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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...
The Google Talk chat application went down some time on Wednesday night, provoking many users to anger. Some said they had switched temporarily to Skype or Twitter. Google posted updates regularly on its App Status website, and began restoring service on a rolling basis. The problem apparently also...
A survey of more than 3,600 Appcelerator Titanium developers has revealed that they would rather develop mobile apps for iOS than for Android. iOS led Android by 16 percent in the Appcelerator/IDC Q2 2012 Mobile Developer Report. Fifty-three percent of the respondents believed that iOS was winning i...
The Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, movement is a reality for most IT departments today. And it's generally accepted that it was spearheaded by the tremendous popularity of Apple consumer devices -- primarily iOS devices such as iPads and iPhones. Based on the Apple model, users are encouraged to...
Fears have surfaced that Skype may be eavesdropping on communications over its service. The concern is that supernodes Microsoft is introducing to Skype could make it easier to monitor calls, because they route the voice data in addition to initiating communications between parties. "As was true bef...
More Internet service providers are delivering on the download speeds they advertise, according to the United States Federal Communications Commission. In a report released on Thursday, the FCC stated that tests conducted in April showed that more ISPs delivered their promised speeds, compared to te...
Owners of GM vehicles who subscribe to the automaker's OnStar service can now rent their vehicles out to other people when they're not in use. RelayRides is the first third-party developer to integrate with OnStar's proprietary application programming interface. The API will be made available to oth...
Some users of Microsoft's Skype service are having problems with their text messages, as detailed in the Skype support network. Skype instant messaging contacts are getting messages originally addressed to others. A few users who got messages from one Skype contact found those messages were somehow ...
A recent report from Baird Equity Research claims mobile developers are fleeing from Research In Motion in a mass exodus. However, RIM's fighting back. The report's findings are far from the truth, according to Alec Saunders, the vice president of developer relations for the BlackBerry maker. In fac...
The passwords and usernames of more than 400,000 contributors to the Yahoo Voices website have been stolen and posted on the Internet. The hack was carried out by an organization calling itself "D33Ds Company," which posted the data on the Web. The D33Ds Web page containing the data was down when ch...
Microsoft is involved in a project geared toward self-programming and extending the functionality of the Android smartphone environment. That's surprising, because Microsoft has got its own phone OS that competes. However, on{X} in beta is bringing some unique JavaScript APIs to the table that let y...
On Tuesday, Amazon announced a new social engagement layer for video game developers. GameCircle for Amazon's Kindle Fire will allow developers to add achievements, leader boards and even cloud syncing to games. Developers who utilize the GameCircle APIs will be able to include achievements that gam...
It may seem like Houdini is inside the network, because the perimeter as we have known it is disappearing. Conceptually, firewalls used to sit between the public Internet and the internal network with its servers, desktops and applications. There was a clear network perimeter separating internal res...
Facebook's email drama continues to unfold a week after it was revealed that the social network unilaterally switched its users' publicly posted email listings to their "@facebook.com" addresses. More recently, users have begun complaining that Facebook's mobile app seems to be swapping out informat...
It used to be that technology companies would head to one or more of the plethora of industry trade shows to introduce new products and showcase their latest offerings. But in recent years many large companies have forgone the shows and instead have offered company-specific conferences and events. T...
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