I Am A President -- Obamamania Shuts Down Reddit
In another social-media first, President Barack Obama took to Reddit today to become the first sitting head of state to moderate the…
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Wed, 29 August 2012
Thu, 31 May 2012
Microsoft Offers Windows 8 Release Preview as an Upgrade
The worst-kept secret in Microsoft’s history may well lead to a surprise anyway. This afternoon, the company made available a program that…
Sun, 26 February 2012
Wikileaks Lets Loose "Global Intelligence Files" from Stratfor Emails
Early Monday morning (GMT), Wikileaks started publishing the first of "more than five million emails" from Strafor. The company, a…
Fri, 27 January 2012
Facebook Could be the Largest Tech IPO in History
People familiar with the matter say that Facebook could file for its initial public offering as soon as next week, according to reports from…
Sat, 14 January 2012
White House Strangles SOPA, Citing Censorship, Security Concerns
In a statement on behalf of the Obama administration this morning, a trio of senior officials including the nation's Chief Technology…
Fri, 13 January 2012
Lamar Smith Countermoves, Will Remove Court Order Provision from SOPA
In a move that could enable some form of anti-piracy legislation to pass this Congressional term, Rep. Lamar Smith (R - Texas), principal…
Thu, 12 January 2012
Leahy Recommends Setting Aside Controversial PIPA Court Provision
In a statement from his office Thursday evening, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D - Vt.), who co-authored the current version of the PROTECT-IP bill…
Mon, 2 January 2012
Fake Wendi Deng's Twitter Account
Rupert Murdoch joined Twitter last week. So did his wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch. "Joining my husband @rupertmurdoch in our new digital…
Tue, 20 December 2011
Facebook Sponsored Stories In Your News Feed
Facebook has confirmed that in early 2012 users will start seeing sponsored stories in the news feed. A Facebook spokesperson tells us…
Tue, 6 December 2011
Flipboard Launches iPhone App
For iPad owners, the personalized, socially-curated digital magazine Flipboard is one of the absolute must-install apps for the device…
Wed, 2 November 2011
Amazon Sets Up Lending Library for Amazon Prime Kindle Owners
Today the world's biggest bookseller is opening up shop as a lending library. That's right, Amazon is getting into the book lending…
Tue, 4 October 2011
iOS 5 Coming October 12
The next version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 5, will be available for download in just over one week, Apple announced…
Fri, 23 September 2011
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Gmail Goes Down [Breaking]
Well, something is wrong with Gmail. Around 11:29 a.m. Pacific time, users started reporting a Gmail outage for both regular Gmail and…
Wed, 21 September 2011
Pandora Launches HTML5 Redesign
Pandora, the customized Internet radio streaming service, has pushed out a redesigned interface to all users. The new UI comes with an…
Tue, 20 September 2011
Wikileaks Takes Down the Head of Al Jazeera
Wadah Khanfar, the director of Al Jazeera, announced his resignation today after Wikileaks released documents that could prove embarassing…
Instagram Launches Version 2.0
Instagram, the beloved photo-sharing app for iPhone users, has launched its biggest overhaul yet. Version 2.0, which is now available in…
Tue, 6 September 2011
Yahoo CEO Bartz Fired
Carol Bartz, who replaced Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang as the company's CEO in January 2009, has been let go by the company, according to…
Fri, 2 September 2011
Amazon to Launch Tablet in November
As widely expected, Amazon will indeed be launching an Android-based tablet device before the end of this year. Rather than a launching a…
Thu, 1 September 2011
Netflix Set to Lose Starz Content
Netflix learned today that it may lose a significant source of its content when Starz Entertainment announced it would not renew its…
Wed, 31 August 2011
U.S. Sues to Block AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
AT&T's plans to acquire T-Mobile recieved a setback today when the U.S. Justice Department filed an antitrust complaint requesting that…
Tue, 30 August 2011
Twitter Outage Affects Replies
Engineers at Twitter are busy plugging away at the microblogging service's latest outage, which appears to be preventing many users from…
Zite Acquired By CNN
Personalized iPad magazine application Zite has confirmed that it has been acquired by CNN. The sales price is rumored to be in the $20 to…
Thu, 25 August 2011
CmdrTaco Steps Down as Editor of Slashdot
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda has announced his resignation as editor-in-chief of Slashdot after 14 years and over 15,000 stories posted. In his…
Tue, 9 August 2011
London Police to Arrest Tweeting Looters
London's Metropolitan police told reporters they were delving into Twitter and other social media as part of their investigation into…
