We know that technology has come a far way over the years, but it’s easy to forget just how far. According to Google, just one action taken on its search engine by a single user uses the computing power of the entire Apollo space missions. Since this is Google we’re talking about, the company...
Mozilla must have seen the news this week: Security companies are recommending you disable Java, or just uninstall it. The organization is recommending the same to its Firefox users: At this time there is no patch available from Oracle to address the vulnerability within Java. We recommend that users disable the Java plugin within...
How many iOS charger cables do you own? You know, the 30-pin connector that’s been packaged alongside every iPod, iPhone and iPad for as long as I can remember. Personally, I own seven. Each of my friends and colleagues has (at the very least) more than one of these wires. Essentially, if you’ve owned...
As election season nears, more and more people are discussing the candidates and their positions online. Facebook and CNN want to be at the center of that conversation – but they have a long way to go if they really want to add to the debate. The two organizations announced Facebook-CNN Election Insights, a...
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Time Warner CEO Glenn Britt Time Warner today announced a $25 million plan to bring super-fast Internet service to parts of New York. It will operate at speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second. The new fiber network will service Brooklyn, parts of Manhattan and the Financial and Flatiron districts, reports Marguerite Reardon...
What’s in your wallet? Likely several credit and debits cards, with the ones you use most at the top of the stack. Companies like MasterCard, Visa and American Express spend millions of dollars a year to muscle into that position. Yet, those cards may soon become irrelevant. There’s a new battle brewing, one for...
Instagram is exploding. The mobile photo-sharing app is set to hit its 100 millionth user before its second birthday, an early growth rate that puts Facebook and Twitter to shame. As the user base grows, though, so too does the black tide of spam. “More Followers,” “More Likes” In recent weeks, many users have...
Google is trying to expand the vision for its Google Wallet beyond just a payment and loyalty vehicle into a full-on wallet replacement, where users can electronically stuff all kinds of credentials, cards, tickets and stuff into it. That’s the vision that Robin Dua, head of product management for Google Wallet explained in a...
Apple’s big win over Samsung is validation for Steve Jobs who believed Android was a stolen product. We don’t believe it will ultimately have much of an effect on the smartphone market, or Android overall. object classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ id=”ooyalaPlayer_k6df_h6f2o4yd” width=”616″ height=”347″ codebase=”http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab”param name=”movie” value=”http://player.ooyala.com/player.swf?embedCode=d5ZmdxNTowio5-lRuqyJToA32N3VB2RRversion=2″ /param name=”bgcolor” value=”#000000″ /param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”always” /param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true” /param name=”flashvars”...