President Obama to Renew #40Dolllars Campaign on Twitter
President Obama and his adminstration used a Twitter campaign in Dec. 2011 to let average citizens share what the value of $40 meant to them. The White House is relaunching that same campaign today. The social media initiative represented the potential $40 that would be cut from people’s weekly pay with the Republican tax proposal. Twitter users [...]
Read MoreCNN Suspends Roland Martin Over Tweets
CNN Wednesday suspended commentator Roland Martin over the tweets that the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has denounced as anti-gay. Roland MartinA CNN spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday afternoon that the network issued this statement: “Roland Martin’s tweets were regrettable and offensive. Language that demeans is inconsistent with the values and culture of our organization, and is not [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 1-27-2012
Foxconn Employee Says Next iPhone Coming 9to5 Mac reports that a source at Foxconn has information on the next iPhone. The device is not yet ready, but is likely to be launched this summer. There are a number of prototypes floating around and they all have slight differences, so it’s impossible to tell exactly what [...]
Read MorePresident Obama’s State of the Union Address Sees 760,000 Tweets [infographic]
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Twitter has released the official stats showing the activity of its users during President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, providing an interesting insight in how the Twittersphere reacted to various parts of the speech. During the event, Twitter promoted five official hashtags: #jobs, #manufacturing, #energy, #education and #fairness. Unsurprisingly, those were among the [...]
Read MoreHow To: Post to Twitter & Facebook From a Smartphone With Your Voice
I’m a gadget early-adopter. I’m also a advocate of Apple products (I’m too grown to be a fan-BOY). So I think it’s completely justifiable that I bought the iPhone 4S at full price with no uber differentiating factors from my iPhone 4 other than a dual-core processor, higher resolution camera…and the Siri voice assistant. Now with [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 1-6-2012
Techmeme’s Biggest Stories of 2011 Rather than focusing on some technical specifications or using some fancy algorithm to figure out the biggest stories from the past year, Techmeme decided to keep it real. They’ve compiled a list of the biggest stories, literally, as measured by height. I thought that was pretty clever, but even more [...]
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