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Twitter outage forcing Facebook to overdrive?

Twitter outage forcing Facebook to overdrive?

For roughly the last hour, social networking site Twitter has been down. Twitter’s official status blog admits that the guy’s over at the social media giant haven’t a clue what’s going on but are working on getting it back up. Mashable think they might have found a possible clue. Meanwhile, is Facebook picking up the [...]

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Twitter moves away from Social media

It’s all about you. Or, at least, it was. Twitter used to be “a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?” Now, the newest and fastest growing ‘social media’ giant has had a change of heart: [...]

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Twitter Spam

Twitter prunes its branches with Twitter Correction

Finally, Twitter have got round to a little bit of spring cleaning and have got rid of a number of spam accounts- used to follow other Twitter users to direct them to their own websites for the sole purpose of gaining hits. The ‘Twitter Correction’, currently in top trend spot on Twitter, has seen follower [...]

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Calling all space lovers

Calling all space lovers

Hot on the heals of the release of Google Earth 5.0, tomorrow the longest eclipse in a century will be webcast from a number of internet sources. The solar eclipse, expected to last over 6 minutes, will be broadcast to those not able to see it from their locations with coverage starting at midnight tonight. The [...]

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Get the most from your HTC Magic

Get the most from your HTC Magic

A bit of a boring video, but if you’re thinking of buying a HTC Magic or just want to know a bit more about the Android OS, it might be worth having a quick skip through. The BeebPlayer, iPlayer app certainly looks like it might be heralding the next big step in mobile TV.

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Free running viral sells mobile phone

When presented with the letters HTC, most people- even the technologically adept- will look at you with confusion. Not many people will realise that T-Mobile’s G1 was made by them. Oh, and their MDA and Vario ranges too. And they make phones that plenty of other companies smear their brand on too. HTC have obviously [...]

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Google treads on Microsoft toes

Google treads on Microsoft toes

When Bing was annouced, it would appear all bets were off. Microsoft were making a serious effort to launch themselves into the search market. Now Google have taken their gloves off. Last night it was announced that Google will be launching their own, lightweight OS that will make the web into a platform. “Speed, simplicity [...]

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Nokia N97: Video clip

Nokia N97: Video clip

While you’re waiting around for Nokia to make their 12-megapixel mega-phone, why not take a look at the new Nokia N97. Nokia are making a comeback with this viral video. We told you all about it a while back and, since then, it seems to be plugging Facebook as its big feature- possibly riding the [...]

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