Flickr posted on their blog yesterday that they are now in search of new employees. This, of course, flies in the face of rumors that Yahoo is looking to shutter some their properties. Names that have been bandied about have included Delicious, Yahoo Buzz, and even Flickr. Clearly though, Flickr is alive and well and looking to move forward and
Britain's The Telegraph was one of a few organisations to be given early access to the iPad before its launch and Tim Rowell, Director of Mobile Product Development at the Telegraph, reports on some of the thinking that went on as the team developed the first apps for it. Initially, it appears that the plans were for a "all encompassing
The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism has released its eighth annual of State of the News Media 2011, a fascinating review of the news media over the past year, showing that news has reached a tipping point (if it hasn't already tipped) with more news read on-line than in print. In the last year alone, on-line news reading grew
Like millions of others, I’ve been glued to news sources to get as much current information as I can about the ongoing disasters in Japan following the massive earthquake, tsunami and ongoing nuclear plant disasters. This has to be the biggest natural disaster that has occurred in my lifetime. In pre-Internet days, we had to rely on newspapers and television
An interactive map, called the Canterbury Incident Map, is online providing information for victims of the recent Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake. The clickable map gives information on what bridges are open, water distribution centers, road closures, aftershock locations, supermarket locations, and more. The map also provides some insight for the rest of the world by displaying geotagged Flickr photos and
If you haven't seen how small Shuttle's XS35 series of ultra small PCs are, then you need to look more closely at the picture on the left. The PC is the unit stuck to the back of the monitor. The XS3510M is now available with a Blu-ray player making this a full hi-def media device. Powered by Intel's dual-core Atom
A lot of people are saying RSS Readers are dead - or on life-support, but I certainly don't think so. In fact I use one more now than I ever did. Sure, breaking news may be easier to find on Twitter, but that does not cover most of what we are all interested in. You won't find, at least not