Monday, March 21, 2011 - 6:46am
Five years ago, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent out the world's first Tweet. It said: "just setting up my twttr." Today, it's used to archive what we ate for lunch and more importantly, break news in real-time.
Twitter stories
Friday, January 28, 2011 - 6:48am
With an an infinite number of people to follow on Twitter, it can become a bit of a chore to manage all the incoming tweets. That's where the Charatter toy bear comes in — it syncs to your Twitter account and reads all incoming tweets — out loud. How's that for annoying?
Friday, October 29, 2010 - 8:43am
Whenever there's a big gadget announcement, we like to use the opportunity bring you breaking news via our Twitter feed… and to bestow some tech love on our readers. We held contests during the most recent Apple keynote as well as the reveal of the Nook Color. Now it's time to congratulate the winners.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 7:08am
Today at 4 p.m. Eastern, Barnes & Noble is holding an event, and we'll be live on the scene to bring you the news as it happens. For up-to-the-moment updates, be sure to follow us on Twitter and stand ready to refresh, refresh, refresh. Will we see a Nook Color? Almost certainly yes, but it's the details that count, and we'll have all of those.
Monday, October 25, 2010 - 1:36am
Imagine if you had your own cute little robot character in your bag that constantly read your Twitter stream aloud throughout the day. That is the amazingly cute, yet useful proposition of Japan's Charatter.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 6:49am
Today Apple is holding its Back to the Mac event in San Francisco. Speculation, as usual, is rampant, and all eyes will be on Cupertino starting at 1 p.m. Eastern Time today. For up-to-the-minute updates, follow DVICE on Twitter, where we'll be posting updates as they happen. Better than that, we'll be giving away prizes to one lucky reader.
Monday, October 4, 2010 - 2:45pm
There's not a ton of info about this public Twitter booth available other than the fact that it's in Skolkova, Russia. But man, what a dumb idea. I don't think you need me to explain why putting a service made for cellphones into a booth that's just like the phone booths that cellphones have since killed off makes no sense. Oh, Russia! You so crazy!
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 8:48am
If you were on Twitter earlier this morning, you may have noticed that a slew of tweets looked like gibberish, some from some pretty serious sources, such as the White House Press Secretary. It was all thanks to a virus...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 6:00am
Take a gander at this massive infographic and find out what makes Twitter tick.
Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 8:17am
Yesterday, Apple had on of the company's trademark self-lovefests, and if you were following DVICE on Twitter, you got all the news as it was happening (and not minutes after it was happening, which is what people who tuned into the "live" stream saw). One lucky reader got more than that, though.
