Twitter acquires data firm Smallthought Systems

From CNET News.com: Twitter announced Thursday that it has acquired Smallthought Systems, a data company that it has worked with in the past. Smallthought has manufactured a product called Dabble DB that Twitter had used internally, and a newer one called Trendly that parses Google...

T-Mobile Next to Get the iPhone?

From PC World: Just when the annual iPhone-on-Verizon rumors were starting to calm down, a new batch of rumors has started, this time claiming that the iPhone may come to T-Mobile, instead.

Shaw Wu, an analyst with the investment firm Kaufman Bros, is telling investors that the...

AT&T Web site exposes data of 114,000 iPad users

From CNET News.com: A group of hackers exploited a hole in an AT&T Web site to get e-mail addresses of about 114,000 iPad users, including what appears to be top officials in government, finance, media, technology, and military.

The leak could have affected all iPad 3G subscribers...

Cisco Unveils New Small Biz Storage Line

From CRN: Cisco is expanding its small business storage offering with a new line of storage appliances that give its networking partners a new way to potentially increase profits.

Cisco's new NSS 300 series of appliances are targeted at small businesses with fewer than 100...

Grandis: STT-RAM to replace DRAM, flash

From EETimes: Grandis Inc.--a developer of spin transfer torque random access memory (STT-RAM) technology--has updated its product roadmap with some ambitious efforts in mind: It hopes to replace DRAM, and eventually, NAND, with its next-generation MRAM.

But the company’s roadmap...

Microsoft hopes Dallas project will become 'iTunes for data'

From InfoWorld: With its Dallas project, Microsoft seems to be exploring the idea of becoming a data broker. At the Tech Ed conference this week in New Orleans, the company discussed how its planned data broker service might operate.

"Dallas is a broker for discovering information...

Foxconn to Cease Building Towns Around Its Factories

From X-bit Labs: Foxconn Electronics, the world’s largest contract maker of various computer and consumer electronics products, said it would revise its manufacturing model considerably. The company would raise payments to its employees following an array of suicides among workers...

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