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Scaling a website up to the size of a Twitter or a Facebook brings its own set of problems These problems aren't always like those that crop up in moderately large sites -- they're unique to these massive, hyperscale systems....

Media conglomerate News Corp. is working to create a daily news publication intended for distribution only on iPad devices, according to reports To be called "The Daily," the iNewspaper will apparently be launched next year....

Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee, largely credited with inventing the World Wide Web and its open source, barrier-free information distribution model, worries in a new Scientific American essay that the Web's most successful inhabitants are gradually chipping away at its "egalitarian" foundations "The Web as we know it is being threatened," Berners...

Netflix is favoring the trend toward streaming rental videos by introducing a streaming-only plan and raising its prices for discs delivered by mail. The company has launched a monthly subscription plan for streaming-only at US$7.99 The cost for a combo of streaming-video plus mail delivery will increase a dollar to $9.99 per month for the one...

Social networking began as a fascination of the young on college campuses, but it has grown to embrace all age groups all over the world. It's a phenomenon with a potential that's barely been scratched, especially in business. Barry Libert, though, would like to see that change, and he's ready to show companies how to do it ...

The Apple iTunes App Store has generated revenue of more than US$400 million revenue since its launch, according to analyst firm Piper Jaffray. Aside from being a successful online e-commerce solution for customers, the App Store has spurred tremendous innovation by Apple's development partners, which has made the iPod, iPhone and iPad the poster children of industry success stories...

Salesforce.com's Service Cloud 2, a Web-based platform designed to help companies handle their customer service needs, includes integration with Salesforce Chatter, the service provider's new real-time collaboration tool "Service Cloud is the fasting-growing product offering," Fergus Griffin, vice president of product marketing at Salesforce.com, t...

This Friday is Black Friday. Well, we could probably call November Black Friday month, since many of the retailers started their discounting efforts last week. There will be an incredible number of deals to be had, based on some of the leaked information from megavendors like Best Buy. I think that having a strategy and some guidelines on how to...

Salesforce.com is planning to release a free version of its real-time social collaboration application and platform, Chatter, according to comments CEO Marc Benioff made during the company's recent earnings call Specifically, the company is working on "a kind of virally based" product, he said. The company plans to introduce it at Dreamforce, which...

Salesforce.com stock shares soared 17 percent Friday morning to an all-time high in response to its fiscal third-quarter earnings report released Thursday afternoon. In the report, Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff said he believes the company will reach US$2 billion in revenue in fiscal 2012, making it the first cloud computing company to achieve that mark...

China this week sentenced online activist Cheng Jiangping to one year in a labor camp for retweeting a message urging an attack on the Japanese pavilion at the recently concluded Shanghai Expo, according to Amnesty International UK News of the sentence comes as tension within China over the country's relationship with Japan grows....

Until now, planets known to humans have never wandered into the Milky Way galaxy. However, Friday's announcement that planet HIP 13044b entered our galaxy hitched to a giant star called HIP 13044 has astronomers rethinking how -- and where -- planets form "This is an exciting discovery," said Max Planck Institute for Astronomy researcher Rainer Kle...

MySpace and Facebook -- bitter enemies until Facebook left MySpace far in the dust -- have announced new and tighter integrations between the two. The announcement constituted a tacit, but completely unnecessary, concession by MySpace that the social networking wars were over and that Facebook was the undisputed victor. Now MySpace will concentrate on the niche in which it does have a clear strength, music social sharing...

Memo to Larry Ellison: The Roman Coliseum halted gladiator combats around 435 A.D. SAP has thrown in the towel and has no interest in continuing a court battle. HP executives are refusing to accept service on your subpoenas, and HP's newly named chief executive Leo Apotheker is lying low, presumably dodging your increasingly vituperative verbal assaults. You've got no takers for the bloody, bare knuckles brawl you crave. What does that tell you? ...

Selling teams continue searching for ways to reduce the amount of time sales representatives spend uncovering relevant company or contact information before following up with the leads introduced to them within the pipeline. In December 2009 and January 2010, Aberdeen surveyed more than 500 executives from a variety of industries to learn about th...

Saying the Android platform is fast is an understatement. Within one short year, it's erupted from claiming a mere sliver of market share to taking second spot worldwide for smartphone sales by operating system, according to Gartner's figures Android had 25.5 percent of the worldwide smartphone market share in the third quarter of this year, Gartne...

As if scripted for a "Star Trek" episode, news of a real-life, real-time hologram instantly projected images of holodecks in many a sci-fi fan's head, only to be dashed and challenged and revived again. The action opened with an announcement that a technological breakthrough by researchers at The University of Arizona produces a true hologram -- one that can be viewed from any angle and without 3D glasses. Finally an image not projected CNN style, via bluescreen, but definitely, physically produced at a summoner's request. But wait, say the researchers.

OnLive has created an adapter that brings its cloud-based, instant-play video games to the TV -- and it's hoping to attract the whole family, not just the hardcore male gamer, to partake in the action OnLive is taking orders now for its MicroConsole and an accompanying OnLive Wireless Controller. The US$99 bundle, which includes any free game ...

Verizon is reportedly toying with a model for tiered pricing for wireless customers who use its upcoming fourth-generation LTE cellular network, considering ways to charge customers differently for different data speeds as well as different monthly data limits Company CFO Fran Shammo told The Wall Street Journal that customers might either get slow...

Physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva have created the stuff of "Star Trek" for the first time ever: genuine antimatter A 17-member team announced the production and preservation of 38 antihydrogen atoms. Physicists Emilio Segre and Owen Chamberlain of the University California, Berkeley, earned the 1959 Nobe...