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• Iran blocks access to some outside websites, services

  By Gregg Keizer | 11 February, 2012 09:19

  The Iranian government has severed some citizens' connections to secure websites and services, including Twitter and Google's Gmail, according to reports by Iranians and network experts.

• How the Phoenix Suns basketball team takes on social media attacks

  By Ellen Messmer | 11 February, 2012 07:31

  Every sport has its fans, and the Phoenix Suns basketball team is finding that use of social networking has become one of the main ways to keep in touch with its fan base -- though it can get dicey when basketball fans across the NBA go a little wild before big games.

• Most social net users are kind, Pew survey finds

  By Sharon Gaudin | 11 February, 2012 05:32

  A majority of U.S. social networking users say their fellow users mostly kind, and that the sites make them feel good about themselves.

• Obama 2012 campaign playlist revealed courtesy of Spotify

  By Bob Brown | 10 February, 2012 06:27

  Depending on your taste in music and tolerance for others’ tastes, President Barack Obama’s latest social media move – sharing his 2012 campaign playlist via streaming music website Spotify – might be a case of over-sharing: Ricky Martin, REO Speedwagon and James Taylor all made the cut.

• The iPad at work, Day 2: testing the limits

  By Dan Moren | 08 February, 2012 02:28

  [Editor’s Note: When we last left Dan Moren, he’d survived day one of his iPad experiment, in which he vowed to use nothing but his tablet to get his job done for three days. Now we move to day two.]

• Facebook site, mobile app hit by slowdown

  By Sharon Gaudin | 08 February, 2012 05:47

  Facebook users today are complaining that the social network and its mobile app are running very slowly.

• Social media fuels Planned Parenthood backers in Komen protest

  By Sharon Gaudin | 04 February, 2012 08:06

  Fueled by a firestorm of outrage on Twitter and Facebook, the people behind the Susan G. Komen For the Cure Friday backed off their decision to cut funding of Planned Parenthood programs.

• Facebook ripe for ridicule as it suffers outage a day after IPO filing

  By Bob Brown | 03 February, 2012 07:34

  Social networkers resorted to Twitter during and following a brief Facebook outage on Thursday, a day after the company filed for its initial public offering.

• Great Apps for Windows Phone 7

  By Armando Rodriguez and Ginny Mies | 29 November, 2011 01:34

  Navigating an app store can be tricky, with vague descriptions, dubious user reviews, and sometimes buggy apps. We searched for the best apps available.

• Guide: How to use Twitter for customer support

  By David Daw | 17 November, 2011 05:25

  You can use Twitter for more than just gaining a huge mass of followers. It's also a great way to engage with customers--even dissatisfied ones--and turn them into happy advocates of your brand in less time than traditional customer service often takes. All it takes is being active on Twitter and following a few simple steps.

• Technology argument 6: Facebook vs. Google+ vs. Twitter vs. LinkedIn

  By Jeff Caruso | 15 November, 2011 09:37

  Much has changed since we examined the ongoing war between Facebook and Twitter in the autumn of 2010. The stakes are higher, the competition has increased, and we see LinkedIn and Google roaring into the social networking arena like never before.

• Guide: How to put your company on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter

  By David Daw | 19 October, 2011 01:06

  It’s telling that when the Google+ social network launched in June, businesses clamored to get on the service as quickly as possible. For most businesses, being active on social media is now a requirement. Although Google+ is still dragging its feet on creating pages for businesses, getting your company page started on Facebook, Linked In, and Twitter takes just minutes.

• THE BIG QUESTION: Will Facebook deliver a knockout punch to Google+?

  By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 21 September, 2011 01:36

  Can Facebook rest on its 750 million user-base laurels? We'll find out this week at the social network's F8 Developer Conference, which takes place in San Francisco on September 22. Buzz on what's expected ranges from new Read, Listened, Watched, And Want Facebook Buttons to a first-ever Facebook iPad app.

• Best free Android apps: For Twitter

  By Armando Rodriguez | 18 September, 2011 01:01

  As a self-proclaimed Twitter fiend, I like to tweet my thoughts and ramblings both at home and on the go. I used to just text my tweets to Twitter; soon, however, I discovered that I was missing out on a ton of high-quality tweets and conversations from the people I followed, since I couldn’t view the Twitter Newsfeed via text message and I wasn’t a huge fan of the Twitter mobile website. Thus I set out in search of a worthy Twitter Android app that would serve as my new way to tweet on the go.

• Find the best personalised news app for iPhone, iPad

  By Joel Mathis | 05 August, 2011 06:47

  When Flipboard hit the App Store last year, the personalised news app for the iPad turned out to be a revelation. There were already plenty of Twitter clients, Facebook apps, and RSS readers available for download—there were even apps that combined those streams of information into one. But none did it quite so elegantly, creating the sensation of effortlessly flipping through the magazine. Overnight, Flipboard reinvented the category.

• Apple iOS: Why it's the most secure OS, period

  By Robert Lemos | 06 June, 2011 20:04

  In June 2007, Apple released the iPhone, and the device quickly took off to become a major brand in the smartphone market. Yet when the iPhone shipped, security on the mobile operating system was nearly nonexistent. Missing from the initial iOS (then called iPhone OS) were many of the security features that modern-day desktop software has as a matter of course, such as data-execution protection (DEP) and address-space layout randomization (ASLR). Apple's cachet lured security researchers to test the platform, and in less than a month, a trio had released details on the first vulnerability: an exploitable flaw in the mobile Safari browser.