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Amid Riots, Egypt Is Back Online

Egypt's Internet block is lifted, and President Mubarak has promised change, but troubles continue

14 years ago

Google Launches Voice-Tweet Service For Egyptians

A new service allows Egyptians to circumvent Internet blocks and tweet by telephone

14 years ago

Malware Attackers Use Social Sites As Control Centres

Sophisticated malware attackers increasingly use services and social networking sites for control operations

14 years ago

Egypt Bans Twitter Amid Historic Protest

The Egyptian government has blocked access to Twitter to prevent communication between protesters

14 years ago

Twitter Bird Catches Anti-Virus Scam Worm

A worm spreading rogue URLs has hit Twitter, seeking to con users into downloading fake anti-virus software

14 years ago

Tayside Police Puts Bobbies On The Tweet

Community police officers in South Perthshire will use Twitter to help prevent crime

14 years ago

Social Media Tools Could Lead Business Innovation

Social collaboration tools are poised to increase enterprise productivity if implemented in such a way as to prevent separate silos,…

14 years ago

Twitter And LinkedIn Users Urged To Change Passwords

The hack of Gawker Media over the weekend has prompted other major sites to advise users to change their passwords

14 years ago

Advisor Warns Of WikiLeak Attacks On Government Websites

National security advisor Sir Peter Ricketts says WikiLeaks supporters may attack government sites

14 years ago

WikiLeaks Judge Allows Tweeting In Court

The judge who granted bail to Julian Assange yesterday allowed reporters to tweet from the courtroom

14 years ago

Current Affairs And Football Top 2010 Tweet List

Twitter has revealed that news stars such as Paul the psychic octopus have topped its list of tweets for 2010

14 years ago

Twitter In London? Well, Why Not?

David Cameron turned estate agent and tried selling Twitter a London address. Peter Judge hopes he succeeds

14 years ago

Twitter Considers ‘Silicon Roundabout’ For Euro HQ

Twitter is considering London's East End for the site of a European office

14 years ago

Twitter Denies De-Trending WikiLeaks As Visa Takes A Pasting

Twitter has stated it is not blocking Wikileaks from its Trends list. Elsewhere the DDoS attacks continue

14 years ago

Twitter Bomb Joker Takes Battle To High Court

Paul Chambers' appeal against conviction goes to the High Court, while Britain's senior Judge warns Twitter could disrupt jury trials

14 years ago

Facebook Fault Prevents Women From Logging On

Women were briefly locked out of their Facebook accounts earlier this week due to a bug in the social network

14 years ago

Reaping The Business Benefits Of Social Networks

Collaboration tools with social features provide a powerful foundation for sharing information and linking experts within your organisation

14 years ago

Twitter Supports Bomb Joker With #IAmSpartacus Tag

Twitter users stand up to be counted, as bomb joke becomes a free speech issue

14 years ago

eWEEK Readers Plump For Facebook Pages

You say Facebook pages are better than groups, and LinkedIn beats Twitter. Next up: What do you think of BlackBerry?

14 years ago

Twitter Bomb Joker’s Sentence Upheld

The man who Tweeted about bombing an airport has lost his appeal against his £1,000 fine

14 years ago

Cuts? eWEEK Readers Say Tech Will Help

You say IT can boost efficiency (and we agree). Next: how should business go social - Facebook, Twitter or what?

14 years ago

Twitter Improves Performance With Updated Android App

Twitter has given its Android app a makeover so that it is now faster and features a new tweet details…

14 years ago

Twitter Promotes Advertising Tweets In Its Timeline

Twitter is testing non-intrusive advertising with Promoted Tweets in its timelines, bringing paid ads to its 175 million users

14 years ago

Twitter Set To Pass 200 Million Users

Twitter is adding 370,000 new users each day and is expected to near 200 million users worldwide by the end…

14 years ago

Police To Get Facebook Lessons

Detectives will be trained to track down criminals on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter

14 years ago

UK Twitter Session Hijacking Tool Follows Firesheep Flock

The Firesheep extension for Firefox has helped to give birth to a similar tool that targets Twitter sessions

14 years ago

Public Services Start To Embrace Social Media

Public services are beginning to find uses for Twitter and other social media formats to improve their image

14 years ago

Google Tests Full-Page Preview And Twitter Integration

Full-page Website previews in Google searches and Twitter links within news feeds are being tested

14 years ago

Twitter’s Dick Costolo Takes The Reins As CEO

Twitter CEO Evan Williams has handed over command to COO Dick Costolo, who got the of the micro-blogging site's ad…

14 years ago

Social Networking Sites Patch Security Flaws

A number of cross-site scripting flaws could have allowed attacks on users of Twitter, Facebook and MySpace

14 years ago