Headlines for April 15th, 2010
Posted on 15. Apr, 2010 by [modern media mom] in Lastest Headlines, Latest News, Links & Resources
- Twitter Hits Its Stride, Plans New Features – “Twitter has more than 105 million users and is adding more than 300,000 new ones every day, the micro-blogging network said this week at its developer conference, Chirp, in San Francisco. Twitter also used the event to announce several new features, such as geolocation services, more official mobile clients, and its own URL shortening service.”
- Google launches archive search for Twitter – “Trying to track down a single tweet from 2007? With the new Twitter archive search, Google is opening up access to years of Twitter activity.”
- Caller ID Spoofing Ban is Bad for Business – “Caller ID is a great tool for managing business communications and improving productivity and efficiency. However, the way that some businesses employ caller ID may cross the line drawn by a new law–the Truth in Caller ID Act of 2010.”
- Microsoft Will Investigate ‘Prisoner’ Conditions at Chinese Factory – Government IT from eWeek – “Microsoft claims that it will investigate the alleged labor violations at the KYE factory in China’s Dongguan City, after an April 13 report by the National Labor Committee, a nonprofit NGO. That report suggests that workers producing Microsoft PC cameras and mice are subjected to excessive working hours, poor pay, restricted freedom of movement, harassment by guards, and substandard living conditions. Although Microsoft claims that it uses vigorous auditing to its vendors’ working conditions, the report suggests that these conditions at the KYE factory have endured for some time.”
- Opera Mini for iPhone already over 1 million downloads strong – “Three days after its late Monday launch, Opera Software spread the news that its server-assisted Opera Mini browser for the iPhone capped over a million downloads the first day of widespread availability, which was Tuesday.”
- iPad Is Banned In Israel – “The Israel government has barred importation of the iPad and is also seizing units from tourists who attempt to enter the country with one of Apple’s new tablet-style computers.
Israeli officials told the Associated Press that the ban was imposed because the iPad’s Wi-Fi connection uses a frequency that conflicts with Israeli standards for wireless networks.” - Apple-Adobe rancor to result in lawsuit? – “This whole Apple-Adobe spat is about to get a lot uglier, according to IT World. Their sources say Adobe Systems is prepping for a major lawsuit against Apple in the coming weeks.
The updated SDK that was released with the iPhone 4.0 dev kit seems to be the last straw, with its new rules banning apps converted from Flash (and Microsoft Silverlight).” - Google launches Twitter timeline search – “Almost everything you’ve ever said on Twitter is about to be discoverable through Google.
Google announced plans Tuesday to roll out a timeline of archived Twitter messages organized by topic, allowing searchers to see when Twitter activity spiked with tweets related to their search query. When the user clicks on a particular day that contained an outsized number of tweets related to that topic, they’ll be presented with a scrolling list of the individual tweets from that day.”
