Henry Edward Roberts is not one of the shining personalities of the computer industry, yet he was the first to have developed a mainstream computing device, the Altair 8800 personal computer. Roberts was also the first employer of Microsoft...
If early sales estimates are any indicator, Apple appears to have another hit on its hands with the iPad. Including presales, Apple will sell 600,000 to 700,000 of the new tablet this weekend, according to estimates released by Piper Jaffray...
Google is definitely on a buying spree this year. The company’s latest acquisition is Episodic, an online video platform that Google will probably integrate into YouTube is some form. Neither Episodic nor Google shared any financial...
Facebook has bought up Divvyshot, a one-year-old photo sharing startup. Divvyshot’s sites lets users share photos by grouping them into collections called “events†so users don’t...
Even before its release, the iPad is already a success. And I can say that without knowing or really caring about how many units get sold over the weekend. On the eve of the iPad’s arrival, my inbox is full of announcements about...
Yesterday, we wrote about the great lengths many cities and towns were taking to catch the attention of Google, in the hope that the search giant would choose their community for its experimental fiber network. The broadband network would...
Crime doesn’t pay in the end Albert Gonzalez aka “soupnazi” was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Patti Saris to 20 years in prison for his role as a ringleader of an international group of hackers. The sentence...
Maybe Apple was right… if it can convince enough key players to adopt HTML5 The good news for HTML5 advocates is that Apple’s iPad for better or worse may finally push the format into the mainstream, which could eventually displace...
Google has introduced a new feature to notify Gmail users of potentially “suspicious” account login activity. “If it looks like something unusual is going on with your account, we’ll alert you by posting a warning...
Microsoft is testing a microblogging service called OfficeTalk that is much like Twitter. The service is designed for the enterprise and appears it will be offered as an on-premise service. OfficeTalk is being developed by OfficeLabs,...
As the biggest name in web services pulls out of China, the players left behind are probably feeling pretty good. Those remaining include Microsoft, but the market isn’t wide open for them by any means. The Google exodus from China...
After hyping the fact that they were building a free browser application for the iPhone and iPod touch, and showing it off to a small circle of reporters at the most recent Mobile World Congress (us included), Opera Software has officially...