Apple’s iPhone and iPad launches have helped the computer maker trump Google, Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft in news coverage, according to the Pew Research Center. – Thanks to the launch of its iPhone 4 smartphone and iPad tablet computer,
Apple bested Google in news coverage, grabbing 15.1 percent of technology
headlines compared with 11.4 percent for Google.
Pew Research
Center’s Project for Excellence in
Journalism culled its findings from headlines for …
“Shh. Don’t Tell Steve,” but CBS has swiped another show idea from a popular Twitter feed.Network bosses are developing a sitcom based on the Twitter feed “Shh. Don’t Tell Steve,” a collection of side-splitting quotables (Like this one: “Steve loudly challenging people to a drinking contest…Nobody biting, so he’s just doing shots and declaring [...]
Twitter users Sunday were infected by a worm that posted sexual messages on victims’ profiles. – Twitter users were hit with yet another worm during the weekend.
This time, the tweets came bearing the message quot;WTF quot; with a link in
tow. Clicking on the link automatically generated a post from the
victim with a pornographic message.
“Clicking on the WTF link would take you to a webpa…
A recap of the past week’s news features Twitter worms, attacks on Microsofts ASP.NET vulnerability and discussions of U.S. cyber-policy. – A cross-site scripting vulnerability impacted as many as 500,000
Twitter users and led a busy week of security news.
The bug was exploited by worms that spread throughout the microblogging
service and affected users ranging from the wife of former British Prime
Minister Gordon Brown to White…
Despite wreaking havoc on Twitter, the worms that exploited a JavaScript bug were mainly harmless and the work of curious hobbyists or opportunistic spammers. – One day after the Great Twitter Meltdown, details of how pranksters
gleefully redirected users and spewed out retweets full of gibberish continue
to emerge. What’s surprising is that instead of criminals and attackers intent
on taking over computers or stealing information, most of the perpetrato…
IT managers see phishing spam targeting the workplace in greater numbers than social networking sites, such as Twitter or Facebook. – As a JavaScript exploit wreaked havoc on
Twitter.com on the morning of Sept. 21, a survey of small business IT managers
revealed spam as the primary security threat to business networks.
Despite the increasing number of malware attacks originating from social
networking sites like Facebook, MyS…
UPDATE: Attackers exploited a cross-site scripting vulnerability on Twitter Sept. 21 that allowed users to be redirected to Websites by simply scrolling over a link. – Twitter says it has patched a cross-site scripting issue that was exploited by attackers the morning of Sept. 21.
The flaw allowed attackers to display pop-windows or redirect users if they scrolled their cursors over a link. The attacks took advantage of a JavaScript function called onMouseOver,…
A survey from Panda Security finds social networking sites can be dangerous for SMBs, but their benefits remain alluring. – A survey from cloud security specialist Panda Security of 315 small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) with up to 1,000 employees revealed 33 percent of these companies had experienced a malware or virus infection from social networks, with 23 percent citing employee privacy violations resulting in th…
A survey from Panda Security finds social networking sites can be dangerous for SMBs, but their benefits remain alluring. – A survey from cloud security specialist Panda Security of 315 small
to medium-size businesses with up to 1,000 employees revealed 33
percent of these companies had experienced a malware or virus infection
from social networks, with 23 percent citing employee privacy
violations resulting in the l…
A redesigned Twitter.com will include photos, videos and other information directly on the Web page. The main change is a detail pane on the right that pops out maps, photos, videos and other content. – Twitter is slowly rolling out a redesigned Twitter.com Web site, departing
from the spartan design to include photos, videos and other information
directly on the Web page.
While the traditional Twitter timeline will be featured, users will see
additional info under each tweet. When users click …
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Eva Longoria Parker is making optimum utilization of Twitter for a noble cause—she is raising funds for housing in earthquake-ravaged Haiti via the micro-blogging website. The actress has asked her famous friends to agree to follow a fan for a fee. Devotees will get to bid for the chance to become a Twitter friend with [...]
First John Mayer turned his back on love — now the notorious bed-hopper is bidding goodbye to Twitter too.On Monday, Mayer’s publicist issued a press statement confirming that the “Clarity” star has decided to discontinue his Twitter account with his Battle Studies Tour “now at a close and a return to the studio planned.†“With the [...]
Teenage pop sensation Justin Bieber has ”racks of servers” dedicated to him on Twitter. According to Dustin Curtis, a designer who interviewed an employee at the wildly popular social media outlet, the 16-year-old pop sensation makes up 3 per cent of Twitter conversation, reports the New York Daily News. Curtis said that ‘racks of servers’ [...]
Three percent of all Twitter traffic is related to Justin Bieber, The Hollywood Reporter dished in a report published Tuesday.The “One Less Lonely Girl” crooner, 16, uses his Twitter account to communicate regularly with his die-hard fans known as “Beliebers.†The Biebs has over five million followers on the microblogging site — which has [...]
Japanese journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka has said that if there was anything that saved him from being killed by his Taliban captors, it was his familiarity with the social networking site Twitter. Recalling his harrowing experience in Taliban captivity, Tsuneko said that back in late June, circumstances looked bleak for him. He was on the brink [...]
(Sigh…) We’ve heard of holding on to the past, but nearly a year after the fateful incident, Kanye West is still feeling bad about ruining Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. In fact, he’s posted an epic 200-Tweet apology in an attempt to clear his conscience. After infamously interrupting Taylor’s moment [...]
Twitter CEO Evan Williams said Sept. 2 use of Twitter from mobile applications has grown 62 percent since April, with Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for BlackBerry proving popular. Twitter for Android is apparently not a big hit. – Twitter has more than 145 million registered users, with mobile users jumping 62 percent since April after the company began offering its own mobile applications for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android.
Twitter CEO Evan Williams published a rare state-of-the-company stats blog post Sept. 2, highlighting…
Researchers at Sophos say Apple Ping has been hit by scams familiar to users of other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. – Spammers jumped out the gate quickly with survey scams aimed at users of Ping, Apple’s new iTunes social network.
Ping launched Sept. 1 with the goal of creating a social network for the more than 160 million users of iTunes. However according to Sophos,
the service has been hit with a barrage of…
Energizer has debuts a new charger for the iPhone called the InductiveCharger. The device works with a Qi-enabled sleeve for the iPhone 3G/3GS smartphones to charge with no wires. Steve Jobs has promised a fix for some flaws in the iPhone with the iOS 4.1 release set for next week. Jobs says that the bugs [...]
