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View in web browser View text-only version Blackberry version Mobile version Add to safe senders list Civil liberties defenders don't want to #telldaveeverything, but the Home Office do Charlotte Henry 03 April 2012, 11:50AM Over the weekend, news broke around government plans for increased surveillance of digital data. The idea is that, without a warrant, security agency GCHQ will be able to see the packet data of emails, phone calls, text messages and social media messages so that they can see who is communicating with who, when, and how often. Such an idea was implemented by the previous government, but scrapped back in 2009 after sustained pressure from the two parties that now make-up the Coalition. Pay for content using Facebook and Twitter with one click @gordonmacmillan 03 April 2012, 11:12AM A new one click payment system, called Paycento, could allow webs users to pay for content with one click using Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. It could prove a major boon for newspapers and other content providers looking to simplify the selling of paid content as the idea is that it will cut out any form filling. Twitter launches new version of Blackberry app - connects with BBM Polly Becker 03 April 2012, 10:05AM Twitter has launched a new version of Twitter for BlackBerry. This is long overdue considering how unreliable the Twitter app can be for the Blackberry. The new version of Twitter for BlackBerry makes it easier to share links to web pages directly from the browser. Palestinian Authority arrests second journalist over Facebook comment @gordonmacmillan 03 April 2012, 9:54AM The Jerusalem Post is reporting that security forces in the Palestinian Authority have arrested a second Palestinian journalist after he posted a critical comment on Facebook. Tarek Khamis, who works for the Palestinian Zaman Press news agency, was arrested for criticising the authority’s clampdown on Palestinian journalists in the West Bank. The era of the mobile app is over Samson Tong 03 April 2012, 9:23AM “Sorry, that?s it for mobile apps. It’ll only last about three more years, or less,” I said to a client who was consulting my company on developing new mobile apps. I didn?t mean to turn them down on this new business opportunity, nor did I want to cool off their fleeting passion to be part of the heated fad of apps-building. "It'll be viral by morning" - HBO debuts Sorkin's Newsroom drama @gordonmacmillan 03 April 2012, 8:06AM HBO have released the trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s latest TV drama ‘The Newsroom’. It is his latest project after ‘The Social Network’ and it looks like a much darker affair as a previous impartial TV anchor called Will McAvoy, played by Jeff Daniels (“the Jay Leno of news anchors”), goes into meltdown after he lets rip in front of a college audience. Fox adopts grass roots Twitter campaign to save Fringe @gordonmacmillan 02 April 2012, 3:06PM Remember that Twitter campaign we wrote about recent where fans of the US science fiction show Fringe, which airs on Sky One in the UK, launched a social media campaign to save the show from cancellation? The Value of Data Visualization [infographic video] Polly Becker 02 April 2012, 11:12AM How do you make knowledge powerful? This cool Motion Graphic describes the value of data visualization. It looks at the challenge of communicating information and how it becomes especially difficult when trying to convey a message full of complex data, which is often difficult to interpret quickly and clearly to the naked eye. Ashton Kutcher to play Steve Jobs in up-coming biopic @gordonmacmillan 02 April 2012, 10:44AM Variety is reporting that ‘Two and a Half Men’ star Ashton Kutcher is to play Apple founder Steve Jobs in the film ‘Jobs’. Kutcher is well known in the celebrity tech world as one of Twitter’s big early users and an investor. Back in April 2009 Ashton Kutcher blazed an early trail and became the first Twitter user to pass the one million followers milestone. He beat @CNNbrk by 30 minutes. How racist Hunger Games tweets created social media phenomenon @gordonmacmillan 02 April 2012, 9:55AM What ever your take on The Hunger Games, the latest smash hit set of teen novels to make a splash on the big screen, the controversy surrounding the film on Twitter has been seismic. 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