Sony will resume some PlayStation Network services and beef up its security nearly two weeks after a hacker attack forced Sony to shut it down. The company made the announcements during a press conference in Tokyo. Kaz Hirai, Sony's executive deputy ...
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At Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner, president Obama had a ballroom full of press luminaries laughing at Donald Trump, while Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers made sure the roasting was spread around to many of the media outlets th...
It looks like a match made in heaven -- the Royal Wedding and social media. The last such affair, back in 1981, was a TV-centric event, but this time around, spectators were also following along on their so-called second screens. The event broke live...
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At last, Apple will refresh its line of iMac all-in-one computers, adding the latest Intel Core i5/i7 "Sandy Bridge" architecture and that new Thunderbolt port, according to reliable sources. The multiple sources, which AppleInsider indicates have al...
The last presidential election was only three years ago, but that seems like a generation in the social media age. Just think, back then Twitter was a novelty. Facebook was popular but spent the first half of the year being the second-biggest social ...
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Pogoplug started its life as hardware -- plug a USB drive into it and access files from anywhere. Now, there's a software version of Pogoplug, substituting your Windows, Mac or Linux machine for that hardware and letting you share pictures, music, vi...
Late Sunday evening, President Obama announced to the nation and the world that Osama Bin Laden had been killed and the United States was in possession of his body. The announcement was livestreamed by The White House and on Facebook, following about...
President Barack Obama announced live Sunday night that Osama bin Laden is dead. People around the world have taken to social media channels to share the news and their feelings about it. A Facebook Page titled Osama bin Laden Is Dead has gone viral ...
Osama Bin Laden has been killed. Late Sunday night, President Barack Obama explained to the world how a team of U.S. forces conducted a strategic strike that took out the Al Qaeda leader somewhere in Pakistan. The U.S. government is in possession of ...
Within about two hours of reports first surfacing (and since confirmed by the President) that Osama Bin Laden had been killed, a Facebook Page titled “Osama Bin Laden is DEAD†has already accumulated more than 150,000 “likes.†The page appears to be ...
After Sunday night's announcement that Osama bin Laden is dead, Foursquare users have -- in a ceremonial gesture -- started checking in to a world in which the Al Qaeda founder no longer exists. A quick search on Foursquare in New York for "Osama" re...
Upon news of Osama bin Laden's death, crowds have gathered at Ground Zero in New York City and in Times Square to celebrate. Photos of those celebrations have made their way onto Twitter and Facebook feeds. We've collected some of them here for you. ...
At 11:35 p.m. ET Sunday, the White House's Twitter feed posted a quote from President Barack Obama that confirmed Osama bin Laden's death. But before Obama uttered those words, Twitter was abuzz with speculation and subsequent confirmation from offic...
Google Maps has been updated with a pinpoint for "Osama bin Laden's Compound" in northern Pakistan. The terrorist, who was reported dead Sunday night, was killed during a carefully coordinated U.S. military and intelligence operation. The plan to kil...
Without knowing what he was doing, Sohaib Athar, a.k.a. @ReallyVirtual, has more or less just live-tweeted the raid in which terrorist Osama bin Laden was killed Sunday. The IT consultant resides in Abbottabad, the town where bin Laden was found and ...
In this raw footage from Pakistan, a huge structure thought to be the compound of Osama bin Laden is shown engulfed in flames. This clip comes from a local news broadcast via the Associated Press, which reports that the building shown is quite possib...
YouTube has just announced which members will be inducted into YouTube NextUp and the YouTube Creator Institute, efforts by the video-sharing site to add even more polish to its content. After a six-week search, YouTube has chosen 45 content creators...
Tactile communications: it may not sound too exciting, but it's precisely the field of research that produced a device which lets users "transmit the feeling of a kiss" long-distance. The Kajimoto Laboratory at the University of Electro-Communication...
To promote the arrival of Mountain Dew's new Coolatta beverage at Dunkin' Donuts locations, the two brands have created a Facebook game that allows selected users to melt a cup of Coolatta from a block of ice using a computer-controlled water cannon....
A native Facebook app and a video chat app for BlackBerry PlayBook are coming in May, RIM has announced. The Facebook app will offer all the standard Facebook bells and whistles, including viewing and adding friends, managing friend requests, browsin...
It turned out to be a news-filled weekend, especially with one of the biggest news events in years: the death of Osama bin Laden. Missed our coverage? We've gathered a list of all the posts from the weekend, placing them right here for you: News and ...
Nearly two decades ago, the UN General Assembly proclaimed May 3 as World Press Freedom Day as a reminder that free, independent press is essential to democracy and is a fundamental human right. In honor of that occasion, the United Nations Education...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange touched on the subject of social networking in an interview with Russia Today, calling Facebook "the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented." Assange said he believes Facebook is a giant database of na...
Let's face it: Album leaks are wholly inevitable in the Internet Age, which is why more and more bands are finding creative ways to join 'em rather than beat 'em. One of those bands is Manchester Orchestra. It's giving fans a peek at its new album vi...
Developers are hot on working with Google platforms this year, as evidenced by the demand for tickets to Google I/O 2011. The tech giant's fourth annual developer conference sold out in 59 minutes when passes went on sale February 7. If you're kickin...
Video footage taken from inside the compound in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was killed has been posted online by ABC News. The organization has also posted a gallery of photos from what’s described by correspondent Nick Schifrin as “a massive comp...
