Prince Charles' love letters on sale in EbayMarch 7th, 2009 TORONTO - After the Gandhi memorabilia, love letters written by Prince Charles to a Canadian woman 30 years ago are now on sale. Up on eBay, the six love letters open their auction with a minimum bid of $30,000.
Miley Cyrus' X-Mas classic an instant hit onlineDecember 27th, 2008 LONDON - Teen starlet Miley Cyrus' new version of Christmas classic 'Little drummer boy' has become an instant hit on the Internet. The song was edited out from the 'Hannah Montana' holiday special show.
Britain's royal family joins Twitter _ but don't expect one to 'tweet'July 10th, 2009 British royal family joins TwitterLONDON — Britain's royal family has extended its kingdom further into cyberspace and joined Twitter — but don't expect Her Majesty to tweet. Buckingham Palace, which already has a significant online presence, said Friday that it has set up a Twitter account to alert royal watchers to what's happening with the family.
Charles River Labs posts 30 percent drop in 2nd-qtr profit; announces 2 acquisitionsAugust 5th, 2009 Charles River Labs 2nd-qtr profit down 30 percentWILMINGTON, Mass. — Medical research equipment maker Charles River Laboratories International Inc.
Britain's Prince Charles to go on MySpace for the first timeMay 5th, 2009 LONDON - Britain's Prince Charles will break new ground today when he becomes the first senior member of the Royal Family to utilize the social networking site MySpace in carrying out his official duties. According to The Telegraph, the future King will broadcast a passionate plea to save the rainforests on MySpace.
Get Tweets on Your T-shirt for $20, Earn MoneyApril 17th, 2009 Twitterers, here is another news you will just love to know. Twitshirt brings you a service that lets you have your favorite twitter imprinted on a tee for $20.
How to Add Twitter to OrkutJanuary 21st, 2009 Twitter and Orkut have attracted millions of people in the world into social networking. To each, its own.
Twitter acting as 'word-of-mouth publicity' mediumSeptember 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Twitter has become a rage, right from college students to celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, and researchers at Penn State University have now claimed that the micro-blogging site is also benefiting companies. Jim Jansen, associate professor of information science and technology, College of Information Science and Technology, Penn State, says that 20 percent of the tweets contain requests for product information or responses to the requests.
Whitehall's 20-page user guide to TwitterJuly 28th, 2009 LONDON - Ministers at the Whitehall, the administrative centre of the UK government, have been provided with a document spanning 20 pages on how to use popular microblogging website Twitter. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills created hitehall's first ever Twitter strategy as a tutorial to overnment departments to post tweets more regularly, reports The Independent.
Schedule Tweets by Three WaysMarch 25th, 2009 Well, twitter has already been phenomenally popular by its own merit. Most of the professionals, entrepreneurs and celebrities are tweeting it in at twitter.
Twitter outage clamps tweets, site says cause 'unknown'August 6th, 2009 Twitter outage clamps tweets, cause 'unknown'NEW YORK — Twitter is down. For users of the short messaging site, this means no tweeting about lunch plans, the weather or the fact that Twitter is down.
Sarah Brown joins 'twitterati' bandwagonApril 10th, 2009 LONDON - Sarah Brown has become the latest member of the microblogging site 'Twitter'. The British Prime Minister's wife has opened the account under the user name "SarahBrown10".
View masterpieces up close, through the InternetJanuary 14th, 2009 MADRID - A joint project launched by Google and the Prado Museum allows 14 masterpieces belonging to the Spanish gallery's collection to be viewed in mega high resolution via the Internet, EFE news agency reported. The project, dubbed 'Masterworks of the Prado on Google Earth,' will allow details of the paintings to be seen that the human eye cannot perceive directly, while the Prado becomes the first international museum making it possible to study reproductions of its paintings that are life-sized and more.
James Joyce's classic 'Ulysses' is on Twitter nowJune 16th, 2009 On Bloomsday, 'Ulysses' meets Twitter
NEW YORK — Forget about Ashton Kutcher. James Joyce's "Ulysses," one of the most difficult novels in English, is on Twitter.
Only 10pct of Twitter users do all the tweetingJune 6th, 2009 LONDON - A meagre 10 percent of total Twitter users post 90 per cent of all tweets on the micro-blogging website, reveals a Harvard Business School report. And it is the prolific Twitter users, like Ashton Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore, who account for the majority of tweets.
LONDON - Classic literary works by Charles Dickens, JD Sallinger and Jane Austen are now being shortened into 140-character "tweets", as part of the latest diversion of the popular Twitter website. Bookish readers of the micro-blogging site are now boiling down such great works into a single sentence, and what is coming out is a whole new trend of 140 word synopses of some of the most classic novels.lthough the brevity of the summaries could appeal to modern readers more, the trend of using Internet slang might just offend literary purists.
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