YouTube enlists big-name help to redefine channels

YouTube is enlisting Hollywood’s help to reach a generation of viewers more familiar with smartphones than TV remotes.

YouTube is enlisting Hollywood’s help to reach a generation of viewers more familiar with smartphones than TV remotes.

French pre-schoolers near Bordeaux are posting daily updates to the micro-blogging website Twitter under their class’s handle @camusmat04, despite not yet knowing how to read or write.
After Batanes, the country’s northernmost province, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has dispatched its mobile e-passport processing, or consular outreach teams to Ifugao in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Ilocos Norte and Catanduanes in the Bicol region.
Google was under fire Friday after it was revealed the Internet giant’s ad-targeting “cookies” bypassed track-blocking software on Apple’s web browser for iPhones and computers.

It’s Linsanity. The NBA’s newest star, Jeremy Lin, is not just a phenomenon on court. He’s one online too. The New York Knicks’ point guard has been racking up Twitter followers, Facebook fans and YouTube views as fast as he has been scoring points and dishing out assists.
A British student who stole sensitive information from Facebook’s internal network was sentenced to eight months in prison Friday in what prosecutors described as the most serious case of social media hacking ever brought before the country’s courts.

Facebook on Thursday began testing a way for celebrities, journalists, athletes and others with massive followings to have their identities validated at the globally popular online social network.

It’s still Valentine’s Day and just maybe you still haven’t gotten anything for your special someone – what with most of the flowers gone or withered, chocolates melted, and stuffed toys simply passé.
Sales of Smart Communications’ corporate-branded “Netphone” have reached record levels, making it the best- and fastest-selling device the company has ever carried.
The website of the Central Intelligence Agency was inaccessible on Friday after the hacker group Anonymous claimed to have knocked it offline.

Microsoft on Wednesday revealed plans to unveil a test version of its latest Windows computer operating software later this month.

An outbreak of iPhone fever made Apple the hottest smartphone maker worldwide at the end of 2011 but handsets powered by Google’s Android software were shaping up as true winners in the market.

Following the release of its first electronic books on its Digital Newsstand, the Inquirer Group is now making its e-books available for the first time on the Amazon Kindle platform.