Archive for June, 2008

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MySpace Releases Tools, Info For Data Sharing

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

The online hangout MySpace has launched its program for letting users quickly share personal profile data on outside sites operated by Yahoo Inc., eBay Inc.

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Virgin Mobile USA Buys Helio for $39 Million in Equity

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

With its $39 million acquisition of Helio, Virgin Mobile USA will add data applications, enter the postpaid market and reduce network costs paid to Sprint Nextel.

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Missing Vt. Girl Linked to MySpace Activity

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

The search for a missing 12-year-old Vermont girl centered Friday on the social networking site MySpace after divers discovered nothing in a lake near where some of her belongings were found, police said.

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Social Networking Site Aids Alzheimer Research

Friday, June 27th, 2008

An innovative approach by Stanford University researchers borrows concepts from Facebook to analyze the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease.

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Divers search for 12-year-old girl in lake

Friday, June 27th, 2008

The search for a missing 12-year-old girl broadened Friday as the FBI joined in and police investigators turned to officials at MySpace.Com, the online social networking site through which she had been ...

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MySpace and MSNBC announce “Citizen Journalist” contest

Friday, June 27th, 2008

A commenter asked yesterday Is it possible for the "ordinary citizen" to attend the Democratic Convention? The answer is yes... but only if you win a contest ! Want a free trip to one of the Presidential ...

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Panel Mulls Strengthening Sex Offender Registry

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Sex offenders may be required to provide their e-mail addresses to the state under a plan being discussed in the General Assembly.

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Did Facebook Shut Down Slide’s Top Friends? How Very MySpace Of Them

Friday, June 27th, 2008

MySpace used to be notorious for simply banning third party widgets that didn't play nice .

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GyPSii and Garmin Sign Global Multi-year Agreement for Location-Based Services and Social Networking

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Under the terms of the agreement, GyPSii will provide technology, products, worldwide data center infrastructure, development licenses, and GyPSii branding rights to Garmin, on a worldwide non-exclusive basis ...

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Microsoft to acquire mobile-data company

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Microsoft announced Thursday it has made plans to acquire MobiComp, a mobile-data company founded in 2000 Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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MySpace releases API for Data Availability

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

MySpace is set to release on Thursday the application programming interface for Data Availability , a developer project that the News Corp.-owned social network announced in early May .

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MySpace, NBC recruit citizen journalists

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Citizen journalists, MySpace and NBC News want you to help cover this summer's political conventions.

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Facebook adds comments to the Mini-Feed. It’s like FriendFeed is looking in the mirror

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Facebook is a service that allows you to import data from different social services around the Internet and have conversations about them.

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Review: Strong, innovative Web browsers emerge

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

With all the recent attention on the new Firefox 3 Internet browser, it's easy to miss two strong, innovative rivals.

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Searchme Adds New Features - Stacks and Media Search

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Searchme , the visual search engine has recently launched two new features - Stacks and media search.