From CNET: Facebook wants to publish news articles and other content from sites like The New York Times and National Geographic directly on the social network. And in return, it's offering to let those third-party publishers keep all the revenue from some of the ads associated with their content...
Do we create faster interfaces because of faster devices, or do we have faster devices because of faster interfaces? For questions like these, it is easy to dwindle down to a circular argument like the technological equivalent of the chicken and the egg, but we can always take a look at history. Back in 2010, we have reviewed the OCZ Vertex 2 60GB, an SSD I claimed to be "one sizzling fast piece of storage device for $100". By 2015 standards...
Have you ever put a lot of effort into creating something, only to have someone else come by and say, "Hey, this already exists!" This is commonly phrased as reinventing the wheel, and refers to a duplication of a method or an object that has already been created or optimized by others. For example, if I told people I was in the middle of inventing a portable power source, which could be recharged and reused just by plugging it into an outlet...
From InfoWorld: Something big is up in the cloud. Google's Senior Vice President for Technical Infrastructure Urs Hölzle says in five years you will barely be able to recognize what today's cloud looks like.
Here's the example Hölzle gives: Think about what a "smart" phone looked like in 2007...
From PC World: Mozilla is planning to gradually favor HTTPS (HTTP Secure) connections over non-secure HTTP connections by making some new features on its Firefox browser available only to secured sites.
The browser developer decided after a discussion on its community mailing list that it will set...
From CNET: The Sony Xperia Z3 smartphone has made its return to T-Mobile about a month after it unceremoniously dropped off store shelves.
Customers looking to buy Sony's flagship smartphone can find it once again through T-Mobile for no money down and 24 monthly installments of $20.83 -- or for...
From CNET: Controversial music-streaming service Grooveshark shuttered its service Thursday after settling a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the major recording labels.
Escape Media, the parent company of Grooveshark, agreed to cease operations and surrender ownership of its website, mobile...
From InfoWorld: Amazon has acquired ClusterK, a developer of software that helps companies run mission-critical applications on spare cloud compute capacity sold by Amazon Web Services.
A spokeswoman for AWS confirmed the acquisition, but did not provide further details.
Spot instances are spare...
From PC World: Apple Watch production has been hampered by defective components from a supplier, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Taptic engines produced by one supplier, AAC Technologies, in Shenzhen, China, began to fail reliability tests after Apple ramped up watch production in...
From CNET: Qualcomm, the world's biggest maker of chips for mobile devices, is under a lot of pressure from its competitors these days.
It's seen its Snapdragon processor replaced by a Samsung-made chip in Samsung's flagship Galaxy S6 phones -- a switch that's costing Qualcomm hundreds of millions...
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