-
Posted: January 16th, 2012, 7:44pm CET by Digg
Idiots, the world is full of them and sometimes that includes stupid social media hackers. Several high profile Twitter accounts were hacked yesterday, including Ashton Kutcher, the Huffington Post, and actor Eric Stonestreet. But Kutcher's hijacked accounts highlight the hacker's extraordinary degree of dumbness by tweeting his FourSquare location.
-
Posted: January 16th, 2012, 6:18pm CET by Digg
Is the PC "dead"? Of course not, but if you can't see the trend moving away from local / desktop computing and towards mobile / cloud computing, you're not paying attention to the sales figures for each market: Nearly 50 percent of recent device sales are mobile.
-
Posted: January 16th, 2012, 5:33pm CET by Digg
It’s taken longer than usual for hackers to release a complete jailbreak for the iPhone 4S, but it looks like one is almost here.
-
Posted: January 16th, 2012, 5:31pm CET by Digg
For anyone who doubts that cloud computing is driving IT check out new numbers from IHS which predicts that unit shipments of "cloud servers" -- computers that run public and private cloud computing infrastructure -- will grow 35 percent to a whopping 875,000 this year, up from 647,000 in 2011.
-
Posted: January 16th, 2012, 5:23pm CET by Digg
Join Reddit and dozens of other high-profile sites this Wednesday. While the House has delayed a vote on SOPA yet again, thanks in large part to unrelenting pressure from opponents, the Senate is still scheduled to vote on PIPA January 24.
-
Posted: January 16th, 2012, 4:55pm CET by Digg
Nissan brings automotive innovation to the world of technology
-
Posted: January 16th, 2012, 4:25pm CET by Digg
It turns out Apple's questionable rebuild of its 5th Avenue store wasn't in vain—the company now has the ability to make some pretty daring glass structures.
Case in point: this French shop will be almost totally transparent.
-
Posted: January 16th, 2012, 3:55pm CET by Digg
Jeff Jarvis for BuzzMachine: In attacking piracy and blaming Google for everything it links to, Murdoch has failed to see past old models of owning content
-
Posted: January 16th, 2012, 3:51pm CET by Digg
Amazon will let customers run micro-instances of Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 for free on its EC2 service starting now, according to a new post to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog. Such try-before-you-buy tactics have helped Amazon win converts to its cloud platform.
-
Posted: January 16th, 2012, 2:46pm CET by Digg
With the Optimus line of keyboards, each key is its own separate, customizable LED screen.
-
Posted: January 16th, 2012, 1:16pm CET by Digg
Google today, on the 26th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States, is honoring the holiday and legacy of the preacher of nonviolent activism with a special Google Doodle.
-
Posted: January 16th, 2012, 1:12am CET by Digg
Lonelygirl15 writer and ARG creator Jan Libby is currently seeking Kickstarter funds for a new alternate reality game experience called Snow Town, but the underlying technology could become a secret weapon for creating transmedia experiences.