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• Twitter Adds Support for MMS Photo Sharing (But Only in UK)

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  Since practically its inception, Twitter has supported SMS (short message service) for updating your Twitter status. If you text something to 40404 in the U.S., your Twitter will update with that text message. However, most smartphones are capable mutlimedia messaging (MMS), which allows you to share pictures and ...
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• The Arms Race Between Teenagers And Parents Continues

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  Back when I was a teenager my parents had a simple rule - I had to be home by midnight. There was a doozie of an exception, though. If I was drinking they didnt want me to drive, so all I had to do was call home, tell them I was drinking and I could stay over at a friends house. You can imagine that my parents pretty ...
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• Mobile OS Faceoff: Apple iPhone vs. Google Android

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  We’ve been matching up popular web services, applications and mobile apps against each other in heated one-on-one battles here in our weekly Faceoff Series . Last week we saw longtime incumbent Microsoft Office beat out Google Docs in a head to head race for the title of office suite champion. This week we turn ...
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• Twilight New Moon Premiere Is Huge and Growing [LIVE VIDEO]

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  You can have your opinion about the Twilight series, but one thing’s for sure: they know how to leverage social media. Twilight New Moon mania has enveloped Twitter , taken over MySpace , and most recently we learned that MySpace and Ustream would stream the red carpet premiere live on November 16th, 6:00 PT. ...
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• RockYou raises $50 million in venture funding

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  RockYou, one of the largest developers and ad networks built around Facebook’s platform, just raised $50 million in venture funding from Softbank. That brings RockYou’s total funding to $119 million from investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Partech International and DCM. Softbank was ...
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• Lou Dobbs Not Ruling Out Senate Run, Doesnt Think Obama is "the Devil" [Senator Dobbs?]

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  When blowhards collide: Tonight on the "OReilly Factor", thankfully retired CNN anchor Lou Dobbs announced that he is "thinking about a lot of opportunities"—including running for New Jersey Senate. Also: that Obama is not "the devil" ( el Diablo ) When OReilly asked Dobbs, who quit CNN unannounced last ...
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• Power to the People: Giving consumers more control over energy will pay off big

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  Timely information is essential when you’re operating in a competitive marketplace. Information enables better, more informed decisions — whether you’re trading stocks, bonds, precious metals or soybeans. It’s no different when it comes to consumers and the services they use in their homes. Energy is by far ...
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• Multimedia messaging comes to Twitter in the U.K. thanks to Orange

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  Is it time to say “Ta ta” to TwitPic and YFrog? U.K. Twitter users can now send multimedia messages and photos directly to Twitter with help from mobile operator Orange. If you’re a Orange U.K. user, just text the shortcode number ‘86444′ with the phrase ‘START’ to initiate the service. Then you can ...
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• Motorola probably sold 250,000 Droids in first week, Flurry says

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  Motorola probably sold 250,000 Droids in the first week, making it the Android platform’s first legitimate challenger to the iPhone, according to analytics firm Flurry. Those figures are more than four times whatÂ*HTC and T-Mobile were able to do with theÂ*MyTouch phone and about one-sixth of what Apple pulled off ...
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• Twitter UK Users Get Something No One Else Has: MMS Support

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  Since Twitters inception, SMS (text messages) has been an important and popular way to use the service. For a while last year, it looked like that functionality was slowly going extinct as at one point, only the U.S. and India still had it enabled due to carrier fees. But this year, behind Twitters head of mobile, ...
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• Twitter Opens Up People Search for Twitter Apps

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  Twitter apps can do almost everything that Twitter.com can: search Twitter, follow and unfollow users, and even manage Twitter lists (well, only a few apps so far). One thing Twitter Apps couldn’t do though was search for other Twitter users that could be interesting to follow. This is what “Find People” on ...
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• The Gawker Guide to Watching Tonights Leonids Meteor Shower [Guides]

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  When theyre not killing dinosaurs or being blown up by Bruce Willis meteors sure are nice-looking. Tonight, the annual Leonids meteor shower reaches its peak, and dozens of meteors per hour should streak across the sky. Heres how to watch: Do Not Live in a City Sorry, LA, New York, Chicago, etc. For all your ...
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• Jason Calacanis To Start New Angel Group

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  Today was the deadline that Calacanis had set for various angel groups -- the Keiretsu Forum, Maverick Angels, AlwaysOn and several others -- to stop charging fees for entrepreneurs to present their startups. These groups have pretty much ignored him, so Calacanis -- whos sold two companies and is now CEO of the ...
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• Paul Allen Being Treated For Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  From the Associated Press: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. In a memo sent to employees, the CEO of Allens investment firm says the 56-year-old Allen received the diagnosis this month and has begun chemotherapy. The CEO, Jody Patton, noted that doctors say Allen has a ...
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• Boom! Shazam Sued For Patent Infringement

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  Shazam Entertainment, makers of the popular iPhone app that tells you what song is playing in the car, store, bar, restaurant, etc., is getting sued for patent infringement by Digimarc, another software company. The suit covers three patents; two date back to 1995 -- long before the iPhone. Heres the release : ...
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• Illegal Immigration: Theres an App for That

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  From a group calling themselves Electronic Civil Disobedience comes the Transborder Immigrant Tool , a simple mobile application intended to aid and abet border-crossers from Mexico to the United States. This GPS app is built to work on the cheapest cell phones available. It brings to mind every petty-but-illegal ...
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• Word Of The Year: An Unreliable Yet Fascinating Barometer Of Tech

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  The New Oxford English Dictionary has announced that 2009s Word of the Year is unfriend . While it is perhaps not used as broadly as the newly-verbed friend , the latter is already in the dictionary, so they cant very well call it new. The best they can do is run with unfriend, which implies and extends the other. A ...
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• A new antidepressant really turns women on

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  Flibanserin, designed to fight depression, turns out to be a poor antidepressant but a great libido booster in women who report low sex drives, new studies find. Go to Full Article
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• RockYou Raises A Whopper â?? $50 Million In Venture Capital

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  Social Network application developer and advertising platform RockYou has raised a whopping $50 million in a Series D round of financing from existing investor Softbank , weve confirmed with the company. RockYou, which was founded in 2006, has now raised $119 million in capital and has revenues rumored in the $30 ...
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• Chamillionaire Breaks Universalâ??s Rules So Fans Can Embed Music Video

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 172
  On November 10th, hip hop artist Chamillionaire [ @Chamillionaire ] went against the wishes of his record label, Universal Records, and livestreamed the premiere of his Good Morning music video to fans on Facebook and Ustream. By all accounts, fans responded positively to the artist’s social media initiative. The ...
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