Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service went offline this morning for an extended period of time — the second big outage at the service this year. In February, Amazon...
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S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services
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Iraq Soldier's Mother Talks About Son's Suicide (WATCH)
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A Veterans Affairs emailed leaked to the public reported that an estimated 1,000 suicides attempts per month were being reported at VA medical facilities by Veterans....
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Live streaming the Akihabara Massacre
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What happens when you put laptops, digital cameras, high-speed wireless cards, and Ustream accounts into the hands of two curious young net users in the technology mecca...
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Techie Hall of Shame
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Filed under: newsIn the aftermath of [Terry Childs], the jailed disgruntled software engineer who created a God password and effectively locked San Francisco officials...
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Why Blair would keep Tim Ambrose at six - and Brown wouldn’t
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You may have disagreed strongly with the idea of Tim Ambrose batting at number six, but the thing is, it’s done now. Whenever you mess around with something as...
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Valley Has Lost A Third Of Its Public Companies Since 2000 [Silicon Alley Insider]
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The number of public companies in the Silicon Valley has shrunk by a third since 2000, the San Jose Mercury News reports. That brings the total number to 260. We're...
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Internet In Peace, Three Days Mourning For The Victims Of Earthquake
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As a Chinese, as a son of Chengdu, Sichuan, the past week has been really tough for me. Tears is in my eyes everyday when I am watching BBC news, reading reports online....
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What Next in the *No* Microhoo aftermath?
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Continued from Microsoft Surprises -- withdraws Yahoo! acquisition bidEnd winner of a *No* Microhoo -- is Google in the short and mid-term.Google is becoming the...
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Drugs, Bugs, and IE8
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If there’s a downside to becoming a cyborg, it’s the aftermath. I’m not talking about the dystopian corporate-state shenanigans: those are fully...
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Why I became a news photographer - continued
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 I covered the aftermath of an earthquake years ago as a new-comer to the business. I was living in Rome and we had felt the quake as it struck a moutainous region...
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Due Warning
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I am flying to Islamabad on Saturday, for a week, to cover the Pakistani election and it’s immediate street-level aftermath, in words and pictures. Links to the...
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STW Challenge: Dirty Dishes
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I know it’s late, but hopefully this months theme will be pretty straightforward for everyone. You all have dirty dishes, right? I know I do, piling up in my sink...
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NYTimes asks its readers to help it report the Cyclone in Myanmar
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It's a new world: NYTimes.com is asking readers inside Myanmar to help report on the disaster by sending in photographs, video or written accounts of the storm and its...
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Knife Crime
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Four people were stabbed to death on my sector (the North East) yesterday. I’ve been on nights this week, so I was only really involved in the Walthamstow and...