Death is a part of life, both on and offline. Facebook and MySpace become gathering spaces for the living to mourn their fallen friends. What kind of language do people use to express their grief?A new study out of the University of California at Irvine's School of Information and Computer...
Waiting for a Google Plus invite? Google is rolling out the service in waves and you can expect it to become a ubiquitous social option in the coming months. We have been playing with the service since getting invites yesterday and there are a lot of things to like about...
Tomorrow, Microsoft will push out a huge update to its XBox Live platform, adding a host of new content options, including both Web-based video and live broadcast TV. It marks a significant step in the device's evolution from a gaming console to an all-in-one entertainment hub, which Microsoft hopes will...
For a company whose secondary logo is the word "Software" with a big slash through it, Salesforce.com may have already become the nation's leading producer of software conferences for businesses. A huge crowd has assembled at the Jacob Javits Center in New York to hear Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff deliver...
It may not be an independent source of data about Windows, but Microsoft's system of telemetry for tracking the causes of system failures, is orders of magnitude more sensitive than anything else in the field. A report released by Microsoft this morning reveals that what would have been a record...
An experimental startup inside of Yahoo called Sled is undergoing a name change and being open sourced, instead of being shut down all together, the company announced this morning. Open standards community leader Eran Hammer-Lahav led the effort to build what launched as a community list building service with an...
Yesterday's VMware announcements were all about the data center and the global cloud ecosystem. Today the announcements are more end-user focused. Today the company took the wraps off VMware View 5 and updates to VMware Horizon.Aside from a scenic theme to the announcements, what's going on with View and Horizon?...
The most significant difficulty facing very large SQL databases today is that they simply aren't scalable when their table sizes approach the billions of records. So while many of the world's SQL databases, using Oracle, MySQL, or SQL Server, still perform appreciably well even for large businesses, the rise of...
Waiting for a Google Plus invite? Google is rolling out the service in waves and you can expect it to become a ubiquitous social option in the coming months. We have been playing with the service since getting invites yesterday and there are a lot of things to like about...
I have now been using Windows Phone 7, Microsoft's new mobile operating system, for exactly a week, having temporarily set aside my beloved Android-based Nexus S in the process. To really test a smartphone, and determine what the end user experience is like, I don't like to play around with...
Word of mouth is an incredibly powerful marketing tool, but how do you work out which customers are most important in spreading your message? Services like PeerIndex or Klout help you find experts and influencers in particular communities, but can't measure what people have actually done for your business. The...
Word of mouth is an incredibly powerful marketing tool, but how do you work out which customers are most important in spreading your message? Services like PeerIndex or Klout help you find experts and influencers in particular communities, but can't measure what people have actually done for your business. The...
CouchOne, the sponsor company of CouchDB, and Membase, the sponsor company of Membase Server and Memcached, are merging to create a new company called Couchbase. The company will continue to contribute to the CouchDB, Membase and Memcached projects, but will also create a new open source project called Couchbase.Membase CEO...
Let's say you've got a whole pile of free-form text content and you want to determine what geographic locations are discussed in it. And let's say you want to do that while you're rushing to respond to a catastrophic earthquake. What would you do?Disaster response network Ushahidi has been using...
When you talk about vibrant West Coast startup scenes, obviously Silicon Valley dominates the conversation. Then there's Seattle, of course. And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Portland too. But just north of the border, the entrepreneurs in Vancouver, British Columbia insist that their city should be viewed alongside...
When you talk about vibrant West Coast startup scenes, obviously Silicon Valley dominates the conversation. Then there's Seattle, of course. And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Portland too. But just north of the border, the entrepreneurs in Vancouver, British Columbia insist that their city should be viewed alongside...
Facebook announced this weekend that it would begin offering third-party applications and websites a way to request that users share their "current address and mobile phone number." Simple enough, right? While Facebook says that the move is intended to make it easier for users to take their information with them...
Internet of Things (IoT) is a term for when everyday ordinary objects are connected to the Internet via microchips. The technologies include sensors, RFID and smartphone standards like NFC. The use cases are still evolving, but over 2010 we saw large organizations like HP and IBM build out impressive platforms...
The internet is a big place and a lot happens on it every day. We try to cover the things we find most interesting, but in case you disagree with our judgement, here are some other things that smart people might want to know about today. We offer each with...
Hulu Plus, the premium version of online video hub Hulu, has now opened its doors to all interested users, according to a post this morning on the company's corporate blog. Says Rob Wong, Director of Product for Hulu, users no longer need an invitation to sign up for Hulu Plus....
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