RSS TwitterThe Busy Java Developer's Guide to Scala: Scala + Twitter = Scitter
White Paper In this installment, Ted Neward uses Scala to build the basic framework for a client library for accessing Twitter, a popular micro-blogging system. Scala is fun to talk about in the paper, but for most of the readers of... [29 May 2009]
Yahoo! and Microsoft still talking search deal
News She rejected the notion put forth by folks like the Twitter co-founders did on Tuesday by saying they would never sell. Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz said Wednesday that her company continues to have talks with Microsoft on a... [28 May 2009]
Nokia's Ovi servers groan under launch day weight
News The browser-based Ovi Store suffered from poor performance on launch day, with registration issues and server time-outs widely reported on the web and Twitter. Nokia has rolled out Ovi Store, a marketplace for handset... [26 May 2009]
Twitter? Not for me, thanks
News In the latest silicon.com poll, readers were asked how they use Twitter: over 75 per cent of those who responded said "not at all". For those who do use Twitter, however, the motivations are mostly... [26 May 2009]
Social Networking Solution for Wireless Communications Provider, Using Agile Methodologies
White Paper The client was looking to assemble a team, which working under the Agile Software Development concept, could easily adapt to its processes and work on the creation of social applications that interface its mobile devices with YouTube,... [17 May 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.05.09
Round-Up You can of course follow silicon.com's Twitter feed here. One way the silicon.com team kept in contact while working from home was by following each other's Twitter ('I'm making tea', 'Hurt hand on... [15 May 2009]
Whitehall hires a Twitter tsar
News One of his first tasks was to create a Twitter account for the role: @DirDigEng. News of the appointment was announced yesterday by 'tweet' via the Cabinet Office's twitter feed:... [14 May 2009]
Newspapers failing web 2.0 challenge
Comment During the Mumbai terrorist attacks, the earliest insights to what was happening on the ground came via Twitter. Newspapers need to find innovative ways to embrace web 2.0 - or accept certain doom, says CIO Ian Cohen. [12 May 2009]
IT "glitch" brings down Tesco tills
News Commentators on microblogging site Twitter said that affected stores had included those in Wrexham and in Edinburgh. Supermarket chain Tesco has been unable to take money at a number of its stores following technical... [11 May 2009]
Naked CIO: The problems with social networking
Comment Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter pose a host of difficulties for businesses and business people, says the Naked CIO. Personally I think the emergence of Facebook, Twitter and other... [11 May 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Netbooks
Cheat Sheet Netbooks defined Twitter-style - in 140 characters or less Nope. Not even close. They're the latest piece of kit every self-respecting techie should be packing. The ultimate in portable computing, these dinky devices... [08 May 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.05.09
Round-Up Rumoured - Apple wants to buy up Twitter for $700m. Twitter is the darling of the technology/celebrity/political/media world and usage has exploded in the last six months. As Alfred Tennyson once wrote:... [08 May 2009]
Twitter not for sale says Biz Stone
News The popular microblogging and social networking service Twitter is not for sale, one of the company's founders said on TV on Wednesday. When host Barbara Walters - mentioning rumours that Google, Microsoft and Apple... [08 May 2009]
Twitter's on-page search goes live
News Twitter's post-purchase integration of Summize is now complete. On Thursday the company added the on-page search tool to every user's Twitter homepage after having switched it on for selected users... [01 May 2009]
Trio of research hubs to poke digital benefits
News The government has announced £36m in funding for a trio of research centres that will probe the societal benefits and pitfalls of emerging digital technologies such as Twitter. Drayson added that his own "recent... [29 Apr 2009]
