Screenshot The iPhone 5 is the best smartphone on the market according to Walt Mossberg, the most influential personal consumer technology writer in the world. Mossberg has posted his review, and his short take on the phone is: “The world’s most popular smartphone becomes significantly faster, thinner and lighter this week, while gaining a...
Screenshot The iPhone 5 is the best smartphone on the market according to Walt Mossberg, the most influential personal consumer technology writer in the world. Mossberg has posted his review, and his short take on the phone is: “The world’s most popular smartphone becomes significantly faster, thinner and lighter this week, while gaining a...
Amazon’s reserved instance marketplace is a good idea, but questions remain about the implementation. Once again, Amazon is offering to trade cloud computing in a commodity-like way. But rather than following commodity market best practices, it has put its own special spin on things. The marketplace allows AWS customers who no longer require on-demand...
Microsoft promised today to patch a security flaw that it highlighted yesterday in its Internet Explorer software. The patch will be forthcoming in the next few days. In a statement, Microsoft called the impact of the flaw thus far ‘extremely limited.’ The company promises that the fix itself will be simple to use, requiring a...
Since cyber-bullying became part of the school landscape, states have tried to put in rules to protect students. Now North Carolina wants to do the same for its teachers. Under a proposed law, students who use the internet to “torment or intimated a school employee” can be convicted of a misdemeanor and fined $1000....
The World Bank, AppCircus and Google Developer Group Cairo (GDG Cairo) have joined forces to launch the Cairo Transport AppChallenge, an online competition for mobile applications that can improve transportation in the Egyptian capital. As you may know, traffic congestion a serious problem in the Cairo metropolitan area, and has a negative effect on the health,...
By Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A potential win for Mark Zuckerberg See Also This Google Unit Just Recommended Clients Buy Ads On Facebook Facebook Is Making The Wrong Ads Easier To Buy Zuckerberg’s Huge Win: Instagram Proves To Be A Bargain At $1 Billion Facebook is in the early stages of building a mobile ad...
Andy Rachleff, Wealthfront CEO Manage Your Tech Career Managing A Silicon Valley Windfall Sizing Up Your Home As An Investment The following is an excerpt of a Wealthfront post that promotes a new tool for calculating average startup salaries. We’ve extracted just the tips, but you can read the full post at Wealthfront. It...
Apple See Also Apple’s Maps Are A Disaster Waiting To Happen Everyone Is Saying This Is The Real iPad Mini Proof That The iPhone 5 Outperforms Samsung’s Galaxy S III At 9 p.m. Eastern on the nose today you’re going to see reviews for the iPhone 5 hit a few select blogs and newspapers....
Recent blackouts in the U.S. and India should serve as a wake-up call to an increasingly networked world. Power outages are no longer a local problem. Mission-critical websites and data centers are increasingly likely to be located in blackout zones. Today, a local blackout can become a global business catastrophe. That was one of...