Reports are coming through that Twitter is in advanced talks to buy third-party Twitter client TweetDeck for $US50million, according to the Wall St Journal, citing sources close to the matter. TweetDeck is one of the most popular third-party client apps that hooks into the popular tell-us-all-in-140-characters micro-blogging site. Twitter and TweetDeck already enjoy a close [...]
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In some ways, it’s hard to believe that Twitter has only just turned five but in that short time, it has become one of the primary sources of spreading global news, both good and bad. In a recent blog, Twitter’s Michael Abbott outlined the company’s latest system upgrade, adding extra capacity and speed to the [...]
While online book giant Amazon.com has had a fight on its hands with rivals Borders and Barnes & Noble dropping prices on smaller six-inch e-book readers, the company is pushing to give even the iPad a run for its money with a new-and-improved version of its luxury reader. The new Kindle DX claims to offer [...]
Microblogging site Twitter has exploded thanks to it simple premise of describing “what are you doing now” in 140 characters or less. The text-only nature of Twitter means that all you need is a device that accepts text input and will connect to a network or the internet directly. That’s seen a number of good [...]
Microblogging site Twitter says its tackling the growth in malicious software or “malware” with plans to soon incorporate its own web address or URL shortener. Many users have adopted the bit.ly service in order to fit web sites with longish addresses into the 140-character maximum for a tweet but in an effort to reduce malware, [...]