The news this week about firing Carol Bartz, Yahoo's CEO, made us go into the Wayback Machine to recall the many good things that Yahoo has created over its life. While there are many that are lining up to take shots at the Yahoos (certainly justified, including this mention of...
With mobile tech, Siemens helps torture a new generation, this time in Bahrain. Siemens was instrumental in bringing the Nazis to power and keeping them there as they murdered millions of Jews, along with Gypsies, trade unionists, leftists, homosexuals and others. Serving as one of its engines of genocide, Siemens...
"You are what you do, that's the philosophy of Mightybell," says Gina Bianchini, the former CEO of sprawling, Andreesen-backed network of social networks Ning, about her new startup Mightybell, which launches today. "We've spent the last 5 years calling success the number of friends, fans and followers we've accumlated -...
There is a lot more to IPv6 than just a lot more addresses, including redesigned protocols, better routing, security improvements and finally getting rid of Network Address Translation. In this sponsored brief, How to Prepare for IPv6 Networking by Ed Tittel and Jeff Carrell, they dive into the nuts and...
Google must really want Hulu. As it fields bids from potential future owners, the premium video content site is reportedly seeing the most generous offer come from Google, reports AllThingsD. Google joins Yahoo, Amazon and the Dish Network in bidding on the company, but is apparently going above and beyond...
Of people who own smartphones in the United States, 55% use the device for some kind of location-specific task, according to a study published today by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. In total, 23% of all American adults use location services on their phones or via social media...
It's been a crazy conference week with VMworld and Dreamforce '11 going on at the same time. News from those shows have been all over ReadWriteWeb's channels this week, like the VMware vFabric Data Director announcement, and CloudStack going 100% open source.We also looked at storing Salesforce data locally, and...
Siemens was instrumental in bringing the Nazis to power and keeping them there as they murdered millions of Jews, along with Gypsies, trade unionists, leftists, homosexuals and others. Serving as one of its engines of genocide, Siemens provided the German Reich with, among other things, slave labor factories located next...
It's time for the US Open tennis tournament and inside the players' lounge, there's an ominous sign posted by the event's Tennis Integrity Unit warning of the dangers posed by Twitter.Snapped quickly and posted online by CNBC sports business reporter Darren Rovell, the posted sign and policy are an amusing...
Kevin Kelly wrote a thought-provoking post about how "the impossible" is happening more often nowadays, thanks in no small part to large scale collaboration over the Internet. In other words, the hive mind. He cites eBay and Wikipedia as two examples of things he would've thought impossible in decades past.Collaboration...
Once upon a time, before the word Internet (or cloud) put dollar signs in VC eyes, sites were built with static tools. All a good Webmaster needed was a text editor and a Web server – maybe a few images and blink tags if they were feeling fancy.These days, most...
Facebook changed its privacy policy and sharing options last week to make it easier for users to customize how they share their information. It is a process that has been in the works for most of 201, after Facebook proposed a simpler format for its privacy policy in February. Now,...
Exactly what will end up being the very final, last word on the subject of Mozilla Firefox's expedited release system, may yet be seen. Yesterday, however, the Mozilla Foundation's chairperson, Mitchell Baker, weighed in with what appears to be an attempt at finality, albeit a dualistic one. On the one...
In 2009, security company Symantec noticed a particularly complex malware code infecting users' computers. At first the company did not think much of it outside of the fact that is was unusually complicated. The company wrote detection and repair codes for it. Once detected, malware usually shrivels and dies. Yet,...
For the first time ever, 50% of all American adults are using social networking sites, according to new data from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Of active Internet users in particular, 65% are social networking users, a number that continues to climb. To put things in perspective, only...
Yesterday, Steve Jobs officially stepped down as CEO of Apple. Today, the Linux kernel turns 20. That makes it as good a time as any to look back and assess – which has shaped computing, and the world, more? Linus Torvalds' "hobby OS," or Steve Jobs?This might seem like an...
Jumping on the app store bandwagon, Skype has launched a directory of third party applications that can be added to the Internet telephony service. Most of the apps are geared toward businesses users, while a few are for personal use. The directory features just under 25 apps, whose functionality includes...
Well, this week marks the tenth anniversary of identity-based message encryption with more than a billion secure messages being exchanged annually, according to Voltage, one of the leaders in this space.This is certainly a surprise. Who knew so many messages were being encrypted? Have you gotten an encrypted email in...
Social networking behemoth Facebook reached 1 trillion pageviews in June, according to new data. Facebook is the most-visited website on the Internet, according to data compiled by the ad network DoubleClick, a subsidiary of Google. In June 2011, Facebook received about 870 million unique visitors, a figure that exceeds the...
Our friends at Only Gizmos have got their lucky little paws on the Samsung N100 MeeGo Netbook. Here is their Review: Although it is the first netbook in the country to be running MeeGo, Samsung has not exactly been going to town talking about the N100 (NP-N100-MA011N). In...
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