Amazon launches hard disk in the sky
Amazon today announced that it is releasing its persistent storage option, called Elastic Block Service (EBS), to its suite of Amazon Web Services cloud computing options. The company announced [...]Read more
Amazon today announced that it is releasing its persistent storage option, called Elastic Block Service (EBS), to its suite of Amazon Web Services cloud computing options. The company announced [...]Read more
On Wednesday night, Photosynth, a technology demo from Microsoft Live Labs, is graduating from its "ooh, that's pretty" status to being a viable Web service for consumers.The technology, which [...]Read more
Yahoo's Widget Channel software lets TVs run network-enabled applications such as this one for Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing service.(Credit: Yahoo)Yahoo on Wednesday announced an effort to provide the software underpinnings [...]Read more
Facebook has simply gotten too big for downtown Palo Alto, where it has been headquartered since founder Mark Zuckerberg uprooted the company from dorm rooms at Harvard. With over [...]Read more
(Credit: Zoho)Sridhar Vembu, CEO of AdventNet, is not afraid of the going up against Microsoft Office or Google Apps. He is also the CEO of Zoho, which recently announced [...]Read more
Google, ever eager to make some money off YouTube, is testing ads for the mobile version of the video service."You may have noticed that we started running a test [...]Read more
The online personal finance service Mint is getting a fresh coat of paint today. It's a good update, led by a former designer of Apple.com. I've been a fan [...]Read more
Tim Westergren, the founder of popular Web radio start-up Pandora, has said in an interview with the Washington Post that his company may be close to a shutdown."We're approaching [...]Read more
Software maker GraphOn has filed suit against search giant Google, alleging that Google's Base, AdWords, Blogger, Sites, and YouTube services violate GraphOn's patentsGraphOn, based in Santa Cruz, Calif., acquired [...]Read more
Six Apart, which makes the Movable Type blogging platform and hosts blog services TypePad and Vox, on Monday is launching Blogs.com, a new site designed to help readers find [...]Read more
We have been reminded several times lately that Web 2.0 is in no way a synonym for "reliable." Major services have crashed. Big product launches have fizzled. Users have [...]Read more
Does Google know judo? Maybe. Google Street View has pulled a sutemi--a judo throw in which you launch yourself at the ground, risking disadvantage, to topple your opponent--on the [...]Read more
A video from Microsoft Research and the University of Washington has been causing a stir online. The seven-minute clip, which was demoed at Siggraph 2008 gives a small peak [...]Read more
European users of Twitter can no longer receive text message updates on their cell phones, in a temporary move designed to keep the start-up's telecom bills down.Twitterers can still [...]Read more
You probably already know that you can take that desktop computer you leave on all the time and use its spare computing power to look for extraterrestrial intelligence or [...]Read more
Six years in the making, the 1.0 version of Open Source Web and desktop info organizer Chandler finally arrived last Friday. It was not met with thunderous acclaim, nor [...]Read more
Last.fm's music-centered social network is one of our favorite ways to discover, share, and stream music online. Currently in version 1.01, the Last.fm application for the iPhone and iPod [...]Read more
Six Apart is announcing Tuesday night the launch of Movable Type 4.2 and Movable Type Pro. The 4.2 platform gives blog publishers better performance, according to Six Apart. But [...]Read more
Performance-monitoring firm Pingdom thinks we should look at social networks differently.The popularity of a social site such as MySpace or Twitter is frequently measured in unique users, page views, [...]Read more
Utilizing Apple's ad hoc distribution program, Stitcher let a beta version of their iPhone app loose on 100 testers today. While the app suffers from some stability issues, due [...]Read more