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Mannheim city to sue Mikogo co-founder over Twitter name

Yesterday, the founder of popular screen-sharing app Mikogo shared with the world that he was threatened to be sued by the city of Mannheim if he does not stop using his twitter name, which is http://twitter.com/mannheim.  His name is Mark Zondler, but he and the company is based in Mannheim. Does any of you think this is pretty unfair from the city?

First of all, what if your name was Daniel Mannheim? Could they sue you for using your own name? Also, the Twitter account is not abused, or used in any way to undermine the city, and even if it were, we have freedom of speech, so still! More »

Google Realtime Search to Include Twitter

Search giant gets real

Google announces that information from Twitter and Facebook will begin to feature in search results. The latest relevant tweets will scroll across the results page in real time, according to Google. Google has announced that real-time news from Twitter and other information from the Internet will start appearing in its search results. More »

Retweet via SMS text with Vodafone

Vodafone is now allowing its users to retweet on Twitter via SMS text.

Vodafone has long offered its users to send and receive tweets via text, but the addition of retweeting means subscribers without internet-enabled phones now have the full tweeting package. More »

Free MMS and SMS updates from Orange and Twitter

Orange has announced its partnership with microblogging service Twitter, promising free text updates and photo sharing for users, which is the first time Twitter’s allowed MMS photos to be uploaded to the site. More »

Gym treadmills to Get Twitter and Facebook Friendly

Exercise may soon be getting a whole new technological overhaul after US software company Netpulse secured $3.1million in funding to help launch their new series of gym-based interactive media. Expect to be tweeting “I’ve just jogged 7miles on my treadmill!” any day now. More »

UK Reported to Loose £1.38 Billion in Productivity Because of Social Networking Web Sites

Technology News – Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are costing the UK economy a staggering £1.38billion a year due to employees using the sites during working hours, a new survey has claimed.

This unbelievable claim, made by IT services company Morse, suggests that the 1,460 office workers involved in the survey used the social networking sites for around 40 minutes per week instead of carrying out their work. More »

Twitter to Have Live Video Tweets?

Struggling to keep up with the mass of text-based tweets to your Twitter account? Well, it just might get a whole lot busier if the founders of the hip social networking site get their way. More »