Ten things you need to know about the Internet of Things
From fridges and thermostats to cars and cities, everything around you is getting connected. But what will it mean for your life?
1 It's about...
A ban on internet slang? That’s derp
Breaking: new chief of slangy internet site doesn't want it to sound quite so much like a slangy internet site. Incoming Gawker editor Max Read has issued a stern memo...
Twitter Rolls Out Free ‘Pinned Tweets’ to Select Personal Accounts 2.3k
Twitter is rolling out "pinned tweets" to a select group of high-profile users for free. The feature allows a limited number of politicians, musicians,...
“BIDD Theme this week” The Dangerous Absurdity of the Secret “Cuban Twitter”
An eye-catching A.P. story, published Thursday, revealed that, in 2010, the United States Agency for International Development (U.S.A.I.D.) covertly deployed a social-media program in...
“BIDD Theme this week” White House denies ‘Cuban Twitter’ ZunZuneo programme was...
The White House is claiming that a secret programme to build a carefully-disguised “Cuban Twitter”, in order to foment political opposition to the...
“BIDD Theme this week” US government harassed Castro with a fake Twitter...
Federal aid agency wanted to 'renegotiate the balance of power between state and society' in Havana
By Amar Toor on April 3, 2014 04:59 am...
“BIDD Theme this week” Secret ‘Cuban Twitter’ program poses challenge for...
Finding that program funded by USAid could be damaging to groups working to increase access to technology, say analysts
The revelation that a US government-funded...
“BIDD Theme this week” U.S. secretly built Cuban ‘Twitter’ to...
Program spearheaded by USAID sought to evade Cuba’s stranglehold on Internet and push users toward dissent
April 3, 2014 7:43AM ET Updated 4:12PM ET
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“BIDD Theme this week” The “Cuban Twitter” Invasion
Our round-up of news, notes, tips and tweets exhibiting how public diplomacy affects the world each and every day.
The Associated Press released this investigative...
African SMS money transfer sytem makes leap to Europe
We don't yet understand how to get the money IN the phone, though
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Seven years ago, Kenyans got access to something that American
companies are...