Tag: Twitter
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Teenager charged with using BlackBerry Messenger to incite riot
According the the Telepgraph, it would appear that a teenager is among the first to be charged with using BlackBerry’s BBM service to encourage others to riot. The 18-year-old girl from Essex has been accused of “Intentionally encouraging or assisting in the commision of an offence under the Serious Crime Act 2007”. It is alleged…
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Cameron Lobbies for Social Media Clampdown as Rioting Continues
It’s been a hell of a week. The streets of some of our most populated major cities are strewn with glass shards, discarded barricades. Windows smashed, stores looted; the world’s drizzle of protest and unrest has come to a head in this country, and the government were nowhere to be found. However, on the return…
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Twitter launches Image Uploading to all users
Twitter has finally opened up its much tested Twitter Images options to the whole of the Twittersphere which will enable users to uploads images directly to their Twitter feeds with accompanying hash tags to add to a huge public gallery of images. The simple update has added a new camera icon in the Tweet box…
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Windows Phone 7 Mango: Twitter integration seen hands-on in new video
Having been released to manufacturers just over a week ago, today we got a peak of the Windows Phone 7 update – Mango – in action, on an unidentified handset, showing off the Twitter integration feature. Granted we have seen an official promo clip from Microsoft itself, but that was impersonal and straight down to…
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How Has Social Networking Influenced the London Riots?
Over the past day or so, the UK has been captivated by the rioting that has taken place in London and now Bristol, Liverpool, Birmingham and Nottingham. News has been coming in thick and fast on the TV, Radio and the Web of the disgraceful acts carried out by groups of rioters in London, though…
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Update: Google’s blog tirade on Apple/Microsoft alliance – Round 2
Yesterday the Gadget Helpline covered the war of words which spilt out onto blog and Twitter after Google’s Legal Chief David Drummond launch a bitter tirade on the company’s press page accusing Apple and Microsoft of uniting to buy 6000 patents from defunct co. Nortel in a “hostile, organized campaign” to damage business where it…
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Google’s blog tirade on Apple/Microsoft alliance (and Microsoft’s tweet response)
“Apple vs The World” takes an interesting turn today as Google has kicked-off massively after Apple formed a tech-tag-team with Microsoft over the recent spate of on-going patent rows. Using the press front of the Google brand – the company’s blog – Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond describes the rival duo…
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Old Twitter Page to Disappear This Week
Micro-blogging site Twitter has confirmed that it will be banishing the “Old Twitter” page design as of this week. Twitter posted the news in a tweet (how else?), confirming that the “New Twitter” layout would be coming into full effect by the end of the week, with no way back to the trusty old version.…
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Google+ gets 25 million users in one month!
Google’s Social network attack on the likes of Facebook and Twitter, Google+ certainly is gaining momentum as the big G has announced that it now has more than 25 million users, 1 million or which are from the UK. The stats come from ComScore a website who specialise in “Measuring the Digital World” and the…
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Microsoft apologises to Amy Winehouse fans after “vile” tweet
Microsoft has issued an apology via Twitter after offending Amy Winehouse fans by suggesting that music lovers snap up the recently passed singer’s back catalogue on Microsoft owned digital media service Zune. Following Winehouse’s death last week at only 27, Xbox 360’s official tweet presence asked that fans should, in tribute, remember Amy “by downloading…
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The Guardian releases “Media 100” 2011 results – The Zuck is up while Ballms bombs!
A few of the Gadget Helpline’s regular namedrops pop up in The Guardian’s annual list of 100 most influential people in UK media, and Mark Zuckerberg – social mogul and founder of Facebook has it topped. Experts in tech, PR and media put together the “Media 100” list, which saw social networking take the top…
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BBC deliver update to battery-hungry UK 3G Survey app days after launch
The BBC is rolling out an update for its UK 3G Survey app just days after it launched on the Android Market. Following from our previous article detailing a new BBC-backed app to record the quality of our 3G coverage, it’s now been reported that app has both proven to be successful in reaching a massive…