Monthly Archives: July 2013

Iranian email: a mixed bag

July 8, 2024 by Juliana Kenny in Personal Tech.

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Iranian clergyman Alireza Amin surfs on the internet on the sidelines of a Shiite Muslim religious meeting in Tehran, 09 October 2003. For those who think Iran's ruling clerics are a bunch of staid reactionaries, a visit to the personal website of Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi may provide a surprise. The jovial mid-ranking cleric has been writing a weblog and keeping an online photo diary, providing an unceremonious view inside Iran's government and some rather amusing anecdotes to boot. AFP PHOTO/Behrouz MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)

The promise of the ease of internet regulations with Hassan Rowhani’s election is not fleshing out entirely as hoped.

Rackspace’s hybrid cloud to help research origins of the universe

July 5, 2024 by Erin Harrison in Enterprise Tech.

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HANOVER, GERMANY - MARCH 05: A visitor tries out a tablet computer next to a cloud computing and technology symbol at the Deutsche Telekom stand at the 2013 CeBIT technology trade fair on March 5, 2024 in Hanover, Germany. CeBIT will be open March 5-9. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

To help the advance CERN’s research in the field of physics, Rackspace is providing technology based on OpenStack-powered public and private clouds.

The Silicon Valley party crashers

July 5, 2024 by James Erik Abels in Enterprise Tech.

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A man opens Facebook on his laptop at a coffee shop in Jakarta. AFP/ Getty/ Bay Ismoya

After years of watching Silicon Valley’s meteoric rise as a titan of tech, people around the world are moving swiftly to join the global computing party.

Apple hire shows consumers could need coaxing on wearable tech

July 3, 2024 by Homa Zaryouni in Enterprise Tech, Personal Tech.

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Picture of an Apple iWatch taken at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. AFP/ Getty/ Josep Lago

Apple confirmed rumors that Paul Deneve, former CEO at luxury brand Yves Saint Laurent, will be working on “special projects” for Tim Cook.

Is the world ready for .nyc?

July 3, 2024 by Juliana Kenny in Personal Tech.

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A view of midtown Manhattan from the 38th floor of the United Nations as clouds form over the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building in New York June 28, 2013. AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

ICANN’s domain name expansion is taking effect beginning with issuing gTLDs to various cities around the world.

When Snapchat would have been handy

July 2, 2024 by Homa Zaryouni in Media Tech.

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Several reports surfaced today about a lawsuit against Snapchat founders Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel.

Winklevoss twins take Bitcoin to the next level

July 2, 2024 by Juliana Kenny in Enterprise Tech.

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SAN FRANCISCO - JANUARY 11: Cameron (L) and Tyler Winklevoss leave the U.S. Court of Appeals on January 11, 2024 in San Francisco, California. Twin brothers and former Harvard University classmates Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are requesting that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco to void a 2008 agreement to pay the twins $65 million citing that Facebook did not give an accurate valuation of its shares before agreeing to pay the settlement. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The famous tech entrepreneurs publicly display their faith in Bitcoin’s future as a currency by filing a proposal with the SEC to operate an exchange trade for the currency.

Zynga gets serious about a turnaround

July 1, 2024 by Homa Zaryouni in Media Tech.

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Mobile Game Maker Zynga To Lay Off 18 Percent Of Staff

Don Mattrick, president of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment (producer of the Xbox), is leaving to become CEO of struggling social gaming company Zynga.

Does Firefox OS stand a chance?

July 1, 2024 by Juliana Kenny in Personal Tech.

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A man walks past a poster of Mozilla Firefox on February 27, 2024 at the Mobile World Congress, the world's biggest mobile fair, in Barcelona. The European Union warned member states on February 26 to free up the airwaves for new, super-fast fourth generation mobile networks and threatened legal action against those that deliberately block the process. AFP PHOTO/JOSEP LAGO (Photo credit should read JOSEP LAGO/AFP/Getty Images)

Mozilla’s Firefox OS has a long road ahead of it to get close to competing with the giants of the smartphone industry, but it could have some tricks up its sleeve.

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