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Social media giant facebook had their system go down Wednesday night just before 10 p.m. Hawaii time. The cause of the outage is unknown at this time. The company claims to have over 1 billion active users a month using their system. At about 10:14 p.m. HST facebook servers started to respond to requests with […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Hawaiian Airlines has launched a new Facebook contest that will fly two lucky friends to any destination in its growing route network in Hawaii, North America, and the Pacific Rim. Anyone can enter Hawaiian’s “Send A Friend” contest through Dec. 14, 2011, with the winning friends selected just in time for a special […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis has announced an innovative partnership that leverages the combined audience and expertise of officials from the U.S. Department of Labor, Facebook, the National Association of State Workforce Agencies, DirectEmployers Association and the National Association of Colleges and Employers to provide crucial employment resources to job seekers through […]

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By Baron Sekiya/Hawaii247.com Popular social media service Twitter has been under attack today in what’s known as a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. The service is back up and running, or at least limping along. Reports on the web also note service problems with social media sites Facebook, LiveJournal and YouTube. Of these site Twitter […]

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