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Weeks after removing its find-friends feature from Instagram, Twitter has done the same to blogging service Tumblr. Twitter's already changed the rules for app developers in version 1.1 of its API, which is coming soon. Both parties took a low-key approach when asked to comment. "To our dismay, Twit...
There are still 19 million Americans who lack access to high-speed Internet, according to the FCC's Eighth Broadband Progress Report. At this stage in the Internet's evolution, that number is shocking and brings home the fact that the natural spectrum landscape is not as stable and robust as one mig...
In nature, glaciers are slow but steady masses of ice that flow as they melt. They take many years to accumulate and often just as long to deform. In other words, a glacier is typically here for eons, and fittingly "Glacier" is the name of Amazon's new data archive service aimed at enterprise and sm...
While Twitter restricts users to just 140 characters in a single tweet, its developers are limited to just three characters -- namely its "API" -- and it's cracking down on that. Twitter announced Friday that it will further restrict developer access to its API -- discouraging services that tend to ...
Startup game company Goko emerged from its 2011 stealth launch on Thursday, officially unveiling its HTML5-based lineup. The company -- which released its software development kits to independent developers interested in publishing and monetizing games for the HTML5 platform -- has held its cards cl...
German data protection regulators reopened an investigation into Facebook's facial recognition technology Wednesday, claiming the social network failed to comply with official requests to alter its policies to match European regulations. The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of In...
Twitter cofounders Biz Stone and Evan Williams unveiled two new ventures this week, and this time they aren't limiting themselves -- or users for that matter -- to 140 characters. These new projects from Obvious Corporation, the startup headed by Stone and Williams, are Medium, a publishing platform...
Google has announced it's testing a new service that will include relevant information from a user's personal Gmail account when that person types in a query on the company's basic search page. Google said the service is meant to further integrate the company's Web presence and its many functions, i...
Facebook filed a friend-of-the-court brief this week arguing that clicking on a "Like" button is akin to making a statement and therefore is protected speech. The case, being heard in the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, stems from a 2009 incident in which a deputy sheriff, Daniel Ray Carte...
We watch citizens overthrow governments and assume the same thing couldn't happen here. But we have had one big civil war in the U.S., and several states -- including California, where I live -- have been talking about getting out of the U.S. for decades. What appears to keep us together isn't the p...
Facebook, which has seen its share prices fall since it went public in May, has disclosed that its user base may contain as many as 83 million illegitimate accounts. Facebook made the disclosures in its 10-Q form, filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on July 31. The revela...
Twitter has launched the Twitter Political Index, also called "Twindex," which serves up what its users feel about the candidates in the upcoming United States Presidential election. The index was created together with Topsy, as well as pollsters the Mellman Group and North Star Opinion Research. It...
Microsoft on Tuesday released a preview of its latest webmail client, Outlook.com. Built from the ground up, Outlook.com has a strong social component, with links to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google. A link to Skype is coming soon. Office Web apps -- Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote -- are ...
On Facebook's earnings call Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg seemed to deny that the company would be developing its own branded smartphone, presumably an effort to put to rest growing speculation -- mostly attributed to unnamed sources -- about a Facebook phone under development at HTC. Building a smartph...
Twitter is back in action after a data center failure caused worldwide outages for many of its users Thursday. Starting around 8:30 a.m. PT, Twitter users who tried to access the site were greeted with a partially coded message that read, "Twitter is currently down." Users reported outages worldwide...
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