Archive for May 2011

The Drill Down 183 – The New Viewership

This week Tom Cheredar and Andrew Sorcini are joined by Devindra Hardawar, writer for VentureBeat and co-host of the Symbiotek & Slashfilmcast podcasts. We discuss the effect the bin Laden raid had on global twitter traffic (and one tweeter in particular), Sony gets hit with a second round of security breaches, Apple updates their iMacs, [...]

The Drill Down 182 – Hacked and Tracked

This week, we discuss Facebook’s new Send button and Social Deals, YouTube’s founders rescue Delicious, Yahoo launches Video on Demand, HBO launches Go for mobile, Marvel announces a free-to-play MMO, Apple’s white iPhone is thicker, and Apple buys iCloud.com Later we drill down into the breach of Sony’s Playstation Network and its 77 million victims. [...]

Is the cloud the future of low-wage labor?

The following is a guest post. If you’d like to contribute your own point of view on technology, social media or geek culture,  feel free to send your submission to submissions@thedrilldown.com Amazon is a leader in the cloud-computing world with a wide range of services from on-the-fly computing power to large scale data hosting to [...]