Twitter has had all it can take of spammers and it is launching fresh legal action in a bid to cut down on the problem by tackling the root cause of the issue. Twitter isn’t suing individual spammers themselves — such a move would be hugely inefficient and difficult given the anonymity of many...
You know every once in a while you come across news about your company and it turns out your boss is no longer your boss anymore. If you’re me this probably happens to you every three months. Anyways this morning I read in the media that Arianna Huffington (who I think used to be...
Will Apple make a 7 inch iPad? That’s the question being batted around yet again today. The true answer right now is easy: I don’t know. No one does. Most likely not even Apple. They’re undoubtedly thinking about it. And may even have to make a call soon. But it has probably not been...
The fall-out from Yahoo’s decision to lay-off 2,000 employees has hit Asia and, most notably, Koprol, the location-based social network that it acquired in 2010. The company has made redundancies within its developer pool in Indonesia, which sees the entire team behind location-based social network Koprol now forced to find employment elsewhere, leaving the...
The Google Books project (just today pared down a bit) always impressed me with its sheer scope. Offering modern e-books is all well and good, but that’s more of a business problem. It’s the scanning and free availability of thousands upon thousands of old books that struck me as a worthwhile endeavor. But publishers...
There were plenty of other Pictionary-like games in the iTunes app store before OMGPOP’s Draw Something. But the secret ingredient behind Draw Something’s runaway success was its very social, asynchronous gameplay. Most independent game designers don’t necessarily have the extra manpower to build an engine that supports this. That’s where an Israeli startup called...
On the occasion of the first anniversary as the chief executive officer, Larry Page shared a letter with Google’s investors. He took over the CEO job at last April after making the announcement in January 2011. You should read the letter for yourself. It is a bit of corporate-speak, but nevertheless it feels like...
Just in case you’re not familiar with the project, here’s the breakdown for this release. The core projects for OpenStack, as of Essex, are: OpenStack Compute (Nova) – the software that controls the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Essentially, Nova is the analog to Amazon EC2. OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) – the software that’s used for object...
Instagram, the mobile photo sharing app, released an Android version earlier this week in an event that I believe has turbocharged the already briskly growing social photo service. New data crunched by Amsterdam-based startup Skylines shows that is exactly what is happened. Some of that is to be expected – during certain times of the day, Instagram...
AP See Also THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: You Won’t Believe How Much Google Makes Per Android Device Apple Has A 7.85 Inch iPad In Its Research Lab, But It Can’t Decide Whether Or Not To Release It There’s Already A Hilarious Parody Video Of Google’s Augmented Reality Glasses It’s only a symbolic victory, but Apple’s...