Social media is rapidly changing the way we use the Internet – but will its growing popularity necessitate a fundamental change in how we browse the Web? Keeping track of Facebook and Twitter probably isn’t that difficult for most people, but one start-up is arguing that a whole new operating system is needed to handle [...]
4G wireless–which operates at speeds up to 10 times greater than today’s 3G networks–could become a reality for many businesses over the coming year. Sprint, the current 4G leader, says it will introduce its first 4G smartphone before mid-year. Sprint introduced its 4G WiMAX network in 2008, but so far there have been no handsets [...]
Nokia-Apple Patent Dispute The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has agreed to investigate Apple’s patent claims against Nokia, after already agreeing last month to do the same for Nokia’s patent claims against Apple. With dueling lawsuits pending in federal court over the patent disputes, the ITC has become the battlefield du jour. In the [...]
MDM giants with new platform SAS Institute subsidiary DataFlux is unveiling a new suite on Monday that combines MDM (master data management), data quality and data integration tools in a single package. Analysts say the DataFlux Data Management Platform, previously known under its internal name of “Project Unity,” gives DataFlux a cohesive product set to [...]
EU data protection chief slams secret ACTA talks The anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) being negotiated in secret by the U.S., E.U. and others potentially runs roughshod over European data protection requirements, European data protection supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx said Monday. “Intellectual property is important to society and must be protected [but] it should not be [...]
Inside the Olympics’ ‘mission control’ VANCOUVER, British Columbia–While the Winter Olympics have brought many headaches for organizers, the computing systems haven’t been one of them. In fact, things have been pretty quiet inside the low-rise building in east Vancouver where the technology operations are headquartered. “In here, our objective is to be bored,” said Atos [...]
$2 million to Wikimedia Google has made a $2 million donation to the Wikimedia Foundation, the group behind the widely used Wikipedia reference site. Jimmy Wales, a member of the board who helped create Wikipedia, announced the donation in a tweet on Tuesday. He said a formal announcement would come Wednesday. Mitch Kapor, a Wikimedia [...]
Rod Tuason has become the latest person to learn that it’s not very wise to post threats, especially ones involving killing someone, on a Facebook page believed to be private. Tuason is an East Palo Alto police detective who allegedly posted a note on Facebook threatening to kill anyone he found openly carrying a handgun, [...]
Pay-TV juggernaut HBO has officially announced the launch of HBO Go, a video-streaming service. Unless you are one of the 38 million cable subscribers who gets HBO or sister service Cinemax, HBO Go won’t be offered to you, the company has said. HBO Go provides subscribers Web access to the same movies HBO screens on [...]
Google may have reached the limits of what it can learn from dog food. Ask almost any technology company what products and services they use within their own organizations, and most will enthusiastically admit to “dog-fooding” their own products. It’s both a show of support for their own technology and an opportunity to test those [...]