Twitter kneels in front of censorship. See what was changed

Twitter announced that it has a new power: the censorship of certain posts in countries that so wish. Thus, Twitter would have "the ability to censor the message content of some individuals in certain countries - while rest of the world will not be affected" social platform officials announced on the company's official blog. Until now, if a message was deemed offensive to a particular State ... (read more)

Facebook Update: Timeline application will become mandatory

Timeline application from Facebook, that exposes the entire history of users on site on their profile pages, will be inserted automatically. The new Facebook "look" could be adopted so far by users only if they wanted it, informs Daily Mail. "Last year we introduced the timeline, a new type of profile that highlights photos, and post your events, so as to tell the story of" social network ... (read more)

Wikipedia receives money from the Russian's founder of Facebook

The founder of the largest social networks in Russia has declared his admiration for Wikipedia and promised to donate a million dollar to non-profit organization. Paul Durov, Russian entrepreneur aged 27, founded the online social network VKontakte, or VK, briefly five years ago. The site has grown to 33 million unique visitors per day, 17 million active users a month and a total of 160 million registered users, according to Venture Beat. VK, he said, is why ... (read more)

Anonymous deleted CBS.com content

After a short holiday in which has not been heard about Anonymous grid, hackers occur again visible in the online environment. If a few days ago, Anonymous attacking the FBI and Justice Department websites, today to network hackers deleted CBS.com website content and attacked UniversalMusic.com for the second time. According to Gizmodo, the latest target was US ... (read more)

iPhone: The most useful free applications

Applications are designed to make our life easier, and when you have a smart phone one of the first things you do is fill it with various programs just for this purpose. Number of applications for the iPhone is very high, some of which are available for download for free. Business Insider did a top of free application that eases our daily life. One of this is Evernote. This application ... (read more)

U.S. begins war on the Internet. Megaupload.com was closed

The U.S. government closed Megaupload.com sharing site, accusing its founders and several employees of copyright infringement, Reuters inform. Department of Justice announced charges and arrest of the four company executives in New Zealand, Friday, in a tense moment in which debate on a law to impose censorship on the Internet is discussed in Congress. Film and ... (read more)

Google+ lets you record and post video via webcam

Google+ Social Network starting today has enabled the video option via webcam and the possibility of publishing file. Video recorded by user's webcam can be shown to friends which he has in his circles. "Today we're making video a bit more fun by letting you record and share videos of yourself using your webcam," Google+ Photos engineer Shana Gitnick wrote in an update on the social site. "To get started, click the video icon in the share box and choose ... (read more)

Yahoo: co-founder Jerry Yang has resigned

Jerry Yang, Yahoo co-founder, a company that he founded in 1995, succumbed to the shareholders, who accused him of pursuing an inefficient personal vision and prevent future investment that could save the company. Yang's departure comes two weeks after Yahoo named a new CEO, Scott Thompson, ... (read more)

Facebook aims the biggest public offer in IT

Facebook will hold IPO, worth $ 10 billion at the end of May, says several sources close to the situation. Facebook is obliged to file its documents at the Securities and Exchange Commission next month, since it takes several months to pass bureaucratic obstacles, says Business Insider. Social network wants to attract $ 10 billion, according to the IT company's market value is estimated at 100 billion dollars. The IPO market is currently in a very bad shape. ... (read more)

Acer Aspire S5: the world's thinnest laptop

Acer presented Monday at the fair CES 2012 (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas a laptop with a diagonal of 13.3 inches and a thickness of only 15 mm in the thickest point. Specifications include a housing made of an alloy of aluminum and magnesium, a next-generation Intel Core and Thunderbolt port with transfer rate up to 10Gbps. The laptop has a weight of 1.35 kg ... (read more)

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