Middle age chatters driving Twitter’s trend

February 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - China is unlikely to overtake India in outsourcing business anytime soon and it would take not one country but a lot of small ones to knock it off the top, according to a US expert. 'China is pretty far behind India and even places like the Philippines and Eastern Europe.

September 10th, 2009 LONDON - British drivers are increasingly using micro-blogging site Twitter while they are behind the wheels, and are thus putting themselves and other in danger, says a new survey. The survey for online insurer, esure, found that almost one in 10 drivers were found to use mobile Internet services and social networks whilst driving, despite knowing that they were breaking the law.

April 9th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A new British study has revealed that some people log on to social networking sites Twitter or Facebook and chat over the Internet while they are driving. In a survey of 1,000 people conducted by British insurance company Esure, one in 10 admitted to "tweeting" or updating their Facebook profile while behind the wheel.

January 31st, 2009 BANGKOK - Thailand's Culture Ministry is urging authorities to crack down on a rising trend of Thai students using the internet for prostitution, media reports said Sunday. Culture Minister Theera Salukpetch asked the education ministry, the communications technology ministry, police and internet service providers to increase their vigilance against website prostitution, which he blamed on faulty values among the country's youth, The Nation newspaper reported.

July 24th, 2009 LONDON - Many who are unable to make it to the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City can now have their prayers placed on the walls through an address on social networking site Twitter.com. The Western Wall now has its own address on the social networking service, and it allows believers around the globe to have their prayers placed between its 2,000 year-old-stones without leaving home.

July 17th, 2009 Palin promises to keep on tweetingANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin plans to stay in touch using Twitter even after leaving office on July 26.

February 19th, 2009 Most of the Twitter addicts know its spinning money now.  It's high time for you regular Twitterers to get into serious business while spending time on social networking. The most feasible way to make money from twitter would be to get used to its tools.

April 28th, 2009 LONDON - The leader of four million Roman Catholics in Ireland has encouraged social network members to text, Twitter or e-mail daily prayers to their family and friends. Cardinal Sean Brady made the appeal as he unveiled a statue of Father Patrick Peyton, known as the Rosary Priest.

March 3rd, 2009 Though it has nothing do with technology, still we just couldn't let this bewitching incident not happen to our site. India had pulled out from a Cricket series in Pakistan after the 26/11 attack on Mumbai.

August 24th, 2009 Nokia to make laptop, jumping on wireless trendNEW YORK — Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of cell phones, said Monday that it will start making a small, light laptop, similar to ones PC manufacturers are already selling through wireless carriers around the world. The Finnish company says the Nokia Booklet 3G will run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software, have a 10-inch screen and weigh 2.8 pounds.

December 27th, 2008 NEW DELHI - Financial services, information technology, consumer goods, retail and real estate sectors have witnessed the maximum decline in the creation of new jobs because of the economic slowdown, a leading business chamber has said. The Assocham Research Bureau, which tracked job vacancy data in 30 sectors to analyse the creation of new jobs in the economy, found that the 'employment outlook of India has come under severe strain'.

September 9th, 2009 LONDON - A cottage on an English island may have become the most envied house after its owner converted it into one of the most hi-tech homes in the world by connecting it to popular internet messaging service Twitter. IBM head of invention Andy Stanford-Clark installed his home with hundreds of sensors that inform him when his dinner is ready, if someone is at the door or when a mouse has been caught in a trap.

May 12th, 2009 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.

September 11th, 2009 Twitter keeps it simple with new terms of serviceSAN FRANCISCO — Twitter Inc. keeps it simple, even when it comes to updating the legalese in its terms of service.

March 4th, 2009 BANGALORE - The city-based IT solutions firm Sonata Software has set up a wholly-owned subsidiary at Dubai Internet City in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as its regional hub for expanding its presence in the Middle East and Africa, the company said Wednesday. 'Operating from the Dubai Internet City free zone, we will provide value-based IT solutions and strengthen our presence in the region by targetting market segments such as travel, tourism, hospitality and construction industry,' Sonata managing director B.