Tech Biz

Ah, spring. Birds chirp, flowers bloom and winter cobwebs get swept away. But what about the cobwebs in your personal technology? Though these aren’t visible in your everyday life, they create their own sort of digital dust, and can benefit from a spruce-up session. This week, I’ll guide you through some simple steps for spring Continue Reading →

Turkey controversially banned Twitter last week, but it looks like the social network could soon be freely accessible in the country again. The AFP reports that a court has ordered the government to unblock the social network, though Hurriyet Daily News clarifies that the decision is merely a stay of execution on the ban, which Continue Reading →

Tuesday evening, for the third time in a month, Twitter experienced technical difficulties. It wasn’t an outage from high traffic or developmental testing — it was missing celebrity tweets. It sounds flippant, but celebrity presence is a big part of what makes Twitter so popular. Yesterday, for at least twelve hours, several highly trafficked tweets Continue Reading →

If at first you don’t succeed — find a workaround. Thousands of people inside of Turkey are flocking to Tor, the anonymous Web browser software freely distributed on the Internet, after the Turkish government blocked use of Twitter inside the country last week. As of Tuesday morning, Tor traffic from users directly connecting out of Continue Reading →

Do you remember your first? First Twitter follower, I mean. Whether you have tens of thousands of followers now or just a few dozen, you started out with the same number as everyone else: zero. And someone had to be number one; the very first person who thought you were worth paying attention to. The Continue Reading →

Google is launching a wide range of updates for its Cloud Platform that aim to make it more competitive in a market where Amazon Web Services is still the de facto platform for cloud-based applications. To say that Google is getting aggressive is likely an understatement. The company on Tuesday announced huge price cuts across Continue Reading →

Furthering its goal of bringing content to consumers on all the platforms they prefer, The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Maker Studios, the leading network of online video content on YouTube. Maker Studios shareholders will receive total consideration of $500 million, and a performance-linked earn-out of up to $450 million if the strong Continue Reading →

Why did a number of physicists at the Hadron Collider at the University of Florida ban PowerPoint in favor of whiteboarding? “The use of the PowerPoint slides was acting as a straitjacket to discussion,” says Andrew Askew, an assistant professor of physics at Florida State University. “We all feel inundated by PowerPoint,” Askew says. “With Continue Reading →

Google Now has finally arrived on the desktop. Google on Monday announced Google Now is being pushed to the Chrome stable channel for Windows and Mac “starting Monday and rolling out over the next few weeks.” This means Google Now notifications will finally be available to desktop and laptop Chrome users, in addition to Android Continue Reading →

How many people saw your last tweet? A new Twitter experiment is answering that question for some users, adding the number of views a tweet has received underneath every post. Twitter’s advertising products have long informed clients how many impressions their campaigns are receiving, but this test marks the first time that those statistics are Continue Reading →