You often hear about Amazon Web Services having some downtime issues, but it’s rare to see Amazon.com itself have major issues. In fact, I can’t ever remember it happening the past couple of years. But that’s very much the case today as for the past couple of hours the service has been switching back and [...]
Archive > June 2010
Twitter Slashes API Rate Limits In Half Across The Board To Deal With Capacity Issues
As you may have noticed, Twitter has been having a rough month. Due in part to traffic from the World Cup, Twitter has had its worst month in terms of uptime in a year. The Fail Whale has been out in full force, and it’s partially Twitter’s own fault as they’re trying to overhaul their [...]
Google to end rerouting of China users in 2 days (Reuters)
Reuters – Google Inc will end the automatic redirection of users from its China to its Hong Kong website within the next 24 to 48 hours, a Google spokeswoman said on Wednesday. More information: click here
Foursquare Requests Now Much More Useful With “Friends In Common”
Big news from Foursquare today. No, not that news (just yet). And okay, not really that big. Still, very useful. Foursquare has given its friend request emails a nice upgrade today. Previously, all you would see is a text note that someone wanted to be your friend. If you wanted to learn anything about them, [...]
Google scrambles to save Internet license in China (AP)
<p><a href=”http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100629/ap_on_hi_te/as_china_google”><img src=”http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100629/capt.406f32826cbf48479176e0634476d328-406f32826cbf48479176e0634476d328-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=JbL6ZEfxGFojNrokC2QZHw–” align=”left” height=”89″ width=”130″ alt=”FILE – In this April 12, 2006 file photo, Chinese poke their heads through a Google logo shortly after Google debuts its Chinese Language brand name in the Beijing Hotel in Beijing. Google Inc. said Tuesday, June 29, 2010, it will stop automatically rerouting users of its China search [...]
An update on China – Ever since we launched Google.cn … (David Drummond/The Official Google Blog)
David Drummond / The Official Google Blog: An update on China — Ever since we launched Google.cn, our search engine for mainland Chinese users, we have done our best to increase access to information while abiding by Chinese law. This has not always been an easy balance to strike, especially since our January announcement … [...]
Kontagent Raises $4.5 Million For Facebook Analytics Platform
Only a few months after the company raised $1 million in funding, Kontagent, an fbFund winner and social analytics platform, has raised $4.5 million in new funding. We’ve confirmed the funding with Kontagent’s co-founder, Albert Lai. The round was led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with participation from Larry Braitman, cofounder of FlyCast and [...]
New Verizon Commercial Is Foursquare Obsessed
Foursquare has gotten some pretty big publicity before — like in Vegas. But a new Verizon commercial appears to be completely predicated around the service. Well, provided you know what Foursquare is. As you can see in the 30-second spot embedded below, a girl is walking around a city on her Verizon Droid phone. She [...]
All 5 US Variants Of The Samsung Galaxy S Compared
We knew that Samsung had a winner on their hands with the Samsung Galaxy S, and we knew that a US version would probably be popular, but we didn’t think we’d end up with 5 versions across 5 US carriers. If you’re stuck deciding on which variant would best suit you, we’ve compiled this handy [...]
Security glitch exposes WellPoint data again (AP)
AP – WellPoint Inc. has notified 470,000 individual insurance customers that medical records, credit card numbers and other sensitive information may have been exposed in the latest security breach of the health insurer's records. More information: click here
