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02 Jul 2009
Marketers Call For Twitter To Filter Content For Pornography, Spam (Laurie Sullivan/MediaPost)
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Marketers Call For Twitter To Filter Content For Pornography, Spam — Nude and explicit photographs have become more common on Twitter. While the site has begun to gain momentum for marketing and customer service departments looking to promote products and services, or connect with customers …
Attacks, arrests slowing online news from Iran (Doug Gross/CNN)
Doug Gross / CNN:
Attacks, arrests slowing online news from Iran — (CNN) — Bloody attacks and midnight arrests, combined with a regime growing more technologically savvy, have begun stemming the flow of online information from dissidents in Iran, activists and human rights officials say.
Yelp Launches Facebook Connect (Nick O’Neill/All Facebook)
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Yelp Launches Facebook Connect — Today Yelp launched their implementation of Facebook Connect to enable users to share reviews with their friends on Facebook. After you post your review on Yelp, you are prompted to post it to your feed. That's about the extend of the service …
One More Thing: The New Facebook iPhone App Will Allow Video Uploads (MG Siegler/TechCrunch)
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
One More Thing: The New Facebook iPhone App Will Allow Video Uploads — Yesterday, we wrote about what Facebook was planning for the next major release of its iPhone app, version 3.0. The big update will contain 15 new features, probably none bigger than the addition of event management to the app, finally.
FriendFeed real-time search. We have it. It’s here. (Jim Norris/FriendFeed Blog)
Jim Norris / FriendFeed Blog:
FriendFeed real-time search. We have it. It's here. — One of the coolest things about FriendFeed is how you can see everything that's happening on the site in real-time. Starting today, this is even more true with real-time search. — Just enter a search query as you always have …
Apple retail stores can now replace broken iPhone screens (Jim Dalrymple/The Loop)
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple retail stores can now replace broken iPhone screens — Apple has expanded the services offered by its retail stores to include fixing damaged iPhone screens. — The Loop has confirmed that if your iPhone has a broken screen and you take it to an Apple retail relocation, they have the capability to fix it on the spot.
Twittering from the tractor: smartphones sprout on the farm (John D. Sutter/CNN)
John D. Sutter / CNN:
Twittering from the tractor: smartphones sprout on the farm — (CNN) — As he rolls across the wheat fields of his Nebraska farm, Steve Tucker often has his hands not on the wheel of his tractor, but on a smartphone. — He sometimes posts a dozen messages per day on Twitter …
Apple patching serious SMS vulnerability on iPhone (Sumner Lemon/Computerworld)
Sumner Lemon / Computerworld:
Apple patching serious SMS vulnerability on iPhone — The flaw could allow an attacker to remotely install and run unsigned software code — IDG News Service - Apple Inc. is working to fix an iPhone vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely install and run unsigned software code with root access to the phone.
New Blog Search tools: Feeds, Hot Queries and Latest Posts (Akshay Patil/The Official Google Blog)
Akshay Patil / The Official Google Blog:
New Blog Search tools: Feeds, Hot Queries and Latest Posts — Ever since the new Google Blog Search homepage launched, we've been fielding requests for a myriad of different features. Today we're happy to announce the launch of our most requested feature: RSS and Atom feeds.
Google App Engine Stalled Out For About 6 Hours Today (MG Siegler/TechCrunch)
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google App Engine Stalled Out For About 6 Hours Today — A little over two hours ago, a Google employee posted a note in this Google Groups thread indicating that Google App Engine was “seeing elevated Datastore latency and error-rates, as well as elevated serving error-rates.”
Microsoft mega datacentre heads to Dublin
Microsoft on Wednesday launched a new datacentre in Dublin, describing it as the largest it has built outside the US.Why Google’s security arm doesn’t have a war room
The computer security industry historically borrows military defence concepts to combat digital threats, literally creating war rooms where experts follow attacks in progress on huge screens with ...Facebook plans to simplify privacy settings
NEW YORK — Facebook is overhauling its privacy controls over the next several weeks in an attempt to simplify its users' ability to control who sees the information they share on the site.Skype iPhone App Lacks Push Notifications
Skype may have just released version 1.1 of its iPhone app, but the eBay-owned company can't catch a break with cell phones.More privacy choices in Facebook revamp
Revamped privacy settings are coming soon to Facebook.Apple looks towards fingerprint-based multi-touch controls
Filings from Apple over the past two years reveal that the company is constantly looking to improve upon the ways in which customers interact with its multi-touch devices, the latest of which ...Vandal Hearts delayed for XBLA and PSN, still hearts you
If you had your heart set on downloading Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment via XBLA or PSN this September, prepare to have it broken.JAKKS wants to keep WWE, THQ not quite sure
JAKKS is more than happy to reenter into its WWE licensing deal with THQ, but the gaming company isn't so sure it's ready to make a commitment.We want this Fallout 3 Brotherhood of Steel costume
OK, we're sure this has been floating around the tubes for a bit, but we're more than happy to devote some attention to the very cool Brotherhood of Steel costume you see above.