Twitter performance problems have brought heaps of scorn from the busy Web 2.0 digerati. That has prompted the company to disclose more technical details like today’s Q and A format blog.
We have some limits, and we’re adding more. Legitimate users should never notice them, but these new limits should help mitigate the worst case failures [...]
Additionally, the service comes in two flavors, a free and premium version. Both let you work on any size document, and with up to seven collaborators’ edits; however the free one puts a watermark on the finished product that says “not for commercial use.” The paid version–which costs $99 per user, per year–adds live customer [...]
Scores of YouTube users post unauthorized clips on YouTube every day, but YouTube has always claimed to be an Internet service provider, just like Craigslist or eBay, thereby protected from liability under copyright law, or more specifically, the DMCA’s Safe Harbor provision.
The truth about YouTube’s ad sales is that the company has always been [...]
So while extolling stretch goals for a two year old is probably a good idea, let’s keep it within the realm of possibility, and not just make grandiose statements for media effect. Now if Al Gore’s silly challenge on renewable energy was simply a trojan horse to get people talking about how to move forward [...]
Executives blame the shift in expectations on a weakening global economy and a reluctance to engage in a price war with certain competitors. Even though the company expects to increase device sales volume by 10 percent or more this year, Nokia executives say that consumer confidence has been shaken and prices are falling. The company [...]
Details on the physics behind how the thallium-doped lead telluride was developed can be found in the journal Science.
Heremans’ group has also more than doubled the efficiency rating with which the previously most efficient thermoelectric material could convert heat into electricity, from 0.71 to 1.5.
The group, led by Joseph Heremans, Ohio Eminent Scholar in Nanotechnology [...]
“We aimed to go for a lower common denominator,” Lees said. Microsoft was also limited by the origins of Windows Mobile, which was developed to power handheld computers that neither connected to a network nor handled voice.
“Our competitors are scrambling to try and copy our success,” he said.
But Lees acknowledged the company also needs to [...]
David Carey, president of Protelligent, a company that specializes in taking apart electronics piece by piece, took the stage with the electric-blue electric guitar and a variety of tools. Starting at the bottom of the instrument and working his way up the strings to the head, Carey explained how there’s actually nothing robotic about the [...]
Thursday, Piper Jaffray downgraded the stock from “buy” to “neutral.”
On Wednesday, Salesforce announced it was acquiring InStranet, a Chicago-based maker of call-center software, for around $31.5 million. Salesforce plans to use InStranet’s technology both internally, and as a new software-as-a-service offering expected to launch within 18 months.
The stock slip came despite a strong second quarter. [...]
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From a security education perspective, it is a really bad idea to have such a form on the official IRS Web site. The IRS should not be training users (via positive reinforcement) to enter their full Social Security numbers into Web sites. It is bad enough that credit cards and banks require us to [...]
