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First Netflix, then Instagram, now BBM? We’re getting reports along with plenty of Twitter noise that the popular BlackBerry service has headed south. This makes for one heck of an anti-social weekend if you’re a photo-sharing, BBM-er for sure. Let us know if you’ve been affected by the service, in the meantime why not read up on some tech news? We’ve plenty!

Update: We’ve just received word from RIM itself explaining the situation. Basically, you might experience some hiccups with BBM and web browsing, but everything else should be back to normal. Check out the response below:

Today, we experienced a service issue which may have affected some of our customers in certain parts of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Some minor issues relating to browsing and BlackBerry Messenger may still persist, but all other services are operating as normal. We apologize to any customers in these regions who may have been inconvenienced.

Users reporting BBM down, joins Instagram in being less social (update: RIM’s on it) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Starting this week, Windows Phone users with a Twitter fixation will have a much easier time feeding the little, blue, bird-shaped beast. The latest update to the app features long-awaited Notifications support. Downloading version 1.5 will deliver such important Twitter info as retweets, mentions, direct messages, new followers and favorited tweets to the forefront where they belong. You can download the app in the source link below and then tell all your friends through the microblogging service of your choice, whatever that might be. Fair warning in the meantime — a number of folks are reporting issues with the update, and we’ve had some difficulty getting it up an running on our own handsets. Feel free to sound off in the comments below — since you may have some trouble doing so on Twitter.

Twitter for Windows Phone gets pushy, adds Notifications support originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Rick and Erica Jones have been trying to adopt a baby for the past three years. Unfortunately for the Michigan couple, their adoption agency (Morningstar Adoption Center) doesn’t have the means to market their clients—nor do the Jones’s have the enough money to pay for the services of a larger, more successful adoption agency. More »

Bloomberg is reporting that Apple is planning a major overhaul of iTunes for its next release, including the inclusion of a new song-sharing feature designed to make it easier to discover music—and fight back against its more social competitors. More »

National Geographic is gearing up for its “Chasing UFOs” series, and to celebrate, everyone has been invited to contribute to a reply that will be sent in response to the 72-second long signal known as the WOW! signal, which was detected by Jerry R. Ehman at Ohio State University in 1977. Since then, many have believed the signal was sent by aliens.

Alien or not, National Geographic is taking it seriously and admitted to be working with Arecibo Observatory to prepare the transmission, which will most likely be encrypted in binary code. On August 15, 2012 and exactly 35 years after the WOW! signal was detected, our messages from Earth will be shot up into space in the same direction from where the signal came from.

Contributing to the message is easy. All you have to do is jump on Twitter and start tweeting to get involved. All tweets with hashtag #ChasingUFOs sent between 8pm EDT on Friday June 29 and 3am EDT Saturday June 30 will be included in the message.

[via CNET]

National Geographic invites everyone to reply to 1977 WOW! signal is written by Elise Moreau & originally posted on SlashGear.
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