Analysis Time & People Have Most Twitter Followers Folio Magazine, the trade journal of print magazine editorial and publishing managers, put out an interesting list of the pubs with the greatest number of Twitter followers, and how their follower lists have changed since the beginning of the year. Not surprisingly Time and People lead the list, both with more than two million followers apiece. The… David Strom View comments
Browsers News360 Launches Browser Plugin Today, personalized news app News360 made another leap from tablets and smartphones to the desktop. A new browser plugin called Periscope brings some of the service's news aggregation features to bigger screens and helps readers get deeper context and perspective on news stories. The plugin, which is now available for Chrome, Firefox and Safari… John Paul Titlow View comments
Amazon Is Amazon Producing a Smartphone? Citigroup's research department reports that Amazon will introduce a smartphone in Q4 2012. This will push Amazon futher into the mobile market. The phone will go for an estimated $150-$170. Sources say it will run Android, but Amazon will still have to pay an "OS royalty" to Microsoft, which "claims that more than half of Android devices are… Alicia Eler View comments
Announcements A "Carrier Cloud" - Alcatel-Lucent's Bid to Compete with Amazon While cloud architectures do have significant advantages in improving resource utilization and reducing costs, historically they've had two substantive drawbacks: First, they tend to reduce administrators' visibility. Second, the reliability of service cannot easily be guaranteed, especially for customers whose operations demand near-perpetual… Scott M. Fulton View comments
Facebook Will You Make Facebook Calls in Skype? Users can now make Facebook-to-Facebook calls within Skype. This new feature is available for Mac users with Skype 5.4 Beta and Windows users with Skype 5.7 Beta. If users chat one-on-one, they'll be able to share screens. This new announcement is the inverse of the initial Facebook deal with Skype back in July, which let Facebook users make… Social Alicia Eler View comments