Twitter did not crash and the Super Bowl became the most tweeted sporting event in history, averaging more than 10,000 tweets per second.
That wasn't all that surprising: continued growth of the social network, not to mention tablet and smartphone technology that make it easier to tweet while watching television, means that record will probably be broken several times between now and next year's Super Bowl.
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What was surprising, however, is how many of the tweets had nothing to do with the game: we have only anecdotal evidence so far, but many of the most popular tweets dealt with commercials. Full story...
Just a month after announcing its plans to devour hit app Instagram to the tune of $1 billion, Facebook has released its very own photo sharing app.
There’s a lot of money in poor people.
The ownCloud project is adding features fast and furiously.
Axis, Yahoo's "new kind of browser" that launched yesterday, is an attempt to do something noble and important.
Today's theme is real artists ship. Everyone wants their tech to be fun.
Today the X Prize Foundation announced a $2.
It is time for another look at enterprise IT from our friends Chief and Chuck.
If your boss asked you to identify all of the various SaaS-based providers that are being used across your corporate network, how long would it take you to put together a report? This isn't academic: As more of your end-users sign up for these cloud-based services, it becomes increasingly harder to maintain the appropriate enterprise security policies as the number and kinds of files stored there increases.
Social scientists are increasingly looking at online friendships and trying to figure out if they carry the same emotional baggage that real-world friendships do.
PayPal co-founder and Facebook pre-IPO stockholder Peter Thiel
Facebook's tainted public offering, which has attracted the attention of federal securities investigators, has grown a bit darker with the filing of a class-action lawsuit.