WASHINGTON – Facebook on Friday begins rolling out its biggest ever shake-up, in a move observers say will not only profoundly alter how its 800 million users interact with the site, but will keep them coming back for decades to come. The new “Timeline,” revealed last week by chief executive Mark Zuckerberg will also likely [...]
The planet closest to the Sun had plenty of its own heat to release billions of years ago and erupted in vast river-like volcanoes that oozed around its northern pole, said a study out Thursday.
WASHINGTON—People around the world are happiest in the morning, according to a US study on Thursday that analyzed hundreds of millions of messages on the microblogging site Twitter. Cornell University sociologists used language software to detect the presence of positive words in 509 million tweets from 2.4 million users in 84 different countries over a [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—YouTube service stumbled on Thursday, leaving some visitors frustrated that they couldn’t watch videos at the popular website. “We know some of you are having trouble watching YouTube videos,” the Google-owned online video venue said in a message fired off on Twitter. “Our engineers are working on it; we’ll let you know when things [...]
NEW YORK—Amazon, maker of the popular Kindle electronic book reader, unveiled a tablet computer, the Kindle Fire, on Wednesday in a challenge to Apple’s market-leading iPad. The Kindle Fire, which has a seven-inch (17.78-centimeter) screen, smaller than the iPad’s 9.7 inches (24.6 cm), will cost $199 and be available on November 15, the US online [...]
If the Universe was born in quark soup and the Moon is made of green cheese, it’s only logical that there should be a star named after a cholesterol hazard.
Tumblr on Monday announced a fresh round of funding that poured $85 million into the fast-growing online service for sharing pictures, videos, written musings and other digital snippets.
Zynga on Monday added its most popular title — CityVille — to games that can be played at the Google+ social network recently launched in a challenge to Facebook.
SYDNEY—American computer giant Apple claimed on Monday that Samsung Electronics’ latest tablet computer infringes on patents relating to touch screen technology. Lawyers for Apple addressed the Federal Court after the firm launched legal action against the South Korean company last month, accusing it of intellectual property infringements with the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. Apple is [...]
Chip maker AMD has come out with its own ultra-low voltage (ULV) processor called “Brazos” to challenge Intel’s stranglehold on this segment. Similar to Intel’s Atom processors, AMD’s Brazos features microarchitecture technology, dual cores and thermals (or TDP) of 9 to 18 watts—features that serve to lengthen the battery life of the netbook and enhance [...]
More and more Filipinos have switched to the Internet browser Chrome, widening Google’s lead over Mozilla Firefox in the race to win over users. Just three years since it was launched, the Google Chrome browser emerged as the top choice for more Filipino users, according to data for the month of August recently made public [...]
Homegrown software firm Morphlabs Inc. is poised for massive growth in the Asia-Pacific region after receiving an infusion of $5 million in capital from several foreign investment funds earlier this month. In a recent briefing, the company said the region’s bright economic prospects, combined with the relatively low adoption of state-of-the-art corporate information technology services, [...]
For this writer who started working with a monochrome cathode ray tube computer monitor—also known as the green screen—a color CRT device would be a welcome replacement even though it soon could become obsolete itself due to advancements in display technology. Devices that utilize light emitting diodes and liquid crystal displays are based on LCD [...]
