Justin Bieber, took his 18th birthday as an opportunity to rally up his fans on Twitter and ask them to donate t to the charity: 'Water.' In doing so his fans topped the Guinness World Record for the number of tweets sent out within 24 hours, according to Mashable
Janus Capital Group cut the pay of its chief executive sharply last year and put new compensation guidelines in place after it lost a shareholder Say on Pay vote, the Denver asset manager said in a proxy filing on Thursday.
AT&T Inc has standardized rules for subscribers with unlimited data service plans after a public outcry about its practice of slowing down speeds for its heaviest users, but the change also drew sharp criticism.
Global developer, marketer, distributor and publisher of interactive entertainment software 2K Games has announced the release date for the highly anticipated video game BioShock Infinite. The first person shoot will be available on Oct. 16 2012 in the U.S for PlayStation 3, XBOX 360 and PCs, and will be released internationally three days later.
Yesterday brand pages were given the option to switch to Facebook’s new Timeline format. But on March 30th, the switch may become mandatory, according to SlashGear.
The Google YouTube team announced a brand new series, Versus, which will invite celebrities to debate different global issues. The debates will be streamed from YouTube. Versus will be part of a collaborative venture with Intelligence Squared, the self-described world's premier forum for debate and intelligent discussion. Real-time voting on the channel will allow debaters to delve more deeply into arguments that are resonating with viewers.
After going head to head with the iPhone 4S, the Samsung Galaxy S2 was crowned the Best Smartphone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Thursday.
When Jack Dorsey isn't busy speaking at conferences about the growing influence of the popular micro-blogging website Twitter, he's hocking his latest venture, Square. Square is an electronic payment service that lets people charge credit cards from their phones. It requires a small attachment (shaped like a square, of course), and an internet connection.
The American Revolution isn’t just for history nerds and classroom textbooks. Gaming franchise “Assassin’s Creed” is setting its third installment during the Revolutionary War, according to Kotaku. Jumping from the Middle East to Italy, the widespread video game is now making its way to America.
Today is the day that Google consolidates 60 of its 70 privacy, which will allow user account information to be exchanged between its products. All of the enterprise software Google owns--Gmail, Google Docs, etc.--along with all of the entertainment properties the company owns--YouTube, Google Plus, etc.--will begin exchanging information between each other. Here's five easy steps you can take to save your internet privacy.
You've certainly seen the Twitter logo of a blue bird, but did you know it has a name? And better yet, do you know who it is named after?
Michael Woodford, the ousted Olympus chief executive who blew the whistle on one of Japan's most high-profile frauds, vowed he would hold his former employer to account as he kicked off his legal battle for wrongful dismissal in London on Thursday.
U.S. police can search a cell phone for its number without having a warrant, according to a federal appeals court ruling.
Shares of Research In Motion dropped nearly 5 percent on Thursday after an influential analyst said RIM would likely warn that it came up short on BlackBerry shipments this quarter and offer an even bleaker outlook for its flagship smartphone.
With just one week to go until the Apple event that is expected to unveil the highly anticipated iPad 3, SkyBet has launched a novelty bet for rumors, specs and features surrounding the next generation tablet.
Two of the biggest names in the technology world, Apple and Microsoft, are cluttering the Internet with hype surrounding their upcoming releases. Apple’s iPad 3 is said to be available on March 7th, and Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 8 just launched their consumer preview yesterday. Although the two manufacturers’ operating systems usually cater to a different crowd, their target audiences may be intertwining.
Boulder, Colorado-based Gnip Inc and DataSift Inc, based in the U.K. and San Francisco, are licensed by Twitter to analyze archived tweets and basic information about users, like geographic location. DataSift announced this week that it will release Twitter data in packages that will encompass the last two years of activity for its customers to mine, while Gnip can go back only 30 days.
Microsoft's Azure cloud service has stabilized and is running more smoothly after suffering from a series of outages on Wednesday, PC World reported.
We all know that Apple will unveil the iPad 3 at an event in San Francisco on March 7. We even know about its release date, features, specs, price and more thanks to the Internet - well speculation at least, as Apple has not confirmed rumors nor the name of the newest tablet. But the latest rumor surrounding the next generation iPad is that the iPad Mini is being manufactured for 2012, as well.
Boulder, Colorado-based Gnip Inc and DataSift Inc, based in the U.K. and San Francisco, are licensed by Twitter to analyze archived tweets and basic information about users, like geographic location. DataSift announced this week that it will release Twitter data in packages that will encompass the last two years of activity for its customers to mine, while Gnip can go back only 30 days.
Boulder, Colorado-based Gnip Inc and DataSift Inc, based in the U.K. and San Francisco, are licensed by Twitter to analyze archived tweets and basic information about users, like geographic location. DataSift announced this week that it will release Twitter data in packages that will encompass the last two years of activity for its customers to mine, while Gnip can go back only 30 days.
A British ethics group has launched a debate on the ethical dilemmas posed by new technologies that tap into the brain and could bring super-human strength, highly enhanced concentration or thought-controlled weaponry.
Cisco Systems Inc's attempt to convince a European court to impose tougher conditions on Microsoft Corp's acquisition of Skype signals that technology companies are gearing up to battle for control of what some say is the next big thing: videoconferencing.
Microsoft Corp released an incomplete version of Windows 8 for the public to download and try out on Wednesday, looking to rev up excitement for the slick, new-look operating system that it hopes will restore its fading tech supremacy.
Facebook Timeline has generated quite a bit of buzz around the Internet community, with users constantly questioning when the update will become mandatory. The now-public company just rolled out its big switch for brand pages, upholding the claim made by executives earlier in the month.
Raspberry Pi--the miniature $35-dollar computer--went on sale today, crashing distributors' websites and selling out within hours of launch. Raspberry Pi developers aim to encourage children how to control and program computers. At such a cheap price, the founders hope that they'd be able to supply schools and also hobbyists with a base-level computer that they can then tinker around with.
Although Mass Effect 3 will be released worldwide on March 6, 2010, British gamers who preordered the new title at GAME, a chain of videogame stores based on England, have decided not to stock the new game, or any other EA title aside from the new SSX snowboarding game. Eurogamer.net broke the news after receiving an internal memo intended to be read by GAME employees, which explained the motives behind GAME's decision and offered instructions on how to break the unpleasant news to customers ...
The iPad 3 and ASUS TF700 Transformer Prime are two of the most anticipated tablets of the year, but which one is worth the wait?
Universal Display Corp shares fell 11 percent on Wednesday, after the LED supplier warned payments from a new contract with Samsung Electronics may not come in a steady stream, raising concerns about its over dependence on the Korean company.
Apple announced that it is expected to release its newest device, the iPad 3, a week from today. The new gadget has sparked a lot of chatter from the tech community, from its missing start button to its Retina display. However, there are speculations that the newest Apple craze may not actually be available for sale on March 7, according to ComputerWorld.
