“San Francisco start-up Seesmic laid off 18 employees this week, bringing its staff down to 15 people.” (Source: Seesmic Lays Off Half Its Staff As It Pivots to Social Cross-Posting – Liz Gannes – Social – AllThingsD.)
TechGrid Staff
“Consumers aren’t the only ones clamoring to get their hands on the latest Apple iPad. The Department of Interior aims to be the first federal agency to use the device, with plans to purchase 20 of the third-generation iPads, which were released Friday.”
“In a very strange move, some members of hacker group Anonymous have released their own distribution of the Linux operating system, complete with hacker tools for “testing the security of web sites”.”
“It appears that hackers who breached Sony’s networks last year absconded with more than just the personal information of millions of Sony Play Station users. They also stole more than 50,000 music files, including Michael Jackson’s entire back catalogue of published music, as well as previously unreleased tracks.”
I’ve been playing around with an Android Galaxy Nexus running ICS and have been overly impressed. The operating system is polished and has a intuitive workflow. Increasingly, I’ve been thinking about the utility of using a phone as a desktop (after watching the YouTube video below). It seems that the fantasy is now a reasonable [...]
“The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency told software vendors on Tuesday that it plans to revolutionize the way it does business with them as part of a race to keep up with the blazing pace of technology advances.”
“At long last, the Holy Grail of Internet IPOs is here. Facebook filed Wednesday to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering. In 2011, Facebook earned $1 billion on sales of $3.7 billion. As of December 31, Facebook had 845 million daily active users.”
“American Airlines told its unions Wednesday it plans to cut 13,000 jobs from the staff of 88,000 at the nation’s No. 3 airline.” (Source: American Airlines: We’ll have ‘many fewer’ jobs – Feb. 1, 2012.)
“In one of the U.S. government’s largest anti-piracy crackdowns ever, federal agents on Thursday arrested the leaders of and shut down Megaupload.com, a popular hub for illegal media downloads.”
” Eastman Kodak, the once mighty icon of the photography industry, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday.” (Source: Eastman Kodak files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection – Jan. 19, 2012.)
