If you stumbled over yourself to download Lady Gaga’s new Born This Way album when it was priced at 99 cents from Amazon on Monday, you may have found Amazon’s servers to be working about as well as a porcupine at a child’s birthday party (does NOT work—trust me).
(More on TIME.com: Amazon’s 99-Cent Lady Gaga Album Heralds Cloud …
Keeping stride with Google’s recent run of green-friendly initiatives, a new data center in Hamina, Finland, takes advantages of the facility’s surrounding environment by using ocean water to cool its servers.
Google Senior Director of Datasite Construction and Operations, Joe Kava, relays that the building, purchased in 2009, was …
As anyone who’s ever been bombarded by others’ status updates knows, no company better represents the current shift in the gaming landscape than Zynga. The casual game revolution caught fire on social networks like Facebook and brought in millions of players who are otherwise uninterested in hardcore console and PC games. Now, rumors …
A new study conducted by IPG Media Lab and ad platform YuMe takes a look at the media consumption habits of 48 TV watchers from the Los Angeles area – a small sample, for sure – but it could give us a glimpse of our potential futures.
The findings demonstrate that 60% of the TV watchers toyed with their cell phones while in front …
For those of you keeping score in the Mac malware game, we’ve had Mac Defender (and its various spellings), Mac Protector (and its various spellings), and now an even newer “Mac Guard” is making the rounds.
The big difference with Mac Guard—and a worrisome one—is that it can install itself on your computer without prompting you …
Breathe a sigh of relief, parents. Your pre-teens aren’t lawfully wreaking havoc on Facebook anytime soon (though we know those sneaky young’ins exist illegally in droves on the site).
Mark Zuckerberg has set the record straight about his stance on underage kids on the social networking site: It’s a conversation that should …
Congratulations, Comcast! Your On Demand service has just passed its 20 billionth view since its launch in 2003. For comparison, iTunes has sold around 12 billion songs since it was launched in 2001 – and, even though you’re celebrating with a sweepstakes that will offer winners tickets to movie premieres or walk-on roles in 30Rock (Note …
You know Minecraft. It’s got a hold on your soul. You held a party when new weather effects came to the game and doodle designs for your next creations during meetings. Your dreams? They now unfold in giant pixellated blocks. In short, Mojang‘s runaway hit owns your imagination.
But, you’ve tossed and turned at night, hoping for a way …
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Yahoo has started rolling out the new version of Yahoo Mail it’s been beta-testing since last fall. I’ve been playing with it for awhile and mostly enjoying the experience. It’s a very credible Webmail client–similar in general feel and some particulars to
Twitter has made its acquisition of TweetDeck official, while trying to assure users that their beloved third-party client won’t go away.
TweetDeck is an excellent tool for Twitter power users, showing news feeds, replies and other customizable categories as a series of columns. It can also pull in news feeds and wall posts from …
Be careful what you post on your Facebook account, because it might end up being used against you in a court of law. This isn’t another case where someone else may be claiming that anything and everything that you post online is fair game in terms of copyright, however.
Instead, there’s the possibility that you might end up as your …
All bets are on Google launching a mobile payment platform with Sprint on Thursday, allowing people to pay for goods and services with their smartphones.
The mobile payment concept, which relies on technology called near-field communications (NFC) embedded in smartphones, has a lot of potential. In the long haul, it may eventually …