The “Arab Spring” uprisings and even the recent uprisings in the U.K. proved one thing: In some places, SMS is very much alive. Even without smartphones, protesters, journalists, and activists were able to share visual information with the rest of the world. Twitter is looking to take advantage of that. READ MORE
Moldova, Ukraine and Bulgaria are just three of 25 nations that top the U.S. when it comes to the fastest internet connections by country, according to Pando Networks’ 2011 Global Download Report. READ MORE
It’s not as if there weren’t already enough cameras in the U.K. Now there’s word of an interesting one under development: The camera detects changes in blood flow and expression when a subject is lying. Yikes! READ MORE
If you’re one of the 800,000 curators currently operating a shop on Etsy–the online marketplace for everything handmade–Outright wants to give you a gift. The cloud accounting software company has a new Etsy integration that lets users see all of the costs associated with their e-commerce business. The software is free for Etsy users from now until the end of the year. READ MORE
Nearly 200 Web sites, several of them major ones, were having their addresses redirected to the wrong location this weekend, reports ZDNet’s Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. Some of them included Coca-Cola, UPS and The Register, a popular United Kingdom technology news outlet. READ MORE
Some scams are designed to bilk money out of the unsuspecting, but others are intended simply to suck in attention or approbation. In that latter category, the “bet with my boss” scam currently circulating in the social media world is exceedingly effective. READ MORE
During the “Arab spring” uprisings, the West decried the ruling regimes’ practice of shutting down or severely limiting protesters’ access to social media. But that’s exactly what the U.K. government recently proposed: to ban social media during times of “civil unrest, disorder, or rioting.” However, after high-level talks with companies such as Research in Motion, Twitter, and Facebook, they are doing a quick about-face. READ MORE
Since Apple released the iPhone four years ago and sparked a craze for the little black box, we’ve learned much about who owns one, right down to their sex lives. (iPhone users generally have twice as much sex as Android users, according to OKCupid’s research at least.) Now we know they are also more open to mobile-payment technology, according to a survey that YouGov, a British research firm, released Monday. READ MORE
Americans love their social networks. More than half of all Americans have a profile on at least one social networking site, and 70 percent of active users in the U.S. log onto their social network daily. But what else can social media tell us about our habits or tendencies? READ MORE
The government of the U.K. wants to turn the nation into a technology and innovation hub, Prime Minister David Cameron announced last November. And to get there, the country took a long look at its intellectual property laws, and decided to make some changes. READ MORE
