Calling all little monsters. Forget Facebook. Toss Twitter. Move on from MySpace, if you haven’t already. The Mother Monster AKA Lady Gaga is launching her own social networking site that is specifically designed to create a community among little monsters and that which will allow some communication with Gaga herself.
If you tweet for free, you must not be a celebrity. Depending on how many followers they have, celebs can earn thousands of dollars just for sending out a message on Twitter.
Selena Gomez has just earned membership in the ultra exclusive 10 Million Club. What is this club we speak of? It’s the 10 Million Twitter Follower Club! Okay, there’s no membership dues or membership card, but Gomez has become the tenth person to reach 10 million followers on Twitter and that’s a pretty impressive status, since so few have it.
She’s back! Following a week-long break, Demi Lovato made her triumphant return to Twitter.
Unbroken and outspoken, Demi Lovato has been a pretty prolific Twitter user since she signed up. In fact, it’s how not only her fans, but also the media follow the goings on in her life — especially her love life.
While Lovato’s never come out and admitted to dating Wilmer Valderrama, her micro-blogging activity hints that whatever was going on has gone kaput. Since those stories started to spread, Lovato’s taken a hiatus from the site.
If you’re one of the multitudes of Megaupload users who can’t access their files anymore, the Department of Justice has three messages for you: “They’re gone for good,” “you should have read the terms and conditions” and “tough luck.”
Statistics are showing more and more that cell phone use in cars is a leading cause of accidents. In fact, some research has shown that driving while distracted causes more deaths than driving while under the influence. But, would you buy a new device that prevents you from ever using your cell phone in your car?
As the dust from last week’s Department of Justice strike against the popular filesharing site Megaupload begins to settle, the longterm picture regarding file-swapping sites in general — and the fate of Megaupload users’ files in particular — remains hazy. But at least one thing is clear: Universal Music Group no longer has to worry about fending off a Megaupload lawsuit. For now, anyway.
Predictions about technology are notoriously tough to make. Still, the experts and visionaries often get it right — but when they don’t, they get it colossally wrong. Here are some of history’s most famously bungled insights made by tech giants and industry bigwigs, as rounded-up by Scientific American.
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was arrested earlier this week, just after the site was shut down by the Department of Justice — but he didn’t go down without a fight. Police officers found Dotcom, real name Kim Schmitz, hiding in a safe room in his home with a loaded shotgun in hand.
Ryan Seacrest seems bent on world domination. In addition to having a radio show and regular hosting gigs on television programs like ‘American Idol’ and ‘E! News,’ he’s about to launch his own cable network.
