Twitter has bought Spindle, a search technology company that informs users about what's happening with local businesses and organizations around them. Spindle screenshot The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, could help ...
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Tweeting has become so popular that the Oxford English Dictionary broke one of its own rules to add 'tweet' to its lexicon this month. "Tweet" is listed as both a noun and a verb that's used in social networking. The addition of stands ...
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Last week's attack on the Virgin Radio Dubai website could have provided cyber-criminals with a springboard from which to launch targeted attacks, according to a researcher from Kaspersky Lab. The popular music station's website was taken ...
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BlackBerry Messenger, a free messaging and social networking application for BlackBerry devices, will be coming to iOS and Android app stores at some point, but not June 27 as tweeted by T-Mobile UK early Thursday. T-Mobile did send out a ...
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Mobile telecoms operator Three UK has gone down for the second time in 24 hours. It comes just five hours after the company said that the problems on its network had been resolved, with services in London being restored first, ahead of ...
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A hacker has apparently taken down the Virgin Radio Dubai website. The hacker, who goes by the username @OxAlien on Twitter, posted up a picture of his screen as he was apparently removing the link to the website on Monday night. The ...
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A little more than four months after Twitter unveiled its video service, Vine, the company has launched Vine for Android. "Starting today, you can begin to shoot, share and watch short looping videos," wrote Sara Haider, an Android ...
As riots erupted in Turkey and protesters and government officials took to social media to fire back and forth online, the country's prime minister called Twitter a "curse." Istanbul is seeing its fourth day of violent public ...
Twitter was back in working order on Monday afternoon after experiencing multiple technical issues earlier in the day that caused some users' tweet streams to not update, among other problems. Due to "an error in a routine change," the ...
Twitter has become an essential part of the small business marketing playbook, but it remains a difficult platform to truly get your arms around. Some tweets will go gangbusters on the service, replied-to and retweeted for hours. Others ...
The judgment in the Twitter libel case between Lord McAlpine and Sally Bercow has been published, with the judge explaining fully his reasoning for finding against Bercow. The House of Commons' Speaker's wife Bercow had tweeted "Why is ...
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The Marble Institute of America has released Stones of North America Version 2. Stones of North America is a comprehensive iPad app that gives design and construction professionals quick, easy access to detailed information about natural ...
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A Google security engineer accused Microsoft of treating outside researchers with "great hostility" just days before posting details of an unpatched vulnerability in Windows that could be used to crash PCs or gain additional access rights. ...
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Masland Contract is poised to debut their newest collections for 2013 at NeoCon in Chicago. Now in its 45th year, NeoCon represents North America's largest architect and design exposition and conference. At this year's show, inspiration ...
Internet traffic in and out of war-torn Syria has been restored after a disruption of nearly eight and a half hours, according to Internet traffic charts. Internet traffic began flowing across Syria's borders again at 6:26 p.m. Damascus ...
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