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Terrorist Attacks In Bombay, Follow on Twitter

Another terrorist attack in India, this time in India’s capital city Bombay. I have been following this for a while on Twitter, where people from the city are reporting whatever updates they can get. It is a depressing start to a Thanksgiving weekend here in the U.S. You can follow the news...

Twitter Kills SMS in Canada

Citing changes to its billing and costs that are doubling every month, Twitter announced that it will no longer support outbound SMS to Canadians. Twitter’s searching for a business model (and a Business Product Manager to help out), and in the meantime it has to curtail costs — but i...

Off-Topic: Why Citibank Should Vanish

After a long day, I returned home to find a mound of junk mail clogging my mailbox. Of note was a letter from Citibank informing me that it was jacking up the interest charged on my credit card, adding more fees for foreign transactions and other such issues that might result from an economic mel...

Why Microsoft Fails to Win Online

Online Santa Claws For Sales This X-Mas

Online retailers are not immune to the current credit crunch and are feeling the heat in a big way. The New York Times says that online spending dropped 4% for the first 23 days of November 2008 when compared to the same period last year. According to comScore, the online spending was about $8.19...

Broadcasters to Make TV Mobile

In a nation with more than 225 million mobile subscribers, only 1.8 million of them watch broadcast television on their cell phones, according to September data from comScore. But a group of more than 800 broadcasters hopes to change all that — by making mobile TV shows both free and avail...