Archive for the Category ‘INTERNET’
More than 50 million tweets are being sent a day, according to the latest statistics from Twitter, and even the Dalai Lama is joining in with the fun. With traffic still growing on the micro-blogging platform, Twitter’s data shows a major rise even since January, where some statistics put the daily average at 39 million tweets being sent each day. “As a member of the Twitter analytics team, part of my job is to measure and understand growth
February 23, 2010 | Posted in
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Microsoft is working to patch the vulnerability through a software update Investigators say they are closing in on the source of the cyber attacks that hit a number of US companies, including Google, according to reports. The Financial Times suggests that US officials have tracked the author of the code used to attack the company.
February 22, 2010 | Posted in
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Samsung had its European launch of its new TV range in Vienna this week, and TechRadar was on-hand to see the company unveil some new apps for the range – LoveFilm store for TVs and BBC iPlayer app. The LoveFilm app will allow users to check out LoveFilm’s online library, purchase a movie to rent and stream that movie. There’s also some nifty convergence with LoveFilm’s plain-old disc rental service, in that you can view your existing account without having to log into a computer and add DVDs or Blu-rays to the list to be delivered to your door
February 22, 2010 | Posted in
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If the record industry had come up with Spotify a decade ago, it might not be in the mess it’s in today.
February 22, 2010 | Posted in
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Zynga’s Facebook game FarmVille now has an impressive 80 million users on the social networking site, according to AllFacebook’s Application Statistics study. FarmVille is growing at an incredible rate, with the game’s monthly active users having grown by ten million in one month . Exponential growth The popular animal husbandry game currently has in the region of 31 million daily active users, up from 27 million daily active users that were reported back on Feb 2, 2009
February 22, 2010 | Posted in
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Google’s Bradley Horowitz has insisted that Google Buzz is not a direct competitor for the likes of Facebook and Twitter, but that it fills a niche ‘not currently met by market’. Although it has suffered a controversial birth, the company believes that the combination of various Google functionality and the third-party support will win out.
February 22, 2010 | Posted in
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A senior Chinese military official has called for a new national web control agency to enforce internet monitoring methods in the country. People’s Liberation Army Major General Huang Yongyin said China needed to up its fight on online infiltration and attacks, claiming in the February issue of Chinese Cadres Tribune, a magazine published by the Communist Party’s Central Party School: “For national security, the Internet has already become a new battlefield without gunpowder.” China is back in the tech headlines again this month, following reports of a vocational school where military recruits were said to be the source of the spyware hacker attack on Google earlier this year.
February 22, 2010 | Posted in
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Alice in Wonderland isn’t as popular as a Tiger Woods confession, it seems.
February 22, 2010 | Posted in
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If it’s a school-issued laptop, does the school have the right to spy on kids while they’re at home via the built-in webcam?
February 21, 2010 | Posted in
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MobileMe has been updated to offer at least some functionality when accessing the me.com page from Mobile Safari. It doesn’t yet offer full access to MobileMe’s features via the browser, but it does allow access to the “Find My iPhone” feature from an iPhone or iPod touch
February 21, 2010 | Posted in
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