There are few things that really capture the imagination as future-tech, and one of them is 3D communications. The ability to be in two places at once, with the aid of a 3D projection, evokes images from Star Wars but...
The US Open is a celebration of international tennis prowess, luxury brand integrations and fan enthusiasm that seems to go off without a hitch every year. But behind the scenes, IBM has helped run the show since 1990, and...
The 75 tonnes of CO2 generated from the server farm hosting Enel websites will be offset by voluntary emissions reduction in south-eastern China.
Starting from this year Enel websites will be CO2 neutral, this being a unique case among...
Digital subscription platform Press+, which helps publishers add metered paywalls to their websites, launched a new tool on Wednesday that aims to help monetize video.
Unlike the Press+ article meter, which lets publishers specify a certain number of stories that...
The Syrian Electronic Army is a group of hackers who support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Earlier this month, the Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Washington Post's site, where for a brief time visitors were redirected to the organization's page....
Facebook, for the first time, has detailed how many user data requests it receives from each country. And since Twitter does the same thing, we can compare the two rivals by a curious but revealing metric: how much governments...
Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite Wi-Fi is out of stock, suggesting that new models may be on the way.
It’s been about a year since Amazon launched the front-lit Kindle Paperwhite, and the company plans to introduce new tablets this fall, so...
Facebook will nearly triple its share of global mobile advertising in 2013 compared to 2012, according to research firm eMarketer. They forecast that Facebook will have about 15.8 percent of the total global ad market, ahead of Pandora, Twitter and...
Uber, a service that lets you hail cabs from your smartphone, might be the hottest start-up in the country right now after receiving a massive new investment from Google Ventures. The company is transforming the urban transportation economy but, in...
While the PC still leads digital video viewing in China by a wide margin, mobile views have been taking an increasing share of the total. China’s digital video audience is substantial, and users spend a considerable amount of time...
Mark Zuckerberg has big plans for the future of the Internet, and the old-fashioned dial tone has a role to play — at least metaphorically
In an interview with Wired published Monday, the Facebook CEO talked at length about his...
LinkedIn is going through a massive transformation as it becomes a B2B content publishing platform. According to a new eMarketer report, this creates significant new marketing opportunities for B2Bs, but there is still the question of how successful LinkedIn...
You just got married (congratulations!), and want to see all of the wonderful wedding photos that were captured while you were busy saying "I do." Well, you no longer need to visit the Facebook pages of each attendee to...
In case you didn't know already, everything you say or do on the Internet can be held against you. This especially holds true for politicians, whose deleted tweets live on forever in the Politwoops archives
The Dutch project, now funded...
Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories Facebook is starting to roll out its newest feature, shared photo albums. A white Xbox One surfaced on Reddit, but it's only available for Microsoft's employees. Finally, Apple may launch an...
What role does social media have in protecting its users from questionable content? Utilizing the Instagram API and popular hashtag lists, The Data Pack uncovered a large NSFW list of hashtags banned from the platform’s search. They range from...
Pillsbury Toaster Strudel — the store-bought pastry filled with everything from apple to cream cheese — didn't have a social presence until three weeks ago. Now on Facebook and Twitter, the brand is bringing attention to its social network...
Instagram has just made its first acquisition, buying both the team and technology of Y Combinator company Luma (formerly known as Midnox). Luma created a video-capture, stabilization and sharing app, which will be shut down soon. In fact, one...
Readers had a lot to say when Facebook refused to reward the hacker who broke into Mark Zuckerberg's Timeline to report a bug
Some were enraged, complaining it was unfair for the hacker, Khalil Shreateh, to walk away empty-handed after doing...
Since Marissa Mayer took over as Yahoo's CEO last summer, the portal has been making all kinds of headlines pertaining to its future potential. But last week it made news for topping Google as the web publisher with the...
