Just a week after access to the micro blogging platform Twitter was banned by the Turkish government, its now YouTube which faces a similar fate in the country. The Turkish telecoms authority,…
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Google sued again over ‘Innocence of Muslims’ video
Google has been dragged to court again over ‘Innocence of Muslims’ video and this time by none other than the actress in the video, Cindy Lee Garcia. The ‘Innocence of Muslims’ video…
Last.fm culls subscription radio streaming
Last.fm has announced its decision to kill its subscription radio streaming service on April 28 owing to considerable changes in the music landscape. “From the 28th of April 2014, our subscription radio…
Zuckerberg: 1B active mobile users monthly on Facebook; 200M active users on Instagram
Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users on mobile, as of last week. Zuckerberg also announced that Facebook-owned Instagram, the photo sharing social network, has surpassed the 200 million…
IBM researchers: non-geotagged tweets reveal user location
Developers at IBM on Friday released information on a new algorithm that predicts Twitter users’ location using the metadata contained in their last 200 non-geotagged tweets. The researchers claim that the formula…
No more #tags and @replies for Twitter?
According to latest reports microblogging giant Twitter in seemingly trying to get rid of hashtags and the @replies. BuzzFeed has based its report on comments by Vivian Schiller, Twitter’s head of news…
New internet search engine ‘ChinaSo’ launched in China
Some of China’s leading news organizations on Friday launched Chinaso.com, a new Chinese-language Internet search engine. Operated by ChinaSo IT Corporation the new search engine is founded by China’s seven main news…
AT&T fires back at Netflix over ‘Net Neutrality’
AT&T’s Public Policy Chief, James Cicconi, slammed Netflix CEO Reed Hastings as “arrogant” to force others to pay for the content provider to gain access to faster broadband speeds and better services….
Twitter releases new find-your-first-tweet tool to celebrate its eighth birthday
Do you remember your first ever tweet? If no then Twitter gives you a chance to relish the memory of your first own tweet through a new tool. Twitter, which is celebrating…
Virgin Media in talks with Amazon over Amazon Prime Instant Video
Virgin Media is currently in talks with Amazon over adding streaming video service Amazon Prime Instant Video to the TiVo platform. Tom Mockridge, chief executive, Virgin Media, addressing the Broadcasting Press Guild…
Microsoft admits snooping on blogger’s Hotmail account to track leaks; revises policies
Microsoft acknowledged that it had searched an anonymous blogger’s Hotmail account to track software leaks and identify an employee it suspected of leaking information. A former software architect Alex Kibkalo, a Russian…
Google brings always-on HTTPS to Gmail; claims 99.978% availability in 2013
Google has announced always-on HTTPS for Gmail to protect users’ email from snooping when they check, read and send email. “Starting today, Gmail will always use an encrypted HTTPS connection when you…
375 million people play Facebook connected games each month
Facebook, on Monday, at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco revealed that around 375 million people on an average play Facebook-connected games each month, across both desktop and mobile. According to…
Twitter stops working on encrypted direct messages
Twitter has reportedly abandoned its encrypted direct messages project through which it aimed to make government surveillance more difficult. According to The Verge, the microblogging giant has stopped working on the project…
Mt Gox letting users check account balance
Troubled Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, on Tuesday updated its website, allowing users to log in to their accounts to check their virtual wallet balance. The fallen bitcoin exchange, which filed for bankruptcy…