Provides the latest RSS feeds for Breaking Internet News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Japan Herald.com http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/cat/63e88d54af0cf473/ en-us Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:43:36 -0400 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:43:36 -0400 30 Sexy Tamara Ecclestone showed off her curvaceous butt in custom-made knickers, that had her new name printed on them, in a Twitter snap. The F1 heiress, who tied the knot with Jay Rutland last week, wore bikini bottoms bearing the words 'Mrs Rutland' in diamante inscription, the Daily Star reported. Ecclestone, 28, wrote "so happy to be" alongside the picture. ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215321157/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:00:01 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215321157/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 A new Twitter account that re-imagines Taylor Swift as a feminist has amassed 80,000 followers in six days The account, FeministTaylorSwift (@feministtswift), is the brainchild of self-proclaimed feminist and Taylor Swift fan Clara Beyer, who is the senior linguistics major at Brown University, ABC News reported. She studied the pop star's lyrics with a feminist slant while addressing issues ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215293688/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:10:01 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215293688/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 With the growing mobility of internet, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed potential partnership with Samsung company's president Shin Jong Kyun during Mark Zuckerberg's Asia tour. According to Bloomberg report, the partnership would reportedly focus on advancing mobile-advertising sales. Facebook has been strongly encouraging advertising on mobile. In April, Facebook Home had been launched ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215291657/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:50:02 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215291657/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Helen Flanagan was held hostage by armed raiders at her 2.8million dollars home after divulging on Twitter that she was home alone as her boyfriend was away on holiday. The former 'Coronation Street' star was traumatised by the late-night ordeal hours after she tweeted that she was missing her beau, Scott Sinclair, the Sun reported. She reportedly told a friend that she could have been killed. ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215291540/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:30:01 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215291540/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Facebook employees have given bizarre answers to a question posted by a question-and-answer website Quora. Quora created, edited and organized by its community of users, had asked a question 'worst thing about working at Facebook' to which the social media giant's employees gave varied and interesting answers. The responses included praise for the free food and drinks prepared by renowned ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215290619/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:10:01 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215290619/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 A year after Facebook's fumbled IPO, Wall Street remains slow to recognise what COO Sheryl Sandberg argues has been an across-the-board improvement in its business. Facebook's ability to deliver ads to mobile phones, improvements in measuring the effectiveness of its ads, and increasing user engagement have all put the world's largest social network in a better position than ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215320958/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:07:30 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215320958/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Microsoft said yesterday that users of its forthcoming Xbox One game console will be able to play games offline without establishing an Internet connection, and will be able to lend or sell used disc-based games. The announcement reverses the company's position when it unveiled the console in May, causing consternation among hardcore ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215320959/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:07:28 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215320959/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Facebook and Twitter comments have led to seven Welsh government civil servants being disciplined in the past five years. Photograph: Martin ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215320332/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:05:54 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215320332/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Brazilian football legend Pele at an event earlier this month in Rio de Janeiro marking one year to kick-off for the 2014 World Cup. Photograph: Ronald Martinez/Getty ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215319351/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:48:03 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215319351/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Australian soldiers found to have posted demeaning comments about women on two Facebook pages will be charged under the Australian Defence Force Discipline Act, according to ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215318160/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:53:19 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215318160/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 View Photo Reuters/Reuters - An actor in police costume mock-arrests Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom (L) as he launches his new file sharing site "Mega" in Auckland January 20, 2013. REUTERS/Nigel ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215318161/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:36:23 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215318161/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 On June 15, 2013, Marilda Ros, head judge at a Caracas court, issued a precautionary measure prohibiting Mara Lourdes Afiuni (a judge who was jailed pending a criminal suit) from speaking to the national and international media and expressing herself on social media. This prohibition was issued within the framework of the decision of granting her parole on account of health difficulties. Jos ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215313451/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:39:01 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215313451/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 It genuinely surprises me to see there are still some that seem to believe that investing in social media is risky business. Why would a company not want to know exactly what customers think of their brand and products? Being able to reach into the minds of your customers is no longer a mere figment of marketers’ imaginations. It’s a reality. As is the ability to learn what your ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215313062/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:12:31 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215313062/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:13pm EDT (For other news from Reuters Global Technology Summit, click on www.reuters.com/summit/Tech13) By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO, June 19 (Reuters) - A year after Facebook Inc's fumbled IPO, Wall Street remains slow to recognize what Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg argues has been an across-the-board improvement in its business. Facebook's ability to ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215313061/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:13:00 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215313061/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 (Reuters) - Lazada, the Southeast Asian online retail company founded by Germany's Rocket Internet Gmbh, has secured another $100 million from investors in its bid to lift the region from its status as an e-commerce ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215311596/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:10:57 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215311596/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case. The social network moves about 1,000 times as much data between the servers inside its data centers as it does from its servers out to end users, company ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215311342/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:18:29 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215311342/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Hell is other people " might be of some interest to you. The cheeky new app, billed "an experiment in ant-social media," leverages a user's own social network to decrease the likeliness of actually crossing paths with someone in it. Operating based on Foursquare check-ins, the site tracks your contacts, plots their locations on a map, and automatically calculates ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215311343/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:12:00 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215311343/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 L.A. Lakers Player Beats Strange Defamation Claim Over TMZ-Related Tweet Outside the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts' Sculpture Museum stands the seemingly misplaced statue of Bryant, dressed in his Lakers uniform with a basketball under his ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215310739/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:03:01 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215310739/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau) - Twitter has bought Spindle, a search technology company that informs users about what's happening with local businesses and organizations around them. The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, could help Twitter beef up its efforts to keep users "in the loop." The company has been rumored to be working on its own location discovery ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215310657/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:01:44 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215310657/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Italian officials said an Italian Muslim convert who was killed fighting against the Syrian government was believed to have recruited terrorists in Italy. Prosecutors in Genoa Wednesday said Giuliano Ibrahim Delnevo, 24, allegedly recruited one Italian Muslim convert and three North Africans with online sermons and a blog, ANSA of Rome reported. The five men were being investigated for ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215310883/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:55:08 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215310883/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Tio Papi " are among the nominees for the 28th annual Imagen Awards, which honor portrayals of Latinos and Latino culture in TV and film. Among the actors nominated by the Imagen Foundation ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215310397/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:07:52 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215310397/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 EDMONTON - Call it, if you like, a taste of Alberta Spring.On Tuesday, three innovative Edmonton housing co-ops won a huge political and moral victory when they compelled the Alberta government and Alberta Health Services to reverse plans to privatize home care for their disabled residents.The plan would have forced the three self-administered, not-for-profit co-ops to fire all their dedicated ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215310399/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:06:34 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215310399/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Twitter is hiring computer science graduates for a "global centre of excellence" the social networking company is opening in Vancouver. ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215309463/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:06:26 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215309463/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Three U.S. Naval Academy football players Wednesday were charged with raping a female midshipman and lying in an official statement. The suspects' names were not made public by academy officials, The Washington Post reported. Their names won't be released officially until a preliminary hearing expected to take place this summer, military law experts told the newspaper. The female ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215309572/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:50:34 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215309572/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 >Editor's note: Doug Gross covers consumer technology and the Web for CNN.com. Follow his updates on Twitter or add him to your Circles on Google+.(CNN) -- Let's face it: Most of us don't e-mail, tweet, text or post anything worthy of clandestine scrutiny. But having concerns about NSA cybersnooping doesn't mean we must surrender all privacy -- what's left of it -- in our day-to-day online ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215319876/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:24:33 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215319876/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 TAMPA -- Busch Gardens recently welcomed three lion cubs to the park, a boy and three girls. After a weeklong poll, 6,000 Busch Gardens Tampa Facebook fans voted to name the two lion cub sisters. The winning names for the three-month-old cubs are Shaba, meaning "brazen", and Shtuko, meaning "twitch." The Busch Gardens animal care team has started introducing the cubs ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215309060/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:08:16 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215309060/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 He tweeted Tuesday: "Hey I have a English bulldog and he to big to be around my youngest child he 10 months got his papers and he got a micro ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215308446/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:58:46 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215308446/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 What's more, brands are going to be able to respond to consumers' Facebook comments with images of their own, per a source close to the ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215309177/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:49:37 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215309177/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Long before the Internet and ESPN put every pitch and hit in your face and at your fingertips, Vin Scully's voice was the tenor of American baseball. For decades, beginning with the team's early days in Brooklyn, he gave radio listeners and TV audiences the play-by-play as the L.A. Dodgers tried to best other senior circuit ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215309176/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:49:37 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215309176/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 "We’ve spent the past two and a half years building a product that helps you answer the question: 'What’s happening nearby right now?' Every time we’ve experimented and looked beyond local discovery, we’ve been amazed by the breadth and quality of content shared on Twitter. By joining forces with Twitter, we can do so much more to help you find interesting, ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215309175/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:49:37 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215309175/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 solid device, but it didn't sell well despite (or because of?) its inclusion of Facebook Home right out of the box. It looks like Samsung has been paying attention because, as ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215309178/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:49:32 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215309178/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 thrice as many mentions as Rahul Gandhi. The BJP leader was cited over 10 lakh times. However, in percentage terms, Rahul Gandhi's share of demographics between 18-34 years was marginally ahead of Modi. While Modi led the pack in overall reach, he had the lowest reach per author, according to the report. DMK leader M Karunanidhi scored the highest on that front. The graphs in the report ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215307836/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:59:42 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215307836/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 +0.41% stock jumped almost a dollar a share in three seconds Wednesday afternoon, according to Eric Hunsader, CEO of Nanex, a provider of real-time data to traders. In the three seconds starting at 3:33:54 p.m., the social networking company's stock increased from $24.40 a share to $25.19 a share, before quickly dropping back down to $24.40 a share. There were 2 million shares traded in ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215307837/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:47:54 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215307837/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 We've spent the past two and a half years building a product that helps you answer the question: "What's happening nearby right now?" Every time we've experimented and looked beyond local discovery, we've been amazed by the breadth and quality of content shared on Twitter. By joining forces with Twitter, we can do so much more to help you find interesting, timely, ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215307838/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:46:53 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215307838/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 acquired Spindle, a mobile application for learning about what's happening nearby, the companies announced Wednesday. "We've spent the past two and a half years building a product that helps you answer the question: 'What's happening nearby right now?'," the startup said in a blog ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215306893/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:45:31 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215306893/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 (Credit: Facebook) Facebook has a communication problem. The apps are talking the network but with limited context and bottlenecks inside its data centers. Now, the social network is planning to improve the communication with a new networking fabric to serve its 1.1 billion users. "Networking is built around ISP networks and protocols for interconnecting of ISP networks. It's not ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215306896/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:45:29 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215306896/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Photographs show Iceland has broken a two-year ban on whale hunting, the environmental group Greenpeace charged Wednesday. "We've just received anonymous photographs showing Iceland has broken the moratorium on commercial whaling, again," Greenpeace said in a Twitter message. The group urged people to share the images "to help expose Iceland's bloody secret." The ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215306950/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:38:45 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215306950/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 The government of Cameroon has ordered mobile operator MTN to suspend an SMS service that had proven a powerful tool for protest movements in North ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215307181/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:34:51 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215307181/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 The Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada is asking people to give up control over their personal Twitter accounts for 24 hours so that they can experience what it feels like to have involuntary verbal and physical tics associated with the syndrome. "Imagine if you Tweeted something embarrassing, offensive, or just plain weird - and you had no control over it," reads ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215306494/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:46:13 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215306494/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Google has filed a legal challenge to the U.S. government, demanding the right to reveal more information on the data requests it receives in the latest twist in ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215306495/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:40:47 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215306495/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 . While the carousel has been used on tablet devices since December 2012, the carousel style results being available on a desktop is a much newer change. With the new style of carousel listings, when a user searches for a local results, such as a restaurant or hotel, instead of the traditional vertical listings most users associate with Google search, there is now a horizontal carousel which ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215306496/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:40:46 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215306496/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Facebook announced today that it is inviting more Pages to provide feedback on recent updates it has made to Page Insights. ';These updates, aimed at helping marketers/Page admins better develop content and reach people on Facebook, improve the way we organize and report fundamental insights for Pages,'; a Facebook spokesperson tells WebProNews. They do this, Facebook says, by making ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215306497/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:37:18 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215306497/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 A vast majority of these are small business owners, who often grow their local base via individual accounts and pages before becoming advertisers. The number of small businesses with Facebook pages is around 16 ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215306498/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:33:48 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215306498/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 A severe mosquito invasion in south-central Alaska has led to a run on mosquito control products in local stores, Anchorage retailers reported. Although anecdotal evidence abounds about the severity and size of the state's summer mosquito population every year, "mosquito populations are fairly high everywhere," said Janice Chumley of the Kenai Peninsula District office of the ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215306371/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:28:30 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215306371/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Facebook has shown improved growth in recent quarters, there are still risks that investors should watch. Despite stronger revenue growth, the stock could not sustain the momentum it gained from November to January. The margins are shrinking and there is still doubt as to whether Facebook will be able to substantially improve its monetization over the long term. In our previous note, we looked ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215304269/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:46:34 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215304269/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 SAN FRANCISCO -- A mysterious Facebook event set for Thursday has sparked buzz that the leading social network could be adding video to Instagram smartphone picture-sharing ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215305122/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:44:12 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215305122/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 USA An alternative search engine DuckDuckGo has enjoyed a record surge in traffic as NSA scandals spark fears and frighten away Internet users from the more popular Google or Yahoo!. Over the previous week DuckDuckGo, a private search engine, which claims not to collect users' searches or create any personal user profile, has increased its traffic by 26 per cent and passed 3.1 million ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215305123/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:40:17 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215305123/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 The biggest social network, might have reached 1 billion users in no time and the number of advertisers is now catching up. Last Tuesday the company announced it now serves 1 million active advertisers. The Facebook director of small business, Dan Levy, said that the vast majority of advertisers on the platform are actually small businesses. He announced the milestone in the New York’s ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215305125/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:32:23 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215305125/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 , 182 million Americans watched nearly 41 billion online content videos in May 2013. That's up from 181.9 million Americans, who watched 38.8 billion online content videos in April 2013. But the rising tide is lifting AOL's boat more than ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215305126/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:32:18 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215305126/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Paula Deen is at the center of a growing Twitter trend after it was alleged that she admitted to using the n-word and telling racial jokes during a May 17 ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215304343/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:27:01 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215304343/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 (Credit: Facebook) Facebook is now letting its 1.11 billion members react to their friends' status updates with photo comments. The social network said Wednesday that it has started the global release of the new feature, which lets people add photos to comment threads using a new "Attach a Photo" button. To start, photo comment uploads will be restricted to the Facebook Web ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215304280/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:26:43 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215304280/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 North Korea threatened Wednesday to punish defectors who claim the Communist country's leaders have attempted to spread Nazi ideology. Security Ministry officials said in a statement they would take "substantial measures to physically remove" people spreading the slander, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported. The statement cited a report by an Internet news service ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215305331/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:20:01 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215305331/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA) and Twitter today announced a partnership to deliver social video advertising campaigns around the most popular shows and biggest events throughout Viacom's network portfolio, which includes MTV, VH1, CMT, Nickelodeon, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV Land, Spike and more. Viacom is the latest media company to join the Twitter Amplify program. The partnership will launch ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215303891/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:40:47 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215303891/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Forbes writers have the ability to call out member comments they find particularly interesting. Called-out comments are highlighted across the Forbes network. You'll be notified if your comment is called ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215302989/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:39:06 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215302989/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 After a few minutes of a server-wide outage. Everyone can stop losing their minds.Users logging on for a social network break a bit after 11am AEST freaked out when they faced an error message instead of selfies and invitations to play Candy Crush.The site was down for about five minutes for some users, up to 10 minutes for others.Messages posted online, apparently linked to hacking grouip ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215303892/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:36:10 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215303892/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 cyber security for aerospace and defense companies showing off their wares at this year's Paris Airshow. "We, like others, are constantly being bombarded by people who are trying to get into our systems," ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215303893/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:31:25 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215303893/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Presumably taking his cue from the US First Lady Michelle Obama and her physical education campaign, Iran's Supreme Leader has published a Twitter paean to the benefits of ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215302887/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:30:47 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215302887/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 , but it's not. Google plans to give Internet access to the entire world by sending network-enabled balloons into the stratosphere. Dubbed Project Loon, the venture aims to liberate those 5 billion or so people on Earth without Internet access, because "for every one person in the world that can get online, there are two that can't." "Right now in most of the countries ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215303895/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:24:31 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215303895/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 (Reuters) - Wall Street's Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is looking at how brokerage firms supervise their use of communication outlets such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, the industry-funded regulator ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215303896/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:19:47 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215303896/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Every large protest now has the corresponding hashtags and key-word on social media: Tunisia has #Jan14, Egypt has #Jan26, the recent Turkish protests used #occupygezi. After five days of streets protests in Bulgaria, #????withme appears as the central hashtag, along with #Bulgaria, naturally, around which tweets, videos, blogposts and messages about the demonstrations all gravitate. The ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215303255/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:19:07 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215303255/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 contributing editor and BuzzFeed reporter. Figures from the Roots' Questlove and New York University professor Jay Rosen to filmmaker Michael Moore ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215302586/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:38:29 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215302586/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 The panic is over. After several hours of trouble last night, Facebook is back up. Facebook suffered a service disruption for about four hours Tuesday night, giving users error messages or long response times. The site came back up but suffered another, though shorter, disruption this morning. The crowd-sourced online monitoring ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215302587/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:28:52 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215302587/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Facebook unveils its next "big idea" on Thursday, and CNET will bring you all the news with live commentary and photos. The social network was as mysterious as ever when ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215301645/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:18:50 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215301645/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 , a product that it says will help small businesses recapture sales they may be losing due to incorrect or outdated online listings. The new product, which Yahoo is launching in connection with location software company Yext, is designed to help companies easily update their online listings across more than 40 online platforms designed to reach 150 million local searchers, according to Tom Byun, ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215302589/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:16:27 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215302589/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 MTV VMAs Are the 'Biggest and Loudest' Way for Artists to Make a Statement, Says Exec The media giant is partnering with the social media sensation to deliver "social video advertising" across its various broadcast properties, which include MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. The monetization effort kicks off with the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, where MTV will provide ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215301738/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:12:07 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215301738/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 The new deal, which will start with tweeted highlights during the MTV Video Music Awards, is the latest in Twitter's ongoing march to bolster its advertising ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215301516/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:10:48 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215301516/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 A teacher in Windsor, Ont., is teaching her first and second grade students to tweet, blog and Skype as part of the elementary curriculum. "It's a different language in my class," said Kristen Wideen, who teachers a split class at Eastwood public school. Her students tweet using the handle @MrsWideensClass. Kids write the tweets, Wideen approves them. "I do look at them ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215300839/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:08:42 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215300839/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Uday Chopra has not been seen on the silver screen for quite sometime but he has ensured to still hog onto the limelight. Uday has garnered alot of attention after he was seen expressing his love for B-town actress Nargis Fakhri.The actor has been openly flirting with the leggy lass on Twitter. In a recently exchange of tweets on Twitter, Uday apparently posted,"Nargis did you know we are ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215300840/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:04:51 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215300840/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Add a location to your Tweets When you tweet with a location, Twitter stores that location. You can switch location on/off before each Tweet and always have the option to delete your location ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215300841/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:50:28 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215300841/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 social media site that bills itself as "Facebook for foodies" and is launching a national promotional campaign this week, has ambitious growth plans: at least 10 million users within a year. The site, which went live on Sept. 25, has been in a test-and-tweak phase for the past nine months. Boasting that it is a "culinary media platform (offering) the best features from every ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215298586/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:09:27 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215298586/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Social media has become an everyday part of people's lives. Users share recipes on Pinterest, check-in on Facebook, give instant opinions on Twitter and express their creativity on Instagram. The National Pork Board recognized these opportunities and, in February, launched "Pork Social" a social site dedicated to "the other white meat." Pork Social isn't aiming ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215298588/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:09:27 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215298588/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Social media has changed the way Akron-Canton Airport (CAK) interacts with its Customers. According to a release, for its leadership in the use of Facebook, Twitter and ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215298587/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:09:27 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215298587/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 LinkedIn , making it easier to share and connect with customers and industry peers. Visitors to Enventure’s website and members of its social media community will benefit from learning about the ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215298589/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:07:56 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215298589/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 hasn't done much to soothe investors' concerns about its principal driver of revenue, its ads. Its Facebook Home offering hasn't taken off in a big way for a company that keeps investors grim as they call for it to do better on mobile. But according to new data from Snap Interactive, Facebook is at least helping drive business for one group of advertisers--dating apps. Snap ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215297522/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:07:51 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215297522/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 A public relations strategy is a big part of successful search campaigns. Getting your company's brand and employees exposed through media and social channels is incredibly important and can have a profound impact on links, rankings and traffic. If you need a refresher or an overview on this topic, check out piece from earlier this year ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215298591/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:53:01 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215298591/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Is Iran's supreme leader suddenly in a chatty mood? A Twitter feed believed run by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's office, khamenei.ir, now sports musings about his boyhood desires to work out at a gym and the pleasures of mountain strolls. Khamenei's office has said he does not have his own Twitter account -- although he does have a website -- but the ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215297919/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:46:28 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215297919/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Watermelon Oreos, the dunkable cookie's newest makeover, went on sale June 10, but the typically social media savvy company hasn't marketed the limited edition cookie as they have ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215298592/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:37:12 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215298592/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Regcast training : Hyper-V 3.0, VM high availability and disaster recovery Facebook claimed it has - for the first time - surpassed 1 million active advertisers who used the network in the last 28 days. The company ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215297071/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:07:49 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215297071/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 June 19, 2013 8:07 a.m. | Bluegrass music filled Humboldt Park last night in Bay View's latest Chill on the Hill concert. But photos, videos and tweets filled the social media sphere as musicgoers shared their ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215297072/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:59:36 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215297072/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 children 's animation.But on Monday, Peppa Pig, her brother, George Pig, and their parents, Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig, found themselves the victims of a hacker with too much time on their hands - and too many grubby thoughts on their ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215297326/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:57:49 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215297326/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 We thought that the winners and losers in mobile were already clear. The biggest winners were the hardware manufacturers, with Apple and Samsung raking in $53 billion in smartphone profits last year. Mobile operating systems, while not quite as profitable yet, are also a proven profit machine: Apple now reaps nearly $2 billion a year in commissions from its mobile-app store, while Google hopes to ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215297074/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:43:03 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215297074/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Over the last 12 months we have witnessed a content marketing explosion and a rapid evolution in search and social media marketing techniques. This has been driven by technological and algorithmic advancement and has changed the way ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215297075/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:42:40 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215297075/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Metadata in Twitter posts lets readers in on your geographic location, the language you speak, the phone you use, and more. They're also a mapmaker's best ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215297076/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:37:17 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215297076/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Twitter can help you land a job by letting you connect with people and stay abreast of what's happening in your industry. But what if the microblogging service just isn't your ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215295659/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:36:08 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215295659/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 "One can prevent a lot of crime through social media and through other means to interact with the public. Social media, the way people build ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215295884/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:34:52 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215295884/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 An updated version of Adobe's Creative Cloud is now available. According to Adobe, the Creative Cloud release re-imagines the creative process through a set of "CC" desktop applications, cross-device collaboration and publishing capabilities. Files can be stored and shared through Creative Cloud, on Mac OS, Windows, iOS and Android, as well as through the newly integrated Behance, ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215295199/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:49:48 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215295199/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Operators in SA will be challenged to find the right price elasticity between 3G and 4G speeds, says Accenture's Tammy Whyman. Though the majority of consumers globally are willing to pay additional monthly fees for mobile Internet services that would be 10times faster than their current connections, South Africans are less inclined to do so. This was one of the biggest findings ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215295200/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:49:44 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215295200/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Siegel+Gale found that significantly less than half of respondents understood Facebook privacy policies, and just over one third had a good grasp of Google's use of personal data. According to the survey, the policies were deemed harder to understand than government notices, bank credit card agreements and bank reward-programme ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215295201/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:49:40 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215295201/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 DuckDuckGo .The site, which promises not to send users' searches to other sites or store any personal information, generated just under 3.1m direct queries on Monday (17 June), compared to its daily average of 1.8m direct queries in the month of May.The growth is revealed ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215295202/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:47:57 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215295202/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 (48 mins ago) On the internet, no one can save you from yourself. That is a lesson many gaffe-prone Japanese politicians have learned recently. In the latest flap, a senior reconstruction official in charge of helping victims of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear meltdown was dismissed last week after he used a scatological insult on Twitter to deride civil activists. Another official's loss ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215294764/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:33:18 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215294764/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Much has been written in these columns about the use of online video and how it is becoming essential for any serious brand online. It's used in promotion, video ads, "how to" and explainer videos, user-generated videos, contests, live event streaming and much more. But if you know little or nothing about video production, where do you start and how difficult is it likely to be? ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215295204/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:32:32 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215295204/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 (MoneyWatch) It's increasingly common to see businesses suffer at the hands of some social media faux pas. It can come in many forms, from having ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215293971/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:26:48 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215293971/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 How hashtags work: For example, typing a number sign in front of "ladygaga" or "sunset" will turn the words into a link that users can click on to find posts that mention Lady Gaga or sunsets. ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215293628/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:51:15 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215293628/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Following a one-year consultation with its customers, Senegalese mobile operator Orange Senegal, a wholly owned subsidiary of fixed line incumbent Sonatel, itself a 42.30%-owned subsidiary of France Telecom-Orange, has announced plans to introduce new, cheaper voice calls and mobile internet access rates - a move that it says will benefit the more than 7.2 million subscribers on its books. Agence ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215293629/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:50:50 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215293629/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Facebook will once again find itself in the center of firestorms related to privacy issues as its move to enable facial recognition across its entire social networking site stirs ire among users.Facebook noted that starting in just a few weeks, its system will scan all photos posted to Facebook and will offer up the names of the people who appear in the frame.All of Facebook's users are ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215293631/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:07:21 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215293631/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Smart devices and social media are the way forward for education in Africa, say education experts. With the increasing prevalence of mobile devices in classrooms, teachers need to be much more tech-savvy than they have ever had to be before, to be able to cope with this new learning environment, says member of the ICT in Education Excellence Group in the Scottish Government, Jaye Richards-Hill. ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215292300/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:37:31 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215292300/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 For the third consecutive year, Zain Bahrain is sponsoring the celebration of the Social Media Club's Social Media Day, an annual event that takes place on the thirtieth of June every ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215292487/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:31:18 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215292487/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 young singer Rami Sabri has closed his Facebook account after fans relentlessly criticized his continual delays in releasing his third album that's been two whole years in the making.The Egyptian songster has used every excuse in the book for the album's delay, including unstable conditions in the region and problems with production in London, while some fans believe the real answer is ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215291332/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:26:31 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215291332/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 THE tweets of South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill have been blocked from an internal feed to public servants in his own ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215291334/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:14:28 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215291334/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 BEIJING (Reuters) - Authorities in central China executed a former Communist Party official for raping 11 underage girls, state media said on Wednesday, following an online uproar about the latest case of abuse of ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215290871/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:11:54 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215290871/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Social media site 'Facebook' boosted the number of people who registered themselves as organ donors 21-fold in just one day, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers. The report, published in the American Journal of Transplantation, indicates that social media may be a successful way to make people more aware of the organ shortage in the U.S. The rise was seen in May 2012 ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215289902/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:29:27 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215289902/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Facebook said on Tuesday it now has one million active advertisers globally who used the platform in the last 28 days, a milestone for the company that is seeking to revive its revenue growth. A vast majority of those advertisers are small business owners who have flocked to the world's number one social network. Facebook executives are hoping to net even more small advertisers since 16 ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215290385/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:27:57 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215290385/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 A recent interview with Mike Miller, the director of Business and Industrial Markets at Google, showed that many B2B companies today are using search engines before making final purchasing decisions. Speaking to eMarketer, Miller explained that two years ago, around 71% of B2B firms said they ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215290387/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:07:46 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215290387/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 The papal Twitter account in Latin has attracted more than 100,000 followers in six months, far exceeding expectations. It was launched under the previous pope, Benedict XVI, and continues under the current pontiff, Francis ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215289533/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:26:37 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215289533/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Australian sport audiences are getting more social media savvy, mobile, and fanatical, reveals the PERFORM Global Sports Media Consumption Report, released today. "This second annual report into how Australians are engaging with sports media confirms our belief that fans are increasing their demand for content across a range of platforms," says managing director of PERFORM Australia, ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215288953/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:02:04 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215288953/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 By now it is well understood that social media is not an option for businesses, it is a necessity. Not only does social media marketing allow you to reach a wider and more diverse audience than ever before, it also increases the value of your ad by offering a deeper level of tracking, measurement and targeting capabilities. Twitter is an extremely powerful platform for marketers and ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215289535/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:02:01 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215289535/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Orange customers with handsets that do not have internet can now access Facebook, for 10, 50 or 100 shillings daily, weekly or monthly respectively. The mobile service provider has unveiled Facebook Bila Net, that can be accessed by dialing *32#. The mobile service provider hopes to tap into the growing internet usage as it grows its customer ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215289026/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:57:24 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215289026/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 A FACEBOOK page has been created to gather support for a memorial plaque in honour of Adelaide food writer Howard Twelftree who died recently. Twelftree, who wrote under the nom de plume John McGrath in The Adelaide Review, was a popular and respected restaurant reviewer. The memorial plaque has been suggested for one of Twelftree's favourite food spots, the Adelaide Central Market and Gouger ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215290756/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:26:00 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215290756/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Islamabad, June 18 : Twitter reports of a PPP leader wearing a 'million dollar watch', have been confirmed that it was none other than Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who reportedly wore a 'Meteoris' watch during the national budget ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215288619/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:22:27 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215288619/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Mark Zuckerberg, one of the young cofounders of Facebook, on Tuesday met with Samsung Electronics executives including the heir Lee Jay-yong and mobile unit chief Shin Jong-kyun to ask Samsung to manufacture a "Facebook-friendly" phone, industry watchers said. "Facebook has every intention of becoming the second Google, and with that intent in mind, Zuckerberg is said to have ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215288620/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:14:20 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215288620/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker (9) and Miami Heat forward LeBron James (6) collide during the second half of Game 6 of their NBA Finals basketball series, Tuesday, June 18, 2013 in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215287836/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:22:09 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215287836/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 The message some Facebook users saw Tuesday when they went to Facebook.com. Facebook was down Tuesday night for some users, with an outage that seemed to peak at about 9 p.m. ET.The problem, a spokesman for the social network said, should be fully resolved."Earlier today, an internal issue in our Web infrastructure caused the site to be slow or unavailable for a brief period of time," ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215287837/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:18:31 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215287837/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 The message some Facebook users saw Tuesday when they went to Facebook.com. Facebook was down Tuesday night for some users, with an outage that seemed to peak at about 9 p.m. ET.The problem, a spokesman for the social network said, should be fully resolved."Earlier today, an internal issue in our Web infrastructure caused the site to be slow or unavailable for a brief period of time," ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215287838/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:18:30 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215287838/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Jailing Arab Twitter users could lead to greater physical action such as violent protests, a Google executive has told Arabian Business in an exclusive ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215287839/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:09:53 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215287839/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 -- A Detroit man who posted pictures of himself holding guns on Facebook got more than a ';like'; out of his posts: He got arrested. Unbeknownst to Oliver Weddington, court records show, a federal agent who was investigating him for federal gun crimes was combing his Facebook page and came across several pictures that raised red flags. For law enforcement, social networking is proving ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215287556/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:04:15 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215287556/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Buildings from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters are seen during the 2013 Spring Meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, April 18, 2013. ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215287183/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:03:12 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215287183/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 "Earlier today, an internal issue in our web infrastructure caused the site to be slow or unavailable for a brief period of time," a Facebook spokesman told AAP."We resolved the issue quickly, and should now be back to 100 per cent. We apologise for any inconvenience."The popular social networking site, which has about 12 million Australian users and claims about 1.1 billion ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215287841/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:58:23 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215287841/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Computerworld - Facebook has been down on Tuesday night, giving users error messages or long response times. The crowd-sourced online monitoring ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215286946/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:07:32 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215286946/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Facebook increasingly targeted by scammers Social networkers took to Twitter after a global Facebook outage this afternoon. Facebook went down for less than two hours from around 12.30pm. People in Australia, US, New Zealand, South America and Europe have all reported that they were unable to login to Facebook, or "a website that uses Facebook Connect" for a short period of time. ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215286317/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:04:06 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215286317/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 June 18 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:00am EDT June 18 (Reuters) - Netflix Inc will launch its TV and movie streaming service in The Netherlands later this year, expanding its reach further into Europe, the company said on Tuesday. Netflix boasts 29.2 million streaming subscribers in the United States and 7.1 million in international markets, delivering movies and television shows to Canada, ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215287335/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:57 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215287335/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 FACEBOOK has gone down briefly, offering the world a brief and horrific glimpse of what life would look like without the social networking ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215286548/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:54:09 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215286548/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Down Right Now, an Internet services monitoring site, noted that Facebook is experiencing a "likely service disruption" at 9:28 p.m. (EST) on Tuesday, June ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215286948/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:47:12 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215286948/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 An entire Australian Army brigade has been warned over its use of social media as the Australian Defence Force continues its investigation into two Facebook pages that demean ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215286061/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:11:46 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215286061/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 STAND down. Facebook appears to be back online after a few minutes of a server-wide outage. Everyone can stop losing their ... http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215286063/scat/63e88d54af0cf473 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:47:28 -0400 http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/sid/215286063/scat/63e88d54af0cf473