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Facebook smartphone could come by next year: report

Facebook hopes to release its own smartphone by next year, as the newly public social networking giant looks to boost its revenue in the mobile Internet market, the New York Times reported Monday.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 8

How Twitter broke its biggest story, #WeGotBinLaden

Nearly a year after U.S. Special Forces killed Osama bin Laden, the events of May 1, 2011 remain one of the busiest traffic periods in Twitter history. More than 5,000 tweets were sent per second when Twitter became the first ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Facebook to make stock debut on NASDAQ: report

Facebook has picked the technology-heavy NASDAQ exchange for a much-anticipated stock market debut expected next month, according to unconfirmed reports Thursday.

Technology / Business

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Responding to the radiation threat

Berkeley Lab researchers are developing a promising treatment for safely decontaminating humans exposed to radioactive actinides from a major radiation exposure event, such as a nuclear reactor accident or ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Study twitter-maps new world order

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of tweets spreading news from The New York Times finds that the Internet, while creating an open line of communication across continents, may at the same time be strengthening walls that separate ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Internet pioneers oppose US online piracy bills

The founders of Craigslist, eBay, Google, Twitter, Yahoo! and other Internet giants expressed concern to the US Congress on Wednesday over legislation intended to crack down on online piracy.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (19) | comments 10

NYTimes unveils “beta620” - Experimental Projects page

The New York Times (online version) has unveiled a website it has apparently been working on for quite some time; an experimental projects page, called Beta620, designed to allow users/customers to test-drive apps that the paper is c ...

Technology / Internet

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Free vs. fee: Push is under way to collect for Internet content

The axiom about free lunches got tossed out by the Internet. Web downloads have delivered all manner of no-pay music, news, movies and software. Years of trying to put them behind a cash register have mostly failed.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Wall Street Journal launches WikiLeaks rival

The Wall Street Journal launched a WikiLeaks rival called "SafeHouse" on Thursday, calling for online submissions to help uncover fraud and abuse in business and politics.

Technology / Internet

created May 05, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 11

Google opens online shop for Chrome applications

Google on Tuesday opened an online shop stocked with applications tailored for its increasingly popular Chrome Web browsing software.

Technology / Software

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Murdoch to limit Google, Microsoft access to News Corp. papers

News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday that Google and Microsoft's access to his newspapers could be limited to a "headline or a sentence or two" once he erects a pay wall around his titles' websites.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 14

New York Times to ask Web readers to pay up in '11

(AP) -- The New York Times plans to charge readers for full access to its Web site next year, reviving an idea that fizzled twice for the newspaper. This time it's betting that it will be able to wring more ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 20, 2010 | popularity 1.2 / 5 (5) | comments 12

Facebook creates dual-class structure, but no IPO

(AP) -- Facebook has created a dual-class stock structure designed to give founder Mark Zuckerberg and other existing shareholders control over the company.

Technology / Business

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Newspaper sites draw 36 percent of Web audience in June

Newspaper Web sites attracted 70.3 million unique visitors in June, representing about 36 percent of all Internet users, according to a new Nielsen Online study commissioned by an industry trade group.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Google dropped idea of buying newspaper: CEO

Google considered buying a newspaper but dropped the idea, the head of the Internet search giant said in an interview with the Financial Times.

Technology / Internet

created May 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0