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Submitted by Mike Grenville on Fri, 16 May 2008 12:49 Vodafone is to acquire 100% of ZYB that offers a social networking and online management tool to back-up and share their handsets' contact and calendar ... via 160Characters

A 39-year-old Virginia Beach woman faces charges after police there say she used MySpace to solicit sex from the 15-year-old son of a family friend. via WTVR Richmond

More details on Facebook's banning of Google Friend Connect from the Facebook API earlier today. via TechCrunch

Caption: 50 Cent and G Unit . performing live in concert at Sydney Entertainment Centre. via ContactMusic.com

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a Missouri woman for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor girl who then committed suicide.

Lori Drew of suburban St. Louis was charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress on the girl.

Drew allegedly helped create a MySpace account on false premises to contact Megan Meier, who thought she was chatting with a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans, who turned out not to exist. Read more

"We're pleased with his progress."

Caption: * NATE DOGG RECOVERING AFTER STROKE. Hip-hop star NATE DOGG has been hospitalised after suffering a stroke over the festive holidays.. The Next Episode singer was admitted to Pomona Valley Hospital in ... via ContactMusic.com

"You don't want people putting (sensitive) documents on LinkedIn "

IBM and Research in Motion are expanding the reach of IBM's Lotus software onto BlackBerry handsets. via CNET News.com

Corrections Canada has launched an internal investigation to find out how prison pictures of serial killer Clifford Olson made their way on to MySpace. via 24 Hours Vancouer

"Comcast is looking at Plaxo to become the social media backbone of its products."

Comcast Corp. is buying contact management company Plaxo Inc. and plans to incorporate into all its offerings features intended to help people synchronize their address books and connect socially online. via Newsday.com

"The playground of today is cyberspace."

New York officials started sending letters Wednesday to more than 25,000 registered sex offenders, telling them to disclose all their Internet user names as part of an effort to keep them from trolling social ... via Post-Standard

All is not well at Facebook, the ailing social networking business. Last month The First Post reported that Dustin Moskovitz , one of the company's co-founders, had allegedly moved to another office because ... via The First Post

"I know in my heart that I entered my marriage with love and the best of intentions and leave it with great sadness that it didn't work"

It's not easy being Al Reynolds these days.

The soon-to-be ex-husband of Star Jones says he's 'been called a gigolo, a freeloader, unemployed, a sham and many other things that don't bear repeating' since Jones filed for divorce in March.

Reynolds posted a 485-word rant on MySpace and Facebook on Tuesday, using the social-networking Web sites to air his frustrations with media coverage.

'If you think you are having a tough day, may I propose you walk in my shoes for a few hours,' reads the opening line. 'In my mind, it feels like 'Dump on Al Month.'' Read more

"Google Friend Connect is about helping the 'long tail' of sites become more social"

Google has announced Friend Connect , a new service that will allow any web site to enable social networking features for their visitors. via ProgrammableWeb.com

"I hear lots of people talking, saying that when they put their kids to bed, they put them down with an audiobook"

Don Katz has a vision for the kids of America: He wants to take the technology that brings the Jonas Brothers to their ears and use it to deliver the Brothers Grimm. via Star-Press

Last month, we wrote about how MySpace had won its case against Sanford "Spamford" Wallace -- the infamous 1990s "Spam King" who simply can't seem to give up his obsession with scammy marketing techniques. via Techdirt