For a Prime Minister who’s embraced technology more so than other national leaders of sovereign states, one’s hard pressed to sympathize with a man who chose to ban Twitter to cover up a political scandal. The disruption and "going dark" incident sparked public fury and outrage. . .
If you’re a TV junkie like myself who gravitates towards fast-paced high-stakes thrillers
in this new Golden Age of television, you most likely have also been
schooled on the new lexicon of terms used to solve cases. Ever since the
award-winning FX series Damages first premiered in 2007 with intricate plot twists, red herrings, foreshadowing and nonlinear narratives. . .
Today is Twitter’s 8th birthday and it got you a gift. With Twitter’s new First Tweet tool you can look back at your (or anyone else’s) first tweet without hours upon hours of scrolling. We took the liberty to round-up a few of the best and worst from some noteworthy tweeters.
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As the Ukrainian Spring has escalated and boiled over with the
Crimea vote for succession from the Ukraine, it’s now clear these
altercations are not only land-based. A group calling themselves the
‘Cyber Berkut’ have also gone digital to attack their opponents in
cyberspace.
For almost two weeks the world has been baffled by the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The flight was on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur when contact was lost almost an hour into the journey. No one has heard from it since then, no wreckage has been found as over 25 countries scour the seas, assuming that MH370 probably crashed. The story is quite obviously getting a lot of attention. Given that most people get their news through social media these days, its not surprising to see that people have already started leveraging this tragedy for their ill motives.
MH370 Links On Social Networks Spreading Malware original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Twitter was down for quite some time yesterday. Once upon a time, that was an annoyance. But not anymore. Now, when Twitter goes down, it’s a full-on problem. Twitter is no longer simply a place where people come to make …
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Ever since the award-winning film "Social Network" caused a stir about the digerati drawn to the Silicon
Valley like moths to a flame, other would-be producers have tried to
capture the zeitgeist of this lifestyle in various forms – books, movies
and TV.
In 2008, Malaysia Airlines teamed up with the British company AeroMobile and launched a new service allowing
passengers to send and receive calls and text messages on their mobile
phones while in the air. The service was made available on single Boeing
777-200 aircraft including the Asian routes of China and Japan.
With the invasion of granparents, baby pictures, and wedding photos on popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter, everyone is putting on their best face for their online profiles, and it seems there is no true place where one can "go wild." LIVR, a new social network app, that only lets you enter if you are legally intoxicated, hopes to change that.
‘ve been fascinated with the idea of a Satoshi Nakamoto ever since I began researching the Deep Web where Bitcoin’s alleged illegal transactions have run rampant. In my post, "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Bitcoins But Were Too Broke To Ask," I compared his anonymity to the villainous fictional character Keyser Söze from the hit movie, "The Ususal Suspects."
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