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• Best free Android apps: For Twitter

  As a self-proclaimed Twitter fiend, I like to tweet my thoughts and ramblings both at home and on the go. I used to just text my tweets to Twitter; soon, however, I discovered that I was missing out on a ton of high-quality tweets and conversations from the people I followed, since I couldn’t view the Twitter Newsfeed via text message and I wasn’t a huge fan of the Twitter mobile website. Thus I set out in search of a worthy Twitter Android app that would serve as my new way to tweet on the go.

  By Armando Rodriguez | 18 September, 2011 01:01

  Tags: Android, apps, consumer electronics, Phones, smartphones, twitter

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  Apple iOS: Why it's the most secure OS, period

  In June 2007, Apple released the iPhone, and the device quickly took off to become a major brand in the smartphone market. Yet when the iPhone shipped, security on the mobile operating system was nearly nonexistent. Missing from the initial iOS (then called iPhone OS) were many of the security features that modern-day desktop software has as a matter of course, such as data-execution protection (DEP) and address-space layout randomization (ASLR). Apple's cachet lured security researchers to test the platform, and in less than a month, a trio had released details on the first vulnerability: an exploitable flaw in the mobile Safari browser.

  By Robert Lemos | 06 June, 2011 20:04

  Tags: Apple, consumer electronics, hardware systems, iOS, iPad, iPhone, laptops, mobile security, mobile technology, Phones, security, smartphones, tablet PCs, twitter

• Who’s using Twitter? Some surprising answers

  Eight percent of online Americans may use Twitter, as the Pew Internet & American Life Project reported on Thursday. But does that mean your small business should use the service in its marketing and communications efforts?

  By Katherine Noyes | 11 December, 2010 06:20

  Tags: email, instant messaging, Internet-based applications and services, social networks, twitter

• Twitter 2.0: Not just for narcissists

  Using Twitter is like being trapped in an elevator with someone who has a severe case of attention deficit disorder and just consumed three pots of truck-stop coffee.

  By Robert X. Cringely | 17 September, 2010 02:30

  Tags: internet, Internet-based applications and services, social media, twitter

• Google's Realtime Search update does what Twitter won't

  Searching for status updates is not Twitter's forte, so leave it to Google to make its own Realtime Search engine more powerful instead.

  By Jared Newman | 27 August, 2010 08:10

  Tags: Facebook, Google, internet, search, search engines, twitter

• Goodbye Kin, Sidekick and 'social phones'

  If there's any correlation between the recently killed Kin and discontinued T-Mobile Sidekick -- aside from Microsoft having a hand in both discontinued phones -- it's that they tried to distinguish themselves from both high-powered smartphones and simpler feature phones.

  By Jared Newman | 03 July, 2010 08:04

  Tags: Facebook, Microsoft, mobile, mobile phones, Motorola, Palm, social networks, Telecommunication, twitter

• Skeptical shopper: Enhanced advertising in augmented reality

  Have you ever found yourself in an unfamiliar city with no clue about where to go and what to see? What if you could just hold up your phone, snap pictures of your surroundings, and discover interesting local restaurants and landmarks? With augmented-reality apps, you can do just that. But advertisers are jumping on the trend as well, so the same application that reveals intriguing potential destinations might also bombard you with ads for nearby fast-food chains. Can augmented reality actually be useful for consumers, or is it simply another way for corporations to get a hand in your wallet?

  By Ginny Mies | 22 June, 2010 09:40

  Tags: advertising, augmented reality, Consumer Advice, internet, Phone applications, Phones, twitter

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  Will Twitter ads tweak tweeters?

  Now that Twitter has begun to display ads--pardon me, Promoted Tweets--in users' search results, the big question is how millions of loyal Twitter fans will respond. Reaction on the micro-blogging site has been muted thus far--more questions than commentary, actually--and it's apparent that most users haven't seen the new ads yet.

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 14 April, 2010 08:37

  Tags: online advertising, social networking, twitter

• Geolocation 101: How it works, the apps, and your privacy

  Facebook wants to know "What's on your mind?" Twitter asks "What's happening?" But that's getting old already. The burning question for the next wave of social networking is "Where are you?"--and services like Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite, and Loopt want you to use your smartphone to answer it.

  By Daniel Ionescu | 31 March, 2010 01:55

  Tags: Facebook, geolocation, GPS, privacy, social networking, twitter

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  10 Mac tweeters not to miss

  Who knew that "140 characters or less" could change the way people interact?

  By Michael deAgonia | 27 February, 2010 07:02

  Tags: Mac, twitter

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  The truth about Twitter's 50 million daily tweets

  For a service focused on brevity, Twitter sure is generating an awful lot of in-depth discussion these days.

  By JR Raphael | 24 February, 2010 10:21

  Tags: social networking, twitter

• Google's leading, but where do other Web giants stand on IPv6?

  The most popular Web sites are under increasing pressure to add support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to IPv4, the Internet's main communications protocol.

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 05 February, 2010 08:01

  Tags: American Registry for Internet Numbers, comcast, ebay, Facebook, Google, IPv6, Microsoft, twitter, wikipedia, Yahoo

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  Twitter's top trending topics of 2009

  Did you know that Twitter users are a bunch of Super Bowl cheering, American Idol watching, Google Wave using music lovers? That's according to Twitter's top trending topics list for 2009, anyway. Twitter recently released the list, which details the topics that people were talking about this year, in messages of 140 characters or less, of course.

  By Ian Paul | 17 December, 2009 04:41

  Tags: twitter

• Top 10 technology stories of 2009

  The Great Recession cast a shadow on all sectors of the economy in 2009. IT fared better than most, however, and the slump did not curb the dynamic nature of the industry. Acquisitions among big vendors continued to reshape the market, operating-system wars extended to mobile battlefields, microblogging became a powerful source of real-time information, and the take-up of small, 'Net-connected devices was stronger than ever. Here, in no particular order, is the IDG News Service's pick of the top 10 technology stories of 2009.

  By Marc Ferranti | 09 December, 2009 12:17

  Tags: droid smartphone, GFC, Google Chrome OS, intel antitrust, Microsoft, Oracle-Sun merger, steve jobs, twitter, Windows 7, Yahoo

• Twitter's revamped retweets: The good, the bad, the missing

  Twitter's new retweet function is slowly rolling out across its network. If you don't see the new feature yet, you will soon, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams said in a recent blog post.

  By Ian Paul | 12 November, 2009 04:56

  Tags: retweeting, social networking, twitter