Source The highly anticipated Google Compute Engine has finally been made available to the public after a lengthy beta testing period. Google’s announcement is likely to spark increased competition from established cloud platform competitors like Amazon Web Services and IBM. Looking to establish a foothold in the market is no easy feat, but Google has […]
Apple, Microsoft, Google and others ask for less NSA snooping
Apple, Microsoft, Google and others ask for less NSA snooping (via The Inquirer) MANY OF THE WORLD’S largest information technology firms have written an open letter to the US government asking for surveillance reform. Firms that have put their names to the letter are Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Apple, and…
Henry Blodget opens up about his “colossal mistake” as a writer
Henry Blodget opens up about his “colossal mistake” as a writer (via Pando Daily) By David Holmes On November 14, 2013Business Insider founder Henry Blodget was our guest at tonight’s PandoMonthly, and it wasn’t long before the topic of his “Why Do People Hate Jews?” post came up. Blodget asked the question in earnest, but…
Donation Appeal For Typhoon Haiyan Relief Efforts
Over the weekend the Philippines was hit by a type 5 typhoon, the largest ever to make landfall there. The UN says that more than 11 million people have been displaced with around 600,000 now homeless, the death toll as of yesterday stands at around 1,700 to 2,500. The BBC’s George Alagiah yesterday flew over […]
Social Media Bill
Social Media Bill (via Repost Video News) The state legislature is looking to make it illegal for an employer to ask for your social media password
This is Your Digital Life
This is Your Digital Life (via slashdot) By 2015, Americans’ ability to access digital media at home and on mobile devices will raise the average volume of media consumed to the equivalent of nine DVDs worth of data per person, per day – not including whatever media they consume at work…
Google Launches Helpouts to Connect You With Experts
Google Launches Helpouts to Connect You With Experts (via NewsLook) Video News by NewsLook Google launched Helpouts Monday to bring you closer to the experts in a given field. Pay to view lessons on cooking, exercise and more.
Facebook Wants to Track You Better
Facebook Wants to Track You Better (via slashdot) Facebook wants to peer a little deeper into how you spend your time on a PC or mobile device. According to a new report in The Wall Street Journal, the company could begin siphoning up data related to how long a user keeps the Facebook newsfeed visible…
Buffer hack sees users posting Facebook and Twitter spam
Buffer hack sees users posting Facebook and Twitter spam (via The Inquirer) ANOTHER DAY, another social media hacking, this time at Buffer, the cross-platform social media aggregator that disperses status updates and shares at regular intervals. On Saturday users started to find that spam was being posted in their Facebook…
Twitter Looks to Kill Its #Music Application
Twitter Looks to Kill Its #Music Application (via BestTechie) After releasing some pretty decent updates to its iOS application adding much needed social sharing functionality and releasing an all new version of the application for Spotify’s growing app ecosystem, AllThingsD has now learned that Twitter will…