In case you missed Apple’s [AAPL] announcement yesterday about this, there is going to be the option (for you) to try to stream today’s conference live. However, you need to be using a Mac powered with OS X 10.6 or an iOS 4 device, in order to have HTTP live streaming support for the live [...]
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Here’s a poignant tale of blogosphere social media desires, romance, intrigue, deception, betrayal, and redemption, by Leo Laporte. “Er, what?!?”
The Setup For a few years now, Starbucks [SBUX] has been offering free Wi-Fi access to two groups of people: qualified AT&T wireless customers, and Starbucks Card holders. While it has worked well for the “in” people, it has been a point of mild consternation for those who have not been inclined to get a [...]
In the wake of the FTC approval coming down the ‘pike for Google’s [GOOG] deal to acquire AdMob, Google changes its main page to include a functional online Pac-Man game in place of its customary Google logo. This commemorates Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary, and curiously, the game map spells out “Google”… So if you’re in the [...]
As of a few minutes ago, it appears that YouTube [GOOG] has returned from the depths of unavailability to once again provide its video content to the masses. While it may be a bit too soon to tell if this is a momentary blast of access, as part of a longer period of intermittent system [...]
People who have been looking forward to browsing the various YouTube [GOOG] videos today have been confronted with the ominous “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” message, which often accompanies a Web service outage or access blockage. This condition has been present for the past several hours, and there is thus far no further information about the severe [...]
Yesterday, while Javamancy and Javamancy mini were chugging happily away, servicing you, our kind readers, WordPress.com had apparently suffered a multi-hour system outage. According to Matt M., this unexpected downtime impacted about 10.2M (that’s millions!) blogs that are serviced by his WordPress.com service, including their VIP subscribers. Fortunately, it seems that WordPress.com is up and [...]
Wow… you heard the plans from Microsoft [MSFT] that they were going to launch a retail store, a la Apple [AAPL], going as far as to woo Apple Retail Store employees, especially managers, from Apple. And with the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft has executed their plan with their first outlet in Scottsdale, Arizona. Management [...]
