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Retail Sites Crash as Shopping Season Opens (Business Technology)
Business Technology: Retail Sites Crash as Shopping Season Opens — Several retail Web sites experienced technical problems Friday, the latest reminder of one of the Internet's oldest rules: If you encourage people to visit your Web site, make sure the site can handle the extra traf ...
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LINUX ON THE IPHONE (Planetbeing/Linux on the iPhone)
Planetbeing / Linux on the iPhone: LINUX ON THE IPHONE — Linux on the iPhone! — I'm pleased to announce that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple's iPhone platform, with support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation i ...
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Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede (Joe Gould/NY Dai...
Joe Gould / NY Daily News: Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede — A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said. &md ...
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Responsible Tweeting: Mumbai Provides Teachable Moment (Amy Gahran/E-Media Tidbits)
Amy Gahran / E-Media Tidbits: Responsible Tweeting: Mumbai Provides Teachable Moment — This morning when I checked the news about the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, I saw many people on Twitter reporting that the Indian police or government had asked Twitter users to please stop repo ...
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Nikon outs D3x in own Pro magazine (Thomas Ricker/Engadget)
Thomas Ricker / Engadget: Nikon outs D3x in own Pro magazine — Uh, oops. Sorry Nikon but your D3x is now even less of a mystery. According to your own Pro magazine, the D3x will sport an FX-format, 24.5 megapixel sensor shooting 5fps at full resolution or 7fps at a redu ...
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As Carl Icahn Buys More Yahoo Shares, Is It the Sign That a CEO Choice Is Near? (Kara Swisher/BoomT...
Kara Swisher / BoomTown: As Carl Icahn Buys More Yahoo Shares, Is It the Sign That a CEO Choice Is Near? — When everyone else has been selling, it seems Carl Icahn has decided to throw good money after bad-as in nearly $1 billion bad-by buying almost seven million more of Yahoo sha ...
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Rogers launches the BlackBerry 8900 Curve (Michael Bettiol/Boy Genius Report)
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report: Rogers launches the BlackBerry 8900 Curve — Rogers launches the BlackBerry Curve 8900 — Forgive us for being sparse with the details, but it appears that Rogers has just launched the BlackBerry Curve 8900. Soon Canadians ...
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Intel rethinks Netbooks: 'Fine for an hour' but... (Brooke Crothers/CNET News)
Brooke Crothers / CNET News: Intel rethinks Netbooks: ‘Fine for an hour’ but... The Netbook, take two: When Advanced Micro Devices said it wasn't going to focus on Netbooks, as Intel and its partners defined them, maybe it was on to something. — Intel is re-evalua ...
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Official Nikon D3X specs. It's here, folks! (Seb Rogers)
Seb Rogers: Official Nikon D3X specs. It's here, folks! — Update, 28th November 3:40pm GMT: Scans in my original post were playing havoc with my bandwidth, so they've been removed. However, you can find scans of the Nikon Pro mag here and here. Thanks to Lutz for ...
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Black Friday 2008: $300 MacBook Pro Discounts, iPhone App Sales (Arn/MacRumors)
Arn / MacRumors: Black Friday 2008: $300 MacBook Pro Discounts, iPhone App Sales — Apple has officially unveiled their Black Friday sales for their online and retail stores. The discounts are very similar to last year's event. The only two Mac models on sale are the iMa ...
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Tweeting the terror: How social media reacted to Mumbai (Stephanie Busari/CNN)
Stephanie Busari / CNN: Tweeting the terror: How social media reacted to Mumbai — (CNN) — It was the day social media appeared to come of age and signaled itself as a news-gathering force to be reckoned with. — The minute news broke of the terrorist attacks ...
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Fring Lays Off 20%, Says Business Is Surging (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Fring Lays Off 20%, Says Business Is Surging — Israel-based mobile VoIP startup Fring joins the layoff parade by letting 10 people, or around 20% of total staff, go. Company CEO Avi Shechter says the company is doing well, though, and the layof ...
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European Head Toby Coppel Departs Yahoo (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)
Kara Swisher / BoomTown: European Head Toby Coppel Departs Yahoo — Yahoo is losing yet another top executive-Toby Coppel, its EVP and managing director of Europe and Canada, is set to announce today that he is stepping down. — The departure, which has been in the ...
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Apple's Black Friday Sales Begin Around the World (Arn/MacRumors)
Arn / MacRumors: Apple's Black Friday Sales Begin Around the World — Apple's Black Friday sales have begun around the world in their New Zealand store and Australia stores. The sales show modest discounts similar to previous years. — The only Macs that are o ...
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Yes, Twitter is a source of journalism (Mathew/mathewingram.com/work)
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work: Yes, Twitter is a source of journalism — Like a lot of other people, I've been following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) throughout the day, using Twitter and blog search and Wikipedia and Flickr and YouTube and pretty much any othe ...
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Nokia to cease sales in Japan (Sachi Izumi/Reuters)
Sachi Izumi / Reuters: Nokia to cease sales in Japan — TOKYO (Reuters) - Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said on Thursday it will stop selling mobile phones in Japan except for its luxury Vertu brand after struggling to expand its presence. — Finnis ...
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Icahn Doubles Down: Buys Another 7 Million Shares of Yahoo! (Henry Blodget/Alley Insider)
Henry Blodget / Alley Insider: Icahn Doubles Down: Buys Another 7 Million Shares of Yahoo! — Well, don't accuse Carl Icahn of cutting and running. After losing $1 billion on his massive Yahoo bet—he bought 69 million shares last spring at about $25—Carl Icahn has ...
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Massive botnet returns from the dead, starts spamming (Gregg Keizer/Computerworld)
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: Massive botnet returns from the dead, starts spamming — Criminals regain control after security firm stops preemptively registering routing domains — Computerworld) A big spam-spewing botnet shut down two weeks ago has been resurrecte ...
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No Keyboard? And You Call This a BlackBerry? (David Pogue/New York Times)
David Pogue / New York Times: No Keyboard? And You Call This a BlackBerry? — Research in Motion (R.I.M.), the company that brought us the BlackBerry, has been on a roll lately. For a couple of years now, it's delivered a series of gorgeous, functional, supremely reliabl ...
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First impressions: Apple 24-inch LED Cinema Display (Clint Ecker/Infinite Loop)
Clint Ecker / Infinite Loop: First impressions: Apple 24-inch LED Cinema Display — As we noted yesterday, Apple's new 24-inch Cinema Display has shipped, and arrived this afternoon. While we have only had about an hour to test it out so far, we're quite pleased. It shou ...
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