Editor’s note: Jon Gottfried is a Developer Evangelist at Twilio, Co-Founder of the Hacker Union, and a StartupBus Conductor. Follow him on Twitter @jonmarkgo. Being one of the first cyborgs in the world, I have been privy to a unique set...

If you’re a popular social sharing service not named Google+, you might be integrated into iOS very soon. According to a report in 9to5Mac, Apple is working on integrating Yahoo’s revamped photo service Flickr and the social video...

Kim Dotcom, founder of the seized file-sharing site Megaupload, hinted via Twitter that he might sue the slew of companies using two-step authentication, for which Dotcom claims to own the patent. Dotcom provided a link to a patent that deals with...

Technology holds the key to automating many of the repetitive and arduous tasks associated with housekeeping. It’s why products such as Nest, an intelligent thermostat that automatically adjusts the temperature in your home, have proven so...

App.news is a social news reader app for iOS that uses App.net, an ad-free social network that recently hit 100,000 registered users, to serve up interesting articles and original journalism. It’s easy to compare App.net with Twitter, given that...

Twitter is launching a new extra layer of security, but will it stop hackers?

Among today's modes of online communication, we’re well-versed in the use of text, images and video. But what about dance? In a campaign for its new Sync fragrances, Puma is proposing a new form of digital expression through movement rather...

See tweet: I-5 bride collapsed going from Burlington to Mount Vernon. @kiro7seattle @king5seattle twitter.com/Kadie_Holmes/s… — Kadie Holmes (@Kadie_Holmes) May 24, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) -- Twitter is adding an extra security measure to users' accounts in an effort to prevent unauthorized logins.Twitter said in a blog post Wednesday that users will be able to enroll in a login verification program. For those who sign...

Twitter just got it. Apple recently got it, too. Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon have had it for a while. But why's two-factor authentication important, and will it keep you safe? [Read more]    

Twitter goes after TV, launching Twitter Amplify to allow media brands and advertisers to promote TV clips on Twitter. "Video fingerprinting" technology will allow marketers to monitor in real time when spots air and the resulting tweet activity...

Twitter has announced a new security feature which resembles the two-factor authentication offered on websites such as Facebook, Google, and Dropbox. The new feature makes sure that the person logging into your Twitter account is really you, helping...

Kim Dotcom claims to own the patent for two-step verification, password technology used by Google and Twitter, reports The Guardian. Two-step verification is a means of logging in to a site with a one-time-use password sent to your mobile device...

So, a lot of people are talking about Kim Dotcom's latest gambit, which was to point out that he holds a patent (US 6,078,908 and apparently others in 12 other countries as well) that covers the basics of two-factor authentication, with a priority...

A partnership newly dubbed Twitter Amplify will see more companies integrate video clips and ads into their tweets. [Read more]    

What's the Latest Development? California-based UberMedia has launched UberAds, a platform that sends ads to customers' mobile devices based on their publicly-available social media data -- from sites like Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest --...

Authentication measure comes in wake of Syrian Electronic Army account hacks, further security steps coming.

Well, here's something I thought we would never see -- a minor update for Twitter for Mac, which finally brings Notification Center support to the client. You know, it only took just shy of 10 months after the release of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion for...

NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter is adding an extra security measure to users’ accounts in an effort to prevent unauthorized logins. Twitter said in a blog post Wednesday that users will be able to enroll in a login verification program. For...

Seeing a "404 error" or the Twitter "Fail Whale" can really kill a good online buzz. Those kinds of service outages, though, occur on the Internet on a daily basis, as the latest numbers from Outage Analyzer illustrate.