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  • Twitter beefs up security with two-step login Twitter beefs up security with two-step login

    NEW YORK - Aiming to tackle recent high-profile breaches, popular micro-blogging site Twitter is introducing an optional two-step login for users to beef up security. The new system would try to ensure "it's really you" when a user signs in to Twitter, which transmits some 400 million messages a day. The move follows recent attacks into the twitter accounts of news organisations' such as ...

  • Facebook doesnt excite teens anymore

    The interest of teenagers is moving away from social networking platform Facebook, and they prefer "parent-free" platforms, according to a survey. The survey, conducted by Pew Research Center, indicates how teenagers' enthusiasm for Facebook is diminishing. The authors of the Pew report wrote how Facebook is now a "social burden" for teenaged users. "While Facebook is still deeply integrated ...

  • STFU Parents Targets Social Media Overshare

    Welcome to the world of overshare. In her new book "STFU Parents," Blair Koenig expands on her 4-year-old blog of the same name, which is dedicated to the "jaw-dropping, self-indulgent and occasionally rage-inducing world of parent overshare." There's the mother who describes her placenta smoothie – which "tastes like heaven," in case you were wondering. ...

  • Security Twitteratti Twitters 2FA does sweet FA for biz

    Security-watchers don't appear overly impressed with Twitter's introduction of two-factor authentication (2FA) to its service. While some infosec experts welcomed the move, others argued that while it might help protect the accounts of individuals, it is ill-suited to the safeguarding of shared accounts of organisations - many of which have fallen victim to recent hijacking ...

  • Roger Federer takes flight joins Twitter

    Roger Federer is finally on Twitter.The owner of a record 17 Grand Slam titles says Friday he waited to join the social media site until after seeing how other athletes used it.Speaking at the French Open, which begins Sunday, Federer says: "At the end of the day, it's got to be something I needed to feel comfortable ...

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The Master [Blu-Ray]

The Master [Blu-Ray]

There is no questionnone at all, in my mind at leastthat Paul Thomas Andersons The Master is a magnificently ambitious film. The first feature production to be shot in 65mm since Kenneth Branaghs Hamlet in 1996, it mixes exquisite period recreation of the post-World War II Eisenh ... ...

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    Yes, tennis fans, Roger Federer is finally on Twitter.The owner of a record 17 Grand Slam titles says Friday he waited to join the social media site until after seeing how other athletes used it.Speaking at the French Open, which begins Sunday, Federer says: "At the end of the day, it's got to be something I needed to feel comfortable with."He accrued more than 150,000 followers ...

  • Court rules Bercow libelled McAlpine on Twitter

    A tweet by British House of Commons Speaker's wife Sally Bercow about Tory peer Robert McAlpine was libellous, Britain’s High Court has ruled. The posting appeared two days after a November 2012 Newsnight report wrongly implicated the former Conservative Party treasurer in allegations of sex abuse at Bryn Estyn children's home in the 1970s and 1980s. Mrs Bercow has always ...

  • Next-gen networks next-gen apps

    transform how we experience everything, from clean energy and education, to transportation and healthcare. The non-profit organisation is looking to develop 60 transformative apps based on things people cannot do today and to make sure government and communities work together to ensure digital experience app concepts become a reality. Ricart predicts several changes in the market will promote ...

  • Online dictionary to transform translation

    Kamusi GOLD (Global Online Living Dictionary), an online dictionary with a difference. Rather than just providing definitions of words in every language, Kamusi ('dictionary' in Swahili) matches these definitions to similar ideas and concepts in all other languages. Founder and executive director Martin Benjamin came up with the idea for Kamusi while researching development issues in ...

  • Social media report with care

    Former Eyewitness News reporter and news anchor, Andrea van Wyk, says social media is a useful tool for tip-offs but should be used with extreme care. Research by global public relations group ECCO International ...

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