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Watertown Shootout Redefines Breaking News; Twitter Citizen Journalists Hours Ahead of Cable Networks

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Watertown Shootout Redefines Breaking News; Twitter Citizen Journalists Hours Ahead of Cable Networks

No Comments 19 April 2013

By now we’ve all grown accustomed to Twitter being the primary news feed for major world events. Whether it being a royal wedding or the Arab Spring, Twitter was there step by step for real time coverage. In the case of the raid and subsequent killing of Osama Bin Laden, we saw Twitter prove its [...]

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The Vatican Pulls A Social Media Trifecta As Pope Benedict XVI Sends His First Tweet

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The Vatican Pulls A Social Media Trifecta As Pope Benedict XVI Sends His First Tweet

3 Comments 29 June 2011

The Vatican has embraced the digital age with gusto, launching a new web portal for all things Catholicism at News.va. Initially the portal will be available in both English and Italian with additional languages to follow. Visitors will have access to news via Fides News Agency, L’Osservatore Romano Press, Vatican Radio and CTV videos that cover issues [...]

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Do@ Launches iPhone App Search Engine At Techcrunch Disrupt

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Do@ Launches iPhone App Search Engine At Techcrunch Disrupt

2 Comments 23 May 2011

When using a traditional search engine, you type in a keyword and a page of results are brought back to you. Those results were put together by sites like Google who crawl all the major sites on the internet and ranks the best results based on a predefined criteria, ie sites with the most high quality inbound [...]

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Twitter Reacts To News Of Osama Bin Laden’s Death

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Twitter Reacts To News Of Osama Bin Laden’s Death

No Comments 02 May 2011

Some ten years after the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, CNN is reporting that Osama Bin Laden was killed in a mansion in Islamabad, Pakistan. Twitter immediately erupted with a deluge of tweets celebrating the demise of one of the most hated men in history.   NYT NEWS ALERT: Osama [...]

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Did News Corp Just Waste $30 Million On ‘The Daily’ iPad Newspaper?

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Did News Corp Just Waste $30 Million On ‘The Daily’ iPad Newspaper?

No Comments 04 February 2011

In light of New Corps launch of their first all digital publication ‘The Daily‘, industry pundits have panned it across the board. Many feel it is too expensive an experiment. After all $30 million to launch an iPad based newspaper seems rather extreme. Once you factor in the a year’s worth overhead costs for journalists [...]

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Geeks Online News

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Geeks Online News

No Comments 07 January 2011

A daily collection of the best Geeks Online News Round Up. You can follow me here: @KevinMinott

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World Tech Update: Mini Drone Helicopter, Samsung Galaxy Tab

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World Tech Update: Mini Drone Helicopter, Samsung Galaxy Tab

No Comments 26 August 2010

Does Apple have anything to fear from Samsung entering the tablet race? The teaser site currently showing a glimpse of the 7″ Samsung Galaxy Tab has tails a wagging in the tech world. Also, is a touch screen conference table overkill for office collaborations? Find out this and more as Nick Barber of IDG news [...]

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Week In Tech: HP Scandal CEO Mark Hurd

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Week In Tech: HP Scandal CEO Mark Hurd

No Comments 12 August 2010

HP found itself as the top tech story this week, for all the wrong reasons. Instead of garnering press for a future tablet like rival Dell’s ‘Streak’, HP is now embroiled in a sex scandal, featuring a former playboy model and it CEO Mark Hurd. Other highlight of the weeks tech news include the launch [...]

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Political Fallout From Arizona Judge Immigration Decision

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Political Fallout From Arizona Judge Immigration Decision

No Comments 31 July 2010

Can Obama get any immigration reform in place during his first term. Jim Lehrer of the PBS News Hour holds a round table to discuss this and the weeks other big political stories. Columnists David Brooks of The New York Times and Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post speak with Jim Lehrer about the week’s [...]

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Exclusive Video of The Defcon Badge: MacWorld

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Exclusive Video of The Defcon Badge: MacWorld

No Comments 29 July 2010

MAcWorld was given an exlusive preview of the hightech badges being used at Defcon, “the world’s longest running and largest underground hacking conference”. On World Tech Update this week we show you exclusive video of the Defcon badge, Amazon announces a new Kindle, Panasonic shows off a 3D camcorder for consumers, General Motors announces pricing [...]

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