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Professional Sports vs Twitter

After complaining via Twitter about his lack of playing time against the New England Patriots, David Clowney of the New York Jets was benched for the game against the Tennessee Titans (Bloomberg)

Twitter is being banned (and how!) by Texas Tech after a linebacker from the team “tweeted” that the coach was late to a Sunday [...]

Social Networking Meets Dumb Criminals

This is the perfect story to stumble on for a Monday…
A young man of 19 years old, broke into a house in West Virginia recently and stole two diamond rings worth about $3500. This wouldn’t seem like a big news story except before this young criminal left the home, he checked into his Facebook account… [...]

Disease Outbreaks? There’s an App for That

In a telling sign of the swine-flu times, iPhone has released an application that will let a user know if there are disease-outbreaks lurking in their neighborhood.
Named “Outbreaks Near Me” – the app is designed to alert users of disease information. The mobile version even allows participation; for example, if a clinic is noticing a [...]

Back to School

That’s right – back to school is right around the corner and PC World has released a “Back to School Gift Guide” – sure to be a hit with students of all ages!
Check it out at PC World – Back to School Gift Guide

Twitter to Start Charging for Business Accounts

Twitter has confirmed that they will start charging businesses to use their services in an effort to collect revenue for their currently-free social networking site.
Paid accounts will also offer access to statistics and analytics that are not currently available through the regular Twitter service.
For more information on this topic – click to read “Twitter to [...]

Geeky Arts & Crafts

Here’s a post that’s on the lighter side and close to my heart – I think the quilt might just be my favorite…
Take a few minutes this afternoon to enjoy:
Wednesday Geeky Pics – Geeky Arts & Crafts from Geeks Are Sexy
And I feel it’s only right to include a link to these felt Star Wars [...]

Twitter Outtage Blamed on Lone Blogger

Towards the end of last week, Twitter began experimenting outages and that were revealed to be the work of a blogger in the former Soviet of Georgia. Twitter users were panicked with the disruption of service, which also slowed down Facebook and LiveJournal.
This attack will undoubtedly raise more questions about the lack of security on [...]

Now IT Links – Sports Edition

NFL versus Twitter – a thin line between love and hate (Tech News World)

Denver Nuggets guard, J.R. Smith closed his Twitter account this week amid controversy and accusations of gang codes in his messages (Yahoo Sports )

No mention of sports and technology would be complete with a little Starbury TV. You have no idea what [...]

Marines Ban Social Networking

Effective immediately, the U.S. Marines have banned social networking access for soldiers, including Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. The move is being made to avoid “information exposure” and “elevated risk of compromise” to military personnel due to low security and filtering, by these social networking websites.
Read more about this story at CNN – “Marines Ban Twitter, [...]

Is Google Just Good-Enough?

PC World has an interesting article by David Coursey about how Google continues to thrive despite putting out unfinished products but people aren’t complaining – because it’s free.
Although, with the release of the new Chrome OS which requires the purchase of the actual computer – Google now faces a pressure to perform, according to Coursey.
You [...]