June 25 - 2:50pm EDT   A Mac and PC Trojan is being perpetuated through Twitter, accounts say. Guy Kawasaki, a well-known venture capitalist, is said to have accidentally retweeted a link to a porn video, claiming to contain footage of Gossip Girl actress Leighton Meester. Should users actually click the link, they are taken to a website asking to install a video codec; the file is in reality the OSX/Jahlav-C Trojan, or in the case of Windows users, TROJ_JAHLAV.B. [full story]

June 16 - 3:40pm EDT   An iPhone version of TweetDeck is coming soon, says Digg founder Kevin Rose. Already in beta, the iPhone app is said to reproduce features of the desktop Twitter client -- namely its signature groupings, which are organized into columns. Users should be able to flick through columns to switch groups. [full story]

May 8 - 2:40pm EDT   Iconfactory has released a major update to its iPhone Twitter client, Twitterrific. The v2.0 release has a redesigned user interface aimed at being more customizable, with new themes and timeline layouts. The timeline now also includes filtering, enabling users to more rapidly sort through updates. [full story]

May 8 - 11:40am EDT   MRR Software has released v2.0 of its Twitter client application, Syrinx. The title is meant to simplify Twitter use by enabling users to search the site, view complete conversations, and browse previously-viewed items. Syrinx 2.0 expands the timeline feature to the Friends list, allowing people to locate and manage contacts faster. The app also includes better search features, enabling both multiple search windows and personal history searches. [full story]

May 5 - 4:50pm EDT   atebits has updated the Mac version of Tweetie, its Twitter client. The app allows users to post tweets, organize conversations, and search for popular topics. Amongst many small improvements, Tweetie 1.1.1 includes new features such as Growl support, which alerts users to updates from particular topics, people and conversations. [full story]

May 5 - 11:05am EDT   Contrary to rumors, Apple has expressed no serious interest in buying Twitter, says All Things Digital's Kara Swisher. Some in the industry are said to be claiming that Apple is already in "late-stage negotiations" to buy Twitter, whose microblogging service has skyrocketed in popularity following adoption by celebrities like Stephen Fry, Lily Allen and Shaquille O'Neal. Apple has so far only "said hello" to Twitter though, according to Swisher. [full story]

May 4 - 3:50pm EDT   Barton Springs has released Grackl, a new instant messaging application for the iPhone. The app aims to combine social networking and personal messaging, with functions that allow the creation and control of groups, and the management of group members. The application supports images within conversations, and also includes an automatic archiving feature that allows users to look at previous conversations. [full story]

April 22 - 3:15pm EDT   Eternal Storms has released an update to its desktop Flicker client, Flickery 1.1, which adds photo sharing through iChat Theater and Twitter, an enhanced interface and improved speed. Flickery allows users to upload photos to a Flickr photostream, organize photosets and track favorites. It also provides basic photo editing abilities such as cropping, rotation, resizing and applying filters. [full story]

April 20 - 12:05pm EDT   atebits has announced a Mac version of Tweetie, its Twitter client originally produced for the iPhone. The software offers dedicated access to Twitter functions, such as posting tweets or viewing trends and the timeline. The Mac client is said to be a "complete rewrite" however, with a faster core and better support for extensions. The code should eventually become the basis for Tweetie 2.0 on the iPhone. [full story]

April 3 - 10:50am EDT   Google is deep into talks for the purchase of microblogging network Twitter, according to two unnamed sources said to be close to the negotiations and cited by TechCrunch on Thursday. Since then however, AllThingsDigital has suggested that the two parties are simply engaged in "some product-related discussions” regarding collaboration on a [full story]

March 25 - 9:50pm EDT   Match.com has released an iPhone application that provides access to most of the popular features from the main website. The app enables communication with other Match.com members, along with access to profiles, images and search results. Users can also edit their profile or upload images. An option allows location-based technology to automatically find other singles in the surrounding area. [full story]

March 15 - 8:45pm EDT   To Promote Hulu.com’s one-year anniversary, the company has announced a new social-networking feature, Hulu Friends. The portal is designed to help users communicate with each other through a media browser client, with customized profile pages similar to that of Facebook. The new page provides an area for people to connect with each other, share videos, track viewed content and leave notes. In addition, Hulu Friends allows integration with Facebook, MySpace, Digg, and Del.icio.us, along with Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Hotmail. [full story]

February 25 - 10:55pm EST   AOL has split AIM 2.0 for the iPhone into an ad-supported free download, known as AIM Free, and a paid version, AIM Paid. Both variants offer several new features including SMS notifications, location-aware services and support for multiple accounts. Users can access contacts from within AIM, with a choice to send an IM or an SMS message to a phone number. An account can stay logged-in for up to 24 hours, even while the program isn't running. [full story]

February 18 - 6:55pm EST   Mark/Space has released Fliq 2.0 for Mac, the latest version of its social networking application that allows users to transfer images, contacts and notes to other members. The update now allows tasks and files to be shared or sent directly to contacts. Files or documents can be dragged and dropped onto the Fliq window to be automatically sent to the selected person, while a notebook feature offers an interface to view, save, sort, search or organize notes. [full story]

February 6 - 4:15pm EST   There is no universal policy in place against Facebook access in Apple Stores, investigation is said to show. Reports began to circulate on Friday that Apple was imposing a complete ban on Facebook, as a means of deterring people from loitering for the sole purpose of Internet access. Although bans on Facebook (as well as MySpace) have been put into place in Richmond and Los Angeles stores, Palo Alto and Washington DC locations continue to allow social networking sites. [full story]