Modern inventions are great and there is no denying that the likes of Twitter have added an exciting twist to our lives in recent years. However, if you sometimes wish that you lived in the 19th century you might be frustrated by the lack of gadgets which cater to your seriously retro tendencies. Thank goodness for Adam Vaughan then. The web developer from Cumbria has...
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So, you are a kind of famous celebrity and you like nice dresses but, hey, you like Twitter as well. It seems that this can only end in one way. That’s right; an LED filled dress which displays tweets on it. The 34 year old X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger – who was once a Pussycat Doll, we believe – turned up at the London Battersea Station with her unique dress...
A prince of Saudi Arabia has taken a $300 million stake in micro blogging site Twitter, adding another investment in the global media industry. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who is a nephew of the king of Saudi Arabia and was estimated to have a fortune of $20 billion by Forbes magazine, already owns a 7 percent share in News Corp. and is also currently planning on starting...
A new study shows that micro blogging site Twitter is as influential as the judges of X Factor when it comes to how the audience vote on the show. According to a study conducted by media agency Carat, Twitter is more than 42 percent more influential than other news sources in the behavior of deciding voters. The study, which had 13,000 total respondents, is believed to...
Photo mosaics have been all the rage for quite a while years ago, and with the current technological advances, it can be made by almost anyone. Now, online gadget retail company Firebox can make portrait posters of a person’s profile photo in Twitter using his or her personal tweets. The poster is much like a photo mosaic, but instead of using hundreds or thousands...
Micro blogging site Twitter has launched in June the t.co URL shortener and began formatting links that are 20 characters long or greater. Now, the service has announced that the program will be expanded to reformat all posted links in the future. “Tens of millions of links are tweeted on Twitter each day,” said the developers from Twitter in a post in its...
It appears that Apple is not the only tech company that has problems handling secrets. Reports say that a Windows Phone program manager at Microsoft has been fired after posting a tweet about a Nokia device running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system. Joe Marini, a program manager for Windows Phone at Microsoft, made a harmless tweet confirming an unnamed...
Importing video games from other countries won’t be an issue anymore, as Sony’s upcoming handheld gaming platform PlayStation Vita is region free. It has been hinted at the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) this year by Sony executive Michael Denny that the PlayStation Vita will be region free, though he said that it was as far as he knew. Now, Sony Computer...
Three out of four (around 73 percent) internet users in the United Kingdom interact on social media platforms, a study showing social networks’ impact on people has revealed. A study conducted by InSites Consulting, a market research firm that has offices across Europe, show that about 73 percent of British internet users use social networking platforms, like micro...
Micro blogging site Twitter is suing Twittad, an advertising company, over the term ‘tweet.’ The company is pursuing this even though Twittad originally coined the term. Back in 2009, Twitter has made a big deal about developers using the word ‘tweet’ in their apps. While the company has been trying to register ‘tweet’ as a trademark...