If you believed Axl Rose’s Twitter account, the Guns N’ Roses frontman had unilaterally canceled the band’s upcoming European tour. The message posted on Sunday evening stated: “All upcoming Guns N’ Roses dates are officially cancelled. Please contact your place of purchase for any refunds.” It always seemed likely to be a hoax: Rose...
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MANILA CITY, METRO MANILA – On the day President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III delivered his first State of the Nation Address, a new and seemingly improved Gov.PH website also went up. This time, the website is more like a professional blog than the standard HTML website that had been in use during the entirety...
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In the May 10 Philippine automated elections, he became an overnight Twitter celebrity in the country for his witty @pcosmachine tweets. Now, Yves Gonzalez, better known online by his other Twitter handle @doblezeta, is the new spokesperson of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority. Fittingly, as of this writing, he is conducting a real-time public...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Tor Project have released a public beta of a new Firefox extension that lets people encrypt their communications with Facebook, Twitter and other sites. The HTTPS Everywhere Firefox extension was inspired by Google’s encrypted Web search option, the EFF said in announcing the tool last week. In addition...
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Twitter, which has suffered a series of outages this week, warned Friday that there could be more problems amid heavy World Cup traffic. Jean-Paul Cozzatti, a Twitter engineer, said on the Twitter blog that the micro-blogging service’s problems this week were due to an internal network being over-capacity. Cozzatti said Twitter was doubling capacity...
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Twitter is to introduce a new feature designed to wrap and shorten all links posted by users, in an effort to improve security and gain more information on links being shared. The t.co service will mean that every link posted on the site, either directly or through APIs and mobile devices, will be shortened...
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Janus Friis with Niklas Zennström, who disrupted music distribution with the Kazaa file sharing service and phone companies with Skype, unveiled their Twitter-like version of a digital music service at the crack of midnight Thursday morning. Rdio offers instant access to more than 5 million tracks from all the major labels and several indies...
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The official Twitter application for the iPhone is now available for free on the iTunes App Store. The announcement made on Twitter’s blog, the social networking site points out that unregistered users can use most of the main features on Twitter. New users to Twitter are able to sign up to the service within...
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BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhuanet) — Twitter has been hit by a bug that left users, including many celebrities, with no “followers”. The bug, believed to have been started by a user called Bora K?rca in Turkey, caused millions of users’ accounts around the world to temporarily lose the list of people who followed them...
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There are many debates about the Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two, and many of us are not sure what to think. The phones feel pretty solid in general and the keyboard layout have kind of a good feel for which you do not really need any typing lessons, mostly for Microsoft Kin One....
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When we tweet what’s happening around us, we share not only our thoughts, but also web pages, photos, videos, location…anything. Mobile phones are increasingly part of our lives, and we seem to be doing everything but making phone calls. Reading the news, watching a YouTube video, and taking photos at events like the World...
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After dealing with McAfee’s most recent fix that sabotaged Windows XP PC clients worldwide, users of the anti-virus software to Twitter to vent their rage, creating a public-relations and legal nightmare that will likely continue long after the last machine is patched. “I hate McAfee,” more than one Tweeter wrote, summing up the frustration...
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In toying with ads, Twitter — the net’s largest micro-publishing service — is going where every internet company in search of a dollar has gone before. But the history of how advertising has been introduced into a formerly commercial-free community is mixed, and success for this billion-dollar baby depends on how they decide to...
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