Day: August 29, 2013

Look out ARM, Intel, here comes MIPS – again

Imagination CEO: ‘We are trying to get MIPS back to its glory days’ with 25% share……


US mobile app dominance threatened by ANGRY BIRDS revolution

Non-US firms playing larger role in app market, study finds……


Guess what happened when Backblaze tried using the NSA for data backup

Nobody seriously believes that the NSA would helpfully give you backup if your hard drive failed. But an employee of the online storage company Backblaze asked anyway…….


Salesforce.com beats estimates with $957M in Q2 revenue

The San Francisco-headquartered company acknowledges that it got a big revenue boost this quarter thanks to its acquisition of ExactTarget…….


Huge Canyon Discovered Under Greenland Ice

cold fjord writes with this news, straight from the BBC: “One of the biggest canyons in the world has been found beneath the ice sheet that smothers most of Greenland. The canyon — which is 800km long and up to 800m deep — was carved out by a great river more than four million years…


Foursquare’s new app forgoes check-ins

The social app will always scan location to push alerts, Twitter changes the timeline with a blue line, and Giphy strives to play GIFs on Facebook…….


Microsoft may invest in social-media maven Foursquare: Report

Microsoft is looking at making an investment of an unspecified amount in social-media maven Foursquare, according to a Bloomberg report…….


Apple’s tops target list for litigious patent trolls

Follow the money……


Knowingly texting a driver could land you in court

In a New Jersey case, lawyers argue that someone who texted a driver involved in a crash was “electronically in the car.” An appeals court agrees that those who text drivers could be liable…….


Worldwide PC shipments expected to plunge by 10 percent

IDC expects worldwide PC shipments to decline even further than first thought, partly in due to a PC market decline but also a further expansion in tablet and smartphone sales…….