Posted on Sunday, 18th October 2009 by admin
AVOID Twitter and YouTube but sign on to Facebook if you want to get smart, a scientist has claimed.
Evidence shows technology which requires a short attention span - such as Twitter and short YouTube clips - is bad for our brains.
But Facebook, which requires us to use more memory and information and makes us [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 26th September 2009 by admin
Facebook remains on the lookout for acquisitions after its failed attempt to buy microblogging site Twitter, one of the company’s directors and largest investors says. “We’re still focusing on growing as much as possible,” says Peter Thiel in an interview with BusinessWeek.
In Facebook’s first public confirmation of the talks, Thiel said the parties disagreed [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 15th August 2009 by admin
The temporary shutdown of the messaging service Twitter Thursday may have been related to the ongoing political conflict between Russia and Georgia.
Twitter says it suffered a denial-of-service attack, in which hackers command scores of computers toward a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through. Facebook also experienced intermittent access problems.
Bill [...]
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