If you're still kicking back on your sofa and passively watching TV, you may be missing out. Thanks to a growing assortment of "second-screen" apps that run on tablets and smart phones, you can now engage with other viewers, almost like ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, APP
Gozaik , a free social web application for recent graduates and young professional job seekers that allows users to produce multimedia, mosaic-style resumes for Twitter, launches in Beta today. The platform makes all jobs tweeted searchable ...
Tags: Gozaik, Consumer Electronics, web, service, twitter
That's right. Today, Thursday March 21st, fans around the world will attempt to mimic the 'object-subject-verb' dialect of the popular Jedi Master. And to mark the event, Re:creation is celebrating with a Star Wars Yoda Key Light ...
Tags: Toys
Pictures of the Twitter wall at the 2012 Lighting Design Awards 2012 It’s now less than one week to go until the 2013 Lighting Design Awards and the team at Lighting have been busy preparing for the event. The comic is booked, the ...
Tags: LDAs, Ben Cronin, Lighting
As 115 Roman Catholic cardinals meet behind closed doors in the Sistine Chapel to choose a new pope, the historic tradition has focused a lot of attention on modern technology. During the papal conclave, which lasts until two thirds, or ...
Tags: Vatican, smartphones, Twitter
At 2:46 Monday afternoon, Japan went quiet. In memory of the lives lost two years ago in the earthquake that struck at that hour and the tsunamis that followed, a moment of silence was held across the country. From government buildings to ...
Tags: Quake, Japan, Connecting Online
VMware is reportedly preparing a public cloud offering that it would run itself, however VMware officials have refused to comment on the rumours – sort of. Late last week, the company’s vCloud Director Twitter account ...
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Research teams Wednesday cracked Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox at the Pwn2Own hacking contest, pulling in more than $250,000 in prizes. Earlier in the day, a solo hacker exploited Oracle's ...
Tags: Microsoft, Oracle's Java, explorer
The daily deal industry has fallen a long way since Groupon came onto the scene in 2008 and created a niche within e-commerce. Tineka Smith reports. Daily deals innovator Groupon burst onto the scene in 2008 and by 2010 had clocked up 35 ...
Tags: e-commerce, Google, Social media
Opinions expressed on Twitter differ from public opinion measured by surveys on key political events and policy issues, reflecting that users of the Internet service are demographically very different from the public, according to a study ...
Tags: Twitter, Internet service, company news
After putting out a call for people to test drive its upcoming Glass wearable computers, Google is getting a lot of ideas for how to use them, as well as a lot of snark. On Wednesday, Google issued a call for what it's calling ...
Canonical, the open source software company behind the popular Ubuntu distribution of Linux, has unveiled the next stage in its plan for a unified operating system. The Ubuntu tablet forms one-quarter of Canonical's strategy to produce a ...
Tags: Ubuntu tablet, operating system, software
Canonical has introduced the Ubuntu tablet interface, which will compete with Android, iOS and Windows with its own take on multitasking and advanced security features. The launch is the next step in Canonical's quest to unify phones, ...
PaySimple, the cloud-based platform for managing and growing small businesses, announced the findings in its 2013 Pulse Survey of Small Businesses today. Thousands of PaySimple users surveyed articulated a plan to adopt more technology ...
The US Federal Reserve has confirmed its computer systems were accessed by hackers but said the incident did not affect the central bank's "critical operations". The acknowledgement came days after the hacker group known as Anonymous ...
Tags: computer systems, Internet, computer