Robert Johnson See Also This Startup Founder Is Saving 1.4 Million Websites From Hurricane Sandy New York And New Jersey Wake Up To Catastrophic Damage Whistleblower Explains One Way Cloud Companies Can Cook Their Books Two data centers housed in the same New York building shut down by flooding sent out tweets boasting about...
The big story in New York is Hurricane Sandy, obviously. But the counter-part big story is that people are going to extreme lengths to find power where they can. Check out this man we saw on 47th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues charging his phone and making a call at a lamppost. Rob Wile...
Reebok A lawsuit that will have them screaming. See Also After Two Weeks Of Testing, Facebook Is Actually Revving Up Its Pinterest Killer The Fancy Just Raised $26.4 Million, With American Express On Board New York And New Jersey Wake Up To Catastrophic Damage Zappos just lost a big court battle. In January, hackers...
It was quite the morning here in Redmond, on the Microsoft campus. A morning keynote – the company abhors a late start – kicked off BUILD, Microsoft’s key development conference, launching what could be described as the real season of Windows 8 application development. The driver behind Windows 8 application development has thus far...
Snow Crash is author — and now game entrepreneur — Neal Stephenson’s third novel. It was written in 1992, which is quite literally the year that the term ‘surfing the Internet‘ was coined. One of the main characters is a data stringer called Hiro Protagonist (not joking), who drives a Yamaha motorcycle with wheels that adapt...
A fledgling European company called HowDo is today debuting a social mobile platform for capturing and sharing everyday knowledge and real-world skills (think: how to peel a banana, or how to dry your socks super quickly). In addition, the startup is today announcing that it has raised a ‘significant amount’ of seed funding from...
The launch event for Google’s new Nexus 4 phone and Nexus 10 tablet was supposed to be in New York. That was canceled at the last minute, thanks to Hurricane Sandy. So instead, Google announced the devices in a blog post Monday morning. Isn’t it a pain when real life messes up your carefully...
Although Sandy continues to be primarily a flooding event, High, sustained winds and some large fires are complicating life on and off the Internet. Service issues for YouTube were widely reported Monday at 7:30 p.m. EDT, and were intermittent throughout the rest of the night, until they ended around 6 a.m. today. Tumblr’s problems...
The Walt Disney Company has reportedly bought Lucasfilm, the production company that brought us Star Wars and Indiana Jones, for $4.05 billion in cash and stock. The companies simultaneously announced that Star Wars Episode 7 will be released in 2015. Kathleen Kenedy, co-chairman of Lucasfilm, will become president, reporting to Alan Horn, chairman of...
An exabyte of data is created on the Internet each day, which equates to 250 million DVDs worth of information. And the idea of even larger amounts of data — a zettabyte — isn’t too far off when it comes to the amount of info traversing the web in any one year. Cisco estimates...