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Because Twitter can be used with ease on both PCs and mobile devices, and because it limits users to very short messages of 140 characters or fewer, it has become one of the largest platforms in the world for sharing real-time data. A number of large businesses and celebrities have hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter. This includes personalities like Oprah and Ashton Kutcher. JetBlue (JBLU), Whole Foods (WFMI) and Dell (DELL), along with other multinational corporations, are among the most followed names on the service. (See the top 10 celebrity Twitter feeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Future of Twitter | 5/27/2009 | See Source »

...their computational power. A lot of what the chips can do is wasted. Upgrading to a more powerful processor does not mean much to people who cannot tell the difference. That leaves a few corporations and people who play complex video games as the only discriminating buyers of PCs with ultra-powerful processors. Just three or four years ago, the difference between one generation of semiconductor and another meant something to the casual PC user. The chips are too good now. Almost no one cares that a new Intel product can make 1 billion computations a second. Almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will the World Do with More Search Engines? | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

...Asus Eee PC 1000HE Taiwanese tech titan Asus has mastered the art of making teensy, high-performance PCs. The 1000HE ($530) has a zippier processor than its rivals (making for smooth HD video playback) and a 9.5-hour battery. But that all adds bulk - at 3.2 lb (1.5 kg), it's one of the heaviest netbooks around. www.asus.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Little Wonders: Three Netbooks Worth Owning | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...Intel (INTC) is the stock to short for the hardware industry just the way Microsoft is for investors betting against software. The shares in largest maker of chips in the world rises and falls on sales information about PCs and servers. Its expansion into less expensive and less powerful chips for netbooks and other portable devices may drive significant revenue growth once the economy begins to recover. Shares sold short in Intel as of April 15 were over 80 million, down 15%. Intel's positive remarks about sales in the PC market in its most recent earnings release may have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Top 10 Stocks for Short Sellers | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...about weetle-ol' Twitter. No, something more important is afoot: Facebook is embracing the AfterWeb and blowing up the browser. It is unbundling its website-based business and allowing developers to turn Facebook into a bunch of discrete services that can be delivered over a variety of devices (from PCs to smartphones) far more easily than via its website...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook's Big Move Toward the AfterWeb | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

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