Today, Silk Labs announced it's abandoning its plans to sell its own hardware, and is focusing only on the software.
Warner Bros., which released that movie, recently announced it's abandoning its effort to convert the next Harry Potter movie into 3-D, saying it couldn't meet quality standards.
That doesn't mean that it's abandoning its independent roots, but it definitely sees the value in offering up high-quality content from traditional providers.
But that doesn't mean it's abandoning its previous attempts; the company tells us that the Shield Portable isn't being abandoned, and in fact, suggest that it's best to watch this space if you're curious about hardware updates on that front.
Today, Facebook is announcing how it's going to fix the situation: it's abandoning its old forums, which it says are "showing their age", and launching a custom site on Stack Overflow, the Q&A hub that's very popular with programmers (and is loaded with helpful content).
One star developer, Dustin Sallings is now moving forward with a new XMPP service even as Gnip announces it's abandoning XMPP services because of problems with servers consuming its often promised but never arriving firehose feed of Twitter public messages.
