News Corporation's president has spoken out publicly against the financial state of social network MySpace, saying that the losses from the social network are 'neither acceptable or sustainable'.
A four-year campaign to secure a ".cym" internet address for Wales has been lost to the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean.
DotCYM project leaders in Aberystwyth said it was disappointing, but they still plan to bid for a Welsh version of the .com or .co.uk domain.
Samsung expects to sell more than a million Galaxy Tabs this year, the Korean
giant said today.
The Tab, a 7in tablet running Android 2.2 and featuring Wi-Fi, 3G and GPS technology, went on sale im Europe and Asia at the start of this week.
A third new Nokia handset from Nokia World 2010 has begun shipping, with the
Nokia C6-01 offering the same sort of functionality as its Symbian brethren the C7, but in a more affordable package. The C6-01 has a 3.2-inch Clear Black AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 8-megapixel camera with LED flash, and 720p HD video recording.
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key Republican lawmaker indicated Wednesday that Internet privacy could be a legislative priority in the next Congress, as a growing number of data breaches draw increased attention from federal regulators.
Do
you ever feel as if there are e-mails in your inbox that are just staring at you? Taunting you as you click on newer messages? If they could speak, they would probably rudely say, “Hey buddy, look at me, you haven’t responded to me yet! Don’t click on that one, I’m more important!”
A new service, NudgeMail, which came out on Wednesday, might be able help, or at least make it easier to procrastinate with these messages.
T-Mobile does not have a 4G network. Sprint, which first launched WiMAX
in June of 2009, does not have a 4G network. Verizon Wireless will flip the switch on LTE later this year and when it does, it will not have a 4G network. AT&T is taking its time with LTE and it won’t fire anything up until next year. When it finally does, AT&T will not have a 4G network.
At today's Facebook mobile event he was asked why there is no Facebook iPad app. He said, "iPad's not mobile...it's a computer," and that's why he's not talking about it at a mobile event.
After his relatively curt, and jokey response, Erick Tseng of Facebook explained that there will be many tablets coming, so they want to see how it shakes out before committing to one platform. Sounds like they might consider some version of a web product for tablets instead of building app after app.
Facebook is kicking off its check-in deals for Places with a huge bang: the first 10,000 people to check in to Gap outlets after the deal goes live next week will receive
a free pair of jeans.
To pass Japanese rating constraints all swastikas in the game’s ‘Zombie mode’ will be replaced by iron crosses whilst scenes that include aspects of dismemberment
or “expressions of brutality” are to find themselves left on the cutting room floor.
Who invented the computer? For anyone who has made a pilgrimage to the University of Pennsylvania and seen the shrine to the ENIAC, the answer may seem obvious:
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Jr., who led Penn’s engineering team in the 1940s. As it says on the plaque, the giant machine made of 17,468 vacuum tubes was the “first electronic large-scale, general-purpose digital computer.” But notice all the qualifying adjectives. Does this mean there was a smaller digital computer that actually came first?
Microsoft now expects to sell 5 million of its Kinect motion-sensitive game controllers during the December quarter, based on pre-order interest.
Its previous estimate was 3 million. The update was first tweeted by Bloomberg's Dina Bass, who got it from Xbox head Don Mattrick during an interview.
App phenomenon Angry Birds has reportedly surpassed 10 million paid iPhone downloads from the Apple App Store. With the free Android version of the perilously addictive game having already exceeded
the 2 million mark, the total number of free and paid for downloads of the Angry Birds app across all mobile platforms is believed to have topped 30 million.
In
the first major integration between AdMob and Google since the ad network was acquired in May, publishers will soon be able to show Google’s AdSense ads whenever an AdMob ad isn’t available, according to a blog post by Google.
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(Reuters) - German police said on Wednesday they had arrested 22 people suspected of spreading neo-Nazi ideology in a major swoop against far-right internet radio station
Widerstand-Radio (Resistance Radio).
Another much-requested feature has returned to Digg, as the social news site looks to recover from the version 4 fiasco: the bury button. The button — which is essentially the opposite of the
“Digg” button and helps push a story out of the system — appears to be live on all stories.
Экс-министр связи Леонид Рейман стал учредителем компании «Роса», которая намерена заняться разработкой решений на основе СПО. Кроме того, Рейман стал акционером фонда NGI, купившего ранее долю во французской
Mandriva и российской Pingwin Software.
Welcome to Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2010 report. Since 2004, our annual study has followed growth and trends in the blogosphere. For 2010, we
took a deeper dive into the entire blogosphere, with a focus on female bloggers. This year's topics include: brands embracing social media, traditional media vs. social media, brands working with bloggers, monetization, smartphone and tablet usage, importance of Twitter and Facebook, niche blogging, and changes within the blogosphere over 2010.
Today, Google is also introducing mod_pagespeed, a newmodule for Apache, the open-source Web server that runs most of the world's websites. This new module includes more than 15 on-the-fly optimizations that can reduce page load times by up to 50%.
LONDON — Under pressure from American and British officials, YouTube on Wednesday removed from its site some of the hundreds of videos featuring calls to jihad by Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born, Yemen-based cleric who has played an increasingly public role in inspiring violence directed at the West.