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LimeWire Ghost Town After Shut Down, Still Clings to Future Plans
LimeWire has let go of 29 of their 100-person workforce in the wake of a federal injunction against their operations. However, in spite of this, the peer-to-peer software outfit keeps intimating that they’re continuing work on a music-related project. Peter Kafka from All Things D waxes thoughtful on the subject in his article, I don’t ...
Facebook Cleaning Up Its Streets and Its Image
Whenever we post our personal information on the Internet, it becomes available to everyone—even people we’d rather not saw it—and in some cases, unscrupulous companies will use this information against us. In a recent debacle, a few Facebook developers were caught using an unexpected trick to identify app users and sell their public information combined ...
Gag Order Denied for SAP in Oracle Lawsuit
A quick update from SAP vs Oracle lawsuit land from Digital Daily, Bad news for SAP, Hewlett-Packard, its new CEO Léo Apotheker and anyone else tarred and feathered in Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s recent fusillade of anti-SAP broadsides. A federal judge has denied a request for a gag order in the increasingly contentious legal battle ...
The Location-based Fires are Burning: FourSquare and Facebook Places Compare Size
Right now user metrics are being held side-by-side to show that Facebook Places is outstripping Foursquare by a dramatic margin: 30 million pairs of feet for Facebook vs only 4 million dipping into Foursquare. So the question arose, does this mean that Foursquare is doomed? Probably not, says an article posted at Business Insider, But ...
PayPal’s Downtime Today, On Recovery Road
PayPal’s payment interface suffered a blow today when their API went offline. This doesn’t mean that PayPal’s website went down—that’s been working properly this entire time—but instead people haven’t been able to make or receive payments for a while. Some people have even reported being unable to withdraw money. However, it is starting to recover ...
Apple Soars Past RIM, Still Poor Show for iAds
With their debut of the iPhone 4, Apple has reached the top 5 ranked vendors—leaping past Research In Motion and knocking Sony out of their spot. Nokia, however, still hangs tenaciously to their top spot with their sheer market superiority. According to PCMag, the entrance of Apple into the top five could signal a stronger ...
Twitter for Windows Phone, the Official App Version
Clean, light, easy—three adjectives that aptly describe the official Twitter app for the Windows Phone 7. This nicely rounds out their mobile app presence for the coming year, and it’s a solid display as well. We defer to the Twitter blog for the announcement du jour, There is a new addition to our mobile family: ...
Boosting the Web: Fiber Optic Cables and the Speed of Light
Anyone who survived high school physics class will probably recall silly posters on the wall postulating the Speed of Light, “c”, as a speed limit—as SiliconANGLE’s Mark Hopkins says, “299,792,458 metres per second. IT’S THE LAW.” Information is channeled across fiber optic cables using light, which means that for any single bit of information we’re ...
Box.net Inflates the Personal Cloud with Extra Storage
With storage becoming cheaper every day, we’re becoming more and more of a media producing and consuming culture. However, in-hand storage only goes so far—and when we want to work with other people, what we have in-hand isn’t as helpful as what we’ve got in collaborative-cloud space. Box.net has increased free, personal storage to 5Gb ...
Google Clarifies AdWords Transparency in France, Cleared by Antitrust Regulator
Google has settled an antitrust probe in France regarding their AdWords advertising service. The probe and lawsuit emerged from the removal of advertisements from Navx, a French mapping service, which claims it lost revenue due to Google removing their advertisements. The anti-trust suit has led to Google’s promise that they will better clarify their advertisement ...