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A sudden surge in celebrity tweeters has given a huge boost to Twitter, the micro-blogging service that offers up the world in 140-character chunks.

Last Friday, after media maven Oprah Winfrey sent her first tweet during a live broadcast, Twitter saw its share of U.S. Internet visits increase by a remarkable 24 percent, according to the industry analyst firm Hitwise. The company also found that visits to the Twitter site were up 43 percent over the previous Friday.

Oprah’s decision to join…

San Diego, CA, April 20, 2009 — Equilibrium Enterprises, Inc. has unveiled its latest iPhone application, Virtues for the iPhone, which is designed to help users, step by step, follow in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin’s time-honored self-improvement system, updated for a digital age.

The Virtues app is based upon Benjamin Franklin’s own system of tracking how well he displayed virtues in his character daily for a period of one week. He focused exclusively on tracking one virtue per week.

With 13…

So called due to their ability to run down their prey, wolf spiders depend on their eyesight to hunt. Their sense of touch is acute. A bite may cause some itching to a human, but nothing deadly or major…

Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus)

Funnel-webs are one of the three most dangerous spiders in the world and are regarded by some to be the most dangerous. Wandering males are thought to be responsible for the majority of fatal bites to humans, however…

More than 500 high-definition TV shows and movies will be available on demand from Amazon, the Seattle-based company announced Tuesday. Titles from Warner Bros. Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, MGM, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, and Showtime Networks include recent releases such as Frost/Nixon, Twilight, Yes Man, Californication, The Tudors, Smallville and Gossip Girl.

Blu-Ray ‘Quaking in Its Boots’?

The videos are available through several compatible devices — the Roku digital video player, several TiVo DVRs, the Sony Bravia Video Link, and…

A counter on Apple’s Web site is quietly ticking off the number of apps downloaded from the App Store. Late Tuesday afternoon, the number was approaching 990 million. Watching the digital numbers spin along is mesmerizing, and if you sit quietly enough you can almost feel the breeze.

According to calculations by U.K. research firm Mobile Squared, at the current rate of downloads, the one billionth app will be sent over the Web sometime on Thursday.

“It took Apple almost six months…

AT&T, the exclusive wireless carrier for Apple’s iPhone in the U.S., is working to double its 3G speeds. AT&T officially completed the build-out of its 3G network in June and is aiming for speeds of 3.6 megabits per second, Scott McElroy, AT&T vice president of technology realization, told Telephony Online.

Currently, AT&T offers 3G speeds of 700 Kbps to 1.7 Mbps for a typical download and 500 Kbps to 1.2 Mbps for an upload using High-Speed Downlink Packet Access/Universal Mobile…

Teotihuacan is an enormous archaeological site in the Basin of Mexico, containing some of the largest pyramidal structures built in the pre-Columbian Americas. Apart from the pyramidal structures, the archaeological site of Teotihuacan is also known for its large residential complexes, the so-called “street of the dead”, and its colorful well-preserved murals.

Teotihuacan was, at its apogee in the first half of the 1st millennium CE, the largest city in the pre-Columbian Americas. During its zenith it may have had more…