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Alec Baldwin's Words With Friends Addiction Gets Him Booted Off Plane
3:49:35 AM
Alec Baldwin likes Words With Friends, the scrabble game available on multiple platforms including the iPhone, so much that he missed a flight because of it. On Tuesday, Baldwin was kicked off an American Airlines plane at the Los Angeles...



Facebook Reveals 2011's Most-Popular Status Trends
12:07:47 AM
Facebook status updates played a starring role in the evolution of the world's largest social network in 2011. As several major changes to status updates (increased character limits, for example) rolled out throughout the year, Facebook data...



Facebook Begins Official Timeline Rollout
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 9:36 PM
Facebook officially took the "beta" label off its much-publicized Timeline this evening, but it's rolling out the new feature gradually. New Zealand is currently the only country to get Timeline, the company said in a blog post this evening....



Facebook Bug Revealed Mark Zuckerberg's Private Photos
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 5:46 PM
A bug in Facebook's code briefly gave users access to other users' Facebook photos -- including those of Mark Zuckerberg -- without permission Tuesday. Members of a body building forum first spotted the bug, which appeared in a new feature that...



Mostly Mobile: How the Internet Is Consumed in India [INFOGRAPHIC]
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 4:57 PM
As India becomes more connected, technology is disseminating in different patterns than it did in the West. Today, there are more mobile subscribers in the country than TV owners. Of the population of 1.2 billion, 100 million are online and 38...



How Much Does a Twitter Follower Cost?
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 4:41 PM
An email from Twitter sales to prospective advertisers today revealed what brands have been paying for followers on the platform. The memo included cost-per-follower (CPF) rates for Promoted Accounts and cost-per-engagement (CPE) for Promoted...



XXX Domains Are Here: Now What?
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 4:09 PM
For some, today's official grand opening of the .xxx domain is the best thing to happen to Internet pornography since it was injected with life in the 1990s, as depicted in the movie Middle Men. For others, it's a dangerous move that comes with...



Verizon to Challenge Netflix With Streaming Service [REPORT]
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 3:51 PM
Verizon plans to roll out a video streaming service that will challenge Netflix next year, according to a report. The company is in talks with potential programming partners about the service, which will target users who don't have Verizon's FiOS...



Facebook Holds All-Night Hackathon for College Teams [VIDEO]
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 1:26 PM
Like auditions for a part in a play or tryouts for a sports team, developers have their own rituals for landing hot gigs: hackathons. Facebook recently held its own competitive coding session with teams from 14 schools. Their assignment was to...



Android Market Surpasses 10 Billion Downloads
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 1:11 PM
Google's celebrating a pretty big app market milestone: 10 billion apps served...er..downloaded. In a blog post, the search giant announced the landmark for the store, which serves its mobile OS-phone-carrying customers, noting that app downloads...



PayPal Feels Web's Wrath After 'Ruining Christmas' [UPDATED]
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 12:50 PM
PayPal is taking an online beating after allegedly shutting down an account for a charitable gift buying program run by the popular "craft fail blog," Regretsy. Regretsy was organizing a holiday gift exchange in which its readers could buy toys...



Steve Jobs Bio Is Amazon's Best-Selling Book of 2011
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 12:03 PM
Walter Isaacson's bio of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs topped Amazon's list of the top-selling books of 2011, though the title is still number three for best-selling Kindle titles. While Amazon had predicted the bio, called Steve Jobs might...



Brands Increase Recall with TV/Digital Mix, Google Says
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 11:53 AM
New research from Google and Ipsos claims that recall improves when TV spots appear again in YouTube pre-rolls, making a stronger case for its pre-roll and in-stream ads. Tests of 15- and 30-second spots for six ad campaigns using YouTube...



EU Investigates Publishers, Apple on Ebook Price Fixing
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 10:51 AM
The European Commission has opened an investigation into whether a group of international publishers -- possibly with the help of Apple -- has been fixing ebook prices, and breaching EU antitrust rules. The publishers involved are Hachette Livre...



Only 5% of Adults Use Location-Based Checkin Apps [REPORT]
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 10:17 AM
Do you check in on Foursquare or another location-based app on a weekly basis? If so, you're among just 2% of the adult population, according to a new report. Forrester Research surveyed 37,000 people with mobile phones and found that the...



 
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