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  • Warner expected to plead guilty for Twitter rant during CA hearing

    Australian Test batsman David Warner is expected to plead guilty during Cricket Australia hearing over his recent Twitter rant with two prominent journalists. Senior Code of Behaviour Commissioner, Justice Gordon Lewis, will hear the case via teleconference. According to news.com.au, Warner faces sanction ranging from a fine, suspension, reprimand or counseling after being reported under CA's ...

  • Sarah Palin disproves climate change as it snowed in Alaska in May

    Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin took to Facebook over the weekend to express her skepticism of global warming. Palin argued that global warming was not happening, pointing that it was snowing in Alaska in May. According to the Huffington Post, she wrote in a post on her Facebook page 'global warming my gluteus maximus'. In her Facebook argument, Palin confuses weather with climate, a ...

  • Social network addiction taking over lives Australian study

    The 2013 Yellow Social Media Report has analyzed that a growing number of Australians are using social network at an addictive rate wherever they can, even in toilet cubicles! According to the study, three out of every five internet users are accessing these sites more than five times a day, making it a total of seven hours a day. In a report by News.com, the study found that the time spent by ...

  • Social media a viable option in disaster

    ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Much of the story from the devastated parts of Oklahoma is being told through social media. We've learned that social media can actually help save lives after disaster. Staffers at the St. Louis County Emergency Operations Center work with a new group called the Social Media Collaboration Group to monitor sites like Facebook and Twitter during a disaster. ...

  • Oklahoma tornado aftermath on social media

    United States Journalists and residents have taken to social media to share their experiences in the aftermath of the devastating tornado that laid waste to several neighbourhoods and levelled buildings in the town of Moore, Oklahoma.Here's a selection of photos and videos from journalists and eyewitnesses that have been shared on social media websites.If you have something you would like ...

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Shooter

Shooter

With Shooter, Antoine Fuqua has officially become the master of politically confused action movies. You got a sense of it in one of his better films, Training Day (2001), which started out as a taut depiction of police corruption, but devolved by the end into an overwrought horrors ... ...

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  • Teens growing cool on Facebook but warming to Twitter Pew study finds

    IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau) - Some teens are growing tired of the excessive sharing and "drama" on Facebook and more are turning to sites like Twitter and Instagram to express themselves, according to a new study. "Many teens expressed waning enthusiasm for Facebook," the Pew Research Center said in ...

  • Poll Finds Teens Migrating From Facebook To Twitter

    SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/ AP) — Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study published Tuesday about online behavior. It said teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online reputations. Teens told researchers there were too many ...

  • Robert Scoble is watching you watching him looking through Google Glass Video

    Robert Scoble of Rackspace talks about how he uses Google Glass every day, and what he'd like to see in the future. Robert Scoble sports Google Glass at New York Internet Week. Silicon Valley tech evangelist Robert Scoble is really good about sharing his toys. The prolific tech blogger and startup liaison for Rackspace (NYSE: RAX), the San Antonio cloud services company, spent at least half ...

  • Darius Rucker Racist Tweet Former Hootie and the Blowfish Singer Responds to Racist Twitter Post

    Darius Rucker performs at the 45th annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada April 18, 2010. Darius Rucker has responded to a racist tweet, sparking backlash among some who are asking who he even bothered to bring more attention to the racist social media comment.Rucker, who is becoming increasingly recognized for his recent contributions to the country music genre, was sent a ...

  • Instantbird update improves Twitter integration

    Instantbird 1.4 has been released for Windows, Mac and Linux. The latest version of Instantbird, which provides a central location for accessing multiple IM accounts including AIM, Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook and Google Talk, strengthens its Twitter integration by updating to the Twitter API v1.1, a necessary step to ensure it's able to communicate with Twitter after June 11. Other Twitter ...

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