By Jane Gracielo, on April 29th, 2013% 
Google plans to shut down in June the Meebo Bar for receiving and sharing personalized content from websites in favor of Google+ tools for interaction between websites and users.
Google is planning to stop the further developments of the Meebo Bar to focus more in enhancing the Google+ tools.
Google acquired the company that made Meebo in June 2012. Aside from the Meebo toolbar that it has, they also incorporated it with advertisements, and social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Meebo also has their own IM application in desktop and smartphones.
. . . → Read More: Google Stops Operation for Meebo Bar to Focus on Google+
By Jane Gracielo, on April 22nd, 2013% 
Hackers are on the move again and attacked Twitter accounts of CBS network’s 60 Minutes and 48 Hours, tweeting bogus messages claiming US is supporting terrorist group.
The hijacking of accounts happened on Saturday and tweeted “Exclusive: Terror is striking the #USA and #Obama is Shamelessly in Bed with Al-Qaeda” using the 60 Minutes account. Other account 48 Hours retweeted the statement in their feeds, too.
There were a couple of messages made by the hijackers using the 60 Minutes account such as mentioning the heated issues about the Syrian Propaganda. The tweets read . . . → Read More: CBS Twitter Accounts Hijacked, Hackers Tweeted Fake Messages
By Jan Paul Ronaldo Manching, on April 12th, 2013% 
In Dubai, police forces are taking seriously the speeding problems in their city and shows off a Lamborghini Aventador in local police colors.
Currently displayed in Dubai Mall, the most popular shopping plaza in the country, the Lamborghini Aventador police car steals a lot of attention and could scare off the fast growing street racers around the city.
It’s quite a talk in the cyberspace now and receives a lot of attention in the popular social network Twitter with the hashtag “#onlyinDubai”.
The Lamborghini Aventador, costing £260,000, is said to have a . . . → Read More: Dubai’s Lamborghini Aventador Police Car
By Jan Paul Ronaldo Manching, on April 9th, 2013% 
Before the age of GPS, traveling to unfamiliar places was so difficult. When Global Positioning Systems were introduced, it made traveling more easier and convenient. But when smartphones came with internet and maps were so easily accessed, seasoned travellers and truck drivers were so much more easier. GPS doesn’t have the ability to pickup closed roads on the fly, unlike the maps on smartphones using internet, it picks up the latest road closings and exist to be used for more convenient traveling and avoiding heavy traffics.
But this technology is not a good news to all . . . → Read More: California Judge Bans Access of Maps on Smartphones While Driving
By Jan Paul Ronaldo Manching, on April 5th, 2013% 
As the threats from North Korea continues to grow against South Korea and the U.S., hackers are on the move and took over the North Korea’s social media accounts, Twitter and Flickr.
On Thursday, the country’s Flickr and Twitter accounts began posting updates which doesn’t seem to be normal from its previous behavior. With this, experts concluded that the two North Korean social media accounts have been taken over by hackers.
Following this news, a group of hacker claimed and took responsibility. Anonymous, a group of hackers which already made their name because of . . . → Read More: North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr Hacked; Photo of Kim Jong Un Having Pig Snout
By Jane Gracielo, on March 23rd, 2013% 
Twitter is going on the battlefield again and face the court in France for the offensive, racist tweets.
It was in October 2012, that a hashtag #UnBonJuif or “A good Jew” in English made a trending topic in France through the largest microblogging social network in the world. The UEJF or the Association of Jewish Students in France ignited the legal action against Twitter asking the court to force the site to hand them the details of those users who used the hashtag to legal actions will be filed against them. The court agreed with the . . . → Read More: Twitter Fined 50 million over Racist Tweets
By Jan Paul Ronaldo Manching, on March 20th, 2013% 
Jack Dorsey, the maker of Twitter – one of the biggest social network in the world, and Square was profiled by “60 Minutes” and mentioned that he once dreamed of becoming a mayor.
The interview with Mr. Dorsey focused more on how his new invention, Square, handles payments through the mobile phones, but an interesting part catches attention when he mentioned that he wants to be a mayor in New York City.
Jack Dorsey did not state any more details about the mayor dreams like when, however, he mentioned that he wants to move . . . → Read More: Will Twitter Creator Run for Mayor in New York?
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