There are reports today which indicate Yahoo has sold social media bookmarking service Delicious for $5 million plus. As we should all remember, the service was put on the blocks back in December. Afterwards there was a lively bidding process and it appears the bidding is over. No confirmation from Yahoo nor Delicious yet. More…
Mozilla has officially entered the world of Web application. Web Apps are applications that run on any device, and can be distributed through any store or directly by the developer. Here is a video showing what is to come.
WordPress.com was hit today with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. WordPress stated it was the largest in its history. Because of the attack, a number of blogs, including those which are part of its VIP service suffered connectivity issues. Matt Mullenweg said in an email to CNET, “the attack had affected three of the…
WordPress.org has just released WordPress version 3.0.4, which it is referring to as a critical security update.
The update was created, after XSS vulnerabilities were pointed out by WordPress users.
Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft has refiled his lawsuit against a number of Internet giants, including; Apple, Facebook, Google and AOL etc.
The original lawsuit was rejected, when it was determined that Allen’s action was too vague. It is based around a number of what Allen believes are infringements relating to…
So, Yahoo’s saviour Carol Bartz has has hit the headlines again this week.
Following some poorly handled announcements, it seems that Yahoo Buzz and delicious.com are being axed, scaled back or sold (depending on which announcement you heard.)
Yesterday, when Twitter’s Ev Williams, announced he was moving from the role of Twitter CEO to focus on product development, hundreds of almost duplicate posts were written across all the major tech news blogs. They basically all wrote the same post: They listed the announcement, quoted from Williams’ post and that’s pretty-much it! That’s because…
If you stopped using one of your main social media platforms for a couple of weeks, how many people would notice? Ten, twenty – Maybe a hundred? OK, what if you were Leo Laporte, one of the best known and most respected people in your field with hundreds of thousands of followers and fans?
The answer might surprise you!
Ask any Google Wave user and they will confirm that Wave is a very useful tool for working in collaboration on projects. It’s powerful, fast and has a host of superb features. So, why did Google announce yesterday that they were ceasing development of Google Wave?
The simple answer from Google, was that “we have not seen the level of adoption we would have liked.” In other words, it attracted very few regular users…
Natali Del Conte, one of our fave tech journalists, has just announced that she has given birth to a healthy and handsome baby boy.
Natali is host of Loaded; CNET’s popular daily tectnology newscast. The former techcrunch journalist and regular contributor to the CBS Early Show, made her announcement in true geek fashion, via…
