The Queen is set to have an official presence on Facebook when a British Monarchy page launches on the internet-based social networking site.
Buckingham Palace says it is not a personal profile page, but users can "like" the service and receive updates on their news feed.
"What Amazon fears most: Diapers" declared the cover of BusinessWeek
earlier this fall. Now it's clear that Amazon didn't fear diapers, it just wanted them for itself. Fortune has learned that Amazon.com on Monday will announce that it has agreed to acquire Quidsi, the parent company of websites like Diapers.com and Soap.com. The purchase price is $540 million in cash, with Quidsi's co-founders agreeing to multi-year employment contracts with Amazon (AMZN). The price tag is $200 million over what Quidsi was valued at in its latest round of venture financing.
Here’s a head scratcher, at first glance at least: Lamebook, a hilarious advertising-supported site that lets Facebook users submit funny status updates, pictures and “other gems” originating from the social network, is apparently suing Facebook over trademark infringement.
It’s always been something of an urban legend that men leaving a scorching notebook computer on their lap were damaging their sperm, but new research suggests
that such conjecture has a basis in scientific fact.
Microsoft has opened its sixth and largest store ever (8,600 sq feet) in the gigantic Mall
of America in Minnesota today, and the store is right across the aisle from the Apple Store, as previously announced this summer.
Oracle will deliver two Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) based on the OpenJDK project - one free and the other
paid.
That's according to Tweets pouring thick and fast from an Oracle session at QCon San Francisco, where the database giant mostly repeated its earlier plans for Java.
A former University of Akron student was sentenced Friday to 30 months in prison, followed
by 3 years of supervised release for conducting Denial of Service Attacks on the sites of several prominent conservative figures as well as infecting several systems with botnet zombies.
Facebook, Twitter, and WordPress have
failed a security exam conducted by "security think tank" Digital Society, highlighting old vulnerabilities most recently displayed by the spread of Firesheep.
The author
of the web's first worm-virus, teamed with a man who dresses as a medieval warrior and goes to battle on the weekends and a woman who follows World of Warcraft, acupuncture and ballet, have raised $24 million dollars to storm the gates of the Google Castle. They got incredible press coverage when their new search engine, called Blekko, launched this week - but they are probably going to get slaughtered.