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New Twitter users spike after Olympics journalist gets suspended
By Michael Rougeau published
Publicity surrounding Twitter's bad behavior reportedly caused a surge in new user registrations.

BBC Olympics website hits record 29 million video requests in one week
By Chris Smith published
BBC has announced its online viewing figures for the first week of Olympics coverage, highlighted by a staggering 29 million video requests.

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee laughs-off American Olympic snub
By Chris Smith published
Tim Berners-Lee has brushed-off unprepared American commentators telling their audience to 'Google him' during his role at the Olympic Opening Ceremony.

Olympic photographer to use Panasonic G5
By Amy Davies published
Updated Panasonic has announced that a Getty photographer will be exclusively shooting with its new Panasonic G5 camera during the Olympics.

Olympics Opening Ceremony breaks iPlayer record
By Kate Solomon published
Danny Boyle's Opening Ceremony Extravaganza has broken the record for number of requests in a single day on iPlayer.

Olympics attendees asked to 'take it easy' on tweets and texts
By Kate Solomon published
Visitors to the London 2012 Olympic Games have been asked to 'take it easy' on texting and tweeting from events.

One More Thing: 80 million Instagram users can't be wrong
By Kate Solomon published
News in Brief Instagram now has 80 million users and Twitter's not exactly happy about it.

How Adobe is powering the BBC's Olympics coverage
By Dan Grabham published
Interview Adobe's Steve Allison on how Project Primetime enables tens of streams to be created and streamed with minimal delay.
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