kevin Fitchard). Dan Hesse has been the CEO of Sprint since 2007 and is probably most recognizable as the star of many of Sprint’s TV commercials. For the last year, Hesse has made it...