With 250M tweets a day, Twitter plans 'simplicity' strategy
SAN FRANCISCO -- With Twitter handling a quarter of a billion tweets a day, company CEO Dick Costolo said he's focusing on keeping things simple.
SAN FRANCISCO -- With Twitter handling a quarter of a billion tweets a day, company CEO Dick Costolo said he's focusing on keeping things simple.
Forget about building a popular social network. Google CEO Larry Page wants to use Google+ to transform the entire Google experience.
The Kindle Fire tablet costs $209.63 for materials and manufacturing expenses, more than $10 above its $199 pricetag, according to a virtual estimate by IT research firm IHS iSuppli.
Yahoo, looking to fight its way back to being an A-list online player, announced today that it is teaming up with ABC News.
Target's Web site is still struggling after it crashed earlier Tuesday when online shoppers flooded the site to get in on a low-priced line of high-fashion clothes and accessories.
Google+ is trying to help users expand their Circles by offering them a new Suggested User list. The only problem is that some users are taking exception to what they're calling an elitist system.
Google executives see a great future in mobility, both for computing and for the company, and they're willing to pay a lot for the power they think that will bring them in the mobile market.
Google has picked up the pace in its efforts to get a business version of Google+ up and running.
Just two weeks old, Google's social network is generating a tidal wave of curiosity and excitement. And that level of interest may have social networking giants like Facebook and Twitter getting a little anxious.
The story HD e-reader from iriver is the first device integrated with Google's eBookstore. (Google photo) Google on Monday announced the iriver Story HD, its first e-reader to be integrated with its open Google eBookstore.
eBay has installed a 100 KW solar array on its data center in Denver. That's not enough power to run a data center, but Tom Price, eBay's Global Data Center Services manager, said the system, which was completed last November, is delivering benefits.
Amazon.com is expected to ship up to 1.2 million tablet computers by the end of September, making it the biggest order for non-iPad tablet suppliers in the third quarter, according to a new report in <a href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20110707PD206.html">DigiTimes</a> .
Not disheartened, Amazon.com is giving its Lady Gaga discount another go today.
Mozilla plans to push 12 million users of the aged Firefox 3.5 to a newer version next month by taking the unprecedented step of automatically upgrading their browser.
Visa's plan to <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216616/Visa_to_launch_mobile_wallet_in_U.S._this_fall">launch a digital wallet system</a> in the U.S. and Canada this fall is by far the largest and most ambitious of any similar initiative announced by credit card processors, banks or wireless carriers.