Twitter will now allow developers who use the Twitter API to label their bots as "Automated". The label could help inspire trust, but the opt-in method seems open to misuse by bad bots.
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Twitter has confirmed in official documentation that 23 million - around 8.5 percent - of its 271 million monthly active users are actually automated 'bot' accounts, and not authored by real people.
The automated Twitter account @everyword has finally completed the task it began in 2007 tweeting out every single word in the dictionary one-by-one.
McDonald's recently added 64,000 people to its payroll in the United States, but job prospects in Europe for those so inclined to work in the fast food industry are looking pretty grim right about now....
After a long night of drinking, you walk to your car, turn on the ignition, and drive home. Only you aren’t doing the driving, your car is. That’s Google’s vision of the future and if their...
The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is designed to help corporate IT professionals customize and deploy the Microsoft Windows Vista family of operation systems. By using Windows AIK, you can perform unattended Windows installations,...
Mobile storage provider Toshiba Storage Device Division launched Jan. 4 a new line of 2.5-inch USB 2.0 portable external hard drives in 100GB, 120GB and 160GB capacities with automated backup capability. Toshiba's new HDDs feature...
Researchers from Microsoft's anti-malware engineering team are working on an automated way to sort through the thousands of malware families and variants attacking Windows computers. The company unveiled its plans at the EICAR (European Institute...
The Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) is designed to help Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), system builders, and corporate IT professionals deploy Windows onto new hardware. The WAIK is a new set of deployment tools supporting...
The dynamic nature of the Internet and technology can make the protection, maintenance and optimal performance of PCs a challenge for consumers. Keeping a PC "healthy" today can be daunting and time-consuming for the average...
The MSN network of Internet services today announced that it has acquired substantially all the assets of MessageCast Inc., a leading provider of automated alerting and messaging technology that currently supports the MSN Alerts service....
BayTSP, a Californian company specialising in on-line information monitoring and compliance services for a variety of industries has announced a new tool to monitor piracy on-line. The software, called FirstSource, allows ISP's...
Thanks bink and A-Parsa for this. A great thread emerged yesterday at WebmasterWorld.com about how someone managed to apparently remove the home pages of Microsoft and Adobe from Google. But was it true? ...
Microsoft Corp. today announced the beta release of Automated Deployment Services (ADS) for Windows® Server 2003, a powerful new server provisioning and administration tool that delivers key technology for the company's new Dynamic Systems Initiative...
Get a more complete understanding of Visual Studio .NET, the visionary yet practical, development tool for creating the next generation of applications. Much like Microsoft Visual Basic® first did ten years ago, Visual Studio .NET...