As the city deals with the Sandy aftermath, data center companies in Manhattan are doing their best to keep servers online. But even if they fail, they're not taking the Internet down with them.
On this day in history, Galileo was forced to recant his Sun-centric theory, Pluto's moon Charon was discovered, and Virgin Atlantic flew its first transatlantic flight. What's today's news? Read on:
An Apple patent gives us some clues about the cloud-based iTunes we're all expecting any moment now--namely, how it'll make streaming content a seamless experience.
Apple may be about to embrace Nuance's clever voice recognition tech to power its future iPhone OS, relying on its as-yet-unused North Carolina data center to host all the code in the cloud.
"The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I'm vertical." And one of those plans could be to catch up on the early news with iFive, to jump-start your morning.
The social network is hoping hardware companies will take a page from the software open source movement and collaborate to spur innovation. They might be disappointed.
iTunes music streaming has been rumored for a long while, but has never actually surfaced... But if you read between the lines of two pieces of news at the moment, it seems the time is finally ripe.
