Tweets per second record broken

Twitter has played an active and vital role in several recent world events by being able to quickly spread information among its users, says Digital Trends.

Today, Twitter revealed the service broke its previous tweets per second record during MTV's Video Music Award show. Moments after Beyonc'e finished her performance, she opened her jacket to reveal the baby bump that set Twitter ablaze with 8 868 tweets per second.

There were a number of other recent events that some might have expected to take the record. Steve Jobs resigning as Apple's CEO provided several thoughtful tweets, but did not produce the sheer volume of tweets as other events.

Google's chief executive Larry Page knew that adverts for unlicensed Canadian pharmacies were running on its US site, according to a government prosecutor, reports the BBC.

Rhode Island attorney Peter Neronha told the Wall Street Journal that incriminating e-mails had been uncovered as part of an official investigation.

The search giant agreed last week to pay $500 million to settle the case. It declined to comment on the specifics of Neronha's allegations.

Security researchers have discovered a counterfeit Web certificate for Google.com circulating on the Internet that gives attackers the encryption keys needed to impersonate Gmail and virtually every other digitally signed Google property, writes The Register.

The forged certificate was issued on 10 July to digitally sign Google pages protected by SSL, or secure sockets layer. It was issued by DigiNotar, a certificate authority located in the Netherlands.

The forged certificate is valid for *.google.com, giving its unknown holders the means to mount transparent attacks on a wide range of Google users who access pages on networks controlled by the counterfeiters.

Mozilla chairperson Mitchell Baker has taken to the Web to defend the recently implemented rapid release cycle for Firefox, promising to make the process smoother in the future, notes V3.co.uk.

Mozilla began the new release cycle, revealed in February, with Firefox 6. Under the new system, the company aims to push new versions of the browser through two six-week Aurora and Beta development and testing phases before a final release build is made available.

Baker acknowledged the system had raised “some new issues”. “For example, some enterprises find the idea of rapid browser change disconcerting at best and potentially unmanageable at worst. Add-on compatibility is another,” she said in a blog post.