Twitter Eclipses 12,000 Tweets Per Second During Super Bowl
Your tweet near the end of Super Bowl XLVI may have very well been lost amid a sea of other tweets, as Twitter has revealed that 12,233 tweets per second churned through its system "at the end of the game" last night.  |
Verizon Teams Up with Redbox to Go After Netflix
It's a looming square-off of Shakespearean proportions: Smartphone colossus Verizon is buddying up with movie-rental-kiosk outfit Redbox to take the fight to streaming giant Netflix.  |
FBI Hacked While Congress Ponders Cybersecurity Legislation
At a rare open hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified that threats from cyber-espionage and cyber-attacks will surpass terrorism as the number one threat facing the United States. Not three days later, hackers released a recording of an intercepted call between FBI agents and their U.K. counterparts investigating the Anonymous and LulzSec collectives.  |
Google Unveils New ‘Solve for X’ Project
Google unveils a new project it describes as "a forum to encourage and amplify technology-based moonshot thinking and teamwork" to tackle everything from cancer to climate change.
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Are Apps More Crash-Prone on iOS than Android?
I can't say I've seen a single app crash on my iPhone 4 since I upgraded to iOS 5 last October, but a new study from app-monitoring outfit Crittercism found that apps running on Apple's newest mobile platform for iPhones, iPads and its iPod Touch media players is presently more prone to app crashes than Google's Android.  |
BitTorrent Index BTjunkie Bites the Dust
BTjunkie.org, a popular site that indexed BitTorrent files for all kinds of legal and illegal content, is waving a white flag.  |
Why Technology and Innovation Are Critical to America’s Future
Technology will only become more integrated into our lives and, most importantly, as an essential part of America's infrastructure.  |
Love Gone Wrong? Go Digital to Get Over an Ex
You thought you found your one true love online, but now you've been dumped by text or defriended on Facebook without a peep of explanation. Hours of bad TV in your bathrobe haven't helped. Your friends are tired of your whining. Forget a pampering makeover to help heal your broken heart this Valentine's Day. Go for a "digital breakover" instead.  |
Latest Samsung Galaxy S III Rumors: Ultrathin Design, May Release Date
Following in the footsteps of its predecessors, Samsung's Galaxy S III is rumored to be one of the world's thinnest smartphones when it launches in May.  |
Facebook to Start Running Mobile Ads as Early as March
After revealing that half of its 850 million users log in to its mobile products, Facebook is reportedly planning to start running mobile ads as early as March.  |
