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A Trending Topic on Twitter with No Results

Despite Twitter's rapidly growing popularity, the service is quite known for downtime, and random bugs. In fact, the Twitter Status Blog usually does its best to keep the public informed about known bugs, but I have not seen mention of this yet. While taking a look at the top trending topics on Twitter this morning, one of them (#inappropriatemovies)is giving me "no results" when I click on it. How can it be a trending topic if there are no results?

Twitter Bug Torches Follower Lists

A slew of Twitter users posted this morning the disappearance of significant portions of followers and followees from their accounts. Has Twitter lost swaths of user data? Or is it the side effect of ousting "aggressive followers," who Twitter equates with spammers? Are followers worth much?

Adobe Announces Flash Player 9 Update

Adobe today announced the immediate availability of Flash Player 9 Update 3(version number 9.0.115.0), previously code named Moviestar.

Bug Alert: Google News Not Refreshing

By its very definition, “news” involves recent events or occurrences; as such, news sites tend to update themselves (or get updated) regularly.  Google News has been less than successful in this respect, though.

iPhone Could Be Playground For Attacks

The Metasploit Framework will have iPhone support soon. If that doesn't mean much to you, consider that some people who use Metasploit for security research may use what they find for malicious purposes.

BostonNOW Works Out Bugs, Prints Blogs

It had a rough start, but BostonNOW, a newspaper that prints the words of some local bloggers, is at last up and running.  Or perhaps, to be more in character with BostonNOW’s Paul Revere logo, “up and riding” would be a more accurate description.

Month of MySpace Bugs Begins in April

The month of bug's syndrome extends its reach into MySpace starting in April. The question is, will newscorp listen.

Options, Bugs, Phones - Time For Macworld

The Macworld Conference & Expo starts next week in San Francisco, but the parade of Mac fandom led off by Steve Jobs' keynote will have negative news about stock option shenanigans, earnings restatements, and a daily diet of Apple bugs offsetting the positive Mac vibe.

Squash Bugs In Visual Studio

When something odd happens in a program that the developer certainly did not include in the code, a bug may have nestled in, and needs to be tracked down and fixed.

Time to Fix the Bugs?

Almost two years ago I wondered about the negative aspects of companies like IBM and HP trying to control Linux by hiring top Linux developers.