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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 ...
Rumored Apple Partnership with Gemalto for iPhone SIM Chip
The rumblings of rumor have surfaced about a partnership between Apple and Gemalto—a company that recently filed a patent lawsuit against Google—over the production of a SIM chip for iPhones. This sort of move will allow Apple to cut carriers out of the sale of iPhones and facilitate liberty for customers who want to get ...
Bing Map’s “Shout!” Empowers Educators and Students
Something that really fuels mapping and geospatial information is being able to analyze map data. Microsoft has released Visual Fusion 5.0, a stunning suite of map analysis tools with a brilliant visual flare, producing heat maps, false-color charts, even 3D infographics out of geospatial data. All the news is available from another post on the ...
Apple Appears Ahead of the Pack On HTML5 Video
As Apple has eschewed Adobe’s Flash for their products they have been relying heavily on HTML5 for mobile devices now for years. As a result, the technology company has been leading the way for HTML5 adoption, especially with the advent of devices such as the iPad. GigaOM speaks to the challenges and improvement spurred by ...
Intel Pours Investments Into Middle Eastern Technology Firms
It looks like Intel has big plans for their surplus this year by extending their portfolio of investments into social networking, entertainment, and VoIP—all based around Middle Eastern technology firms. AME Info leads with a bulletin on the technology giant’s investments, Further building on Intel Capital’s commitment to provide continued support for its portfolio companies, ...