New York
- Over 60% of those who signed up for the popular Twitter microblogging service
had stopped visiting the site a month later, according to a new report from Web
audience measurement firm Nielsen Online. "Twitter’s audience retention
rate, or the percentage of a given month’s users who come back the following
month, is currently about 40 percent," said David Martin, VP of primary
research at Nielsen Online. Read the rest of this entry »

Washington
- Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said on Tuesday that he plans next week to
introduce his bill that would overturn the U.S. ban on Internet gambling,
Reuters reported. "We’ll be introducing it next week and I plan to move on
it," Frank told Reuters. Read the rest of this entry »
First, it was reported that Apple was talking to Verizon about getting the iPhone on its network in 2010. Then it was reported that Apple was actually working on new mobile devices for Verizon. With so much Apple blood in the Verizon water, it was only a matter of time before the Microsoft shark surfaced.