Twitter chooses NYSE
The reports from last week that turned out to be false about Twitter going to the NYSE as TWTR came through into reality this week. It's official. Twitter has amended...
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The Windows Phone back button is here to stay for now
If ever there was a more controversial button on a phone, we haven't heard of it. Recent rumors suggest that Microsoft may be planning to kill off the back button in...
Path drops 20% of employees
On the corporate scale, 20% is a lot of people. With a company like path, it's 13. Still, it's significant. Dave Morin's social networking app Path laid off 13 employees...
Intel hitting a ton of tablets next month
The processor that once dominated the segment completely is making its way back into the top spot with a batch of tablets carrying their chips next month. Intel's recently introduced...
Next Mac Pro team forming
It's really a question about the next generation of computers and speculation is that the 1,700 people just hired by Flextronics will be make it happen with Apple. The Austin...
Gaming college still going strong after a quarter of a century
If you really want to learn how to build video games, the first gaming college in North America just hit a nice milestone. In my teenage years, I knew with...
Smartwatch 2 will have 4 days of battery life on one charge
The first batch of smartwatches are barely out to market and the next round is already on their way out. This new batch has a nice feature - super-long battery...
Siri to hit Chevrolets and make interaction “eye-free”
Hands-free is so 2010. Now, you don't even have to look at your screen to get information you need from you cars, at least as soon as Chevy gets their...
Flickr bumps picture sizes up 25%
When Flickr first started showing photographs, there was a challenge with bandwidth. 3G wasn't really a thing at the time, let alone 4G, so images had to be able to...
GoDaddy buys MediaTemple
A few years ago, Media Temple was the darling of the social media world with the claims of being able to withstand a "Digg front page". With Digg all but...
Now, anyone can spam your Twitter direct message box if you let them
There was a time when the friendship had to be mutual in order to send and receive a direct message on Twitter. Those days are behind us if you opt...
Yahoo finally catches up on SSL encryption for email
Yahoo is excited to announce that their email is going to be on a secure https URL... four years after Gmail did it. Beginning Jan. 8, Yahoo will enable encryption...
The death of link rot
Over time, important research, findings, and even laws rely on links on the internet that simply cease to exist. There's a plan in motion to stop that from happening. Imagine...
Google smartwatch is coming
Sony and Samsung have one. Apple and Microsoft have some in the works. Google, of course, won't be left in the dust. The Google smartwatch is coming. I recently heard...
The scale of the NSA’s email collections
Is the National Security Agency targeting thousands? Are they collecting tens, even hundreds of thousands of emails around the world? How about millions? The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds...
Xbox One wants to be the Twitter of gaming
We need more social networks about as much as we need more politicians, but that's not stopping Microsoft from taking their upcoming game platform and applying some "Twitterness" to it....
“Nothing to worry about here” – BlackBerry
Don't listen to the news reports. Don't listen to the rumors. Don't pay attention to the layoffs, the cutbacks, the trends, or anything that has to do with numbers. BlackBerry...
Netflix gets in bed with Sony
No, there's no buyout in the works. However, in the entertainment world, the deals are important even if they're only for production purposes. Stalwart Sony and resilient Netflix have worked...
Snapchat may give your posts to the authorities
Nothing is safe. If it's online, on your mobile device, or in any way attached to technology, pretend like you can be implicated by it even if you're not breaking...
10 things that should be in the iPhone 6
The majority of online wish lists that pertain to technology are often far-reaching, rarely practical, and usually involve a flying car or a hoverboard. This particular list was actually pretty...