Microsoft’s Biggest Mistake of 2010
While I am sure that there are many things that Microsoft has done in the past that tech pundits out there would point to as being massive failures, there is one thing, and one…
Clearwire is Facing Troublesome Times
Clearwire is facing some issues with its iSpot being discontinued after no more than half a year since its launch on the market. Our chief editor Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins commented on Clear troublesome situation:…
Skytap Ends 2010 with a Bang, Secures $10M in Funding
By Cherr Aira
Seattle-based Skytap has ends the year on a high note as they raised additional $10 million in funding. With this financial boost, the provider of cloud automation solutions has now garnered a total of…
Is Google prepared to spend over $20 billion to be a carrier?
By George Ou
Every time rumors about Google becoming a fiber broadband provider or wireless carrier surface, the speculation and adulation from the blogosphere is so predicable that it’s almost expected. TechCrunch even predicted that it was…
KindleTwit: A Toy for Your Brand New Kindle
I’ve had a Kindle for a while now, and enjoy it for reading books and periodicals, as nature intended, but haven’t found it extremely useful for other online communication tasks. Because of the slow…
Commtouch: 30% Spam Decrease in December
According to cloud security solutions provider Commtouch, inboxes everywhere have seen a 30% drop in spam this December. An earlier 18% drop in October is associated with the closure of spam organization Spamit in…
Christmas Brings a Hefty Gift for OpenFeint: Mobile Gaming on the Rise
By Isha Suri
As usual, this holiday season also brought good news to mobile gaming, and experienced a spike in mobile app downloads. Besides all others, mobile social gaming platform Openfeint reported some great figures as it…
Play World of Warcraft with Kinect and FAAST
By Kyt Dotson
Researchers at the Institute for Creative Technologies at University of Southern California have decided that they’d like to meld work and play by hacking the Kinect system alongside their developing software in order to…
MySpace Losing Foothold: Potential Layoffs in Near Future
MySpace became steadily less significant with Twitter and Facebook’s constant expansion and social-network trend setting. The website struck a major ad deal with Google recently, but that’s not enough to stabilize its descent. That’s…
Tablet Takeover: CES 2011 Rumors
By Kyt Dotson
With tablets being introduced as the expected bridge between palm-sized smartphones and clunky laptops they have exploded in popularity and afforded themselves a niche that puts powerful computing and communication within mobile reach. With…