IF YOU think money can't buy you friends, think again. In the online world, it’s possible to purchase a crowd of fans.
Social media followers: Beware the tweeting crowds | The Economist - 0 views
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To decide whether a follower is human, Mr Camisani Calzolari used various criteria, including the number of posts from a fan’s Twitter account and the use of correct punctuation in tweets. According to this research, by June 2011 nearly half of Twitter followers of computer maker Dell—about 700,000—were bots.
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On close inspection, a significant proportion of Mr Romney’s followers appeared to be fake profiles.
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Smartphone operating systems: Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed | The Economist - 0 views
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IF YOU have a new smartphone, it is almost certainly either an Apple iPhone or one of the many devices that runs on Google’s Android operating system. According to IDC, a research firm, more than 90% of the 228m smartphones shipped in the last quarter of 2012 belonged to one of the two dominant species. Android is the bigger bea
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st. Its share has grown as the smartphone market has boomed, to about 70%.
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Mozilla, a non-profit organisation best known for Firefox, a web browser, unveiled plans to bring a smartphone operating system to market. Called Firefox OS, it has the backing of 18 mobile operators based in countries from Asia to Latin America.
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Cyber-security: To the barricades | The Economist - 0 views
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European Commission and the White House have set out a series of new rules designed to stem the rising tide of cyber-attacks against public and private victims.
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Alongside his state-of-the-union message on February 11th, Barack Obama released an executive order intended to plug the gap left by the failure of Congress to pass cyber-security legislation that matches the growing threat.
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By contrast, the European Commission’s cyber-security strategy is at an earlier stage. It wants member countries to introduce laws compelling important firms in industries such as transport, telecoms, finance and online infrastructure to disclose details of any attack they suffer to a national authority, known as a CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team). Each CERT will be responsible for defending vital infrastructure-providers against online attacks and sharing information with its counterparts, law-enforcement agencies and data-protection bodies.
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