Twitter demeans recent info dump
Twitter responded to a recent massive dump of usernames and passwords, saying that many of them were duplicates or banned spam accounts.


Twitter responded to a recent massive dump of usernames and passwords, saying that many of them were duplicates or banned spam accounts.
Facebook is to file an initial public offering request worth $5 billion today, a move which will set it on the road to becoming a public company.
Everyone has rights to free speech, and you can tweet whatever you want on Twitter social networking site. As Twitter expands its reach to other countries, it seems like the company may be introducing censorship due to content restriction in some countries.
Korean actress Han Chae-young was recently criticized on Twitter for flaunting her wealth when she posted a New Year greeting to her fans, with a picture of her driving a luxurious car, even though that was not her intention.

Are you still using the old Twitter interface which has now been dubbed by many as 'Old Twitter'? Well, if you are, you might want to actually start getting used to the new interface which the popular microblogging service has rolled out way back last year; the company has confirmed that it plans to upgrade all existing Old Twiiter users to the new interface by this week. Well, change is never easy, right?
If you are the proud owner of an Android-powered smartphone who cannot afford to pass a single day without getting your daily fix of Twitter on your mobile phone, today will definitely be a very good day to hit the Android Market and update that Twitter app currently residing in your smartphone to the latest version. This is because Twitter has just released an updated version of its Android client that reportedly brings a certain feature which most Android users have been waiting for quite some time already.
Rumours may be a good source of information at times, but there can also be cases whereby certain rumours may be nothing more than hoaxes with the potential to adversely affect the reputation of individual people or even huge companies. And in this case, the unfortunate victim of a recent rumour is none other than Twitter, who is currently finding itself at the middle of a little controversy over claims that it intends to start charging Japanese users for its services.
ad:tech Singapore 2011 enters its fourth year today where brands, agencies and publishers come forth to share new ideas, new technologies and know-hows on the digital front. Leading agencies like BBDO/Proximity, Grey Group, Starcom, Dentsu, Omnicom, Hakuhodo and major publishers such as Financial Times, Wall Street Journal Asia, Bloomberg are listed as participants of this event. Several high profile speakers and panelists from Google/YouTube, Yahoo!, Facebook, Linkedin, Dell, Fuji Xerox, Nokia are also here to provide some insightful speeches to the event attendees. VR-Zone was there to catch Day 1 action of the two-day event and read on to check out some interesting facts and figures from the ground.
Renowned hacker group LulzSec who has caused Sony lots of woes in the past few weeks, has recently posted a huge list of usernames and passwords including admin/webmasters from porn sites, as well as government and military emails. According to reports, LulzSec is planning to hack Brink servers for online multiplayer first-person shooting game by Bethesda studios.
Twitter may be a great way to inform friends about what one is currently doing in the form of short text messages, but is its service safe enough? That is a question you will have to ask yourself, especially after the popular service had been compromised yesterday by a hack which exposed users to pop-ups and retweeted messages without any approval.
Read on for more information.
