Twitter begins 2012 with “fail whale”

Happy New Year to all our readers from the Mobitechbuzz Team…!!

New Year celebrations bring in all the fervour, but with it the technology overload is also dragged in. People pass on the wishes using the new broadcasting communication network. Almost as expected, Twitter faced similar issues on Saturday the 31st of December at around 8:30 pm IST. Japan had already hit New Year’s Eve at that point, Twitter users flooded the microblog with New Year’s greetings. The meltdown occured as 16,197 tweets per second were being sent in Japan. The ever familiar fail whale took up the screen of Twitter users who wanted to read or post tweets to the site and those tweeters using third party clients like TweetBot could not send tweets or retweet existing tweets.

Twitter couldn't take up the load of the celebrations

Sony to Sell Its Stake to Samsung in LCD Joint Venture

Sony is going to sell its stake in a LCD joint venture with Samsung to the Korea based tech giant. Sony has got nearly 50% ownership of this joint venture. According to some sources, Sony has agreed to sell its stake for a huge amount of $940 million to its partner. This move by Sony is being seen by many as an attempt to cover up its losses in this year. Some reports have claimed that Sony has faced losses around a billion dollars this year which is a gigantic amount for even a giant of Sony’s size.

This agreement was expected by many market analysts. According to Sony’s official website,”Under the agreement, Samsung will acquire all of Sony’s shares of S-LCD Corporation (“S-LCD”), the two companies’ LCD panel manufacturing joint venture, making S-LCD a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung.”

RIM’s use of BBM Trademark Challenged

Research in Motion is in news again and like most of you might have guessed, it is in news because of a dispute again. This time, RIM is being sued by a Canadian company by the name of BBM Canada, which claims that RIM has no legal right over the usage of term BBM(BlackBerry Messenger) as it is a registered trademark of the company. BBM Canada has not commented on the matter officially, but some sources are reporting that it is ready for settlement.

Jim MacLeod, CEO of BBM Canada has said that their company wants Research in Motion to stop advertising the name BBM as it is a trademark of their company. His company is basically a Canada based which measures radio and television audiences. It provides its services only in Canada and hasn’t got any office in other parts of the world.

Nokia Lumia 800 Might Come in White or Yellow

Cyan and Magenta were a good start, but Nokia hasn’t finished plucking eye-catching colors for its smartphone flagship. Alongside a not-exactly-unexpected white model, these leaked renders sugge...
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GoDaddy Drops Support for SOPA

Due to boycott by many of its customers, GoDaddy has dropped its support for SOPA(Stop Online Piracy Act). GoDaddy was criticized a lot on social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter because of its decision to support SOPA. And as a result, customers started shifting to other domain providers which forced the domain giant to change its decision. Official website of GoDaddy stated,”Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” currently working its way through U.S. Congress. Go Daddy has always fought to preserve the intellectual property rights of third parties, and will continue to do so in the future.”

Warren Adelman, Go Daddy’s newly appointed CEO, said, “Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation – but we can clearly do better.” He further added that,”It’s very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it.”

A Jingle bells playing Google Doodle celebrates “Happy Holidays”

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Twitter releases its Android SMS encryption tool

The last time that I was talking about Twitter buying an Android security firm, Whisper Systems was just a month back. This is where I had published about it.

Now Twitter has just come up with a technology for encrypting text messages on Android device. The TextSecure software, which Twitter published to code repository Github on Tuesday, lets people add encryption to all sent and received texts from their Android phone, and can encrypt texts for transmission if they are being sent to another TextSecure user.

“We’re excited to announce the open-source release of TextSecure, our secure text-messaging client for Android, which Twitter acquired when we joined their team last month,” Whisper Systems’s development team wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. “We’ve always been interested in the ability for individuals and organisations to communicate freely and securely.

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