When Facebook goes down, the Internet barely blinks/It'€™s official: The SIM card is shrinking!

When Facebook goes down, the Internet barely blinks                             
News PictureFacebook went down for a few hours last night, causing people to turn to Twitter to complain, quip and mourn. But despite the outsized reactions from the site’s 901 million users, the web itself barely felt the shock of losing the largest ..more





It'€™s official: The SIM card is shrinking!
News Picture ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, approved on Friday specifications for a SIM card even smaller than the micro SIM that Apple’s iPhone 4 first introduced in 2010. The new standard, called a nano-SIM, is the fo..more
Rumor: Apple working on standalone iSight camera?
News Picture The New iPad Buyers’ Guide published by iLounge this week included a piece that speculated Apple might be working on a standalone camera product. While the story discussed the possibility of Apple working on a point-and-shoot iSight c..more
Under Microsoft, Skype aims for billion users
News Picture Microsoft's Skype Internet telephone service hopes to quadruple the number of users to get to one billion, division president Tony Bates said on Thursday.

Bates, who heads the unit that was acquired byMicrosoft&nb..more
Google Promises To Unveil The 'Next Dimension Of Google Maps'€ Next Week
News Picture The online mapping space is quickly heating up. What used to be a relatively straightforward competition between Google and Microsoft (with OpenStreetMap and a few other smaller players standing on the sidelines) will likely become a far more complex..more
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