The local Fox TV affiliate finally sent a camera crew to the site
Screengrab: Fox News @ Ten
Did someone declare April to be National Visit Your Data Center Month and forget to send us the memo?
First there was Robert Scoble's breathless photo tour of Facebook's new facilities in Prineville, Oregon. Then Google's (GOOG) scary video about the security surrounding its Goose Creek, S.C., server farm, where it scans employees' eyeballs MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 23, 2011 7:07 AM ET
Find out how much your Mac knows about where your iOS devices have been
Map generated by iPhone Tracker
The map at right shows, for anyone who cares, where my iPhone has traveled in the Northeast since last June.
Apple (AAPL) has been getting a lot of heat this week for gathering this intelligence of potential forensic interest and storing it in unencrypted form whenever its mobile devices are synced with a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 22, 2011 11:01 AM ETThe exact feature that was supposed to be Amazon EC2's strength -- reliability -- is what failed and brought the cloud low yesterday. Still, cloud computing isn't going anywhere.
By Dan Mitchell, contributor
FORTUNE -- The snafu at Amazon's EC2 hosting service on Thursday, which knocked several big web sites out of service, is being called a "black eye" for the cloud-computing business -- a "we told you so" moment, according to MORE
Apr 22, 2011 10:24 AM ET
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HootSuite, a third-party Twitter app, was just one of the companies affected by Amazon's EC2 crash.
Amazon's EC2 cloud service crashed and continues to be problematic for some companies and services that rely on it. Affected businesses included Foursquare, Quora, HootSuite, SCVNGR, and Reddit, the last of which is still in MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Apr 22, 2011 8:45 AM ET
An IHS iSuppli report is full of juicy details Apple left out of its quarterly earnings call
Photo: REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach
When asked last during Wednesday's earnings call why Apple (AAPL) sold fewer than 4.7 million iPads last quarter -- roughly 1.6 million less than Wall Street expected -- COO Tim Cook ducked the question.
"I can tell you that I'm extremely pleased with the progress of the manufacturing ramp," he replied. "And MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 22, 2011 8:28 AM ET
The move comes a week after it was charged with "slavishly" copying the iPhone and iPad
Image: Mobilzer
In a classic legal tit-for-tat, Samsung announced Friday that it had filed patent infringement suits against Apple (AAPL) in South Korea, Japan and Germany.
A week earlier it had been sued by Apple in a California federal court for violating a broad range of Apple's intellectual property rights. According to that suit, Samsung's Galaxy MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 22, 2011 7:04 AM ET
The online company is saying goodbye to consumers and hello to big (paying) companies.
At a time when the hottest tech giants (Apple (AAPL)) and startups (Zynga) are focused on serving consumers, social-media company Ning is going in the opposite direction: It's largely abandoning individuals in favor of corporate customers such as publishing houses and nonprofit organizations. Even more surprising: The company is charging money for a service it once gave MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Apr 22, 2011 5:00 AM ET
There's no going back.
Top: My old Sidekick 3 circa 2007. Bottom: T-Moblie Sidekick 4G from Samsung
I'm sure somewhere deep inside of Google (GOOG) headquarters, Android head Andy Rubin has been checking out the new Sidekick 4G by Samsung. Rubin, of course, headed the Danger outfit that designed the original Sidekick before they were purchased and destroyed by Microsoft in 2005. Today, after ridding itself of Microsoft's Sidekick, T-Mobile is MORE
Seth Weintraub - Apr 21, 2011 12:45 PM ET
Most professional analysts blew it in Q2, but you wouldn't know it from their post-mortems
The distribution of pro (blue) vs. amateur (green) EPS estimates. Source: Alexis Cabot. Click to enlarge.
Horace Dediu, who writes a blog called Asymco and was featured in this space last fall for the uncanny accuracy of his Apple (AAPL) earnings estimates, was beating himself up Thursday morning for missing the company's Q2 2011 iPad unit MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 21, 2011 12:15 PM ET
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President Obama at yesterdays Facebook Town Hall. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP
President Obama sat down with Mark Zuckerberg for Facebook's Town Hall yesterday, weighing in on everything from the economic recovery to immigration and Medicare. When it came to technology, he reiterated the need for more engineers and programmers. "I MORE
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