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  • As Greece Collapses, Gunmen Set Fire to Microsoft
    Three attackers drove a van through the front of Microsoft's offices just north of Athens on Wednesday, marched out security guards at gunpoint, and tried to burn the building to the ground.
    14 hours ago
  • Nexus Q, Nexus 7: Google Puts Personal Cloud in 'Play'
    Google doubled down on the consumer cloud on Wednesday at Google I/O, where it unveiled the expected Nexus 7 tablet and the unexpetced Nexus Q, which connects the new Google tablet and other Android smartphones to your TV.
    15 hours ago
  • Nexus Q Aims to Be the Center of Your Living Room
    The Google I/O conference officially kicked off with the keynote this morning. They introduced the Nexus 7 tablet - already leaked before the conference, but they also introduced a Nexus something new. The Nexus Q aims to build on the connected entertainment environment. It's a tool designed to allow you and your friends to control your home music and movie experience.
    16 hours ago
  • Facebook Future-Proofs Data Center With Revamped Network
    When Facebook started work on its new data center in Forest City, North Carolina, the idea was to create pretty much an exact copy of the new-age facility the company had just built on the high-desert of central Oregon. But somewhere along the way, it decided this was a poor idea -- not because the Oregon facility was deficient in any way, but because Facebook's network traffic had changed in a big way and, as is always the case in the internet world, more changes were on the horizon.
    06.26.12
  • Should Google, Amazon Control New Domains?
    There is a bit of a real-world land grab going on, but perhaps more alarming than precious real-world real estate sought by service providers is the virtual land grab that is best summed up by Google wanting exclusive rights to .blog and Amazon wanting .book. As Ryan Singel writes this month at Wired.com's Threat Post, in ...
    06.26.12
  • Look Out, Lock-In: CliQr Delivers Cloud App Freedom
    With development fast and furious around cloud ecosystems and certain application programming interfaces (APIs), worry about lock-in has mounted. Now, the Google-backed startup CliQr has launched CloudCenter, which it says allows cloud applications to be moved easily between providers.
    06.26.12
  • Lego Build With Chrome Wins the Internet
    If you've got kids or just really like Lego - that pretty much includes everyone, right? Use your Chrome browser to navigate to Build with Chrome and start grabbing a piece of virtual Australia or New Zealand. The rest of the globe will still have to wait.
    06.26.12
  • How a Nexus Tablet From Google Could Dampen Amazon's Fire
    Google's rumored Nexus tablet is expected to debut this week at the Google I/O developers conference. If it does, it'll face stiff competition from Amazon, Apple and Microsoft. But there is a way it can compete: killer specs at a rock-bottom price.
    06.26.12
  • Women in Technology: Get With the Picture
    As a woman in technology, I hear a lot about the lack of women in the field. While I was in college I noticed that I was usually the only female in the class. My teachers treated me the same and the guys never cared. After I graduated and I started attending events like Microsoft¿s annual Tech Ed, I realized just how much of a minority we are. The thing that keeps catching my attention, though, is how much of an issue people want to make out of it.
    06.26.12
  • And the Winner of the Next Social Networking Jackpot Is...
    The $1.2 billion purchase of Yammer by Microsoft is only the latest acquisition in a string of similar deals. Earlier this month, Salesforce.com spent $689 million to buy Buddy Media, which makes Facebook tools for interacting with customers. Oracle last month bought Virtue, which helps companies coordinate social network posts, for $300 million. And analysts expect acquisitions of "Facebook for business" plays to continue.
    06.26.12
  • Google Maps Won't Be Off iOS for Long, Exec Confirms
    Apple may have eliminated one more tie to its biggest competitor in iOS 6, but that won't keep Google or its Maps app off the iOS platform. Google executive Jeff Huber confirmed in a comment on a Google+ post that the company has big things in store for Maps on iOS.
    06.25.12
  • Google Preps Cloud for New War on Microsoft, Amazon
    In recent years, Google's "infinite infrastructure" has inspired much of the tech world to move in a similar direction. Several companies -- including Amazon, Microsoft, and Rackspace -- have introduced "cloud services" that offer the world this sort of scalable infrastructure via the internet. But Google isn't content to merely inspire. It wants to compete.
    06.25.12
  • Microsoft Pays $1.2B for Corporate Facebook Mimic
    Microsoft has agreed to purchase Yammer, a San Francisco startup that offers a Facebook-like social network designed specifically for businesses. The acquisition had long been rumored, but on Monday, Microsoft confirmed that it had agreed to purchase the San Francisco startup for $1.2 billion in cash.
    06.25.12
  • WiFi Security and Monitoring Via DropCam
    There are a number of baby monitoring systems out there, but many of them have a matching hand-held viewing device or only allow for viewing on a home PC that's on the same network as the camera. Many of these systems are also over-priced (IMO) and seem to take advantage of nervous parents wanting all the bells and whistles. I've looked at a lot of different setups and it wasn't until CES 2012 that I found a great solution -- Dropcam HD.
    06.25.12


 

 

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