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  • Twitter for iPhone now ready for iOS 4 multitasking

    Twitter for iPhone now ready for iOS 4 multitasking

    Posted on June 23, 2010 | No Comments
    The official Twitter app is keeping up with the times by rolling out iOS 4 support in its latest build. With the program now able to run in the background, you'll finally be able to send tweets while switching in and out of other applications. It also means you won't have to relaunch the app every time you want to check up on the latest happenings, it'll just keep your place like a good and loyal piece of software. Retina Display-friendly graphics are also part of the new package, along with "more secure" tweeting, if you ever felt insecure about the integrity of you shorthand missives. All it's missing now are the millions of "sent from my iPhone 4" messages, a gap we're sure you'll be filling pronto.

    Twitter for iPhone now ready for iOS 4 multitasking originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Nike’s giant LED screen in Johanesburg has people Tweeting support for their favorite World Cup stars

    Nike’s giant LED screen in Johanesburg has people Tweeting support for their favorite World Cup stars

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Looks like Nike is up to quite a bit more in South Africa than making sure Landon Donovan (and the rest of Team USA) is well-dressed while taking first place in Group C. (Fingers crossed!) I just got word that the company has constructed the biggest interactive LED screen in the whole of Africa. It's on the Life Centre skyscraper that's in Johannesburg. Now, what would you want to do with an giant interactive LED screen in the middle of a major city?

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  • DotWar: Twitter-based strategy game

    DotWar: Twitter-based strategy game

    Posted on June 16, 2010 | No Comments
    It's certainly not the first Twitter-based game out there, but DotWar, a made-in-Japan strategy/action title is a pretty satisfying time waster. The game is bilingual (English/Japanese) and actually to be played outside Twitter, on a separate site. Gameplay is pretty straightforward: Simply enter your Twitter handle to send out hundreds or even thousands of battle "units"out against another player/Twitter user.

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  • Twitter reacts to Nintendo’s E3 press conference with love, revelry

    Twitter reacts to Nintendo’s E3 press conference with love, revelry

    Posted on June 15, 2010 | No Comments
    What's the hottest story on Twitter right now? Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal in the World Cup? Nope. Brazil? Sorry. Work or shoot: Bryan Danielson and WWE? Nein. No, friends, the hottest story right now is the goings-on over at Nintendo. The company is on stage giving its E3 presentation, and people are sorta all over the place. Has Nintendo's fan service worked this time around?

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  • Amazing Twitter World Cup mash-up needs to be seen right now

    Amazing Twitter World Cup mash-up needs to be seen right now

    Posted on June 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Whew! Day One of the World Cup is now behind us, and I wanted to take a moment to point y'all in a particularly awesome direction. The Guardian, one of my recommend sites from yesterday's catch-all post, has a truly amazing Twitter mash-up that needs to be seen to be believed. What it does is analyze tweets that occur during a game, then it creates a dynamic chart that corresponds to said tweets.

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  • WWE finally has a YouTube account (and with full episodes)

    WWE finally has a YouTube account (and with full episodes)

    Posted on June 8, 2010 | No Comments
    I must be seeing things... is that an official WWE YouTube page, and one that already has last night's episode of Monday Night Raw online? This is so unlike WWE, embracing technology. They must have hired someone new in recent weeks, someone who told them that, you know, the Internet isn't merely for “geeks” anymore.

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  • Who should I follow? cellphone edition

    Who should I follow? cellphone edition

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Welcome back to "Who should I follow?" where we take on the overwhelming and tiresome task of figuring out who you should follow on Twitter for you, and compile a neat and convenient list. If you're really seriously into cellphones, this one's for you: we've pulled together everyone we can think of (and we'll keep adding to it!) here -- writers, companies, carriers -- and have compiled a major list for all tweets mobile. Enjoy -- and be sure to add your suggestions in the comments!

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    Who should I follow? cellphone edition originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • How has the exciting world of technology changed since the last World Cup? Let us count the ways!

    How has the exciting world of technology changed since the last World Cup? Let us count the ways!

    Posted on May 31, 2010 | No Comments
    A little birdie told me that the World Cup begins in just a few weeks, on June 11, 2010, in South Africa. Four years prior saw Italy lift the trophy in Germany, beating France on penalties. Zinedine Zidane also headbutted Marco Materazzi that day—an immense event in Internet history. A lot of things have changed since that day in Berlin, a lot of things that will shock and amaze you. For example, did you know that Facebook was still only open to college and high school students the moment Fabio Grosso smashed the ball past Fabien Barthez? So, what else has changed between then and now?

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  • Save Dave: Twitter campaign rallies around Sirius XM’s Ron and Fez producer

    Save Dave: Twitter campaign rallies around Sirius XM’s Ron and Fez producer

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    There's a campaign brewing on Twitter that really ought to be highlighted, if only because it shows the power (well, potential power) of the site. Dave McDonald, a producer on the Ron and Fez show on Sirius XM (and part-time inventor), needs a raise. He needs a raise because he has a growing family to support. But let's not even bring up personal reasons. The man deserves a raise because he's a fantastic asset to the Ron and Fez show and to Sirius XM as a whole. Without a raise, Dave will have to leave the show, which is incredibly disappointing. He's a producer of the highest caliber—competent producers don't grow on trees, otherwise terrestrial radio might not be as dead as it is today—and yet he earns little more than an intern. If this were 20 years ago we might see picket lines forming outside the Sirius XM studios in New York, but because this is 2010, fans have turned to Twitter to send Sirius XM management a very clear message: Save Dave, Pay The Man.

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  • Twitter reacts to last night’s episode of Lost, the last episode EVER: It was a storytelling Ponzi Scheme

    Twitter reacts to last night’s episode of Lost, the last episode EVER: It was a storytelling Ponzi Scheme

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    .bbpBox14628830360 {background:url(http://s.twimg.com/a/1274144130/images/themes/theme3/bg.gif) #EDECE9;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 7px 0 0px;width:38px;height:38px} p.bbpTweet a:hover{text-decoration:underline}p.bbpTweet span.timestamp{font-size:12px;display:block} @RonnieBQuotes Lost = story-telling Ponzi Schemeless than a minute ago via txtLeif Erickson RigneyLeif_Erickson Lost ended its glorious run last night. While I stopped watching the show about two [...]

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  • Kindle 2.5 update coming down the pike right now

    Kindle 2.5 update coming down the pike right now

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    It looks like Kindle firmware 2.5 is trickling out to certain Kindle DX owners right this very second. This ought to mean that the update will hit a Kindle near you rather shortly.

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  • Photo gallery: Japan’s SoftBank shows 13 Twitter-powered cell phones

    Photo gallery: Japan’s SoftBank shows 13 Twitter-powered cell phones

    Posted on May 18, 2010 | No Comments
    We've shown you the summer cell phone lineup from KDDI (Japan's No. 2 carrier) yesterday. Today, Japan's third largest carrier, SoftBank Mobile, showed its own summer lineup during a special press conference, and all of their 13 new models have one thing in common: they all come with Twitter pre-installed. The buyers of these cell phones will be able to access Twitter either via a pre-installed app or through a pre-installed widget on the homescreen. The background is that SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son himself is a huge Twitter fan (he has almost 300,000 followers) and believes Japan is set to become Twitter country. And in fact, by some measures it's already No. 2. Photo gallery of all the 13 new Twitter-powered cell phones over at MobileCrunch.

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  • Photo gallery: Japan’s SoftBank shows 13 new, Twitter-powered cell phones

    Photo gallery: Japan’s SoftBank shows 13 new, Twitter-powered cell phones

    Posted on May 18, 2010 | No Comments
    We've shown you the summer cell phone lineup from KDDI (Japan's No. 2 carrier) yesterday. Today, Japan's third largest carrier, SoftBank Mobile, showed its own summer lineup during a special press conference, and all of their 13 new models have one thing in common: they all come with Twitter pre-installed. The buyers of these cell phones will be able to access Twitter either via a pre-installed app or through a pre-installed widget on the homescreen. The background is that SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son himself is a huge Twitter fan (he has almost 300,000 followers) and believes Japan is set to become Twitter country. And in fact, by some measures it's already No. 2.

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  • CubeSat XI-V: Japan gets tweeting satellite

    CubeSat XI-V: Japan gets tweeting satellite

    Posted on May 10, 2010 | No Comments
    As if the Akiba Pulse Box (the Twitter heart beat posting device) or the Bowlingual (the iPhone Twitter app for dogs) weren't enough: Japan now boasts the world's first tweeting satellite, the CubeSat XI-V. Developed by the Nakasuka Lab at the University of Tokyo, the pico satellite (four inches) is currently orbiting Earth and keeps posting [JP] various data to its followers on Twitter.

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  • Twitter for Android: the best apps reviewed

    Twitter for Android: the best apps reviewed

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    You know what's awesome? Cookie dough ice cream. But when it comes to the smartphone market, the 18-month-old, steadily-growing Android platform is equally wondrous. Sure, Google may have a tiny bit of catching up to do when compared with Apple's market share, but at least Android users are already spoiled with a handful of good Twitter apps. Better yet, Twitter has now thrown in its official app to spice up the competition, so we thought it'd be interesting to put it head-to-head against the third-party clients. Read on to find out if we have a winner.

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    Twitter for Android: the best apps reviewed originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 May 2010 16:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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