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Twitter adds URL-shortening service

...Twitter has begun automatically shortening URLs pasted into tweets by its users, the microblogging site announced on... Read more

8 June, 2011 by Steven Musil
Security and Privacy Implications of URL <endeca_term>Shortening</endeca_term> Services

Security and Privacy Implications of URL Shortening Services

URL shortening services replace long URLs with shorter ones and subsequently redirect all requests... Read more

13 May, 2011
iMT Wallpapers and URL <endeca_term>Shortening</endeca_term> 1.6

iMT Wallpapers and URL Shortening 1.6

...UK. Our app offers FREE wallpapers and access to our FREE URL shortening service.To save wallpapers open them in full-screen and then press... Read more

29 October, 2011
<endeca_term>Shortening</endeca_term> 1.0

Shortening 1.0

...shorten and share a long web link with friends and colleagues.With Shortening, you get in, get short and get going.No ads, no headaches... Read more

22 July, 2011
Blind Channel <endeca_term>Shortening</endeca_term> for Zero-Padded OFDM

Blind Channel Shortening for Zero-Padded OFDM

...In this paper, the authors study several known designs of blind channel shortening in the ZP-OFDM context, exploiting the signal redundancy in the form... Read more

6 August, 2010
Low-Complexity Sparse FIR Channel <endeca_term>Shortening</endeca_term>

Low-Complexity Sparse FIR Channel Shortening

...or MAP detectors over broadband channels with long CIRs prohibitively complex. Channel shortening is a widely-used technique to solve this problem by implementing a... Read more

1 June, 2010

Google opens access to goo.gl URL shortener

Google gave its URL shortening service goo.gl a standalone site on Thursday, allowing users to input... Read more

1 October, 2010
Sparsening Filter Design for Iterative Soft-Input Soft-Output Detectors

Sparsening Filter Design for Iterative Soft-Input Soft-Output Detectors

A large body of research exists around the idea of channel shortening, where a prefilter is designed to reduce the effective channel impulse response... Read more

29 February, 2012

Global outage takes down sites and services across the internet

...globe, a number of websites and online services suffered disruption, including link-shortening service bit.ly; CBS Interactive, publisher of silicon.com; and RIM's... Read more

7 November, 2011 by Nick Heath
Why iPads may fall flat for PC users

Why iPads may fall flat for PC users

...one email message to another, editing a spreadsheet or a presentation, and shortening a URL and then posting it to several different social networks. Irked... Read more

7 August, 2011 by Jason Hiner
TweetPhoto for Plixi an amazing Plixi Photo Uploader + Twitter Status Update app 1.1

TweetPhoto for Plixi an amazing Plixi Photo Uploader + Twitter Status Update app 1.1

...not store the twitter login password anymore. Tweet character counter. Automatic URL shortening. No more enforced 115 max characters in Tweet. Automatic Tweet truncating to... Read more

20 July, 2011

Social networks give fuel to cyberattacks, says Symantec

...most prevalent toolkit in 2010 was Phoenix. Another risk came from URL-shortening services, which can hide destination websites, said Cox. These make it difficult... Read more

5 April, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Google satellite images show Japan earthquake damage

...Times. The quake may also have sped up the Earth's rotation, shortening the day by 1.8 microseconds, Gross said. Moreover, the main island... Read more

14 March, 2011 by Steven Musil

Google creates API for goo.gl URL shortener

...Google announced an API for its URL-shortening service on Monday, opening it up to third-party software. The goo... Read more

12 January, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

RockMelt aims to simplify the social media browser

...click, according to the company. The browser also uses its own URL shortening service — me.lt. As well as bringing Facebook integration, RockMelt also... Read more

8 November, 2010

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