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  • Twitter beefs up security with two-step login Twitter beefs up security with two-step login

    NEW YORK - Aiming to tackle recent high-profile breaches, popular micro-blogging site Twitter is introducing an optional two-step login for users to beef up security. The new system would try to ensure "it's really you" when a user signs in to Twitter, which transmits some 400 million messages a day. The move follows recent attacks into the twitter accounts of news organisations' such as ...

  • Majority of teenagers now flocking to Twitter as Facebook enthusiasm wanes Study

    Teenagers are now turning to Twitter as their enthusiasm for Facebook is waning, a new study has found. The new report from the Pew Research Centre in America showed that teenagers "have waning enthusiasm" for Facebook, and increasingly seen as a burden. The report cited a number of reasons for the decreased enthusiasm in Facebook, including an 'increasing number of adults on the site', the ...

  • Australias politicians look to master social media strategies in time for federal election

    Australia As the federal election sweeps closer, the pressure to sell the politicians and their parties is intensifying - and the strategists are turning to digital technologies like never before to give candidates an edge.The huge growth in social media and data analytics over the past three years means this election campaign will be like no other in Australian history. But Australian ...

  • ‘Russia’s Facebook’ Put on Internet Blacklist by Mistake

    MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - Vkontakte, Russia's biggest social networking site, was put on a state registry of blacklisted websites by mistake earlier today, a spokesman forRussia's telecoms watchdog Roskomnadzor said."This was a mistake. Our employee put a tick in the wrong place," said Vladimir Pikov, as reported by Digit.ru. "We will remove VKontakte from the ...

  • Two arrested over Twitter comments about murder of soldier in Woolwich

    Complaints were made to Avon and Somerset Police about remarks that appeared on the social networking website, which were of a racist or anti-religious nature. A 23-year-old and a 22-year-old, both from Bristol, were held under the Public Order Act on suspicion of inciting racial or religious hatred. Detective Inspector Ed Yaxley said: "On Wednesday evening, we were contacted by people ...

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2016: Obama's America

Although 2016: Obamas America is very much of a piece with the kind of contentious political docu-polemics that have flourished over the past decade and a half, it is actually most directly comparable to a much, much older film: Walt Disneys Victory Through Air P ... ...

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  • Skagit River Bridge collapse Who to follow what to watch on Twitter

    Since news broke Thursday night of the Skagit River bridge collapse that took out both the northbound and southbound lanes of I-5 in Mount Vernon, Wash., many people have turned to Twitter to get updates as soon as theyre available. Early reports indicate people are being transported to the hospital after cars fell into the river. The Coast Guard reportedly deployed search and rescue boats. The ...

  • Taser CEO Rick Smith sees bump in pay to $898K

    Rick Smith Taser International Inc. CEO Rick Smith more than tripled his pay in 2012, but the leader of the high-tech stun-gun manufacturer still has yet to collect more than $1 million in annual compensation. Smith earned compensation totaling $898,801 last year, a huge increase from the $276,344 earned during 2011. Much of that was due to stock awards and incentive pay as Scottsdale-based ...

  • ATT tacks 61 cent administrative fee on wireless customers bills

    AT&T has added a 61 cent administrative fee to the bills of its contract wireless customers. In a move that could result an additional half-billion dollars in revenue a year, Dallas-based AT&T announced that it has added a new month 61 cent administrative fee to its wireless contract customers. The fee went into effect on May 1, the Wall Street Journal reported. The charge is a so-called ...

  • ViaWest plans big Minnesota data center

    ViaWest logo ViaWest is expanding to Minnesota, building its first data center there in coming months and opening the first part of it in early 2014. The Greenwood Village-based data center company bought 28 acres in the Minneapolis area and has designed a 150,000-square-foot data center to house and manage clients computer servers or host their cloud computing services. Demand within our hybrid ...

  • Google Facebook mull rival bids for Waze report

    -0.39% for Israeli mobile-app developer Waze Inc., according to an anonymously sourced Bloomberg News report late Thursday. Earlier news reports had tipped Facebook as conducting advanced talks to buy Waze for between $800 million and $1 billion. The Bloomberg report said Waze was seeking more than $1 billion from Google, and may decide to stay independent and raise financing instead. Waze, ...

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