Back when he looked human, a wise man once said you gotta know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em. MySpace has taken this lesson to heart and announced it’s no longer going to try and compete head-to-head with Facebook. It’s giving up all illusions of being a general-purpose social network and focusing [...]
Facebook has introduced another new product to keep its 500 million user base engaged — Friendship Pages, a new element to a Facebook page that displays content and connections shared between two friends. The page may contain photos in which they’ve both been tagged, wall posts, comments exchanged, events to which they’ve both RSVP’d, mutual [...]
Samsung is reported to be working on the Google Nexus Two smartphone that will run Gingerbread, the latest version of the Android operating system. The buzz is that Samsung will unveil the phone at a press conference it called for Nov.8. However, Samsung’s website indicates it will debut the Focus, a Windows Phone 7 handset, [...]
Samsung is reported to be working on the Google Nexus Two smartphone that will run Gingerbread, the latest version of the Android operating system. The buzz is that Samsung will unveil the phone at a press conference it called for Nov.8. However, Samsung’s website indicates it will debut the Focus, a Windows Phone 7 handset, [...]
There is no doubt that the complexity of managing IT continues to grow. Transaction volumes are ever-growing, applications are interwoven with Web services, and workers are adopting the newest mobile devices-du-jour. The impact of social media and the Web continues to vex IT security managers. Then there’s the case of enterprise software, which runs the [...]
China has unveiled the world’s fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, at a high-performance computing conference in Beijing. The Tianhe-1A has a Linpack benchmark performance of 2.507 petaflops, according to Nvidia, whose Tesla M2050 graphics processing units were used in the supercomputer. Linpack is a software library for performing numerical linear algebra on computers written to test [...]
The drive to IPv6, the newer Internet communications protocol, appears to be driven by major networking vendors. Their contention is that we’re running out of IPv4 network addresses. They’ve got the Obama administration behind them, and the White House is pushing to have all federal departments and agencies enable the use of native IPv6 by [...]
iPhones and iPods are notoriously picky eaters when it comes to feeding them video files. They’ll chow down on movies and TV shows downloaded directly from iTunes, of course. But if you want to use the iPod app to view any other video from any other source, you may have to run it through a [...]
Myspace announced a site redesign Wednesday as it attempts to cement its position as an entertainment niche in social networking and stem the flow of users to the exit door. The News Corp. unit is seeking to become the online destination for “social entertainment” — a place where Gen Y’rs can share music and videos, [...]
Barnes & Noble took a big swipe at Amazon’s dominance of the e-reader market with the introduction Wednesday of a new color Nook reader and a program to encourage development of apps for its devices. The $249 Nookcolor is designed to appeal to readers interested in periodicals and graphic books as well as traditional text-dominated [...]