Popular URL-shortening service tr.im announced Tuesday that it’s restored its service and has reopened its Website. Nambu, tr.im’s parent company, had announced last weekend that it was closing the ...

In October of this year URL shortening service, Cligs, announced it would be shutting down. Today, it begins a new life with news of its acquisition by social bookmarking service Mister Wong. Cligs, ...

Twitter is continuing to add features to its service which have previously been served by third-party companies. The other day, Twitter announced their own photo sharing service, and now the company ...

Url shortening announcements are like buses. You wait for ages then three come along at once. We have already brought you news of Google’s url shortening service and the Facebook solution, now Bit.ly, ...

Tr.im, the popular URL-shortening service for Twitter and other social networks has found a new lease on life. After announcing it would shut down by the end of the year, the team behind Tr.im has ...

Google today launched its own URL shortening service, aptly named the Google URL Shortener (http://goo.gl/). The service is, for the moment, only available in the ...

Web URLs can get really, really long and that, in turn, leads to all sorts of problems. The first problem is one of simple usability. URLs that are 50, 100, or even 200 characters in length will wrap ...

Twitter and other online services have made shortening URLs a regular chore; such URLs are handy not only on social networks, but anytime you need to share links (especially long ones). There are ...

Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from the Today @ PC World blog at PCWorld.com. Popular URL-shortening service tr.im announced Tuesday that it’s restored its service and has reopened ...