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U.S. Government Wins Access to Twitter Accounts of WikiLeaks Supporters

A federal judge today granted the U.S. government access to the Twitter accounts of three of WikiLeaks’s strongest supporters.  read more »

India students suspended for rude Facebook messages

A leading school in India has suspended 16 students for posting rude remarks about a woman teacher on the popular social networking site, Facebook.  read more »

Is Facebook a fleeting frenzy?

Is Facebook, or any social networking site, a viable long-term marketing option?  read more »

Teen Sues Mom for Hacking Facebook Account

An Arkansas boy is suing his mom because she allegedly hacked into his Facebook account and posted slanderous remarks.  read more »

Young job-seekers hiding their Facebook pages

(CNN) -- Justin Gawel says there's nothing too incriminating on his Facebook page.

"There's nothing naked or anything -- at least I don't think so," he said jokingly.  read more »

Mussolini iPhone application is withdrawn

An iPhone application that allows users to download speeches by the former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has been withdrawn.

Its developer says he is removing it after legal threats.  read more »

Online churches draw believers, critics

(CNN) -- Hjalti á Lava was searching his iPhone for a Bible app when he stumbled across Church Online, a service of Web site LifeChurch.tv.  read more »

Injunction by Twitter: Stopping a Web Impostor

British members of Parliament and their prospective challengers are thronging onto social-networking sites with all the enthusiasm and grace of dads getting down on the dance floor.  read more »

French, German publishers step up campaign against Google Books

The internet giant’s project to digitize millions of books is up and running, but some in Europe’s book industry are still hoping to cut a better deal.  read more »

Energy Management Startup Hara Nabs Coke as Client

Hara, which makes software for tracking natural resources, is only about 18 months old, but Coke is rolling out the software around the world.  read more »

Twitter race between Ashton Kutcher and CNN narrows

The online popularity contest between celebrity Ashton Kutcher and CNN narrowed Thursday, with Kutcher's Twitter following growing considerably overnight.  read more »

Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy

{Excerpts} The Christian Science Monitor plans major changes in April 2009 that are expected to make it the first newspaper with a national audience to shift from a daily print format to an online pub  read more »

Unexplored Arctic Region To Be Mapped

A scientific expedition this fall will map the unexplored Arctic seafloor where the U.S.  read more »

First US-Iran Talks For 30 Years

America is sending its third most senior diplomat to Geneva in the hope of securing a breakthrough in the nuclear crisis with Iran.  read more »

Microsoft willing to resume Yahoo talks

MICROSOFT says it is willing to reopen talks to buy all or part of Yahoo, but only if a new Yahoo board is elected.  read more »

YouTube law fight 'threatens net'

A one billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube threatens internet freedom, according to its owner Google.  read more »

NASA's Phoenix Spacecraft Reports Good Health After Mars Landing

PASADENA, Calif. -- A NASA spacecraft today sent pictures showing itself in good condition after making the first successful landing in a polar region of Mars.  read more »

The Great American Movie Theater

“So – is movie going dead?” asks North Texas theaterman Jeremy Devine, surveying a packed house one recent weekday afternoon at the Ridgmar outpost of his company, Rave Motion Pictures, in west  read more »

Teens In Taped Beating Could Be Charged As Adults

LAKELAND -- The Polk County Sheriff says he wants everyone connected to a taped beating of a 16-year-old, which showed up on MySpace.com, tried as adults.  read more »

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