IDG News Service-Google has made its Maps app available on the Apple App Store,after Apple stumbled with its own maps application. The Google Maps app became available late Wednesday for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch."Starting today,we're ...
Tags: Google Maps, Iphone, Apple App Store, iOS operating system
The Federal Trade Commission issued its revised“Green Guides”earlier this month with the goal of helping marketers ensure that the claims they make about the environmental attributes of their products are truthful and ...
Sales of the Microsoft Surface RT tablet are difficult to measure, but one study indicates it's only generating a tiny portion of Web traffic -- less than 1%. In fact, according to Chitika Insights, Surface RT tablets accounted for ...
Tags: Microsoft, tablet, iPad, Nexus tablets
The International Telecommunications Union(ITU),which has unilaterally"assumed"control of the governance of the internet,has agreed in sessions held behind closed doors on a new standard covering deep-packet inspection. Further reading ...
The U.S.House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution urging the U.S.government not to give the United Nations'International Telecommunication Union(ITU)control over the Internet. The resolution was adopted by the House on ...
Tags: Internet, ITU, resolution, global Internet free from government control
After a two-day outage, Internet access in war-torn Syria appears to be for the most part restored on Saturday, according to reports from several sources. "Renesys confirms a largely complete restoration of the Syrian Internet this ...
Tags: Internet, Internet-monitoring service, Telecom, Google
IDG News Service-Syrians are turning to satellites to communicate as the country's Internet connections are shut down,but instances of jamming are making even that challenging.Google is also allowing people who can find a working phone ...
Tags: Syrians, Satellites, Internet connections
Amazon and Google have gone to war over cloud prices,with both firms cutting the cost of storage by over a quarter. Google began by dropping the price of cloud services by 20 per cent earlier this week,only for Amazon to trump it with a ...
Tags: cloud storage battle, Google, Amazon, slash cloud prices
IDG News Service-Users of Amazon Web Services will soon be able to orchestrate workflows across different AWS services and their own internal resources,using a new orchestration engine called the AWS Data Pipeline. Amazon Chief Technology ...
Research in Motion Thursday released an upgraded version of its mobile management software designed to help its users prepare for a"simple and straightforward upgrade"to the BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 release slated for early next ...
Tags: RIM, Mobile Fusion management software, BlackBerry, ActiveSync
Social media analytics service PeopleBrowsr said it has won a temporary restraining order in a California court against Twitter's decision to end its four-year old arrangement to supply data to the company. PeopleBrowsr said late ...
Tags: California, PeopleBrowsr, Twitter, Firehose, Twitter data
Traditionally one of the reasons bike companies give for not advertising to non-enthusiast markets is that they're just not cost-effective to reach. And while that may be true when advertising is limited to magazine pages and website ...
Tags: New Markets, bike companies, Bicycle
My friend and colleague Ray Keener makes a good point in this?BR&IN?blog post?from last week when he asks the question, "Are flat bike sales for the past 35 years a good thing or a bad thing?" Among other things, Keener points out that ...
Tags: flat bike sales, new bikes
IDG News Service-The Romanian domain names of Google,Yahoo,Microsoft,Kaspersky Lab and other companies were hijacked on Wednesday and were redirected to a hacked server in the Netherlands. The hijacking occurred at the DNS(Domain Name ...
Tags: Attackers hijack, hacked server, Netherlands, security breach
IDG News Service-Microsoft's next OS update for Windows Phone 7 handsets won't be available until sometime in 2013. The news,posted on a Microsoft blog Wednesday,led to a stream of frustrated comments from Windows Phone users,complaining ...
Tags: Windows Phone 7.8, next OS, Microsoft blog, Windows Phone 8