Nokia has thrown in with Windows Phone 7 to try and have some impact in the smartphone universe. Steven Elop, a former Microsoft executive and now CEO of Nokia, made the announcement today in London.
Reactions are mixed, of course, but Nokia stock has taken a beating, and about 1,000 Nokia employees have reportedly [...]
When I joined Google in 2001 I never imagined—even in my wildest dreams—that we would get as far, as fast as we have today. Search has quite literally changed people’s lives—increasing the collective sum of the world’s knowledge and revolutionizing advertising in the process. And our emerging businesses—display, Android, YouTube and [...]
Twitter is warning that the World Cup could lead to outages, after a week in which the site has been up and down like a soccer ball.
The fail whale has made regular appearances over the last week, as an internal network hit capacity. it had apparently put two critical, fast-growing, high-bandwith [...]
The Earth may be about to move into a million-degree cloud of interstellar gas, according to Polish and US scientists.
They suggest that the Ribbon of enhanced emissions of Energetic Neutral Atoms, discovered last year by NASA Small Explorer satellite IBEX, could be explained by the fact that we’re approaching the boundary [...]
Kevin Costner may be too old to dance with the wolves, but he is apparently young enough to help clean up a disastrous oil spill off the Louisiana coast.
According to the NY Daily News, the aging Hollywood star has managed to convince British Petroleum (BP) to test his oil-cleaning device in [...]
As Mississippi reels from a devastating tornado that killed at least ten people, including a 3-month-old baby, Atlanta, Georgia is under a tornado watch. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour said that Yazoo City was in a state of utter obliteration and declared a state of emergency.
Now those in Atlanta, Georgia and neighboring cities [...]
The search engine’s logo has been replaced with an inky black sky with the word “Google” written across it. The Hubble telescope takes the place of the word’s two Os.
Hovering one’s mouse pointer over the image brings up the words “20th Anniversary of Hubble Telescope Launch by NASA”. Clicking on it brings up the Google [...]
Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future.
Earth Day 2010 can [...]
HP representatives are being accused of bribery through a German subsidiary to Russian prosecutors.
Russian authorities have searched a Hewlett-Packard Co. office in Moscow in what one news report said was a bribery investigation.
HP confirmed the search but wouldn’t provide further details.
