Twitter at a crossroads once again

From CNET News.com: Twitter acknowledged Tuesday that "from a site stability and service outage perspective, it's been (the company's) worst month since last October." It's a big embarrassment for a company that, over the past year or two, has managed to clean up its reputation for...

Apple Releases OS X 10.6.4 Update

From DailyTech: Yesterday was a big day for Apple. It announced a new Mac mini complete with an $100 higher price tag which is leaving many bewildered and pre-orders started for the iPhone 4.

However, there was one other bit of news from the Apple camp yesterday that slipped under...

Starbucks brewing up free Wi-Fi at all store

From CNET News.com: Starbucks is stirring up a few changes to its Wi-Fi access that should make Web-surfing coffee drinkers happy.

Starting July 1, the coffee brewer said it will launch free Wi-Fi access throughout all of its stores nationwide, with no special registration or...

RIM Fights to Retain or Regain BlackBerry Relevance

From PC World: Research in Motion (RIM)--makers of all things BlackBerry--is reportedly developing a new, more iPhone-like BlackBerry smartphone, as well as working on a BlackBerry OS tablet to compete with the Apple iPad, and the rest of the tablet onslaught. The BlackBerry product...

Firefox 4 upgrade ideas start becoming reality

From CNET News.com: Mozilla released a new Firefox 4 prototype late Monday that builds in support for Google's WebM video technology and several other changes planned for the open-source Web browser's next major version.

With WebM, Google hopes to liberate Web video from patent...

OCZ Launches Deneva Family of Enterprise Solid-State Drives

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, a popular supplier of memory modules and solid-state drives (SSDs), on Monday unveiled the Deneva-series of SSDs that target enterprise market. The new solid-state drives feature SandForce's 1500 controllers as well as with MLL, eMLC or SLC...

HP Acquires Yet Another Operating System Specialist

From X-bit Labs: Just weeks after Hewlett-Packard announced plans to acquire Palm in order to get webOS operating system (OS) and other intellectual property, the company said it would also take over HyperSpace OS-related technologies from Phoenix Technologies. Even though HP is...

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