Based on data from almost 3000 Twitter users who tweet messages in 140 characters or less, researchers at the Twente University near the eastern city of Enschede have compiled lists of words and sequences corresponding with different ages ...
Tags: Software, Computer Products
Huwei deserves points for courage, for dipping its toes into the dangerous waters of the phablet computer market, for that is where devices are bigger than most smartphones and smaller than most tablets, and consumers are confused and ...
The mobile industry's efforts to convince lawmakers that self-regulation alone is the best way to address growing concerns over privacy-invading mobile applications appears to be running into some headwind. On Thursday, Rep. Hank Johnson ...
Bing is adding some new social features to its search engine, by letting users comment and "like" their Facebook friends' posts directly on the site. The new tools constitute yet another expansion to the Microsoft search site to make it ...
Norway's Crown Prince Haakon and Princess Mette-Marit tried touchless gesturing systems and other technologies developed by Norwegian startups at a tech incubator in Palo Alto on Wednesday afternoon . The royal couple stopped at ...
Nokia has expanded its line of phones with the Asha 501, which comes with an improved touch user interface to help keep low-cost Android-based products at bay. The launch of the second new member of the Asha family in about two weeks ...
Tags: Nokia, Asha, Phone Business
Domain registrar Name.com forced its customers to reset their account passwords on Wednesday following a security breach on the company's servers that might have resulted in customer information being compromised. Hackers might have ...
Tags: Computer Products, Passwords
Schleich has teamed up with Pony Magazine and Horse and Rider publisher DJ Murphy to reach more than half a million children over the summer period. Magazine content will promote its collection of pony and horse figures. The May edition ...
Tags: Schleich, Pony Magazine, Toys
A Dutch startup has launched a service that studies data from social networks to quickly identify online service outages -- sometimes, it says, before the service providers know about the outages themselves. Downdetector.com, which rolled ...
Tags: Computer Products
Pinterest's sprawling virtual pegboards of wedding dresses, handmade jewelry, craft projects and food porn have just got easier to manage. The popular link-and photo-sharing website has rolled out an update, one offering people simpler ...
Several media outlets in the Washington DC area have had their websites hacked and used to spread malware. WTOP, the largest radio station in the region, and Federal News Radio, along with the website of technology blogger John Dvorak ...
Tags: Media Websites, Cyber Attacks
The High Point Market is a finalist for a pair of Expo Excite awards for Best Website and Best Marketing Collateral for its fall 2012 Fashion Focus campaign. Last year, the market won the award for Social Media, a multichannel brand ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Yahoo's Flickr mobile app may be getting a completely new look in the months to come, as the company seeks to hire multiple iOS engineers to "radically improve" the photo-sharing site's app and attract new users, the company said in a ...
Tags: Yahoo's Flickr, mobile app
Bicycle Retailer & Industry News editors and sponsors roll out Tuesday morning on a three-day tour of bicycle stores in Chicago. The BRAIN Dealer Tour will visit 13 stores by bike this week, sampling the growing infrastructure for bikes ...
Tags: Bicycle Retailer, Bicycle Industry
Office 365 users will increasingly be able to import contacts from external applications after the suite's initial rollout of this capability for Facebook and LinkedIn. Microsoft recently implemented a feature in Office 365 called Connect ...
Tags: Microsoft, Computer Products