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Hot on the heels of Saturday morning’s official introduction of Rep. Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney ‘s vice-presidential running mate (which came hot on the heels of a leak to NBC News, an iPhone announcement, and a press release), President Obama ‘s reelection team released a statement from campaign manager Jim Messina calling Ryan the “architect of the radical Republican House budget,” and predicting that “the Romney-Ryan ticket would take us back by repeating the same, catastrophic mistakes” that were made during the Bush era. That “R” word, “radical,” is one you’ll be hearing a lot from the Obama campaign in the coming weeks. Here’s the statement, via email from the Obama campaign: CHICAGO – Obama for America Campaign Manager Jim Messina released the following statement in response to Mitt Romney picking Congressman Paul Ryan to be his presumptive nominee for vice president: “In naming Congressman Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney has chosen a leader of the House Republicans who shares his comm...

Todoist is one of the oldest web-based task managers still available today. Yet, they unveiled a major update that takes advantage of some bleeding edge HTML5 features. In addition to demonstrating the latest technology improvements that can be implemented in a web app, it is still today a relevant task manager for individuals. The two main improvements of the new version are offline access with automatic synchronization — as previously seen in other web apps such as Gmail, Google Calendar or Google Docs – and considerably speedier performance. “My guess is that HTML5 is a new paradigm shift that will change how users perceive and use web applications,” founder and lead developer Amir Salihefendic said. In other words, he believes that HTML5's web storage and offline support are as important as Ajax communication and HTTP server push, the technology that powers Facebook Chat and Gmail chat. But he is less optimistic when it comes to HTML5 adoption due to the necessary code rewrit...

Sarah currently works as a writer for TechCrunch, after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to becoming a professional blogger, Sarah worked in I.T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software. ? Learn More Twitter’s having problems today! Oh, what’s that, you knew already? Well fine then. But we’ve just gotten our hands on some additional data related to today’s outage courtesy of application monitoring platform Compuware APM. The company pulled measurements from its backbone data centers, Last Mile network (actual end users) and mobile devices, and has basically documented the problem by examining response times across these sources. We’re told that the current speculation is that the Twitter outage may have to do with the increased activity due to Olympics-related traffic. The Olympics are expected to bring an unprecedented surge of activity by sports fans on social networking sites, the company tells us, and some sluggishness ...