According to the reports from the Telegraph web site, Apple has admitted that child labour was used at the Chinese factories that build its Macs, iPods and iPhones. At least eleven 15-year-old children were discovered to be working last year in three factories that supply the company.
Apple has a history of labor practices that are often [...]
Since Facebook has brought Friendfeed in last August 2009, the fan following of FriendFeed has decreased by a considerable amount. And now that FriendFeed has gone down completely, for quite a while now, no one seems to be much concerned about it. There have been very less number of tweets mentioning this Outage.
Facebook incorporated some [...]
Thousands of Twitter users have seen their accounts hijacked after a viral phishing attack which sends out messages saying “this you??” or “hey, i’ve been having better sex and longer with this here” and other sex-related “direct” messages. As you know latest Twitter Phishing Hack hits BBC, Guardian and Cabinet Minister. Its a issue of [...]
Thousands of Twitter users have seen their accounts hijacked after a viral phishing attack which sends out messages saying “this you??” or “hey, i’ve been having better sex and longer with this here” and other sex-related “direct” messages.
Guardian reported, the Press Complaints Commission and the BBC correspondent ‘Nick Higham’ and the Guardian’s head of audio [...]
A week after indexing MySpace user’s update in its search results, Google has now announced that Facebook Fan page updates too will stream in the real-time search results. The announcement that came via Google’s Twitter account said nothing except that the integration had been turned life and the users could now find updates from Facebook [...]
Hi5, one of the popular social Networking site has acquired Social Gaming Company Big Six. Founded in 2003, hi5 today is one of the largest social entertainment sites in the world, with approximately 50 million monthly unique visitors who use the site to stayconnected to friends, meet new people, share photos, and play games. Hi5, [...]
There is no doubt that Twitter has been growing at a very fast rate but has the rate been consistent over the period of time has been a concern raised by many. Twitter saw a huge growth in 2009 but as the growth started tapering down by the end of the year. Even though Twitter [...]
When Twitter boasted of 50 million tweets per day, it was good enough to keep the spilling mouths quite that blabbered about Twitter’s growth getting stagnant. Besides now if we hear about Twitter launching an official advertising platform soon, we may well conclude how Twitter can monetize its swarming twitter stream to reap prolific gains. And [...]
Yahoo and Twitter has recently entered into a partnership in a content-sharing deal. In an effort to attract more visitors to its website, Yahoo is plugging in its services into the rapidly growing craze of micro-blogging, or Twitter. The Yahoo-Twitter partnership would be bigger and more encompassing than Twitter’s partnership with Google and Bing.
Yahoo hopes [...]
If you were a market observer during the end of 2008 then you would have dismissed a Twitter Application as being a result of few hobbyist who just wanted to explore Twitter’s Open API. But now, its a whole new game of trying to gain the engagement of users, and there are companies working hard [...]
