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CNN
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Facebook users will soon lose the ability to join a network of friends who live in the same area but will gain the widely desired ability to control who sees every piece of information they post...
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CNN
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Your weight, health and happiness may be influenced by people you've never met, but who are friends of friends of friends. In a new book "Connected," Dr. Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler reveal how social networks, both online and in real life, affect your world...
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CNN
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After a string of real celebrity deaths last week, the Internet and online social networks killed a few more stars...
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Los Angeles Times
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Most of the video clips that TV networks are willing to share with YouTube aren't the stuff people want to watch.
CBS news anchor Katie Couric's interviews attracted only a few thousand viewers, and behind-the-scenes vignettes with the cast of NBC's ne..
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BusinessWeek
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Wireless networks are more prone to spying than wired ones, but it helps to know if your more sensitive transactions are over secure servers
Jim Dodson asks: We have retired and spend several months a year on the road in our motor home. We can get Wi-F..
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BBC News
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The government is to draw up a battle plan on the best way to roll out next-generation broadband networks.
It will share best practice from high-speed pilots around the UK as well as lay out the business case for future investment in high-speed network..
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BusinessWeek
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Big Internet companies have been snapping up ad networks to boost ad revenue. Now Specific Media plans to join the M&A frenzy
The wave of dealmaking engulfing the online advertising sector isn't over yet. The most recent evidence came Nov. 1, with news..
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BBC News
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Researchers have found a way to enforce good manners on file-sharing networks by treating bandwidth as a currency.
The team has created a peer-to-peer system called Tribler in which selfless sharers earn faster upload and download speeds but leechers a..
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Ars Technica
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Consumers are starting to use home networks for more than sharing an Internet connection and sending files between PCs on the network, according to a new study by Forrester Research. One-third of all home networks are now used to stream music, movies, TV..
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BusinessWeek
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Web surfers are flocking to faith-based social networks, sometimes as an alternative to MySpace
Anyone who wants to join Xianz, a Christian social network, needs to abide by a set of rules that read more Ten Commandments than terms of use. Rule No. 2,..
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MSNBC
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Soldiers serving overseas will lose some of their online links to friends and loved ones back home under a Department of Defense policy that a high-ranking Army official said would take effect Monday.
The Defense Department will begin blocking access "..
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BusinessWeek
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Search engines, tech startups, and media networks are competing to become the go-to portal and guide to professionally made online programming
Suranga Chandratillake, founder of video search engine blinkx, likes showing off his new remote control. It c..
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BusinessWeek
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The software giant clinches the deal for phone voice-recognition powerhouse Tellme Networks. Expect a lot more than mobile search
As it loses ground against Google on the Net, Microsoft is moving to make sure it won't lag too far behind as Web search m..
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Los Angeles Times
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Microsoft said Wednesday it would buy Tellme Networks Inc., which provides voice-enabled mobile search, directory assistance and computerized, speech-driven customer service hotlines.
Microsoft said Tellme's technology could be applied to a wide swath..
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