Undisputed patent king IBM sets its scientists to work on ‘big data’

January 10, 2013 10:14 AM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

For the 20th consecutive year, IBM has held its ground as the king of patents. And it will now devote considerable resources to big data and analytics technologies.

Twitter’s Biz Stone teams up with Ron Howard for a movie inspired by your tweets (video)

September 24, 2012 2:01 PM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

Twitter cofounder Biz Stone has asked millions of Twitter users to submit inspiring photos, which he will use as inspiration in a short film that he'll direct under the tutelage of Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard.

iPhone 4S already the second most popular cameraphone on Flickr

November 22, 2011 1:09 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Apple’s fast-selling iPhone 4S is now the second-most used cameraphone on the popular photo-sharing service Flickr, according to the site’s Camera Finder page.

The iPhone 4 is actually the most-popular camera of all on Flickr now, but the iPhone 4S …