Saturday, 6 July 2013

Twitter launches translation service for non-Arabic speakers

  • Calcutta News.Net - Friday 5th July, 2013

    Lindsay Lohan doesn't seem to be a fan of her own films as she took over to Twitter to warn her fans not to see her stripper movie 'I Know Who Killed Me'. The 27-year-old troubled actress, who is in rehab at the Cliffside Malibu clinic in California, was given time to access the internet on her birthday on Wednesday, TMZ.com reported. After a fan tweeted that she had seen the horror flick ...

  • Bugged by US spying EU may sever ties with American internet providers

    RT - Friday 5th July, 2013

    USA EU businesses are threatening to terminate relations with American internet providers in response to the National Security Agency surveillance scandal, the European Commission has warned. Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission, said that US providers of 'cloud services,' a technology that permits clients to store data on remote servers, could suffer steep ...

  • Eye in the sky Breathtaking views of London photographed from Met police helicopter prove to be a Twitter hit for MPSinthesky

    The Independent - Friday 5th July, 2013

    .And now, images of the city photographed by on board police officers, have proven to be a hit on Twitter and helped to take the @MPSinthesky Twitter account to nearly 50,000 followers.The Metropolitan Police helicopter unit currently operates three Eurocopter EC145 helicopters on a 24-hour basis flying an average of over 275 hours per month, assisting officers on the ground with suspect ...

  • Backend Website Development How to Prioritize Your Efforts

    Search Engine Watch - Friday 5th July, 2013

    The Easy Button. We all want one. If we could turn all of the complex things in our lives into Easy Buttons, it'd be smooth sailing. After all, the decision to do something is the hard part. So shouldn't what comes next be easy? Ah, but life isn't like that. And neither is website development. Building the backend functions of your website requires a solid understanding of your ...

  • Afghan Taliban vow attacks over Ramadan after being hacked

    Reuters - Friday 5th July, 2013

    KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan Taliban promised on Friday to continue attacks over Ramadan, rejecting as a fake an insurgent email promising a halt in violence over the coming Muslim holy month and saying it was the work of government ...

  • Twitter spammers impersonate celebrities

    Market Watch - Friday 5th July, 2013

    Twitter said Thursday it is giving users more ways to see how popular their tweets are, and information on what types of people "follow" them. Shira Ovide explains how it ...

  • USA wastes $630K on Facebook likes

    Pravda - Friday 5th July, 2013

    The United States spent 630 thousand dollars from the state budget on "Facebook likes". The Bureau of International Information Programs, has spent the amount in two years to promote its page on the social ...

  • Yelps New Wordmap Helps You Avoid Hipsters

    Search Engine Watch - Friday 5th July, 2013

    Yelp announced a new feature called "Wordmap" that allows users to search cities by keyword so they can discover (or avoid) certain areas they live in or would like to visit. This heatmap works by extracting keyword density of Yelp reviews all over a city, and the patterns in the maps are pretty entertaining, at the very least. Yelp, first, I want to thank you for allowing me to ...

  • Twitter translates popular Egyptian accounts into English

    Euro News - Friday 5th July, 2013

    Twitter has started a translation service to help those watching the unfolding political changes in Egypt. The social networking site has started to translate the Arabic tweets of some leading Egyptians into the local languages of those reading them. According to a Twitter statement, it was trialling Microsoft?s Bing translation services so that a tweet appears in its original language ...

  • BPOs offering to manage social media for clients

    Times of India - Friday 5th July, 2013

    MUMBAI: Business process outsourcing firms are finding a new lucrative opportunity in managing social media for corporations whose customers are taking to the online medium to share feedback. BPOs such ...

  • Education report stipulates tech standards

    IT Web - Friday 5th July, 2013

    Minister of basic education Angie Motshekga must develop and approve a national plan for schools to be implemented by all provinces. A National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) report on norms and standards for school infrastructure has been agreed on, and stipulates, among other things, that all schools have to be fitted with a fixed telephone line, Internet access and must ...

  • Israeli fibre company to enter SA

    IT Web - Friday 5th July, 2013

    Gilat is focusing on creating a fully redundant fibre network in SA, says VP of sales for Africa, Alex Petropouliadis. Israeli communications company Gilat is extending its presence in SA with the ultimate goal of becoming a pan-African Internet service provider (ISP) with its own fully redundant African network. Gilat, which already has South African ties through its partnerships with local ...

  • Internet joins surveillance protest

    IT Web - Friday 5th July, 2013

    The online community rallied on Thursday in support of live protests against the US government's surveillance of Internet activity, a practice recently exposed by a former contractor for the National Security Agency. Web sites such as Reddit and Mozilla supported a campaign in cities across the US to "Restore the Fourth" - a reference to the US Constitution's Fourth ...

  • US pharmaceutical industry now turning to branded content

    StuckOn - Friday 5th July, 2013

    According to comScore's yearly Online Marketing Effectiveness Benchmark report, America's pharmaceutical industry has started to reap the benefits of branded online content, showing it's not just the industries long associated with the Internet that can benefit from online strategies. In the report, which compiled results from both pharmaceutical studies and individuals, it was ...

  • Three Kerala govt employees suspended for anti-govt Facebook posts

    KeralaNext - Friday 5th July, 2013

    India News: Three government employees placed under suspension for posting and sharing comments against Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Facebook in connection with the solar ...

  • NATO safe from US spying

    IT Web - Friday 5th July, 2013

    NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Thursday he had no reason to believe that NATO's security had been compromised by alleged US spying on its European allies. The German magazine, 'Der Spiegel', citing secret documents, reported last Saturday that the US had bugged European Union offices in Brussels and gained access to EU internal computer ...

  • ITWeb hosts second annual Social Media Summit

    IT Web - Friday 5th July, 2013

    As the boundaries between our work and personal lives blur, social media is becoming an imperative for businesses. Whether catering to consumers, or operating in the B2B space, organisations are expected to be available on social channels and sharing thought leadership. It's not enough to simply have a presence on a social platform like Facebook or Twitter, however. Ineffective use of ...

  • American teenager jailed as ?terrorist? for Facebook post receives broad international support

    wsws.org - Friday 5th July, 2013

    interview with the mother of Justin Carter, a teenager from Austin, Texas who was jailed as a "terrorist" for a sarcastic comment he made on Facebook. At the time of that article, we noted that a petition for Justin Carter's release ...

  • Twitter Embedded on These Websites Test Curates Links Under Tweets

    Search Engine Watch - Friday 5th July, 2013

    With Twitter being a source of news for so many people, a new feature it?s testing that essentially curates the content behind the topic seems like a logical fit. "Embedded on these websites" is the header for the new functionality that is showing links to articles online that have embedded the ...

  • Stolen dogs home after social media storm

    Gold Coast Bulletin - Friday 5th July, 2013

    CLARE Ackfield feared she may never see her staffordshire terriers again after they were stolen from her Lower Beechmont home almost a week ago.But a massive social media campaign reaching more than 8000 people tugged on the thief's heartstrings and the dogs were dumped outside the family home early yesterday morning.The two staffordshire terriers were taken from Ms Ackfield's locked ...

  • Ex-spy on Twitter Marry me Snowden

    Times Of India - Friday 5th July, 2013

    Snowden has received proposal of sorts in a tweet from Anna Chapman, the glamorous redhead who was one of 10 Russian agents arrested in the US and deported in a Cold war-style spy swap in ...

  • Kerala CM suspends 3 officials for commenting against him on Facebook

    India Today - Friday 5th July, 2013

    Protests have broken out in Kerala against the suspension of 3 government employees who posted comments against Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on their Facebook account.The comments posted by the employees were in connection with the solar panel scam that has rocked the Chandy government. In a major embarrassment, Chandy's former personal assistant was arrested in connection with the scam.The ...

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