Barely a day after it was announced, Amazon’s new Cloud Drive service is causing a lot of upset and anguish.
Turns out the record labels are not happy about this whole “store your music online” stuff. Not happy at all.
Some music industry execs are even questioning whether Amazon’s new offering could be legal.
The problem stems
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If you have a Twitter account, there’s a very good chance that you are one of the millions of tiny dots on this chart.
That’s because Rob Weir has been watching Twitter’s publicly available data since 2009, patiently aggregating it so he had a huge dataset to work with.
Then he began making graphs, plotting individual Twitter …
British Member of Parliament Kerry McCarthy made history last night, becoming the first to make a speech in the House of Commons with notes on an Apple iPad.
Big deal, you might say. Why the fuss?
In many parliaments and assemblies around the world, this wouldn’t even raise an eyebrow. But in the UK, Parliament still inhabits its …
With the launch of Cloud Drive and Cloud Player (see our earlier report here), Amazon has jumped the gun and pulled attention away from its rivals Google and Apple.
The details of the Cloud Drive service are a dream come true to a lot of geeks: 5GB of storage for free, a great starting point and sufficient for a handful of albums …
You gotcha iPhone? Check. You gotcha Instagram app? Check. You gotcha sleek wall-mounted instant photo printer? Hmm, maybe soon…
Instaprint is the latest rider on the bandwagon that is Instagram, the filter-tastic social photo app for iThing owners everywhere.
The premise is this: you’re at a party, or some big corporate shindig, …
Webvan. eToys. Infonet. The Globe. Any of these names ring any bells?
In the late 1990s, they were the Facebooks and Twitters of their day. The hot properties that everyone wanted a part of. They were worth billions, and now they’re nothing but internet history.
If the thought of that bothers today’s tech investors, they’re not …
The chances are you’ve never heard of him, but without his pioneering work in the 1960s, you wouldn’t be reading this web page, because there wouldn’t be a web for you to read it on.
His name is Paul Baran, and he died yesterday aged 84.
Baran, along with Donald Davies and Leonard Kleinrock, invented one of the most fundamental …
Good morning! Here’s some of this morning’s interesting tech nuggets for you to enjoy over breakfast.
Iranian hacker claims Stuxnet revenge attack
In a post on Pastebin, an anonymous Iranian hacker claims he acted alone in stealing online security certificates, and that his work was a direct response to the Stuxnet worm – which he
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This is the trailer for First Orbit a unique new film that’s due for global release via YouTube on April 12th, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first manned orbit of the Earth.
The 108-minute film was made by British filmmaker Chris Riley, who engaged the help of an astronaut on the International Space Station to
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Hey, OS X! It’s March 24th! Happy birthday! Ten years since your first full release in 2001.
Wait a second, you’re ten now? Ten? But… you’re huge! I can’t believe you’ve grown so much. I remember when you were this high. No wait, this high.
Wow, OS X. You’re growing up so fast.
You were a cute kid. In the early days, when
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London-based software engineer Gareth Lloyd and colleague Tom Martin created this wonderful video of the history of the world – well, of Wikipedia’s history of the world, at any rate.
It turns out that no less than 424,171 Wikipedia articles have geographical co-ordinates and dates associated with them. Cross-reference the two, and …
When was the last time you used your landline phone? For many people, especially 20-somethings in the UK, the answer to that will be: “What landline?”
With cell phones now ubiquitous, and house prices so astronomically high that buying a home is beyond the means of many young couples, the idea of having a fixed phone line connecting …
