China shut down more than 60,000 pornographic websites this year, netting almost 5,000 suspects in the process, a government spokesman said yesterday. He vowed no let-up in the country’s campaign against material deemed obscene.
Two more companies leapt on the smartphone lawsuit merry-go-round yesterday as Sony filed a complaint seeking to block LG Electronics from shipping phones to the US.
On the morning of December 31 Twitter users are sharing their New Year’s resolutions with the hashtag “#MyResolution.”
Users of social networking site Twitter posted an astounding 25 billion tweets in 2010 as they followed the year’s biggest events, shared news headlines, wrote micro reviews of the latest films, and told the world just what they were thinking or feeli…
Hot topics in the tech blogs for the week ending December 31 include Skype VoIP video calling for iPhone, the record sales of Amazon’s third-generation Kindle, details of Samsung’s Galaxy Player leak, iPad 2 rumors and an increase in iPhone shipments.
Apple’s iPad announcement in early 2010 followed into a year where “tablet” was one of the hottest buzzwords in technology. Swarms of consumers were seduced by the idea of devices that could offer portable, app-driven touchscreen computing.
A look at this week’s top-rated websites from StumbleUpon, recorded on December 31.
Google revealed its Zeitgeist report for 2010, Facebook unveiled its Top Status Trends, Twitter listed the most popular tweets of the year, and Yahoo, the world’s second largest search engine, released its Year in Review for 2010, based on search volu…
New release movies and x-rated pornography were some of the most searched for topics on BitTorrent peer-to-peer sharing site KickassTorrents in 2010.