Twitter, just as much as Facebook, is widely said to be behind the uprisings across the Middle East. Newt Gingrich used Twitter to launch his presidential campaign. And then there is Sarah Palin, who tweets about the President every time he changes his underwear. People are made famous just because of their Twitter-appeal. So who’s the biggest Twitterati of them all? As of late Saturday night, it was Lady Gaga.
Articles by Danny Wool
Facebook is, undisputedly, the reigning champ of social media, but could some other company pull the rug out from under it and replace it at the top of the heap?
Yahoo owns 39 percent of Chinese-based internet group Alibaba, so its announcement that it knew nothing about Alibaba’s transfer of its Alipay third-party online payment platform left investors feeling uneasy.
Facebook recently owned up to security flaw, but now there is word that the company hired a PR firm to launch a whisper campaign claiming that Google leaked information too.
It’s not easy being Mark Zuckerberg … especially when you’re not the Mark Zuckerberg. That’s what bankruptcy attorney Mark Zuckerberg of Indianapolis discovered as he tried to get a Facebook page. What Zuckerberg did not realize is that having the same name as the Facebook founder is enough of a reason not to get a page.
YouTube is now offering movie rentals with an average cost of $2.99. The company has already loaded up about 3,000 movies from Universal, Sony and Warner Bros.
Symantec, the world’s largest manufacturer of computer security software, discovered a glitch in Facebook’s security. According to its report, the website has been unknowingly leaking codes allowing access to the profiles of millions of users to a number of third parties, particularly advertisers.
Representatives of both Google and Apple were in Washington D.C. on Tuesday to defend themselves before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s new Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law.
Have you ever clicked on a Google image, only to be directed to a site warning you that your computer is at risk of infection and will be compromised if you don’t click on their brand spanking new antivirus software? Do you click or don’t you? Hopefully you don’t. This is the latest scam being perpetrated by malware manufacturers. They are using innocuous Google images—the ones that happen to be trending at the time—to get users to visit their sites.
With the decline of newspapers across America, more and more people are turning to the Internet for their latest news fix. It certainly has its advantages, especially for news junkies.
