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Rampant piracy and a crumbling market for CDs has put the music industry in Asia under immense pressure, but experts are hoping that technology and social media will help fill the gap.

A redesign launching with its July/August issue combines the Post's hallmarks a ' art and fiction a ' with folksy commentary and health articles.

Next > WASHINGTON a ' Facebook is revising its privacy settings to give the more than 200 million users of the social network the ability to share as much or as little about themselves online as they want.

'Proud to be Indian and gay!' said a blogger as he rejoiced an Indian court's decision overturning an age-old law and decriminalising homosexuality.

Chocolate fans who successfully campaigned for the return of Wispa last year have scored another sweet victory with its sister bar, Wispa Gold.

Bloody attacks and midnight arrests, combined with a regime growing more technologically savvy, have begun stemming the flow of online information from dissidents in Iran, activists and human rights officials say.

In this June 18, 2009 photo, Patricia McNally, 58, of Washington, holds her dog Lola, during a walk in Washington.

From the " rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic file": The new MySpace exec team has promised changes .

Social-networking sites and other Web services can't be held liable in a sexual assault on a minor that stemmed from a meeting online, according to a ruling in a California appeals court that consolidated a number of complaints against MySpace on behalf of teenage girls and their parents.

President Barack Obama prepared to take the public's pulse on healthcare reform Wednesday, conducting a town hall forum in Virginia.

A Missouri mother faces up to three years in prison at her sentencing Thursday in Los Angeles for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who later killed herself.

State Attorney General Jerry Brown and former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman have raised the most campaign money this year for the 2010 California governor's race, according to preliminary figures released Wednesday.

The vendor is delivering updates to four components of the sprawling middleware portfolio: Oracle SOA Suite, its framework for service-oriented architecture, the WebCenter portal and collaboration suite; Oracle Identity Management; and WebLogic Suite, which includes the application server acquired through Oracle's acquisition of BEA Systems.

Revamped privacy settings are coming soon to Facebook. The social network's privacy controls had gotten so sprawling that they were distributed across six separate pages and 40 different settings, according to a conference call the company held on Wednesday.

Admit it: You are currently addicted to social networking. Your drug of choice might be Facebook or Twitter, or maybe Myspace or LinkedIn.

Just because President Obama has a 60-seat majority in the Senate doesn't mean he's letting up on his public push for health care.

A plaque made from thousands of weapons seized by police will be unveiled. Machetes, samurai swords and a variety of knives are just a few of the bladed weapons smelted to make steel castings.

Chris Crum at WebProNews.com has pieced together some very interesting pieces of information regarding Facebook, a former Googler and a new payment system.

Smokey Bear stars in new CG-animated PSAs and appears on Facebook, MySpace and YouTube in time for July 4th

BOSTON: Cybercrime is rapidly spreading on Facebook as fraudsters prey on users who think the world's top social networking site is a safe haven on the Internet.