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“Hacker Croll” has supposedly managed to infiltrate the Twitter website with an administrator account. The person has bragged about the breach in a French web forum, saying he hacked into Jason Goldman’s account, a product management director at Twitter. As proof, he published 13 screenshots of the company’s account management interface. The screenshots indicate [...]
The BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has revealed information regarding its new online application store, which would be costlier than Apple’s. BlackBerry App World is set to launch later this month in Canada, the U.S. and Britain with the purpose of allowing customers to select and download games, social networking and personal [...]
Struggling Internet search portal Yahoo has introduced a new type of online advertising that integrates traditional search results with pictures and video. For example, on the Yahoo page, type in the keyword “pedigree,” and a sponsored search result for Pedigree dog food will appear together with a video ad that’s aired on TV for the past [...]
Although retail sales are not doing well, Microsoft hired a former Wal-Mart executive to assist it in launching its own retail stores. David Porter, a 25-year veteran, will have the title of VP of Retail Stores. Microsoft hasn’t offered much information on its retail plans, but this is an obvious attempt by the company to [...]
The Bids for new Internet addresses to compete with “.com” and other extension will likely be delayed until the end of the year as the agency in charge, known as ICANN, tries to address issues with trademark and online security. Such concerns include whether trademark owners will end up having to register thousands of new [...]
E-commerce applications have existed from the early days of the Internet, but not all software is created equal. The Interspire shopping cart software stands above its competition since it was designed with the store owner in mind. The software is loaded with numerous useful features and offers a fully customizable [...]
As a small business owner, and someone who comes from a family that owns a medium sized business, I know how important it is to run any company in the most efficient manner possible. Of course, to know if our business is being run in an efficient manner, we first need to track the current [...]
Burger King has recently been advertising on Facebook with the help of an interesting, if not bizarre, new application. The fast-food giant has built a Facebook application which entices Facebook users with the promise of a free Whopper (how delicious).
However, getting your hands on the flame-broiled offering isn’t as easy as [...]
Despite a bad economy, Microsoft managed to sell 28 million Xbox 360 consoles worldwide in 2008, expanding the Xbox’s lead over its nearest competitor Sony’s PlayStation 3. Despite financial problems by some publishers, the video game industry overall has charged ahead against the recession. Market researcher NPD found [...]
The founder of Apple and its chief executive Steve Jobs, a survivor of pancreatic cancer, stated recently that a hormone imbalance is what caused his weight loss that was widely reported by the media. Jobs, 53, said he will receive a “relatively simple” treatment and will remain the head of the [...]
