News articles for January 2011

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  Facebook founder guests on US’ biggest TV show

  31st January 2011

  A meeting was staged between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and the actor who played him in recent hit movie The Social Network, on America’s hit TV show Saturday Night Live this week.
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  Egyptian crackdown against internet traffic is biggest ever seen, say observers

  31st January 2011

  The closing down of all of Egypt’s online communications channels in the wake of the protests against the country’s President, Hosni Mubarak is the biggest ever crackdown against use of the internet, commentators say.
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  iPad forecast to cement its position as king of the tablets

  28th January 2011

  Annual sales growth of tablet computers between 2011 and 2014 will be an amazing 66.5 per cent, according to a prediction from hi-tech market analyst Asymco, published by the Wall Street Journal.
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  Kindle sales overtake paperbacks – but the book is far from dead

  28th January 2011

  Online retail giant Amazon is now selling more e-books than real paperbacks, the company has announced.
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  Egypt responds to unrest by shutting down internet

  28th January 2011

  Internet links to and from Egypt were closed down early today, as the country’s government sought to quell protests planned to mark the 30th anniversary of its president coming to power this weekend.
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  German authorities force Facebook to tighten privacy

  26th January 2011

  A ruling by data protection officials in Germany has forced Facebook to take more steps to guard the privacy of the data it collects from users in the country.
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  Projection forecasts tripling in Twitter ad income

  26th January 2011

  Twitter looks set to triple its advertising revenue this year, as it becomes an increasingly popular way for companies to spread their marketing messages, research from internet monitoring company eMarketer suggests.
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  Google Places expands its view of the world

  25th January 2011

  Following its enhancement of the photo viewer facility incorporated into Google Maps, more improvements are being made to the pictorial coverage of locations featured on the site.
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  New facility lets Adwords users check they’re on the map

  24th January 2011

  A new service from Google Adwords lets users of the search engine giant’s pay per click advertising service see how their ads will look in the search results.
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  105-year-old gets birthday congratulations on her Facebook page

  24th January 2011

  Here’s a story which proves that no one is too old to get into the joys of social media.