A US court has ordered Twitter to release old tweets and other details of a user arrested during an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York. The micro-blogging firm refused at first, saying the tweets were owned by users and not Twitter. ...
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IDG News Service - Get your conspiracy theories ready: Two founders of The Pirate Bay were due to speak at the Hack in the Box security conference in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, but didn't show up. The 3 p.m. speaking slot for Peter ...
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State-owned Indian Rare Earths Ltd. (IREL) has applied for approval from the Odisha (Orissa) state government for a rare earth exploration permit on a 2,500ha coastal land package at Bramhagiri in Puri district. The Atomic Minerals ...
Tags: beaches, rare earth miner, Metallurgy, Mineral Energy
Starbucks said Friday it will update Passbook in iOS 6 at the end of September, presumably meaning it will integrate its existing Starbucks digital payment card into the new app for users to pay for coffee. In a tweet, the company said: ...
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Consumers ranked Google Maps better than Apple's new homegrown mapping technology by more than 2 to 1 on Twitter, a social media analytics company said today. iOS 6 users can sidestep the change to Apple Maps by calling up Google's ...
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The NHS is looking for a new CIO following the vacancy left after Katie Davis stepped down as managing director for NHS Informatics at the Department for Health in July. Katie Davis had been in the role for about a year after Christine ...
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Mobile application company, Sheena Allen Apps, has announced the release of its latest app, TwtBooth. TwtBooth is a new Twitter app that makes it easy for users to view photo that are tweeted, regardless of the photo sharing service used. ...
Tags: Sheena Allen Apps, TwtBooth, Twitter App, iPhone, iPad, Mobile application
Does banking have the allure of a new Apple product? Barclays Bank thinks it does. Barclays is attempting to redefine banking as it tries to mimic the success of companies like Apple, Amazon and Google. PingIt, the bank's real-time ...
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The micro-blogging site has gained 60 million new users in just 9 months. In March this year Twitter announced that the site had over 140m monthly active users. Twitter announced today that the number has now risen to over 200M monthly ...
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The National Rifle Association is dealing with the double-edge sword of social media by taking down its Facebook page and going silent on Twitter in the wake of the tragic elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn. The NRA, a lobbying ...
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Changes to Twitter's upcoming API release are aimed at restricting consumer-focused client applications in favor of business-oriented ones, according to the company's blog on Thursday. Version 1.1 of Twitter's API (application programming ...
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Twitter proven to stimulate sales,new study shows. Twitter users who see Tweets from retailers are more likely to make an online purchase,according to results from Twitter's'Tweets in Action:Retail'study. 27 per cent of general ...
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Cloud gaming service OnLive has been acquired by a new owner, it said Friday. The move meant an unknown number of staff were laid off, but the company pledged to continue its operations. "The assets of OnLive have been acquired into a ...
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As Olympic athletes take to a global stage in London this week, participants, coaches and fans are expected to take to their favorite social networks in record numbers. Whenever something big happens -- tornadoes, political unrest, the ...
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The future of fashion gets closer than ever with the latest invention from CuteCircuit in collaboration with Ballantine’s. Ballantine’s & Cutecircuit believe in the power of personal expression. They have created world very ...
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