Postponing operating system upgrades until the last possible moment, and even forestalling new PC purchases, is common among Windows veterans. Only recently has the ancient Windows XP lost its position as the most popular version of Microsoft’s operating system. This attitude enabled many of us to skip over Windows Me and Vista, and there...
Even as more and more companies embace social media for internal and external communication, only a few are actively managing the risk that social media entails. These companies are strolling unprotected through a minefield that might one day destroy a cherished brand or lead angry regulators to their doorstep. According to survey results from...
In June, the disruptive, addictive, social gaming juggernaut Zynga vowed to transform the way games are built and consumed. By July 31, after a precipitous stock tumble, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus and other leaders are facing a class-action lawsuit for insider trading from angry investors who saw their fortunes evaporate while executives cashed out...
The past 18 months will be remembered as a time when solar manufacturers delivered ugly earnings reports and even witnessed some of their smaller peers face bankruptcy. That’s because the price of silicon — a main ingredient in traditional solar panels — has plummeted and subsidies from China have flooded the market with an...
Coursera may be a freshman in the Web education space, but the new pupil is well on its way to straight A grades after revealing that it has signed up more than 1 million students worldwide, just four months after it officially launched. That growth is accelerating at quite some rate too. Speaking to TNW...
If a battery component leaked to 9to5Mac today is legitimate, it indicates that the next iPhone model will be both thinner and capable of supporting an LTE chip. Leaked iPhone components are a funny thing. On one hand, they come from the one place that Apple can’t completely control, its vast supply chain. But...
Yesterday we looked at how online media is covering the London 2012 Olympics. We gave our virtual gold medal to the New York Times, for its sleek design and muscular content. Today we review the major social media sites: Facebook, Twitter and Google+. To continue the Olympics theme, we award each of the three...
Undersea cables are all the rage these days. Google has its Unity project, Facebook was recently outed as an investor in a pan-Asia cable, and now a new initiative — the Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE) — is coming, promising to bring 40-gigabit-per-second technology to a number of Asia’s key cities. The project, backed by NTT...