News

• Google Glass ecosystem grows with Twitter, Facebook and CNN apps

  Google is working to build out the app ecosystem for its upcoming Glass, showing off work today at Google I/O from partners like Twitter, Facebook, CNN and Elle.

• Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr try out social networking apps for Glass

  While Google promotes its Glass head-mounted display as a new way for people to receive and document information on the fly, several social networking companies including Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr now want a piece of the action, by offering social applications on the device.

• Windows 8 isn't New Coke, says top Microsoft exec; it's Diet Coke

  Frank X. Shaw, Microsoft's head of corporate communications, has defended his company's Windows information disclosure strategy, denying that Microsoft has adopted Apple's "cone of silence" approach to imparting news.

• BlackBerry Messenger is expanding to iOS and Android

  BlackBerry's free Messenger service is being expanded to work with iOS and Android devices, the company announced today at its BlackBerry Live event.

• Twitter buys big-data analyzer Lucky Sort

  Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a data analytics company, in a move that could give the social network deeper insights into its users' tweets and how to best place advertisements on its site.

• Bing brings more of Facebook to search

  Bing is adding some new social features to its search engine, by letting users comment and "like" their Facebook friends' posts directly on the site.

• The Onion explains how its Twitter account was hacked

  Hackers who commandeered The Onion's Twitter account used simple but effective phishing attacks to obtain passwords, according to a writeup by the publisher's technology team.

• Twitter buys Ubalo to speed up its back-end

  Twitter has acquired Ubalo, a company that provides various services aimed at speeding up the coding process, the social network announced Thursday.

• Downdetector.com scours Twittersphere to detect service outages faster

  A Dutch startup has launched a service that studies data from social networks to quickly identify online service outages -- sometimes, it says, before the service providers know about the outages themselves.

• Yahoo recruiting iOS developers to 'radically improve' Flickr

  Yahoo's Flickr mobile app may be getting a completely new look in the months to come, as the company seeks to hire multiple iOS engineers to "radically improve" the photo-sharing site's app and attract new users, the company said in a recent job notice.

• Is Twitter broken?

  Twitter, the increasingly popular micro-blogging service, has come under quite a bit of criticism in the past few weeks. Users of the platform, which describes itself as an "information-sharing network" are struggling with what to do about false information being spread around.

• Dunkin' Donuts brews up strong social response to Boston bombings

  When Dunkin' Donuts executives were deciding how to respond on Twitter and Facebook to the Boston Marathon bombings, they acted like what they are - members of a grieving Boston community.

• ESEA gaming client hijacks GPUs for Bitcoin mining

  The co-owner of widely used computer gaming service ESEA has admitted that the company used its client software to mine bitcoins using customers’ hardware without their knowledge. Some ESEA users say that the unannounced activity overheated their graphics cards, damaging them in the process.

• EFF: Trust Twitter -- but not Apple or Verizon -- to protect your privacy

  Verizon and MySpace scored a zero out of a possible six stars in a test of how far 18 technology service providers will go to protect user data from government data demands.

• Twitter opens self-service ads to everyone

  Twitter is expanding its self-service advertising platform so that any business in the US can pay the site to promote its accounts and tweets.