http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com.au/articles/40951-Twitter-used-to-control-Botnet

The antimalware vendor said it issued updates to detect malware designed to get orders from Twitter.

The unveiling of Apple’s iPad was hailed by many as a revolution in computing, the latest in a line of glossy devices that would change the way we live and work.

John Suffolk, the Government’s chief information officer, wants to give the public sector a sprinkling of that Silicon Valley dust — a flavour of the ground-breaking technology of Google, Facebook and Apple.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/public_sector/article7023927.ece

Mr Suffolk also believes civil servants and public sector workers should be more active on social networking sites. He runs a blog, although it hasn’t been updated for almost a month.

THE TEMPTATION, of course, is to sum up the decade in terms of brands. Thus the noughties could be seen as the period of Google’s inexorable rise, of Apple’s metamorphosis into a music and mobile phone colossus, of Amazon’s increasing dominance, of mushrooming user-generated content (Flickr, Blogger) and social networking (MySpace, Facebook, Twitter), of the emergence of Wikipedia as the world’s leading reference work, of YouTube and the BBC’s iPlayer – and of corporate stumbles (Microsoft, Yahoo, eBay, innumerable record labels and newspaper groups).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/27/web-goes-mainstream-in-noughties

The noughties have been technologically inspiring and liberating: but the threats to a wired world have also become starkly clear over the past 10 years

Now that you’re finally backing up your computer to protect yourself from data disasters, here’s another doomsday scenario to populate your nightmares.

Let’s imagine you’re using one of any number of popular web-based services for blogging, sharing photos, writing documents or communicating with friends.

Perhaps you store all of your photos at Flickr, labeling them with captions and tags.

http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2009/12/even_with_cloud_computing_serv.html

I’m gradually moving toward using “cloud” services for everything from spreadsheets to e-mail. Think of all the things that can go wrong with your own computer. Theft. Fire. Your own stupid mistakes. I tend to think a company like Google might do a better job than I would at keeping my data safe.

Many Twitter applications have suffered lengthy periods of downtime recently, a situation that has some developers concerned about the company’s platform stability.

These developers, who have invested effort and money in building revenue-generating Twitter applications, are hoping Twitter figures out a way to increase the application platform’s uptime.

http://www.cio.com.au/article/315466/developers_eager_see_twitter_improve_platform_stability

There was a lot of talk about Twitter being a free service and that we shouldn’t complain about it being down, but Twitter actively wants people to build businesses off of Twitter’s infrastructure