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The Biggest Web Outages of 2011It’s been a notable year for Web outages. From Netflix going down at extremely inopportune times, to Amazon Web Services’ multi-day breakdown in the spring, Internet services are still seemingly as unreliable as ever. SmartBear Software just published its list of the top Web ... The Biggest Web Outages of 2011 [VIDEO]It’s been a notable year for Web outages. From Netflix going down at extremely inopportune times, to Amazon Web Services’ multi-day breakdown in the spring, Internet services are still seemingly as unreliable as ever. SmartBear Software just published its list of the top Web ... IBM Says We’ll Have Mind-Reading Computers Within Five YearsKeyboards and mice may seem like clunky artifacts of the past within the next five years, pushed aside in favor of the ultimate user interface: the human mind. That’s according to IBM, which just published its “5 in 5″ forecast: a prediction about five innovations that will fund... 5 Things Missing From the New TweetDeck for ChromeI like to install as few things on my PC as possible. That’s why when TweetDeck released an app for Google Chrome in Dec. 2010, it was an epiphany. No need to run another program in the background. Simply flick open a new browser tab and bam: Your Twitter columns are there in all their HTM... Facebook Completes Move Into New Menlo Park HeadquartersFacebook officially finished moving into its gleaming new headquarters on Monday as a final group of employees reported for work at the company’s recently acquired Menlo Park campus. As Facebook prepares for an IPO reported to be coming as early as next April, the 57-acre campus will prov... Today’s Top Stories: IBM Predicts the Future, Sony Apologizes, Google Invests in SolarWelcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories. Google Invests $94 Million in Solar Energy Google has invested $94 million in four so... Amazon: 13 Major Milestones of 2011The year 2011 was especially prosperous and successful for Amazon, partly due to the company’s popular Kindle ebooks, but also because Amazon introduced its first Android-based tablet, the Kindle Fire. Just five days after Amazon announced the new tablet in September, customers pre-ordered... Apple Wins Patent Victory Over Android, but Does It Matter?Apple was just handed potentially its biggest victory yet in its ongoing patent lawsuits with Google Android. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled today that Android devices that display phone numbers in a specific way should be banned for violating Apple’s patents. The rulin... Mashable Weekend Recap: 28 Stories You May Have MissedAs the highly anticipated holidays drew ever nearer, over the weekend people were thinking about shopping, snowflakes, Santa Claus and parties galore. Amid all that chaos, quotable and notable Mashable things were happening around here, and we stayed on top of them for you. For instance, Google s... Self-Employed? How to Give Yourself a Raise in 2012Here’s a hypothetical (yet common) situation: Sara is a brilliant web designer who has never raised her client rates. Not once. Sure, she signs on new clients more often, but her existing clientele enjoy some kind of unwritten grandfather clause that has maintained the same rates since 2002... |