Seattle fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites
At least two dozen sites experience protracted outage following Thursday night electrical fire at Fisher Plaza data center. Verizon's Seattle-area DSL service also gets temporarily disrupted. ...
CallWave Delists From NASDAQ; Fuze Meeting Rises From The Ashes
It's not easy to launch a successful WebEx competitor. Most businesses have long since established their "system" for dealing wit ...How would you change the Palm Pre?
You knew it was on deck, and at long last, here it is. Your one and only shot (okay, so maybe that's a gentle stretch) to tell the world -- and Comments ...
What Did Shaq Just Tweet? A New Web Site Knows
With more athletes using Twitter, Facebook and personal blogs, one Web site is trying to provide a centralized place for fans to keep up with the increasing amount of content.
...Tech blog titan Michael Arrington's next big thing: Hardware (Patrick Hoge/bizjournals)
— In four years, Michael Arrington has gone from knowing relatively little about the Internet or journalism to presiding over the hugely popular, influential and profitable Palo Alto-based TechCrunch network of blogs. ...
MonoSpace Conference Announced
Scott was one of the founders of the Alt.Net series of conferences. ...
Yahoo enables twittering via Flickr
Yahoo has released a feature that lets people Webware ...
Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data: The Pirate Bay Lives On | To
Responses have been overwhelmingly negative to the news that The Pirate Bay will soon be sold to Global Gaming Factory. But what if there is a method to the apparent Pirate Bay madness — one that, as Peter Sunde has hinted, could actually be good f ...
Fluendo DVD Player for Linux
Fluendo S.A., the popular software company that offers audio and video codecs for various Linux distributions, such as Mandriva, proudly announced yesterday evening (July 2nd) the immediate availability of a new solution to legally play DVD-Video dis ...
Will the Java Platform Create The World's Largest App Store?
This creates opportunity for everyone in the developer community - and specifically, for any developer (even those not using Java/JavaFX) seeking to reach beyond the browser to create a durable relationship with their customers (and btw, don' ...
SpareFoot [Video]
Last week we had a chance to speak with Chuck Gordon, the CEO at SpareFoot.com. The website is the rental marketplace for extra space. They’ve also made some cool improvements to the website recently, so check it out and turn your spare garage ...
UK Police Told To Use Wikipedia When Preparing For Court
Half-pint HAL tips news of UK prosecution lawyers who are instructing police to study information on Wikipedia when preparing to give expert testimony in court. "Mike Finn, a weaponry specialist and expert witness in more than 100 cases, told industr ...
techfile 3.07.09
FriendFeed accelerated the move towards truly real-time search engines, with the introduction of real-time, constantly updating search results. As companies including Twitter, Facebook, Google and even Microsoft jockey to capture the audience for rea ...
Jérémie Laval: GSoC: the now and the next
Chess-like parallel correctness checker. .
...Goodbye Trac
I moved my ticketing system to lighthouse. It just doesn’t make sense anymore to maintain my own system on this server. ...
VirtualBox 3.0: Oracle Wants VMWare's Market and VirtualBox Makes Rapid Progress
Sun recently merged with Oracle, but they bought out some virtual machine software like Virtual Iron, Xen, etc to combine over four virtualzation technologies into VirtualBox. ...