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Twitter suspends London Olympics protesters
UpdatedTwitter has bowed to pressure from the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, or LOCOG, to shut down the Space Hijackers account. -
'G20 geek' found not guilty
The prosecution claimed that since he had all the ingredients to build a bomb and was criticising the G20 through his Twitter and Flickr accounts he must have been planning to kill people. -
Web censorship hurts legit sites
10. Equisitetweets.com allows users to create one-page threads to save or share from conversations on Twitter. -
Windows 8 privacy fears over stated
The problem is that Windows 8 connects its users with networks including Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, LinkedIn, Hotmail, Gmail, and Exchange. -
Zuckerberg facing tough IPO questions
Zuckerberg explained that the Facebook needed to move quickly once it learned the photo-sharing app was interested in being purchased. Twitter was also interested in snapping up the hot start-up. -
Cardinal abandons judicial inquisition of Twitter
Cardinal George Pell has backed away from a threat to sue Twitter for defamation over a comedian's tweet. -
Intel Ultrabook adverts mystify the world
Meanwhile, some Twitter users have noticed Intel's Ultrabook adverts appearing on UK television. This one's set in the old West and makes less sense -
Google to angry GMail users: we know better
CommentNine months ago when the GMail New Look was being introduced, Jason Cornwell, UX designer for GMail said in his Twitter account that he was "humbled" by the response from users. If we take the dictionary´s definition of the word we get "Made low; abased; rendered meek and submissive; penitent -
Teen hacked into 259 companies
When he was bored he would deface company websites and boast about his accomplishments on Twitter -
Greenpeace hits out at dirty cloud technology
Environmental group Greenpeace has slammed Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Twitter for operating dirty clouds. -
Lightly clad Aussie woman caught US hacker
According to the FBI, a Twitter account with the name @AnonW0rmer pointed followers to a website where the information lifted from the law enforcement websites could be found. -
Citrix buys up social collaboration cloud platform Podio
This will mean instead of employees skiving on Facebook or Twitter, they can use the Podio platform to post status updates, add links, comment, give feedback or presumably share mildly humorous cat-based YouTube clips. -
Instagram turned over to enormous data mining operation
Mark Zuckerberg decided to get his hands on Instagram, which allows users to apply filters to pictures and post them for their followers to see. There is also the option to post these pictures onto Facebook and Twitter although this currently isn't mandatory. -
Facebook snaps up Instagram
Instagram is a photo sharing web outfit that lets you share your snaps with Twitter and Tumblr, and you can get it on the Apple app store and for Android phones as well. It's free. -
China's censored microblogs back to business as usual
Authorities moved quickly, closing around 12 websites and arresting six people in relation to the rumours, which had caused both sites - the Chinese equivalents to Twitter - to take the action, which they said was aimed at "cleaning up" illegal and harmful information posted on some microblogs -
German pirates set sail for change
The Daly PirateEstablished political parties do not comprehend the grass-roots process of the party and are bewildered by the recent successes. Most politicians repeatedly stress they use Facebook and Twitter, are net-savvy and the like. However, they are entirely missing the point. -
UK MPs slam Google in privacy report
The report said that courts should be proactive in directing the claimant to serve notice on internet content platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. But it was Google that got the rubber hoses of MP's attention. -
Sourceforge takes down "Anonymous" OS
But the operating system was denounced by Twitter accounts known to be affiliated with Anonymous. Another apparent outlet for the group, posting on Twitter as "Anonymous", wrote: "We are not responsible for other people's lack of common sense. We repeatedly posted Anon-OS is not to be trusted
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