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Walmart considers paying in-store customers to deliver online orders
- Walmart is reportedly considering a new service that would add an unusual twist to the delivery process by crowdsourcing it to customers. Under the plan, which is still in the early planning stages, the company would pay in-store shoppers to…
Mozilla to bring Unreal Engine 3 to the web without plug-ins
- Epic has teamed up with Mozilla to bring Unreal Engine 3 to the web with Firefox, plug-in free. The announcement came during the Game Developers Conference where Mozilla showed Unreal Tournament and the Citadel demo running natively in the browser.
Tumblr surpasses 100 million blogs, nearly 45 million posts
- Tumblr recently surpassed the 100 million blog milestone according to a ticker on the company’s about page. The blogging platform has since confirmed the achievement as well as they fact that Tumblr blogs collectively contain more than 44.6 billion posts.
BitTorrent Live video streaming protocol to be free for users, publishers
- As we noted earlier this month, Bram Cohen hopes his BitTorrent Live protocol will prove to be a major disruptor for the streaming media business. Today, Cohen shared that BitTorrent Live -- despite its possible patent encumbrance -- will be…
Hollow fiber optic cable tops 73Tbps, promises near-light speeds
- Researchers hailing from England's University of Southampton claim to have discovered a method for transferring data near the limits of our Universe -- 99.7 percent the speed of light. Their secret? A flexible fiber optic cable with a vacuously hollow…
Yahoo acquires news-summarizing app Summly for $30 million
- Continuing with the pursuit to revamp its digital news and media business, Yahoo has announced that it will be acquiring Summly, a startup that aims at summarizing web content into a digestible format more fit for mobile devices. Financial terms…
Double Fine Adventure titled "Broken Age," gets a new site
- Double Fine Productions' crowdfunded adventure title officially has a title: "Broken Age." Previously called the "Double Fine Adventure" and known internally as codename "Reds," the point-and-click tale should be ready for you to experience sometime in the second quarter of…
HBO Go bundle for broadband subscribers could happen, says CEO
- HBO has produced some of the best shows to ever hit the small screen, from pop-culture masterpieces like The Sopranos to epic fantasy novel adaptations like Game of Thrones. Unfortunately the network doesn’t make its content available on services like…
Turn your favorite website into a playable 3D maze
- If the myriad of Easter eggs on Google and YouTube aren’t enough to keep you entertained while surfing the web, you might want to check out the latest browser-based game called World Wide Maze. The game constructs a playable 3D…
Dropbox, iCloud and Amazon top cloud media services in the US, says study
- Apple’s iCloud may be a little limited as a cloud storage solution compared to services like Dropbox, but the sheer number of iDevices on people’s hands have already pushed the year-and-a-half old platform to the top among US consumer cloud…
Twitter celebrates 7th birthday with more than 200 million users
- Seven years ago today, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey sent out his very first tweet which signaled the official launch of the microblogging website. Today Twitter is a global phenomenon with more than 200 million users worldwide responsible for pushing some…
One minute on the Internet: 640TB data transferred, 100k tweets, 204 million e-mails sent
- The well-known idiom "New York minute" is a phrase oft-used to express an extremely brief moment in time -- but an Internet minute? That's a whole other level of micro-time keeping. An infographic by Intel breaks down exactly what happens…
Google Keep note-taking service officially launched
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Google has officially launched Keep as a web and Android app. The service allows you to quickly jot ideas down when you think of them, create checklists and save photos to keep track of what’s important to you. Your notes are stored in Google Drive and synced to all your devices.
First Google Fiber expansion announced, gigabit speeds heading to Olathe
- Google has announced the first planned expansion for its super-fast Internet service Google Fiber. Available to residents of Kansas City on both sides of the Kansas - Missouri state line since July 2012, the service is now moving some 20…
Twitter awarded patent for... Twitter
- Twitter founders Jack Dorsey and Christopher "Biz" Stone have been awarded a patent which describes a platform agnostic, multi-point message broadcast system and methods. When all said and done, USPTO application 60951415 essentially describes the core of the Twitter's microblogging service…
Chameleon clickfraud botnet costs advertisers $6 million a month
- Researchers at Spider.io have detailed the discovery of a clickfraud botnet that is purportedly causing at least 70 times more financial damage than the Bamital network Microsoft and Symantec killed in early February. By its estimates, the security outfit says…
CIA working with Amazon to develop private cloud
- According to a report by FCW, Amazon has been entrusted to build a "private" cloud computing system for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA is rumored to be outsourcing the task to Amazon in hopes of reducing its operating…
Google could unify chat services under a single product called Babble
- Google has built a number of communications platforms around different services over the years. There’s Google Talk for text, voice and video chats, Hangouts for group video conferencing, Messenger for mobile messaging, Chat for Drive collaboration, and Voice for online…
EU Commission: Piracy doesn't hurt music sales, may even help
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Although music labels remain adamant about piracy's harm to sales, illegal filesharing sites may actually boost industry revenue according to a report from the European Commission's Institute for Prospective Technological Studies. After studying the browsing habits of...
Five Internet pioneers awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
- Five Internet pioneers were recently announced as winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the first of its kind. The award carries a cash prize of £1 million (just over $1.5 million) which will be shared between the five recipients.
Google Drive outage reminds us that cloud services aren't perfect
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Reports this morning of Google Drive becoming inaccessible sent ripples through social media. Shortly after complaints surfaced, Google confirmed Drive was experiencing a noteworthy disruption. The company subsequently resolved the issue and all Google services appear to have returned to normal…
Dropbox acquires recently-launched Mailbox app
- After a few months building up hype with promises to revolutionize email, Mailbox finally launched its streamlined Gmail client for the iPhone last month, along a waiting line mechanism that quickly became absurdly long. They’re not even done letting everyone…
Facebook expected to add hashtag functionality to posts
- Facebook will soon be intensifying their battle with Twitter as they are preparing to roll out hashtag support. The social network already allows members to tag people, places and pages but hashtags will open up a whole new world of…
Outlook.com suffers 16-hour outage due to overheating datacenter
- Microsoft suffered a massive server outage yesterday that left users of Outlook.com, Hotmail, Calendar and SkyDrive unable to access all or parts of those services for a 16-hour stretch. In a blog post explaining the situation, Microsoft's Arthur de Haan…
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