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Apple iPad’s expected shortage and delay in UK  has been widely reported and discussed in webosphere, this news has expectedly  dampened the spirit of  iPad fans waiting to get their hand on the revolutionary Tablet device but fortunately this does not seem to apply to the early birdies who pre-ordered their iPad, few have started getting their iPads a day before the launch. Twitter was abuzz [...]

Stephen Fry via last.fm The immense potential and benefit of mobile apps is now well understood by one and all, thanks to the popularity of Apple iPhone apps, the success story of Apple mobile apps is now carried forward by Apple’s 10 inch tablet iPad which runs all the iPhone apps by default and have seen developers coming out with apps specifically to take advantage of its large screen and [...]

Image via CrunchBase Move over Facebook’s recently launched and fast catching ‘Open Graph’ feature, the  habit-inducing social networking site is reportedly planning a location-based feature that lets users “check-in” at real-world businesses and points of interest. TechCrunch reported about hidden code for the location feature on Facebook’s  mobile website [...]

Oopsy! We’ve seen some bugs in our time, but this one puts the cherry on the cake. A new exploit discovered in Twitter’s system is the ultimate ego sweller. By simply typing “accept [username]” into Twitter’s homepage, you can automatically force people to follow you, without them even knowing it. Try it for yourself, tweet “accept Sporkings” and we’ll [...]

When Twitter founder Jack Dorsey first announced Square mobile payment system, I thought it was a brilliant idea – and it still is. Being able to accept credit card payments on the go, no matter where you are, with an iPhone/iPod/iPad – fantastic. Square officially launched yesterday (on the iPad, initially) and the technology is already outdated. Square relies on the old fashioned [...]

Image via Wikipedia The twitter bug just refuses to die down. The retweet.com domain which put itself up for sale last month has fetched a massive price of $250,000 in an online auction on Flippa. The sale was hotly contested with as many as 45 bids being placed for retweet.com and the eventual winner outscoring others by shelling out $48,000 more than any other bidder. Retweet.com is a twitter [...]

Image via CrunchBase Twitter, the immensely popular social networking service which has made tweet synonymous with a short message posted online rather than of a bird chirping , has reached the milestone of 10 billion “tweets”, as announced by the tweets tracking service GigaTweet, which tracks tweets in real time. All this in less than 4 years of inception, it reached 1 billion in November [...]

A recent report from ‘All Things Digital’ suggests that Twitter is all set to launch its much awaited advertising model. To start off, the advertisements will mimic tweets in terms of character length and will be limited to 140 characters. Twitter has not announced a release date or the pricing options for its ad model but it is widely expected that the micro-blogging site will have the ad model [...]

Twitter users have been hit by a phishing attack, the direct messages sent out say something along the lines of “This You????”, “hey, i’ve been having better sex and longer with this here” or “LOL this is funny” followed by a link to a phishing site that looks like twitter which then asks you to enter your twitter credentials in. Video Explanation from Sophos: According [...]

Image via CrunchBase DST (Digital Sky Technologies), the company owned by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner has outlined its plans for the next 5 years and it’s hardly surprising that the company plans to put in a billion dollars to further tap the potential of social media. Clearly, the phenomenal success of DST’s 2 major social media investments – Facebook and Zynga will pave the path [...]