Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has released its fourth-quarter financials, posting its first quarterly profit drop in two years as it lost ground on rivals Apple and Samsung in the smartphone...

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Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote and Paul François Fournier, EVP at Orange, took to the stage at LeWeb 2011 to announce the service's very first European partnership which will see the...

Read More: Evernote partners with Orange, gives subscribers a years free access to Evernote Premium

Arrested in April of this year, UAE blogger Ahmed Mansour along with economics professor Nasser bin Ghaith, and activists Fahad Salim Dalk, Hassan Ali al-Khamis and Ahmed Abdul Khaleq have...

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Ayman Yousef Mansour has become the second Egyptian, since the fall of former president Hosni Mubarak, to be sentenced to 3 years in jail for online self-expression. Unlike Maikel Nabil...

Read More: Egyptian sentenced to 3 years in prison for Facebook posts

Wednesday is here once again and we’re halfway through the workweek, which can only mean one thing—it’s time for our Weekly Dose Of WTF!  This week’s roundup of surprising, weird and strange videos is a doozy indeed, including a guy eating a live scorpion, a shampoo robot and a young woman that allegedly aged from 23 to 73 in just a matter of days.  So sit back, relax and, as usual, prepare to be WTF-ified!


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Table Of Contents Notifications | Game Center and iCloud Gaming | Twitter Integration | iCloud | Siri, Dictation & Wireless iTunes Syncing | iMessage | Camera and Photos | Settings...

Read More: TNW Review: A complete guide to Apple’s iOS 5 with iCloud, an OS 14 years in the making

It's become a firm fixture of everyday life, loathed by some but essential to nearly all of us, and yet its future is far from certain. Email is forty years old this month, with the first message having been sent in October 1971. The birth of email Like many technological innovations, email has its roots [...]

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It's become a firm fixture of everyday life, loathed by some but essential to nearly all of us, and yet its future is far from certain. Email is forty years...

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The next episode of (R)evolution features a very special guest and someone whose work I've followed longer than I care to count. Among many things, John Battelle is the co-founder of Wired, Founder of Federated Media and Executive Producer of the Web 2.0 Summit. He's also the author of an upcoming book, What We Hath [...]

Read More: Our Digital Society in the Next 30 Years: An Interview with John Battelle

Facebook has their sights locked on mobile. We know that. This afternoon at GigaOm's Mobilize conference, Facebook Mobile Chief Erick Tseng touched on just how crucial mobile is to them — and more importantly, how crucial it will be.

Just how crucial are we talking about? Within 1-2 years, Tseng sees Facebook becoming as much of a mobile company as it is a desktop/web company.

Read More: Facebook’s Mobile Chief: Within 1-2 Years, We’re Going To Be A Mobile Company

Across the country we watched in horror as the towers collapsed. We listened in shock to the phone calls of the passengers on board the hijacked planes and wept as we heard them tell their families they loved them one last time. So much of that day will always be a mix of grief, sorrow, [...]

Read More: 9/11: Ten Years Later [Infographic]

It’s been two years since Kanon Tipton first went viral for preaching to a congregation at the young age of 21 months.  As the "World’s Youngest Preacher", Kannon has racked up more than 4 million views and this week he’s back!  Now 4 years old, Kanon is going viral again with a new video called ‘Baby Preacher Preaches Again!’


Read More: Viral Radar: Baby Preacher Goes Viral Again…2 Years Later

Social Media can be used to spread good news for a good cause and as we saw with the London riots, it can also be used to spread violence which tears a city apart. Two young men, who used Facebook to post messages during the London riots, have been sentenced to 4 years in jail, ...

Read More: Man Sentenced to 4 Years in Jail for Facebook Riot Page

One of the technologies that we are all used to and use on a daily basis is the humble text message. We have all been using it for about 15 years. It has changed the way we communicate. But for the first time in its history the text message is under serious pressure for a whole range of competitors. The emergence of the smart phone, 3G networks and a range of new apps mean that SMS is feeling the heat and could be eliminated within the next 3 to 5 years. The carriers do still have a lot of trump [...]

Read More: How text messaging as we know it will die in 3-5 years

impactssurvey_chart.gif Last week we introduced a survey asking our Social Media Club community, what have been the most significant impacts of social media in the last five years? While social media has existed well over five years, the global adoption of social media tools and platforms increased the most dramatically in the last half decade. Some of the most significant changes we’ve witnessed in real-time have been citizen uprising [...]

Read More: Results: Most Significant Impact of Social Media in Last 5 years?

impactssurvey_chart.gif Last week we introduced a survey asking our Social Media Club community, what have been the most significant impacts of social media in the last five years? While social media has existed well over five years, the global adoption of social media tools and platforms increased the most dramatically in the last half decade. Some of the most significant changes we’ve witnessed in real-time have been citizen uprising [...]

Read More: Results: Most Significant Impact of Social Media in Last 5 years?

As the fruits of Google’s rush to build a social network are now achingly public, someone has asked a pretty apropos question on Quora, “How long would it take to build Facebook as of July 2011?”

Former Facebook CTO and Quora founder Adam D’Angelo provides an informed answer, arguing that if we were just talking about the software and systems and not the company’s user acquisition (which Google granted has a way easier time with), that the entire process would take two years, if undertaken by 1 [...]

Read More: FYI Google, Facebook’s Former CTO Says It Would Take Two Years For ~250 People To Build A Clone

twitter_goes_public.png Twitter has brought microblogging to the mainstream, and to think it was only launched 5 years ago.  July 15, 2006 was when Twitter opened to the public. Remember all those funny looks the early adopters were given, when they talked about 'tweets' and their 'tweeps.'  Fast forward 5 years, this free microblogging service is mainstream with every major celebrity, brand [...]

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Bob Caswell, a product manager at Microsoft, asked an interesting question on his Google+ stream. He asked, "What if you had the idea of Google+ "Circles" three years ago but decided to pursue other interests?" Well, maybe I'd be writing this from the beach in Tahiti? Who knows. Come to find out, Caswell did have ...

Read More: Bob Caswell “What if You Had the Idea of Google+ Circles Three Years Ago?”