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Today in Tech: Apple WWDC revisited
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* Yesterday at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), Apple covered a number of new product announcements: details on OSX Lion's new features, July release and $29 price tag, a look at some of the 200 new features in iOS5 including an updated notification system, and finally, iCloud, an MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 7, 2011 6:52 AM ET -
Amazon's cloud nightmare
The 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 ETPosted in: Amazon EC2, Amazon.com, Booz Allen Hamilton, cloud computing, Foursquare, Michael Hussey, New York Times, PeekYou -
A-Google-a-Day quiz includes a helpful tool
The introduction of the Google game also adds a search tool to the Googler's arsenal.
Yesterday, Google (GOOG) introduced "A Google A Day" –a game that produces a question a day and encourages users to solve the puzzle using Google's search engine. I'm not a crossword puzzle type but I imagine some people find this interesting. Obviously, it encourages people to use Google's search engine -which is clearly beneficial to Google both in MORE
Seth Weintraub - Apr 12, 2011 10:38 AM ETPosted in: Crossword, Google, New York Times, Search, Search Engines, Trivia, Web search engine, Web search query -
Today in Tech: Lady Gaga gives to Zynga, Apple delaying iPhone 5?
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Lady Gaga donated $1.5 million to Zynga's fundraising initiative with Save the Children to support relief efforts in Japan. (The donation comes not long after Zynga raised more than $2.5 million, as well.) "I'm inspired that my little monsters banded together to help those affected by the terrible MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 29, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: American Red Cross, Apple, AT&T, Charles McKee, Facebook, Google, iPhone, iPhone 5, Lady Gaga, Mobile, New York Times, RealNetworks, Sprint Nextel, VentureBeat, Zynga -
Today in Tech: Silicon Valley hiring perks, are we in a tech bubble?
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"50% of Tweets consumed are generated by just 20K elite users" - Yahoo research
California added 100,000 new jobs in February, thanks in large part to Silicon Valley. In fact, no time may be better than now to work in Bay Area tech thanks to escalating salaries, bonuses, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 28, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: All Things Digital, Instagram, iPad, iPhone, Mark Zuckerberg, New York Times, Silicon Valley, TechCrunch -
Today in Tech: AT&T buys T-Mobile, Android Kindle?
A curated selection of the weekend's newsworthy tech stories from all around the Web. Read on, and join the conversation with a comment below.
"We learned that you can't rely on anyone else to control and maintain your own brand."
-- Groupon CEO Andrew Mason on its controversial Super Bowl ad. (Ad Age)AT&T plans to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion, a deal that would make the former the largest mobile MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 21, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: Amazon, Android, AT&T, Bloomberg Businessweek, Facebook, Farmville, Google, Kevin Spacey, Kindle, Mobile, Netflix, New York Times, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, TechCrunch, Todd Bradley, WiMAX, Zynga -
Steve Jobs and ... Owsley Stanley?
A New York Times op-ed piece strains to make a connection
It's true that John Markoff's What the Dormouse Said (Penguin, 2005) quotes Steve Jobs as saying that taking LSD was "one of the two or three most important things he has done in his life."
And it's true that Augustus Owsley Stanley III, who died in a car accident last Sunday in Australia at age 76, manufactured and sold more than MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 19, 2011 6:40 AM ETPosted in: John Markoff, LSD, Lysergic acid diethylamide, New York Times, Owsley Stanley, Steve Jobs -
Today in Tech: Why I hate Verizon's iPhone, Yahoo selling Delicious
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Jonathan Geller of Boy Genius Report documents his tortured experience switching from AT&T's iPhone to Verizon's. Now before readers accuse Geller of being anti-Big Red, bear in mind he's been dreaming about the Verizon iPhone for the last three years. But the reality of his situation kicked MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 18, 2011 5:00 AM ET -
Inside the iPad 2 gray market
By Sunday, the new tablets were selling in China for up to 105% over their sticker price
The staff manning the huge crowd that mobbed Apple's (AAPL) Fifth Avenue Store Friday estimate that as many as half the iPads sold that day were being bought for re-sale overseas.
It's a familiar pattern. In September, the New York Times ran an investigative report detailing how Chinese customers were lining up to buy pairs MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 14, 2011 8:02 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Gray market, Hong Kong, iPad, iPad 2, iPhone, Los Angeles, M.I.C Gadget, New York Times, San Francisco, Tablets -
Today in Tech: Is this the iPhone 5?
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Let's kick off the new week with a new iPhone 5 rumor... An alleged leak from China reveals engineering sketches of Apple's next-generation smartphone which will be used to make case and bumper accessories. On first glance, you'll notice it pretty much resembles the iPhone 4, but MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 14, 2011 7:20 AM ET
