Celebrities and hip adults aren’t the only people flocking to Twitter, the social networking website. Even centenarians have learned to tweet.
Three percent of US centenarians questioned in a new survey said they use the service that allows users to send short text messages, or tweets, of up to 140 characters at least once a [...]
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The UK firm has apologised for the “mistake”, which caused offence online.
Their Twitter posts included “hashtags” - popular words people search - that referred to the unrest in Iran in which at least 12 people have died.
Other messages mentioned the Apple iPhone and an Australian television personality.
The tactic led to an outcry on the [...]
The heads of the top U.S. companies might be engaged in the boardroom, but they’re switched off when it comes to social media, according to a new study that said CEOs should be more connected to their customers.
Research conducted by the blog UberCEO.com looked at Fortune’s 2009 list of the top 100 CEOs to [...]
Apple Inc chief executive Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant at a Tennessee hospital and has “an excellent prognosis”, the hospital that performed the operation confirmed on Tuesday.
Jobs, 54, received the transplant because he was “the sickest patient on the waiting list at the time a donor organ became available,” the Methodist University Hospital [...]
Tennis fans at Wimbledon will be able to keep up with the action using a smartphone application developed by IBM, which it said could transform the way spectators access information at sporting events.
The application, which runs on Google’s Android operating system, superimposes real-time statistics and updates from social networking site Twitter, including comments from [...]
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Religiously devout Jews barred by rabbis from surfing the Internet may now “Koogle” it on a new “kosher” search engine, the site manager said on Sunday.
Yossi Altman said Koogle, a play on the names of a Jewish noodle pudding and the ubiquitous Google, appears to meet the standards of Orthodox rabbis, who restrict use [...]
The Arrive Alive Road Safety Website is proud to announce the launch of its new road safety blog http://roadsafety.co.za
The Arrive Alive Road Safety Website began over 6 years ago with the purpose of developing an effective road safety information portal that would enhance awareness about road safety and help to save lives.
Since its inception [...]
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A U.S.-based language monitoring group crowned Web 2.0 as the one millionth word or phrase in the English language on Wednesday, although other linguists slammed it as nonsense and a stunt.
The Global Language Monitor, which uses a math formula to track the frequency of words and phrases in print and electronic media, said Web 2.0 [...]
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The iPhone 3GS, unveiled in San Francisco yesterday, will be available in the UK on June 19.
The latest Apple iPhone has prompted a web backlash as existing users demand cheap upgrades and new customers baulk at the price.
O2, which has the exclusive UK deal for iPhone, has been bombarded with criticism since details of the [...]
