Archive for the ‘Industry News’ Category

Twitter head tells those who spend hours on site to stop

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

To those of you who tweet and follow others on Twitter all the livelong day, the co-founder of the immensely popular social networking site has a message for you.

LinkedIn officially acquires plugin Rapportive

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Amid rumors of an impending acquisition, the two-year-old startup confirms that it's been bought by the social-networking giant.

Online surveillance bill setup costs estimated at $80M

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

It's going to cost at least $80 million to implement the government's lawful access bill to force internet and telecommunications service providers to collect customer information in case police need it for an investigation, CBC News has learned.

Twitter rebuts Sarkozy censorship allegations

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
The social-networking site implies that the suspension of the accounts that belittled the French president disregarded the site's parody and spam rules.

Facebook: Ceglia concealed ‘getzuck’ e-mail account

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Social network wants permission to inspect the contents of four previously undisclosed accounts, allegedly in use since 2003.

‘Faster than light’ measurement blamed on loose cable

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

The measurement of subatomic particles travelling faster than light — contrary to expectations based on Einstein's special theory of relativity — may have been due to a loose cable.

Meteor’s fireball lights up Prairie skies

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

A fireball that lit up the night sky over Alberta and Saskatchewan was a 100-kilogram meteor, experts say.

Tony Blair’s wife sues Murdoch company over hacking

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Cherie Blair, wife of Tony (and herself a lawyer), decides she, too, must stand in line and sue News International over allegedly having her phone intercepted. And to think that the Blairs and the Murdochs used to be such friends.

5,000 Kindle titles shut down by Amazon in pricing dispute

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Amazon is accused of a pressure campaign to extract more favorable terms from publishers and distributors.

New U.K. site maps muggings, street violence

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
StreetViolence.org is a U.K. site on which people who have been mugged can help others avoid certain high-risk areas by mapping the location of the crimes. Does this remind some of Microsoft's "Avoid Ghetto" patent?