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Tuesday, 14th February 2012

Thermonuclear Mobile Patent Wars

Thermonuclear Mobile Patent Wars

Everybody is armed, forces are deployed and the battleground is chosen. Let's get this thermonuclear war started. 2011 was the year that the major mobile platform providers loaded up with ammunition in the upcoming world war between Apple, Microsoft, Research In Motion and Google. Apple acquired patents from Novell while the "Rock Star" group…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

Twitter Did NOT "Break" News of Whitney Houston's Death

MediaBistro's AllTwitter blog is claiming it has an exclusive on the Twitter user who "broke" the news of Whitney Houston's death a full hour before the mainstream media. Here's the problem with the claim: the user, @BarBeeBritt did nothing more than simply ask "Is Whitney Houston really dead?" It's been awhile since I was in journalism school…

Dave Copeland comments

Sony's Whitney Houston PR Gaffe

As news spread on Saturday that famed singer Whitney Houston had died, millions of fans around the world did what is now customary. Well, first they tweeted about it. Then they went to one of the many sources of online music to reminisce. Whether by streaming songs from YouTube or Spotify or by buying tracks from iTunes, fans paid tribute to…

Play John Paul Titlow comments

[INFOGRAPHIC] Grammy Awards Generated 2.1 Million Tweets

TweetReach has a cool stream graph that takes all of the speculation out of who was being talked about when during Sunday night's broadcast of the Grammy Awards. No surprise: Adele topped the evening's Twitter activity with 340,000 mentions. The official #grammys hashtag was tweeted 2.1 million times by 700,000 users. "That's huge, bigger than…

Social Dave Copeland comments

Romney Falls Victim to Latest Google Prank

First there was linking President Bush with the words "miserable failure" on Google. Then last year Rick Santorum fell victim to another Google hack. This week it is Mitt Romney and the escapades of his long-distance car journey with his dog strapped on his car's roof that has gotten the Internets in a twist. Try Googling (or Binging) just Romney…

David Strom comments

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