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Riots have died down but the online wars in England are heating up

Aug 12, 2011
While the UK government is considering whether to shut down Twitter so the people using the service for "ill" won't have a way to communicate, the...

Listen closely and you can hear the sobs of third party Twitter photo companies

Aug 10, 2011
That's because Twitter just launched its own photo service, allowing you to insert pictures in your tweets. The photos will appear as links...

Rickrolling @whitehouse

Jul 28, 2011
The White House is holding "office hours" on Twitter during the debt ceiling negotiations. During yesterday's session, some Obama staffer...

G+ on the iPhone

Jul 20, 2011
Google+ is now available as an app on the iPhone. It had already been around for Android but it's a little surprising that Apple and Google got it...

Netflix is coming to the 3DS

Jul 14, 2011
So you'll be able to watch streaming content on your little hand held game player. Important to note: not 3D movies. Just regular movies and TV in...

Fox News Twitter hacked

Jul 5, 2011
What do we call that? Twhacked? Let's call it Twhacked. Fox News says one of its Twitter feeds was hacked and that's why the feed had several...

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Realtime Twitter search gone from Google

Jul 5, 2011
For a while now, Google has been offering "Realtime" search results at the top of a results page based on what's being said on Twitter. Search on ...

FTC sniffs around Twitter

Jul 1, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission has reportedly been talking to both Twitter and a company called UberMedia about possible anticompetitive issues....

#AskObama

Jul 1, 2011
That's the hashtag for a White House town hall to take place on July 6. President Obama will answer questions submitted via Twitter on a live...