San Francisco - One of the top technology pundits in the blogosphere said Thursday that he planned to take a break after receiving a death threat and being spat at during a tech conference.
Michael Arrington, whose TechCrunch blog is one of the most influential forums in the technology world, announced his decision in a blog posting from a conference in Munich.
"Someone walked up to me and quite deliberately spat in my face," Arrington wrote. "Before I even understood what was happening, he veered off into the crowd."
San Francisco - Police were on Monday investigating why a man opened fire on a line of teenagers waiting to enter a nightclub, killing two teenage girls and wounding seven others before shooting himself in the head.
The incident took place Saturday night in Portland, Oregon. The perpetrator was named as Erik Salvador Ayala, 24, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
San Francisco - US President Barack Obama is to get an ultra-secure smartphone so that he can keep up with emails on the go, according to a report Thursday in Atlantic magazine.
Obama has been an avid user of a Blackberry RIM for years, but security concerns meant that he could not keep a standard smartphone as president for fear that his communications would be hacked or his whereabouts revealed.
San Francisco - The inauguration of US President Barack Obama was greeted by an instantaneous avalanche of chatter and commentary on the internet.
But the web team of the new leader was not far behind. In fact, by many measures, it beat not only the bloggers but also the president himself.
At precisely 12:01 pm local time, pictures of Obama and his family appeared on the home page of the president's website Whitehouse. gov alongside four features, under the headline Change Has Come to America
San Francisco/Park City - Sales and attendances at the Sundance Film Festival have both slipped this year due to the flagging economy, while the overriding interest in the inauguration of Barack Obama as the US president has also diverted attention from the festival, trade paper Variety reported Monday.
San Francisco - Apple's final appearance at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco in early January was a mixture of heightened expectations, bittersweet farewells and a few titbits about new Apple products.
Michael Gartenberg, an expert from Jupitermedia, said expectations of a major announcement, as usual, were unrealistic. He noted that Mac enthusiasts have grown used to Steve Jobs, the head of Apple, using the keynote speech at the event to unveil yet another breakthrough product.
San Francisco - One of the top technology pundits in the blogosphere said Thursday that he planned to take a break after receiving a death threat and being spat at during a tech conference.
San Francisco - Police were on Monday investigating why a man opened fire on a line of teenagers waiting to enter a nightclub, killing two teenage girls and wounding seven others before shooting himself in the head.
San Francisco - US President Barack Obama is to get an ultra-secure smartphone so that he can keep up with emails on the go, according to a report Thursday in Atlantic magazine.
San Francisco - The inauguration of US President Barack Obama was greeted by an instantaneous avalanche of chatter and commentary on the internet.
San Francisco/Park City - Sales and attendances at the Sundance Film Festival have both slipped this year due to the flagging economy, while the overriding interest in the inauguration of Barack Obama as the US president has also diverted attention from the festival, trade paper Variety reported Monday.
San Francisco - Apple's final appearance at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco in early January was a mixture of heightened expectations, bittersweet farewells and a few titbits about new Apple products.
