CBS’ new sitcom $#*! My Dad Says starring William Shatner is based on the Twitter account of Justin Halpern, who lives with his 89-year-old father. The show’s premiere brought in 12.5 million viewers last week. Maybe that’s why CBS is planning another TV show based on a Twitter account, @shhdontellsteve. That one is about a [...]

Skype is back to being an independent service after eBay sold its majority stake in the company to a group of private investors. But can the voice, video and text communication service survive a rapidly evolving mobile market? Since its founding six years ago, Skype has built up a roster of more than 520 million [...]

The TwitterPeek is here, just in time for Christmas! The first mobile device devoted exclusively to tweeting and reading tweets is now on the market and whether or not it will be a hit remains to be seen: Clad in “Twitter blue,” the TwitterPeek allows all the same functionality of a desktop Twitter client – [...]