"Our industry moves fast and changes faster. And so the way we communicate with our customers must change in equally speedy ways..."

Hackers apparently broke into the FoxNews.com's Twitter feed for political news early Monday and used it to announce - falsely - that President Barack Obama had been assassinated.

Considering these are the two most popular services for the Generation Y, on one of the most popular smartphones on the market, the new applications and upcoming features have been long awaited.

Talks with some suitors but Twitter's valuation at $8-10 billion.

One of Verizon Wireless' official Twitter accounts "announced" that Android-based LTE products are on the way.

During a question and answer session on Twitter, company executive vice president Niklas Savander made it clear that the company won't be turning to Android to reinstate its ailing market position.

Red Cross donations made by texting reach US$5 million, as the campaign to raise money for Haiti relief efforts goes viral in an always-connected society.

The American Dialect Society, an association that studies the English language, has announced that "tweet" is the top word of 2009, and "Google" - the verb, not the noun - is the top word of the past decade.

Following last weekend's deadly riots in its western region of Xinjiang, China's central government has taken all the usual steps to block citizens from accessing foreign web services.

The internet suffered a number of slowdowns as people the world over rushed to verify accounts of Michael Jackson's death.