The Facebook Phone?

The rumor about Facebook working on its own smartphone has been in the mills for a while and there are no signs that things are about to change. The social networking giant are cooking things up in the smartphone department to compete with the likes of Apple and Google.

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Twitter Hacked!

Twitter was hit with a massive hack on Wednesday as some 50,000 user names and passwords were posted to the internet. This leak spanned five pages on Pastebin, a site where hackers post illegal files and hacks.

Twitter claims a major part of this information appears to be garbage (really?), in which there are many duplicates, some belonging to suspended spammers, and those that are believed to be fake accounts generated by robots.

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Facebook Ban On Comments?

I don't know what this user must have said or commented on, but it definitely did not go down well with the policies of the social networking site. I know they've got rules that govern users of the site but I have just not been faced with this kind of prompt seen right here.

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The BlackBerry Empathy.

Even reviewing the concept behind the design of this “crazy” phone gives me goose pimples. Gone are those days when we connect with contacts stored on our phones via calls and text messages: it is about time we started sharing the moods of our friends and relatives via the Blackberry Empathy.

The concept device was designed by Kiki Tang and Daniel Yoon for a RIM sponsored project at the Art Center College of Design.

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Twitter Hits 250 Million Tweets per Day!

Speaking at a dinner during the Web 2.0 Summit at San Francisco, Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo revealed that the company has gone from 90 million tweets per day in September of 2010 to 100 million at the beginning of this year to 1/4 billion tweets per day as of today, a 177% percent change.

Twitter is now serving up a billion tweets every 4-5 days, Costolo said. The company has gone

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Clash Of The Titans!

The war is officially on: It's Google+ vs. Facebook, in the battle to become the biggest or best global social network.

After rolling out a three-month test phase with limited openings, Google+ is now open to the general public for sign-up and use. Google's new social network site has also integrated its search engine into the design (which is pretty cool), and expanded its "Handouts" video chat feature for mobile use and broadcasting.

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