ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan on Sunday blocked access to Twitter in response to “blasphemous” material posted by users on the microblogging and social networking website, a senior government official said. “This has been done under the directions of the Ministry of Information Technology. It’s because of blasphemous content,” said Mohammed Yaseen, chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). “They (the ministry) have been discussing with them (Twitter) for some time now, requesting them to remove some particular content,” he said. …
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An Indian woman wonders how she can possibly trust her husband. After all, two months into their marriage, he still hasn’t changed his Facebook status.
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Facebook may have made social networking a worldwide cultural phenomenon, but it wasn’t the first Internet company to connect people online. And it won’t be the last. Here’s a look at how social networking has evolved. Some companies have come and gone. Some are mere shells of their former selves. And others show promise, even as Facebook dominates the social Web.
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This summer, the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration will begin creating guidelines for the minimum amount of noise a car engine can emit — at lower speeds hybrid and electric cars cause too many accidents.
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Facebook is the hottest Internet company to hit the stock market since Google went public in 2004. The Silicon Valley companies, located seven miles apart, also happen to be locked in a bitter battle for Web surfers’ allegiance and online advertisers’ money. The duel is likely to intensify now that the IPO has given Facebook Inc.’s social network billions of dollars to battle Google Inc.’s dominant search engine.
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According to a report, Apple gets hugely preferential leases just to open its stores in certain cities and locations. Why is anyone surprised?
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Less than 100 people arrived at the Facebook CEO’s Palo Alto, Calif., home today thinking they were there for his girlfriend’s graduation ceremony. Instead, the two shared their vows.
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(Reuters) – Google said on Saturday that Chinese authorities have approved its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings, the last regulatory hurdle to a deal that would allow the world’s No. 1 Internet search engine to develop its own line of smart phones. Google, which will be the newest entrant to the handset market, announced plans for the acquisition last year in a bid to secure Motorola’s valuable patents and pave the way for a pairing of Google’s Android mobile software and Motorola’s handset business. U.S. …
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