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Media Decoder: Time Warner Pulls Channels From iPad App
Time Warner Cable on Thursday abruptly removed several channels, including MTV and FX, from its iPad app after receiving complaints from three major media companies.
March 31, 2011, 2:34 pm| Read full article | More articles from nytimes.com
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Is Rebecca Black recording Friday followup or not?
Various media sources have reported that the 13-year-old aspiring singer, from Anaheim Hills, California, is working on a second single, hot on the heels of the having gone viral on YouTube.LOL reportedly contains the lyrics, "BFF, you make me LOL," but her manager has told HollywoodLife.com there's no truth to...
Read more »March 31, 2011, 7:27 am| Read full article | More articles from siliconrepublic.com
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Magnet brings free TV channels to iOS devices
Following the launch of Magnet WebTV in January - a service that offers live TV streaming of seven channels for free, with Twitter and Facebook feeds integrated for live social media commentary, Magnet intends to see the service grow as a mobile phenomenon.Available at the web-based service was previously only...
Read more »March 31, 2011, 5:09 am| Read full article | More articles from siliconrepublic.com
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Google +1 – really a crowd-sourced security measure for search?
Google’s search engine is no doubt the dominant platform for finding what you’re looking for. Often the problem today is that despite Google’s efforts in terms of algorithms people always find a way to buck the system, or at least try to.Whether people master SEO tactics or whether some hacker...
Read more »March 31, 2011, 2:00 am| Read full article | More articles from siliconrepublic.com
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Facebook launches Deals in Ireland – m-commerce goes social
At Facebook's European headquarters in Dublin where Facebook employs 200 people, the company revealed it is beta-testing the technology among Irish consumers and is already working with major brand names like Insomnia, A-Wear, Milano, SuperValu, Champion Sports, the Guiness Storehouse, Meteor and Axa. From today onwards Facebook users with smartphones...
Read more »March 30, 2011, 9:44 am| Read full article | More articles from siliconrepublic.com
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Royal Wedding domain name can be yours for £25,000
The domain name's seller, , welcomes bidders to make an offer on the price of www.thebritishroyalwedding2011.com, of which 20pc of the final sale price will support the listing says.The describes the domain as "very similar to the Palace's domain. This means that the potential amount of internet traffic that this...
Read more »March 30, 2011, 8:38 am| Read full article | More articles from siliconrepublic.com
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A funny thing happened to Street View on the way to forum
The new features take the user to the exterior of archeological sites, like the Imperial Forum or the Colosseum in Rome, and also to the inside of the Colosseum and forum.StreetView also takes users along the Appian Way and imagine the splendour of Imperial Rome at the Thermae (baths) of...
Read more »March 30, 2011, 7:13 am| Read full article | More articles from siliconrepublic.com
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Twitter needs to become more ‘social’, less ‘elite’
Rabid? Um, well, rapid. Unlike Facebook, where things have a context, a timeline and a holding pattern of sorts, Twitter fulfils its role as a speedy exchange of information almost too well. It’s like a public street with cars whizzing buy but with no place to stop. It’s fast and...
Read more »March 30, 2011, 3:57 am| Read full article | More articles from siliconrepublic.com
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Mulley's Project X revealed: the Irish Social Media Awards
Last week, Mulley that he felt the Blog Awards had achieved its aim of making blogging more mainstream in Ireland and he mentioned a mysterious Project X he planned to work on.Well, that Project X happens to be the Irish Social Media Awards, which will happen on 26 May at...
Read more »March 30, 2011, 3:14 am| Read full article | More articles from siliconrepublic.com

