News tagged with messaging
Twitter briefly blocked by hackers
Dec 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hackers briefly blocked access to the popular Internet messaging service Twitter, steering traffic to another Web site where a group reportedly calling itself the "Iranian Cyber Army" claimed responsibility.
Mobile multimedia revenues tipped to dethrone text
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Multimedia services will surpass text messaging this year as the main source of mobile operators' non-voice revenue in the Asia-Pacific region, industry analyst IDC said Monday.
Nokia N900 now available in US
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Nov 18, 2009 |
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Nokia today announced that the highly anticipated Nokia N900 is now on sale in the United States and shipping to consumers who jumped on the opportunity to be among the first to pre-order the Maemo-powered ...
Microsoft websites top spots in September: comScore
Nov 07, 2009 |
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Industry tracker comScore on Friday released a study showing that Internet users in September spent more time at Microsoft websites that at any other online properties.
Interoperability overdue for instant messaging
Oct 15, 2009 |
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You would think it was crazy if your cell phone could call only people with phones on the same network. But we put up with that absurd situation when it comes to instant messaging -- and have for years. Worse, there's little ...
Google rolls out preview of Wave
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Google hits a key milestone Wednesday for a product that the search giant hopes will transform how people communicate and collaborate online, and perhaps hook more users on Google's menu of Web-based services.
Teens, texting and the sleep connection
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Between their crazy schedules and upside-down circadian rhythms, teens always have been somewhat sleep-deprived. Now technology is making it worse. Teens are not just texting, instant-messaging and surfing Facebook all day; ...
Research finds that chatspeak has no impact on children's spelling ability
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Parents, get ready to say OMG and watch your teens roflol.
Google launches user-led Q&A service in Arabic
Sep 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. launched an online tool Tuesday that allows Arab users to answer each other's questions, a move designed to boost the amount of Web content available in Arabic.
Yahoo! vows to fight Microsoft on new front
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Yahoo! on Monday vowed to fight Microsoft on a new frontier, saying that having the software giant power its online searches won't stop it from battling for the devotion of Web surfers.
Review: Need advice? Aardvark can sniff it out
Jul 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- I like to get advice from friends on all sorts of things, and love to give it even more. In the past few years, instant messaging, e-mail and Twitter have sped up the process, but there's still room ...
When you don't know what you want
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 30, 2009 |
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How is it possible that you were not planning on going shopping, but that you still end up going and even return home with four new pairs of trousers?
Spears, DeGeneres Twitpic accounts hacked
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hackers have broadcast bogus information about celebrities including Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres after breaking into their Twitpic accounts.
New mafia game hits up Twitter players for money
Jun 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Twitter Inc.'s founders still haven't decided how to cash in on their popular Internet messaging service - to the delight of a rapidly growing audience. But the deliberate approach may not prevent a gold rush among ...
As Web communication shrinks, so do links
May 31, 2009 |
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(AP) -- On the short-messaging service Twitter, space is at a premium: You've got 140 characters to make your point, and you probably don't want to waste half of it on a super-sized link to your latest YouTube obsession.
