Olympics fans across Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa will be able watch the Summer Games in London live via YouTube this July and August.The International Olympic Committee’s YouTube channel will broadcast 2,200 hours of HD cover…
Microsoft’s Azure platform gets frisky with Linux
Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform has been given a major update that will offer deep support to Linux-based developers, the company announced today in a blog post.The update will bring Windows Azure to a new level of versatilit…
Le nomine AGCOM
Ho seguito con attenzione la vicenda delle nomine all’Authority delle Comunicazioni e per quanto ho potuto ho sostenuto la candidatura di Stefano Quintarelli che, non avendo "santi in paradiso" non è stato eletto. Il PD salva la faccia nominando il prof. Decina che almeno sa di cosa parla (se si…
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Al rientro
Il bilancio della due giorni romana è molto positivo, ho conosciuto il nuovo capo della polizia delle comunicazioni, la tavola rotonda che dovevo condurre è andata molto bene e ho tenuto i contatti con soci e ospiti. A parte l’attesa del volo di rientro e la stanchezza che cade dopo…
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Elvis Presley Will Be Resurrected as Hologram for Film, TV
The makers of rapper Tupac Shukar’s hologram announced a deal Wednesday to co-create several virtual Elvis Presley likenesses for use on film, television and other projects.Digital production company Digital Domain Media Grou…
Hack To The Future – What would Doc and Marty do?
This sponsored post is produced by RadiumOne. Hackathons are no longer the province of geeks, they are where some of the best and most innovative ideas are hatched during all night collaborative events where developers openly share…
Apple wants to keep Samsung’s Galaxy S3 out of U.S.
Samsung’s Galaxy S3 smartphone.(Credit: Brian Bennett/CNET)Excited shoppers weren’t the only ones buying Samsung’s latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3, when it went on sale in the U.K. last month. Apparently Apple bought one…
Alleged ‘Facebook assassin’ tried to fascinate Web generation
(Credit: Greg Solomon/YouTube Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)The man accused of murdering, cutting up and then eating his former lover was arrested in a Berlin Internet Cafe this week. He was reportedly looking at pornographic …
No brains needed to use this ‘smartphone’ — they’re included
No, that’s not an escaped brain, it’s a phone booth.(Credit: Screenshot by Edward Moyer/CNET)”Help! I’m being attacked by an escaped mutant brain on the streets of Sao Paulo! Call the…” <sluuuuuuuuurp>Wait, gentle reader, …
Nokia: We’re basically the world’s largest maps company
Nokia’s Web map of the San Francisco Bay Area.(Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)Nokia wants you to know that they’re one of the biggest mapping companies you didn’t know about. In fact, when you add their in-car, Web, a…
Behind the Launch: Putting It All on the Line
In Mashable’s new video series, Behind the Launch , we’re taking cameras behind the scenes at Vungle, an in-app video advertising startup.We’ve seen tension between co-founders Zain and Jack before, and this week, we see their rel…
How a Tech Hurdle Completely Changed Jawbone’s Mission
Hosain Rahman, who started Jawbone just out of Stanford University, wasn’t originally aiming to create a consumer electronics company. Initially, it set out to enable speech recognition on mobile phones (this was before Siri), and…
Space Shuttle Enterprise Arrives at the Intrepid [PICS]
Enterprise Embarks Space Shuttle Enterprise began its journey today at Weeks Marine, N.J.Click here to view this gallery. The Space Shuttle Enterprise is almost home. The NASA spacecraft completed the last leg of its journey to its …
Bandwidth Bottlenecks Stifle Pervasive Networks
If pervasive networks, cloud computing and big data are going to deliver on their promise – to make increasingly vast quantities of information always available and understandable – something is going to have to be done about exis…
Hit Tumblr Mocks Wikipedia’s Most Ridiculous Claims
Wikipedia has established itself as a valuable research tool for Internet users — but one that must be taken with a grain of salt.Although the online encyclopedia has improved in style and accuracy over the years, questiona…
Storytelling service Wattpad raises $17.3M for next chapter
Six-year-old, storytelling and reading community Wattpad has raised the eyebrows of investors anxious to see how the startup’s plot unfolds. The cost for penning Wattpad’s next chapter? Just $17.3 million in cash.Khosla Venture…
LinkedIn confirms passwords were ‘compromised’
LinkedIn said today that some passwords on a list of allegedly stolen hashed passwords belong to its members, but did not say how its site was compromised.”We can confirm that some of the passwords that were compromised correspond…
Nasdaq plans for $40 million payout for Facebook losses
Nasdaq submitted plans to offer up to $40 million to financial firms that lost money after the botched Facebook stock launch, Dow Jones reported today.The one time payout would aim to subside the discontent among banks and tradin…