Twitter Tests Out Targeted Tweets
If you’re a regular twitterer, you’ll know all about the data that it collects on you as you follow various interests through the microblogging platform. Now, the time has come to put that data…
Guild Wars 2 on the Virtual Gaming Economy
By Kyt Dotson
Virtual items have become a part of the mainstream Internet culture by way of massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) and social games such as hook into Facebook. After all, what exactly is a pair…
BeyondPod Top This Week’s Tablet Business App Roundup
This week’s top pick is BeyondPod, a feature-packed RSS feeder and podcast app. The application is names after the latter, which is where most of the development effort has gone into: BeyondPod has a…
Baidu’s Bigger, Better And Faster Mobile Experience
China’s got a well deserved reputation for being one of the biggest copycats of them all, but that doesn’t mean it lacks the capability to innovate. As Baidu has shown recently with a number…
Hadoop’s Performance Increases with the Help of Zettaset and GridIron
By Amber Harris
GridIron Systems and Zettaset have joined forces to create a reference for virtual Hadoop clusters, using Flash to enhance the effectiveness of inter-node communications. Hadoop users will be provided with “an efficient, pre-configured alternative…
Bruce Willis Goes Thermonuclear on iTunes, Sues Apple Over Terms?
Today’s mobile news roundup features: Bruce Willis’ plan to sue Apple over iTunes T&C; Apple adding the Galaxy SIII to patent infringement complaint; Samsung auditing China suppliers; and Nokia’s teaser video. Bruce Willis to…
Node.js Central to Nodester Buy, Boost for AppFog
In a post on the Nodester blog, AppFog chief exec Lucas Carlson announced that his company has acquired the Node.js PaaS. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. AppFog already supports Node as well…
Microsoft Puts it Weight behind Office 2013, On Demand with Full-Feature Access
Microsoft’s Office suite is the most widely used productivity software in the world, but the cloud is biting bigger and bigger chunks out of its market share as the role of the desktop gradually…
Judgement Day Beckons: Scientists Grow ‘Light-Activated’ Muscle Tissue For Robots
Robots are pretty advanced these days, but could the kind of futuristic, life-like androids that we see in Terminator and Blade Runner one day become a reality? Up until now, the idea of creating…
Mobile Takeover, Hollywood Style
These days, most people are toting smart phones and/or iPads, checking them incessantly (remember the prevalence of BlackBerry Thumb late last decade?), and accessing entertainment on these devices. Netflix streams, Flash is dead, and…