The San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting and fun articlein which venture capitalists comment on ideas for startups that were submitted to the paper by its readers.
Yahoo!Tech reportsthat “Amazon.com's product search engine appeared to malfunction early Tuesday, with searches for well-known books and CDs producing no results. At approximately 2:30 a.m. ET, searches for ‘Stephen King’ and other terms on Amazon.com's bookstore returned the message, ‘Your search did not match any products.’ Comments by users on the Twitter microblogging service suggested the apparent outage may have begun around 2:00 a.m. ET, with users noting the Amazon.com search engine was not functioning properly.”
Similarly, Yahoo!Tech writes, “Google on Tuesday was scrambling to figure out what caused Gmail to crash, leaving millions of people worldwide without access to the free Web-based email service for a few hours. ‘We're actively investigating the source of the issue and will share more information with our users as soon as we have it,’ said Google spokesman Andrew Kovacs. Gmail became what was referred to in online chat forums as ‘Gfail’ at approximately 0930 GMT and remained inoperative for two-and-a-half hours.”
According to BBC News, over in the UK, “Lord Carter has been defending his report into the state of digital Britain and in particular his decision to set a 2Mbps (megabits per second) baseline speed for UK broadband. His interim report was published at the end of January and has drawn criticism. The decision to offer a minimum of 2Mbps was necessary to kickstart the movement of government services online, said Lord Carter. It was ‘not an option’ to leave people out of the digital revolution, he said.”
Inc.com has a great poston “the coolest college start-ups.”