MySpace News Corp Has Finally Had It: Accepting Bids for Myspace The death knells of the first generation of social media platforms continue. A day after Friendster announced that it would be deleting photos and blog posts from its platform, reports surface that News Corp is selling off Myspace and is starting the bidding at $100 million. News Corp bought the one-time social media titan in 2005 for $580 million… Social Dan Rowinski View comments
Cloud Computing Engine Yard Takes a Risk with New Service - Averts the Historic Amazon Web Services Outage Engine Yard is coming out with new custom services today that played a pretty important role in helping its customers avoid the now historic Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage last week. It was 1 a.m. PST on April 21 when the first notifications started surfacing that there was a problem with the AWS East region out of northern Virginia. Engine… Alex Williams View comments
News Usablenet Launches HTML5 Mobile Platform for Brands Today, Usablenet has launched Usablenet Mobile 2.0, an HTML5 mobile platform targeted towards brands. The new platform brings a rich app-like user experience, says the company, while also allowing its customers to leverage HTML5 technology in order to build cross-device solutions. Currently the platform supports all major mobile operating… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
Android LiveCode Extends Its Development Platform to Android LiveCode, an alternative tool for developing mobile apps designed for those who don't want to use Objective-C, C++ or Java, has now extended its development environment from iOS to now include Android. This platform lets developers create apps using one code base for multiple platforms, including mobile, desktop and Web, while still taking… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
Apple Apple Finally Responds to iPhone Location Tracking Issue It's been a week since data scientists Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden published their discovery that the iPhone has been keeping track of users' locations and storing the data - unencrypted - on the phone as well as any machine with which you sync the device. Although the news spread like wildfire, Apple has remained silent until now. The company… Audrey Watters View comments