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Inside The Datacenters Powering Six Top Social Sites

With the news that Twitter will be building its own managed data center, this article looks a bit more at the data center technology behind some of the top social sites and how they are applying innovative techniques, energy efficiency, and managing information.

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iPad makes powerful impact amongst businesses

Apple, known for courting consumers with sleek designs and easy-to-use software, is making inroads with corporations that say the iPad can make workers more productive without putting sensitive customer information at risk.

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360 Panorama: Panoramic iPhone Photography Made easy

Today, 360 Panorama was released for the iPhone, and it brings auto real time stitching into the practical realm of panoramic photography.

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Will Facebook Ever Be Replaced?

Much to its credit, Facebook (which may not even qualify as a start-up any longer) has stood firm in the rapid river that is the modern social web and has grown into one of the most powerful web properties online. Could it be that Facebook has found a unique formula that protects them from obsolescence and makes it irreplaceable?

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"Jersey Shore" Premiere's Social Media Impact [INFOGRAPHIC]

For those of us living in the U.S., it was nearly impossible to avoid the hype surrounding last night?s season two premiere of MTV?s Jersey Shore.With the premiere come and gone, we can now analyze the impact of the show on our favorite social media sites

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Twitter Rolls Out New 'Follow Suggestions' Feature

In comes a brand new Twitter feature (Tweature!). Starting today, Twitter will extend a hand by offering tailored suggestions of whom to follow.

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The 5 (Really) Cool Windows Tools You Might Need

There are so many software available out there that can make your windows PC performs better, getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing few great freeware tools for you to make your lives easier than ever. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.

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Twitter Now Suggests People You Might Want to Follow

Twitter Will Now Suggest People You Might Be Interested In StalkingIt can be tough to find fascinating people to follow on Twitter, but now and then you'll find someone whose tweets perfectly match your interests and you'll wish there were more people like that. Well, now Twitter will help you find those folks?if they exist.

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FBI rings up Defcon organizers over contest

A Defcon contest that invites contestants to trick employees at U.S. corporations into revealing not-so-sensitive data has rattled some nerves.

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Internet Explorer 9 Beta to Arrive in September

Microsoft today disclosed that version nine of its Internet Explorer Web browser will have a beta release in September.

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Students finally wake up to Facebook privacy issues

College students do care about Facebook privacy, it turns out, and their use of the service's privacy settings has skyrocketed between 2009 and 2010, according to two researchers.

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Digg Closes New Account Registration. New Digg is Nigh.

Either Digg hates new users or we're about to see the changeover to Digg v4.0. As of this morning, new account registration has closed for Digg. Attempting to create an account yields this message: "The New Digg Is Coming..."

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Apple Enters the Battery Game, Releases Battery Charger

Apple's got a new product, again, but this time it's not a computer, digital music device, or tablet, it's... a battery charger.

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Report: RIM unveiling 9.7 inch Blackpad in November

Apparently, RIM is gearing up to unveil a tablet sometime in November and guess what? It actually will be called the Blackpad.

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Flickr Creator Spins Addictive New Web Service

Connecting people to one another is not just Fake?s hobby ? she has made it her career. As the cofounder of Flickr, the landmark photography site, Fake provided a place for shutterbugs to share their work; they have uploaded more than 4 billion pictures. It was a seminal service that helped launch the era of user-generated content, spurring...

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The Robot That Visits Your Cubicle

When Trevor Blackwell, CEO of a company called Anybots, wants to know what his employees are up to, he sends a robot to their cubicles.

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Have a happy SysAdmin Day (despite the pay)

Today is the 11th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day, but IT workers who keep corporate desktops, servers and networks running won?t see a lot to celebrate in a new report that shows their pay dropping and more of their jobs being farmed out to even cheaper labor.

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Google search running again in China

Chinese users were temporarily unavailable to access search, but Google said the blockage may have been overestimated and that service appears back to normal.

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WordPress 3.0.1

After nearly 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in just 42 days, we?re releasing WordPress 3.0.1.

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Congress ponders privacy of your underwear, immortal soul

Senators compare the Internet to the world's creepiest mall, one where someone follows you into bookstores and ladies' lingerie shops, recording all of your purchases. Also, you may unwittingly lose your soul.

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Slashdot Struggles to Remain Relevant in The Social Web

"... Why is Slashdot almost irrelevant to the social media community? It used to be the biggest driver of traffic to tech web sites, but now it hardly delivers any traffic at all to them. We explore some of the reasons, including input from our own community. Slashdot Has Lost Users to Competitors. Much of the reason why Slashdot isn't ..."

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Answers.com Gets 200,000 Video Answers From 5Min

Every big publisher on the Web wants to be able to serve up ad-friendly videos, but creating them can be a pain. Answers.com has quietly launched Video Answerswith about 200,000 videos from video distribution network 5min on everything from home repair and fashion tips to cars and travel.

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20 Tips and Tricks to Become the Ultimate iPhoto Power User

20 helpful tips and tricks to totally utilize iPhoto's features and become the ultimate power user. Your friends will never look at your photo albums the same way.

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Ballmer: Killing the iPad is a "job one urgency"

Developing a Windows-based alternative to the iPad is a "job one urgency" at Microsoft, company chief Steve Ballmer said today during the annual Financial Analysts Meeting. He admitted that Microsoft was uncomfortable with how well iPads were selling and was tuning both its software and hardware partnerships to provide a competitive option.

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Brilliant Adobe Photoshop CS5 Tutorials From 2010

Adobe Photoshop CS5 is a new, but experienced kid on the block. With its new powerful features, it provides designers with a flexible tool for printing, making a video or designing for the Web. Some of the features added in Photoshop CS5 are Puppet Warp, 3D extrusions with Adobe Repoussé, smart radius feature, Content-Aware Fill to name a few.

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YouTube Increases Video Upload Length to 15 Minutes

Those of you looking for your 15 minutes of fame are in luck. YouTube announced Thursday that it has increased the maximum length of uploaded videos from 10 minutes to 15 minutes for all users.

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Droid X vs. iPhone 4: Spec Smackdown

From camera & multimedia to storage, take a look at the specs for the new Motorola Droid X and the latest iPhone 4.

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QWERTY Shoes [PIC]

Shoes for the fashion conscious geek......

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Seven Key Masters Have the Power to Restart the Internet

When that fateful day comes where you find yourself suddenly unable to harp on your fantasy league because the Internet has been hijacked, fear not. There's a plan for that.

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Google Plans To Make $10 Billion A Year From Mobile

In the second quarter of 2010, Google posted revenues $5.1 billion with advertising accounting for 96% of its revenues, 66% of its total revenue. Not intending to rely on traditional search advertising, Google is said to be readying a huge push into mobile with the aim of securing revenues of $10 billion a year with the help of its Android OS

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Best Safari 5 Extensions

Check out 10 of the best Safari 5 extensions, and how to enable them in Apple?s latest release of Safari.

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'Unhackable' Android can be hacked

Once thought to be unhackable, the Android phone is anything but, according to researchers presenting at Black Hat 2010.

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Youtube Increase Upload Limit to 15 Minutes

Without question, the number one requested feature by our creators is to upload videos longer than 10 minutes. We?ve heard you, and today we?re pleased to announce that we?ve increased the upload limit to 15 minutes.

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Tips to avoid ATM fraud at home and abroad

Never assume you're safe. Follow these tips before you cash out.

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Facebook To Birthday Pigs: 'F*ck You B*tches'

TechCrunch reader checks in to tell us he logged on to Facebook this morning and noticed that the list of his friends who are having their birthday today was preceded by a crude message.

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How the Ultimate Gaming PC Has Evolved in 15 Years

As we worked on this years 15th Dream Machine, we couldn't help but think about how far we've come. From the original 200MHz, 8MB-of-RAM 1996 Dream Machine up to this years 12-core, 24-thread, 24-gigs-of-RAM version, the ultimate computer has grown exponentially more powerful. But that's not much of a shocker (we've all heard about Moore's Law).

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50 Face-Numbingly Bad Websites [PICS]

The Internet has been around for a while now, and at this point we don't know what we'd do without it. Despite having ample time to adapt their sites to meet current trends and expectations, some people just don't get it. Here are 50 of the Web's most face-numbingly bad sites, all still active today.

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When phones are too big for pockets

Something weird is happening to mobile phones: After shrinking from enormous Zack Morris proportions in the '80s and '90s, they're getting bigger again. The Dell Streak, which is set to be released in the U.S. later this summer, is the biggest of the big-daddy phones so far, with a 5-inch screen.

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Apple's New Magic Trackpad: Not So New (PIC From 1997)

I remember using it back in 1997 with my 20th Anniversary...

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A Brief History of the Internet (Graphic)

A timeline of Interwebz progress.

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