Micro-blogging site Twitter went out of order for more than an hour after it was overloaded with New Year greetings yesterday. The site crashed at midnight in Britain after recording a stream of over 16,000 tweets per second.
The developers of the Apple TV MobileX project have just released a new, longer, more in-depth video explaining a jailbroken Apple TV running iOS apps running at 720p resolution.
Twitter, one of the world's most popular social networks, is ringing in the New Year with mass outages, as the site goes down, comes back up, and then crashes again. Here, find out why the site is likely crashing, and how to try exchanging tweets without the main site, which Twitter engineers are working to fix as we speak.
Celebrities have continued to grab our attention this year, some with uninformed, melodramatic tweets and others with wit and groundbreaking news. Needless to say many of them have been entertaining. Here's a look back at some of the funniest tweets of 2011, ahead of the New Year.
NetColalition, a trade association that includes Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and PayPal, is planning a coordinated blackout to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The blackout would be the most extreme move against the controversial bill yet, but NetColalition says the protest is just the tip of the iceberg.
Fly High Gaby began trending on Twitter on Thursday night in honor of former Penn State student Garbriella Sicard, who died on Wednesday from injuries sustained in a car crash.
The founder and president of New York City's Pace Public Relations is a successful and sober-minded individual, but when it comes to this one thing, she has a definite compulsion. It's the Like button on Facebook -- she just can't stop clicking it.
The Brooklyn-based software company Boxee has announced that the latest version of their popular media center software will be the last iteration for Windows, Mac and Ubuntu. Boxee software will be available on Boxee.tv through the end of January according the website.
Kelly Clarkson tweeted her support for Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Wednesday, and received a barrage of angry tweets in response.
A small group of committed programmers has taken it upon themselves to build a central network for Occupy groups and protesters around the world, Wired reported on its Threat Level blog. It's partly a function of not wanting Facebook to have access to private activist messages, but it's also an attempt to simplify communications among the many groups.
For the first time, Netflix has fallen below Amazon in customer satisfaction, landing with some of the worst companies in a new ForeSee poll with a rating of 79 out of 100. For investors anxious about Netflix stock, however, this survey has a silver lining. Here, find out the five things investors should know about the streaming site's ranking in this new poll.
Another Siri port, dubbed Spire, reportedly brings Apple's personal, voice assistant to any jailbroken device running iOS 5??
A new program called Spire allows users to add Siri to any jailbroken iOS 5 device, from an iPhone 4 to a first generation iPad. But before you start downloading Spire, brought to Apple lovers by iOS cracker Chpwn, take care: without a proxy, this 'legal' hack is only the beginning for Siri on iPhone 4, and could endanger your information's security.
With the reports of the new jailbreak's release on the Internet there are some reports of a product which can unlock and jailbreak even A5 devices like iPhone 4S.
Netflix declined more than any from one year to the next, in part due to lingering effect from the company's price-hike debacle earlier this year that upset and ran off many customers.
This is the third time in the last few months that Facebook has helped in tracking criminals and proved useful in prevention of a crime twice.
Shares of BlackBerry developer Research in Motion soared as much as 7 percent Tuesday on speculation it may attract a suitor in 2012 or take steps to improve shareholder value.
Finally after a long wait, Pod2g has given the Christmas and New Year gift to his fans by releasing the untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1.
A new feature that allows users to include friend' photos in messages just made Facebook chat a little cooler.
Interested in sharing more personal moments of life to a small group of friends rather than a large network? An app called Path could help.
Apple, to solve battery issues related iPhone 4S running on iOS 5, will be releasing new updates of the operating software which can carry a patch for the new jailbreak.
This year saw Android smartphones grow by leaps and bounds and Google Inc. release the latest version of its Operating System - Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich - in the latter half of the year.
