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Obama Urges China to Allow Use of Social Networking Sites like Twitter
Despite recent legislations banning the use of Twitter in China, United States President Barack Obama on Monday urged the Chinese government to allow the use of the microblogging website, saying that it should be available to all people and all places in the world. In a meeting at a town hall in Shanghai,... 
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Switzerland Privacy Watchdog Wants Google Street View Blocked, Sues Internet Giant
Search engine giant Google Inc will face a lawsuit that was filed by a Swedish privacy watchdog, which accused its popular Google Street View application as a direct violator of the strict tradition of personal privacy in the country. The Federal Data Protection of Switzerland on Friday issued a statement,... 
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Online Payment Service PayPal May Soon Overtake Parent Company eBay
Despite increasing problems with the sales in its online marketplace, eBay Inc is making a different kind of progress through its online money transaction service called PayPal, which is set to overshadow its mother company’s revenue in the coming months. For the past two years, eBay has been trying... 
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New iButton Helps People Deal with Air Travel
Virgin Atlantic Airways has launched a new iPhone application that would help people deal with their phobia in flying by just pressing the “iButton.” The new iButton application, according to Virgin, has over 98 percent success rate in helping people to overcome their fear in flying. The App was... 
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Social Networking Costs Add Burden to UK Business
Some 1.38 billion UK pound were lost every year due to workers’ low productivity brought by the excessive use of social networking websites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter during working hours, a new study showed on Thursday. Based on the study commissioned by the IT services and technology company... 
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Music Labels, Google Join Force on Music Search – Sources
The world’s biggest online search engine Google Inc will join forces with leading record companies for the launching of its newest feature that is specially designed for music search, sources said on Friday. According to sources, the new feature in Google’s search engine will help users to browse... 
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Advertising Agencies Pushed For DOJ’s Approval on Yahoo, Microsoft Deal
Advertising Agencies in the US on Monday urged the Justice Department to finally approve the merger deal between online giant Yahoo and software manufacturer Microsoft Corp, citing that benefits it would bring among advertisers in the country. In a letter to the DOJ, the American Association of Advertising... 
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“Pickup Lines” iPhone App by PepsiCo Earns Criticism for Stereotyping
PepsiCo on Thursday issued a letter of apology for its new iPhone Application, which was tagged for stereotyping women and making men more of a “chauvinist pig”. However, PepsiCo Spokesperson Nicole Bradley said that the company will not pull out the application from Apple’s online App Store. “The... 
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Comcast Enforces Pop-up Alerts to Fight “Botnets”
The largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) and high-speed Internet provider in the United States, Comcast Corp., on Friday announced plans to enforce pop-up message service to its customers in a bid to fight the growing problem of “botnets” in its system. In an interview, Comcast executives said... 
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Hackers Posted Lists of Hotmail Account Passwords Online
Software giant Microsoft Corp. has blocked on Tuesday thousands of Hotmail accounts after hackers posted its respective passwords in the Internet. Microsoft, in a statement, said that they immediately blocked access to this accounts after hackers were able to plundering account information through phishing...