Diaspora social network co-founder dies at age 22
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the 22-year-old co-founder of privacy-focused social network <a href="http://diasporafoundation.org/">Diaspora</a>, has died in San Francisco.
Stories by Bob Brown
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Twitter research: It's where the money and action is
Two professors from Wellesley College’s Department of Computer science have been awarded a nearly half million dollar National Science Foundation grant to build an application that gauges the trustworthiness of information shared on social networks, and in particular Twitter.
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Accel buys into Big Data hype with $100 million venture fund
Accel Partners launched a $100 million Big Data Fund at the sold-out Hadoop World conference in New York in an effort to help start-ups exploit new data types expected to dominate computing and networks for years to come.
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Bloodiest tech industry layoffs of 2011
Job cuts in the US technology industry in 2011 are down significantly from a year ago and turnover levels in IT shops have returned to pre-recessionary levels, but that doesn’t make the tens of thousands of people in the United States who have been laid off from electronics, telecommunications and computer industry jobs feel much better.
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Siri, did your co-founder just quit Apple?
The co-founder of Siri, the company Apple bought last year and whose technology powers the sophisticated voice control features of its new iPhone 4S, has reportedly left Apple to pursue other interests.
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Researchers customize Android for sophisticated smartphone lockdown
<a href="http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2011/10/101711-outreach-cybersecurephones.html">Virginia Tech researchers</a> for the past month and a half have been working to customize Google’s Android software to lock down smartphones so that sensitive data isn’t exposed once a user leaves approved locations. They’re hopeful the technology – part of a project dubbed GhostBox -- will be production-ready by year-end.
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Researchers knuckle down and tap into super-sensitive touchscreens
Now that you’ve got the basics down of using smartphone and tablet touchscreens, Carnegie Mellon University researchers are ready to take you to the next level.
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Emtech 2011: Big Boy FiOS, videoconferencing everywhere and lots of fresh ideas
Technology Review's annual <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/emtech/11/">Emtech</a> event at MIT always bursts with fresh-faced innovators awkwardly touting their world-changing breakthroughs. However, the 2011 event held this week at the new MIT Media Lab also includes plenty of established companies, from Google and IBM to Verizon and Polycom, promoting lots of new ideas backed by their significant financial and human resources.
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Apple flooded with more than 1 million memories of Steve Jobs
Apple, which today is holding a company-wide memorial for Steve Jobs, says that it has received more than 1 million messages from those recalling the company co-founder and former CEO in the wake of his death at the age of 56.
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1 in 6 UK mobile phones are poopy, study finds
New research out of England finds that 1 in 6 mobile phones there are contaminated with fecal matter, most likely due to poor hand washing habits.
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iPhone 4S sales top 4 million units over weekend
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/060309-apple-quiz.html">Apple</a>, whose online and physical stores were swamped Friday with demand for the new <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/120101-iphone-quiz.html">iPhone</a> 4S, says it sold more than 4 million of the new devices over the weekend.
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Dennis Ritchie, Father of Unix and C programming language, dead at 70
Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70.
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Why… delays… in… video calls just might be good for you
The next time you’re on a Google+ hangout or other video call, relish any computer- or network-based communications delays between you and the other participant. After all, such seemingly awkward and frustrating silences can actually enhance the conversation, according to research out of Ohio State University.
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Cellphone subscriptions outnumber people in U.S.
The CTIA has released survey data that shows the number of wireless subscriber connections now outnumbers the U.S. population, adding up to a wireless penetration rate of 103.9%.
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Steve Jobs being honored by Apple employees Oct. 19
Apple will formally honor co-founder Steve Jobs at an employee event at the company's Cupertino, Calif., campus on Oct. 19.
