Archive for January 26th, 2010

Has Twitter peaked?

It was the upstart rock star of the Internet in early 2009. But for the past six months, Twitter’s number of visitors has flatlined. What does this mean for the future of the microblogging site?
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  • New rule for truckers: No texting

    Drivers of commercial trucks and buses will be prohibited from texting under federal guidelines that U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today.
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  • Sixty miles west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, an Air Force C-130 makes slow and lazy ovals over the Golfe de la Gonzave, a 264-foot weighted wire dangling from its belly like a plumb line.
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  • In China it can be hard for millionaires to find love. Just ask Xu Tianli.
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  • Cruise Bogle, 18, was skimboarding with friends in Delray Beach, Florida, when he took a wave that whipped his board out from under him. Bogle was thrown backward, and his head hit the ocean floor. When friends saw him lying still in the surf, they knew something was wrong and rushed him to the hospital.
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  • China’s information technology ministry called accusations of government involvement in cyber attacks alleged by Google “groundless” in an interview with state-run media on Sunday.
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  • Author says the U.S. government inadvertently aided the Chinese hackers who allegedly attacked Google.
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  • Phone app helps save man in Haiti

    Alone in the darkness beneath layers of rubble following the earthquake in Haiti, Dan Woolley felt blood streaming from his head and leg. Then he remembered — he had an app for that.
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  • In the aftermath of Haiti’s devastating earthquake, a small radio station became an informational lifeline for people in Port-au-Prince and beyond.
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  • Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo may be the latest high-profile star to sign up to Twitter but it seems the days of savvy, social-networking soccer players could soon be numbered.
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