الثلاثاء، 20 ديسمبر 2011

The Biggest Web Outages of 2011

Please click here if the email below is not displayed correctly.
Mashable
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

The Biggest Web Outages of 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011 10:10 PM
It's been a notable year for Web outages. From Netflix going down at extremely inopportune times, to Amazon Web Services' multi-day breakdown in the spring, Internet services are still seemingly as unreliable as ever. SmartBear Software just...



20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week [CHART]
Monday, December 19, 2011 9:47 PM
It seems that people nowadays can't watch cable television or streamed video content without contemplating a corresponding hashtag or status update. And judging from our social TV charts, it seems the more current the event, the more important...



IBM Says We'll Have Mind-Reading Computers Within Five Years
Monday, December 19, 2011 9:37 PM
Keyboards and mice may seem like clunky artifacts of the past within the next five years, pushed aside in favor of the ultimate user interface: the human mind. That's according to IBM, which just published its "5 in 5" forecast: a prediction...



5 Things Missing From the New TweetDeck for Chrome
Monday, December 19, 2011 9:23 PM
I like to install as few things on my PC as possible. That's why when TweetDeck released an app for Google Chrome in Dec. 2010, it was an epiphany. No need to run another program in the background. Simply flick open a new browser tab and bam:...



Facebook Completes Move Into New Menlo Park Headquarters
Monday, December 19, 2011 8:54 PM
Facebook officially finished moving into its gleaming new headquarters on Monday as a final group of employees reported for work at the company's recently acquired Menlo Park campus. As Facebook prepares for an IPO reported to be coming as early...



Amazon: 13 Major Milestones of 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011 8:25 PM
The year 2011 was especially prosperous and successful for Amazon, partly due to the company's popular Kindle ebooks, but also because Amazon introduced its first Android-based tablet, the Kindle Fire. Just five days after Amazon announced the...



Apple Wins Patent Victory Over Android, but Does It Matter?
Monday, December 19, 2011 8:03 PM
Apple was just handed potentially its biggest victory yet in its ongoing patent lawsuits with Google Android. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled today that Android devices that display phone numbers in a specific way should be...



Flickr 2011: The Year in Photos
Monday, December 19, 2011 7:11 PM
2011 has been a year of memorable news headlines, from natural disasters to final space shuttle missions to historic deaths. Flickr has pieced together the story of the year in 18 photographs taken around the world by users of the photo-sharing...



Self-Employed? How to Give Yourself a Raise in 2012
Monday, December 19, 2011 6:42 PM
Here's a hypothetical (yet common) situation: Sara is a brilliant web designer who has never raised her client rates. Not once. Sure, she signs on new clients more often, but her existing clientele enjoy some kind of unwritten grandfather clause...



MTV's 'Power of 12' Campaign Creates Fantasy Political Election Game
Monday, December 19, 2011 6:15 PM
MTV just unleashed Power of 12, a campaign designed to get 18- to 29-year-olds fired up about the 2012 U.S. elections. Unlike previous campaigns -- dubbed "Choose or Lose" since 1992 -- the renamed initiative features a fantasy football-like...



This Is Why You Were Friended or Unfriended [STUDY]
Monday, December 19, 2011 5:34 PM
While some Internet interactions are online-only relationships, the most common reason we add friends on Facebook is because we know people in real life. According to recent research from NM Incite, for 82% of Facebook users, knowing someone...



The AT&T T-Mobile Deal Is Officially Dead
Monday, December 19, 2011 5:20 PM
AT&T said today it was abandoning its plan to acquire T-Mobile. In a statement, AT&T said it had agreed with Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile's owner to end its bid to buy the company for $39 billion. AT&T said it had thoroughly reviewed all its...



Cornell Wins Bid for New York City Tech Campus
Monday, December 19, 2011 5:11 PM
Cornell University has been chosen by New York City to build a technology campus on Roosevelt Island with a grant of city-owned land and $100 million. The campus Cornell proposed will occupy 2.1 million square feet, accommodate up to 2,500...



Who's Tweeting About Holiday Travel? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Monday, December 19, 2011 5:05 PM
Traveling this holiday season? Whether it's by train, plane or automobile, you're not alone. Twitter is abuzz with more than just complaints about flight delays, lengthy layovers and traffic jams -- many of you are also tweeting about your travel...



Flirting With Danger: More Drivers Texting on the Road Than Ever
Monday, December 19, 2011 4:39 PM
Despite various state law bans and nationwide awareness campaigns to prevent texting from behind the wheel, the amount of people texting while driving is actually on the rise, a new study suggests. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety...



 
Manage Subscriptions   Login to Follow   Jobs   About Us   Advertise   Privacy Policy

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to it from Mashable.com.
Click here to unsubscribe
to future Mashable Newsletters. We're sorry to see you go, though.

© 2011 Mashable. All rights reserved. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited

ليست هناك تعليقات:

إرسال تعليق