Google+ Anxious for Celebrity Validation
Google+ is still new in the market, but the company’s not wasting time in making new plans to serve the public. According to CNN reports, Google is following in Twitter’s footsteps with verified celebrity…
Intel Steps Into Cisco Territory with Latest Buy
Intel has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Fulcrum Microsystems Inc., a privately held fabless semiconductor company that designs Ethernet switch silicon for data center network providers. “Intel is transforming from a leading server technology…
Reddit co-Founder Aaron Swartz Indicted for Data Theft, Other Hacktivists Arrested
The co-founder of Reddit, Aaron Swartz, was charged with data-theft in Boston. He was accused of stealing over four million documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and JSTOR. The case was filed by…
Netflix Bets the Medium is the Message
An awful lot of pixels have been burned on the dramatic price increase that Netflix announced last week. The popular phrasing described a “social media firestorm” of complaints from angry customers who vow to…
Microsoft Azure Offers Apache Hadoop Alternative, Appeals to SMBs
Microsoft Research announced the availability of a free technology preview of Project Daytona MapReduce Runtime for Windows Azure. Using a set of tools for working with big data based on Google’s MapReduce paper, it…
A“Small Tiles” Concept for Windows Phone?
The team over at WPCentral had an interesting post up earlier today talking about an idea from a Windows Phone fan at the XDA forums about being able to “halve the size” of the…
FBI Executes Search Warrants in New York Seeking Anonymous Suspects
By Kyt Dotson
Early Tuesday morning, the FBI executed search warrants on three homes in the New York area belonging to suspected members of Anonymous. Including the home of Giordani Jordan, which they hit at 6 a.m.…
Scribd Releases Mobile App Reader as Digital Publishing Expands
By Val Galin
Just seven months after its Series C round bringing another $13 million in funding, online document sharing company Scribd launched a new mobile application called Float. The new iPhone and web application compiles all…
Eric Schmidt to Apple: You’re Jealous and Lack Innovation
Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt starts a word war with Apple, feeling the pressure of ongoing lawsuits filed against Google and Android device manufacturers. Schmidt believes that Apple’s turning green in color. Jealous of…
EMC’s Private Cloud Takes on Academia in the Lone Star State
Last week, EMC has brought cloud service one step higher with VMware and VMAXe. With this, EMC has again raised its bar with its latest development in educational system’s and program’s cloud service. Lone…