The world's largest Internet retailer Amazon.com is known for many things besides shopping - Kindle eBook readers, for example, or its cloud computing infrastructure known as Amazon Web Services - but Amazon as a movie studio? That one seemed to come out of left field, didn't it?Well, it's true -...
It's prediction season on the Internet, and today's dose of futurism comes from security firm Imperva. The company just released its Security Trends for 2011 paper. Among other things, Imperva predicts consolidation of the cyber-crime industry, convergence in international privacy and data security laws, and more state-sponsored cyber-attacks targeted at...
How do people use web apps in this new, device-saturated era of the Web? In Part 3 of our interview with Evernote CEO Phil Libin, we look at the usage patterns of its users. One interesting data point is that 80% of Evernote users say they use the product both...
CouchOne, the sponsor company of, CouchDB no longer considers itself "NoSQL" company. "For our part, we'll let others chase the 'NoSQ' thing," Mikeal Rogers wrote on the CouchOne blog. No, CouchDB isn't adding structured query language anytime soon. It's more a matter of semantics. Since the term was coined, various...
In Part 1 of our interview with Evernote CEO Phil Libin, we explored the history of Evernote - including its link to the Apple Newton. In Part 2, we look ahead to the future of Evernote. The company has ambitious plans to be your secondary brain. Literally. As Libin told...
A week ago, Google made changes to its Terms of Service that effectively blocked Facebook from importing a user's data from Google without offering reciprocity. Ever since, the two companies have duked it out in public, with public statements, comments on blog posts and even a warning that Facebook would...
We've covered recently how overwhelmed knowledge workers feel by information. A new survey reveals that c-level executives are no exception to the rule. And yet, executives are always craving more data. The survey, commissioned by Avanade (an Accenture subsidiary dedicated specifically to Microsoft technology) and conducted by Kelton Research, had...
Here at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco, Nokia Siemmens Networks CTO Hossein Moiin kicked off the event with a keynote speech focused on the future of the mobile industry. It's a fitting start to a conference dedicated to all things mobile, and, as Moiin says, this "open mobile...
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 made its debut in the U.S. today. We got a chance to give the company's new mobile operating system a spin over the last few days. Even though we have a few minor issues with it, Windows Phone 7 (WP7) is a welcome and much-needed reboot...
The author of the web's first worm-virus, teamed with a man who dresses as a medieval warrior and goes to battle on the weekends and a woman who follows World of Warcraft, acupuncture and ballet, have raised $24 million dollars to storm the gates of the Google Castle. They got...
Most "quizzes" that purport to tell us what kind of person we are disappoint, reduce or mislead. How much moreso then Facebook quizzes? But there is one Facebook quiz that seems to actually work. It's the Autism Spectrum Quotient Test. Autism, a disorder that affects communication and social skills, has...
Google's mobile operating system known as Android was officially unveiled on November 5th, 2007, making today Android's 3rd birthday. It's fair to say that this mobile platform has taken the world by storm - in just a few years time, it's gone from a non-dominant player in the mobile OS...
Pew Internet & American Life Project is out with its first report on the use of "geosocial" services - that is, mobile location-based services that allow users to "check in" to a particular venue and see which of their friends are nearby. According to the researchers' findings, only 4% of...
Google has been obsessed with speeding up the web for quite a while now. The company's most recent efforts towards this goal include Google Instant for speeding up search, the Page Speed tool for developers and webmasters and the more low-level SPDY protocol which augments the HTTP standard.Today, Google is...
AT&T is tracking Twitter updates to aid in its understanding of network failures and glitches, according to a new report from MIT's Technology Review this morning. Using software developed internally by its own researchers, the telecom is listening for user complaints on the social network, and then extracting the tweet's...
Much of the Internet buzz surrounding today's midterm elections in the U.S. revolves around voter participation and how social media may or may not impact turnout. But the increasing use of Web 2.0 and social media tools also impacts politicians and government employees as well. Many federal agencies have worked...
Facebook, the largest online social network in the world, will put a call to hit the polls at the top of millions of users' Facebook pages tomorrow and will attempt to help them find the nearest polling station.Facebook told press today that the company will provide an official app on...
In cars, computers have migrated from the engine compartment to the dash. One of the leaders in that movement is Ford. Its MyFord Touch Ford system has meshed an unprecedented number of bells and whistles into the driving environment of the motorist. The first car to be completely outfitted with...
Microsoft is holding its Professional Developer Conference (PDC) on its Redmond, WA campus this week. The event kicks off with a two-hour keynote hosted by the company's CEO Steve Ballmer and Bob Muglia, Microsoft's president of its server and tools division. Microsoft generally holds these events when it wants to...
The Google Chrome Web Store, an open marketplace for Web applications set to launch sometime this year within Google's Chrome Web browser, has been delayed. Originally believed to be launching this month, a new report finds that the store is not going to arrive until later this year - the...
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