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Twitter Swoops Past MySpace, Kills @Earlybird Deals
News of Twitter surpassing MySpace in traffic today has brought another milestone for the microblogging site, landing them at 96 million unique visitors last month. This makes them the third most trafficked social networking site on the Internet, next to Facebook (598 million uniques) and Windows Live Profile (140 million uniques). As a social networking ...
US Seeking to Make Tapping Internet Communications Easier
With the advent of open communications and the ease that a person can intercept messages passed from computer to computer came a fear for privacy. The result: most communication devices and protocols nowadays include a layer of encryption. The fact that encryption enables simple, mostly-private communication is frustrating the US government’s policing agencies in that ...
AOL to Acquire TechCrunch: Padding Content for Media Network
Today, AOL announced that they’ve agreed to acquire TechCrunch. The move on AOL’s part appears to be spurred by a need to increase their holdings in the content network sector. They’re hoping to jump on board the current information surge of content distribution hitting the open web. As web content finds itself married to social+search, ...
Unsurprisingly, People Do Not Want the Internet Regulated
A new survey, results published over at Broadband for America, shows a continuing opposition to Internet regulation. People just don’t want the government screwing with something that most of the world perceives as already working quite well without intervention, A new national survey by Hart Research Associates finds substantial opposition to government Internet regulation, with ...
Tucows Blogrolling Shutting Down
Blogrolls, sometimes thought of as the overused bane of sidebars everywhere. The advent of which bulked up blog linkage everywhere, got set upon by staggering amounts of spam, and still today is an excellent way to find related content to the blog you’re currently reading. Tucows bought Blogrolling back in 2004 and provided an outsourced ...
Tablets, Tablets Everywhere: Growing Trend of Task-Specific Devices
The Kno tablet is gaining ground in the textbook market and Sharp has just introduced their own tablet (although only in Japanese markets.) We are starting to see a vibrant and blooming e-reading culture—according to Amazon’s numbers—and the market is quite ready for more products that slot themselves into niches and tasks. The niche the ...
EU Abandons Antitrust Probe Against Apple
The European Commission opened antitrust probes into Apple’s business practices in relation to their App Store and iPhone restrictions. The probe was just preliminary and didn’t need to go too far as the commission accepted the response to their concerns. The Wall Street Journal brings us an update on the end of the antitrust probe, ...
Microsoft Gives Developers Visual Basic on Windows Phone 7
In an announcement today, Microsoft’s Phone Developer Blog has mentioned that developers are now able to use Visual Basic to write apps for Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone developers will be able to download a Community Technology Preview (CTP) version from Microsoft to get their teeth cut on the technology. Although it is a limited ...
FCC Relaxes White Space Policy: No More Spectrum-Sensing
For a few years now, the FCC and the wireless technology industry have been hashing out what to do with space opened up in our radio waves by switching from analog to digital TV. The so-called “white space” which exists between TV stations so that they don’t interfere with each other has become a bit ...
Verizon Invests in Geodelic’s Location-based App
With both AT&T and Verizon seeking their place amid the mobile app marketplace this investment for Verizon puts them squarely into the much vaunted “location wars.” Geodelic has just released a beta test of their app, GeoGuides, which is yet-another-location-based-app that gives users suggestions on where to go and what to do; it also enables ...