Google to Drop Sync Support for Blackberry
Can you smell blood in the water? It looks like Google does. In a blog post released today, the company announced that on June 1, it will drop support for Google Sync for BlackBerry. The…
This Week in the Cloud: Rackspace, Big Data and Titanium 2.0
This week in the cloud was a fairly unusual one, in that we have seen not one but three big announcements marketing the convergence of at least two trends in the cloud. First up…
US Not the Fastest (or Slowest) in Mobile Browser Load Times
By Isha Suri
Google has recently conducted a study on web browsing speed, measuring web page load speeds on desktop computers and mobile devices. This involved analyzing web speed in 50 countries with the fastest Internet connections,…
Linus Torvalds: Improving the Way We Write Software is More Interesting Than Improving Software
By Klint Finley
Today on the occasion of his Millenium Technology Prize award, TechCrunch ran an interview with Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds. The most interesting bit of the interview came when Torvalds was asked what question…
The Top 15 Cloned Android Apps and Games Posing as Trojans
Malware authors are cashing in on the Instagram-Facebook craze with their fake Instagram app for the Android platform. The fake Instagram app is actually a Trojan in disguise, dubbed as “Andr/Boxer-F” by Sophos, who…
March Mobile Madness: Infographic
March Madness is the craze that happens from the second week of March until the first week of April every year. This revolves around the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Men’s and Women’s Basketball…
NAB Final Recap: New Value, New Ways of Making Big Data Work
TheCube has been streaming content throughout the entirety of this week’s NAB conference. John Furrier and Dave Vellante reflected on their observations at the end of each day, and summarized some of the key…
An OpenStack View on the Critical Mistake Made by Amazon Web Services and The Dilemma Facing VMware
Yesterday I posted the first part of a long interview with the founders of Piston Cloud. In part two, Former NASA Nebula Chief Technical Architect Joshua McKenty, and Rackspace alumni Christopher MacGown trace the roots…
Technology Makes Higher Education More Affordable for Students
Poor management is one of the reasons why people tend to miss dues during debt repayment processes and get soaring high interest rates at the end of the day. In order to avoid this…
5 Creative Ways to Use Google+ from Backup to Recommendations
With all of the social networking sites out there, it’s hard to tell which ones you should bother with and which is just another sloppy knockoff of tried and true favorites, such as Facebook.…