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Like you and millions of others, I find myself trapped inside notification hell. Emails, notifications, tweets, text and instant Messages, Facebook Alerts -- are part of our over-notified self. Here is a video that does a great job of capturing this notification hell we live in.
A student from Middlesex University has designed a smartphone made from bamboo, which he plans to release in the UK and Europe later this year.
ActiveState has released a new version of the Komodo integrated development environment. We tested its newly added support for Node.js debugging and code completion.
This is a change for a government agency. NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) had nineteen different email systems and over 25,000 email addresses they wanted to consolidate under one system to cut costs. Surprisingly, they didn’t spend millions of dollars on a study or a consulting firm to do the move.
The ancient Greeks called the thapsia garganica plant "deadly carrot," because their camels would eat it and quickly die. The Roman emperor Nero mixed it with frankincense to treat bruises.
Why the House spectrum bill should be ditched: Q&A with Reed Hundt
"This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it." HAL; 2001: A Space Odyssey Editor's note: this is a longer version of ReadWriteWeb Editor-in-chief Richard MacManus' article for the SAY Media newsletter. The newsletter is delivered weekly and features SAY Media's take on media, culture, venn diagrams and the occasional Kubrick homage. You can sign up for it here. Over half of all devices at this year's CES, the world's largest consumer electronics trade show, were Internet connected. Nearly 60% of those were non-traditional computing devices such as TVs, cars, refrigerator
According to a recent study conducted by Sharaholic, Pinterest drove more referral traffic to sites in January than Google+, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn and MySpace all combined. Keep in mind, Sharaholic only has access to data from websites that have the Sharaholic application installed.
Breaking: a faction of Anonymous has released an MP3 recording of an FBI conference call which took place on January 17th.
French court rules that it's illegally anticompetitive for Google to provide free maps
Under the aegis of their nonprofit, eHealth Nigeria, Castle and Thompson have built a digital records system meant to eventually serve healthcare facilities across northern Nigeria, but it doesn't use the sort of specialized health care software in U.S. or even everyday database software. There's no Kaiser software. And no Microsoft. The system is based on OpenMRS, an open source health records system designed specifically for use in underdeveloped regions.
I like using Twitter. I tolerate Facebook because I have to. And I'm on Google+ because everyone says I should be. So that has left little time to give love to my profile on LinkedIn, which is, depending on how you look at it, either the biggest niche social network or the smallest of the big, all-encompassing social networks.
Bug hunter credited with finding bugs in software from big tech firms is Norwegian teen. Read this blog post by Elinor Mills on InSecurity Complex.
Some smart phone manufacturers don't allow their devices to be used in cold weather while others guarantee smooth functioning even in -20 degrees Celsius (-3 degrees Fahrenheit).
WordPress finally has a unified dashboard to manage multiple blogs. ManageWP is the sort of thing that should have been available a long time ago.
On the same day that Facebook announced its IPO, the FoodSpotting app dished up a few new offerings. Now it creates a personalized picture menu for you, the FoodSpotting user, delivering "smart dish recommendations" based on what you like. The "filter wheel" categorizes food into dishes that you want to try and have already tried, and those you hope to never eat again; you can also see how your friends feel about various dishes. FoodSpotting connects to your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare and Instagram accounts so you can immediately share any food photo you've taken. You can also cruis
Google TV devices from Sony received an update based on Android Honeycomb 3.2 this week, and Logitech's Revue will be updated in the near future. This is the last major update for the platform before Ice Cream sandwich, which is rumored to come before year's end.
A 28-year old man from Comstock Park, Michigan, has been arrested and charged with criminal copyright infringement. Yonjo Quiroa is the alleged operator of nine of the sixteen streaming related domain names that were seized a few hours ago as part of 'Operation Fake Sweep'.
In its IPO filing Facebook mentioned the word "mobile" 123 times, but didn't use the term in positive ways. In fact, Facebook’s S-1 filing is one big warning to investors: its growth is being driven by user behavior that it has so far failed to monetize.
