Drone p0wned by College Lab
Researchers at a university lab have successfully hacked a government DHS-owned unmanned aerial vehicle, known as a “drone” in a low-buck challenge. The research team at University of Texas at Austin built a device…
MapR Bringing Hadoop to New Google Compute Engine
No sooner did Google announce its Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, Google Compute Engine, at Google I/O this morning, than MapR revealed it will offer its Hadoop distribution on-demand via the new Google cloud. The announcment with…
The Nexus Q Looks Cool, but What’s It Missing?
According to the latest InMobi and Mobext survey, there’s a significant rise in the interest of owning/using a connected device. Tablet use rose quickly to 29.5 million U.S. users or 11% of the total…
Zynga Attempts Resurgence with “Unleashed” Event and Project
By Isha Suri
Zynga, which has become one of the shining social gaming companies on internet, is trying to makeover its image and build digital gaming hub as investors worry about its future growth. So far, Zynga…
Anonymous Claims Responsibility for Japanese Website Outages, Defacement
By Kyt Dotson
Not to sit idly on their collective Guy Fawkes masks, Anonymous has found a new target to harass for violating their sense of information ethics: Japan. The websites of Japan’s Finance Ministry, Supreme Court…
Introducing Google Compute Engine: Google’s Play for IaaS Supremacy
The rumors are true: During today’s keynote at Google I/O, Google announced the launch (in limited preview) of Google Compute Engine, an infrastructure-as-a-service offering that enables customers to spin up Linux virtual machines with…
Springpad Adds Facebook “Likes” and Timeline for Serendipitous Discovery
Springpad, the smart notebook app with over 3 million users for discovering, sharing and acting on their interests, announced a new point of Facebook integration that makes organizing and sharing “likes” easier than ever.…
Instagram, SlideShare and More Added to HootSuite’s App Directory
Social media management service HootSuite, which boasts some 4 million users and is employed by no less than 79 of the world’s Fortune 100 companies, has just updated its App Directory to include apps…
Google’s “Cloudy” Future: It’s All about Content Streaming
News from the 3-day Google I/O conference is already pouring out of the event. The main angle is content, and the new platforms from which Android users can access it. Google Play, the search…
Syncsort Partners with Greenplum, Hortonworks to Analyze Big Data
Syncsort has been creating software to enhance databases since it released high speed sorting tools for mainframes in the 1960s. Why mess with a good thing? This month the company partnered with both Hortonworks…