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16 min ago | FOX59.com WXIN-TV Indianapolis

Drug industry presses FDA to allow branded ads on Google, Twitter, other Web sites

As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical companies are pressing their case to market drugs via Google, Twitter and other Web sites.

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Related Topix: Food and Drug Administration, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Marketing, Internet, Science / Technology

4 hrs ago | Macsimum News

Universal Studios integrates iPhone/iPod apps with Blu-ray titles

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has launched an array of enhanced iPhone and iPod touch-enabled features and social web-based offerings with the release of upcoming titles "Bruno," "Funny People," "9," "American Pie Presents: The Book of Love," "Public Enemies" and "Inglourious Basterds," all available this holiday season.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Apple, iPod, iPhone, Wi-Fi

8 hrs ago | EHotelier Global Hospitality News

Sheraton Hotels & Resorts Becomes First in the Industry to Use Facebook Connect

Sheraton Hotels & Resorts announced today the launch of the new sheraton.com, the first hotel industry website to feature Facebook Connect and allow visitors to interact with their friends and family by sharing their travel experiences through today's most popular social networking site.

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Related Topix: Hotels, Travel/Tourism, Starwood Hotel and Resorts Worldwide

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Physics Org

Darwin meets Facebook

Natural history plans to chart life on earth, yet the discipline risks being buried under a landslide of painstakingly collected data that isn't always used.

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Related Topix: Landslide

Hispanic Business

Electronic Arts: $391M Loss; Cutting 1,500 Jobs

Redwood City's Electronic Arts, the world's second-largest video game maker, said Monday that it will slash its work force by 17 percent, or 1,500 jobs, and reported its 11th straight quarterly loss.

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Related Topix: Electronic Arts, Startups, Video Games, Software, Redwood City, CA, Xbox 360

CNET News.com I Tech Blog

Hundreds of Facebook groups hijacked

Facebook groups are under attack. But the attackers say they come in peace and insist they want only to highlight a flaw in the way Facebook handles group administration.

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Converge! Network Digest

Cisco Builds its Collaboration Portfolio

Cisco expanded its collaboration portfolio of TelePresence, Unified Communications, and WebEx solutions with new tools for video and voice-based communications.

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Related Topix: Telecom, Computers, Cisco Systems, Internet

ClipSyndicate

Special Report: Things Not To Post On Facebook

Experts warn about things you should not post on social networking sites like Facebook.

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Related Topix: Video

Mashable

Twitter and LinkedIn Status Updates Are Now Synced

Twitter's spree of partnerships isn't stopping anytime soon. Late last month, Microsoft and Twitter struck a search deal to integrate Twitter within Bing.

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Related Topix: Twitter, LinkedIn, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Mon Nov 09, 2009

CANOE

Sarah Palin is back on Twitter

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin says she's back on Twitter.

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Related Topix: Twitter, US Governors, Sarah Palin

National Post

Social networking site fined, must overhaul practices

A social networking site has been fined $500,000 and told to overhaul its practices following charges it tricked members into providing personal details to lure new members and send out tens of millions of spam emails.

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Related Topix: Email Spam, Tagged, Startups, Marketing

GameDaily

EA acquires social network game dev Playfish for $300 million

As a number of "industry sources" reported last month, Electronic Arts has elected to add a new studio to its already expansive roster: Playfish, a prolific developer of free-to-play casual games on social networking sites like Facebook.

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Buenos Aires Herald

Burberry taps social media with trench coat site

Luxury goods group Burberry has hooked up with social networking company Facebook to launch a Web site celebrating its trench coat, becoming the latest retailer to use social media in a bid to boost its brand.

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Daily Express

Facebook clue to fireworks yobs who killed mother of nine

POLICE hunting the yobs who started a fire that killed a mother of nine are trawling social networking websites for clues.

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Related Topix: World News, United Kingdom, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly County, England,

Wireless Week

Verizon Gets Second Droid Phone

Verizon Wireless has unveiled its second Android-based phone, the Droid Eris by HTC.

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Related Topix: Cameras

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Daily Mail

Bid to block paedophiles on Facebook fails over concerns about human rights laws

Government plans to prevent paedophiles using social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace have failed over concerns about human rights laws.

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Rock Hill Herald

Now you can friend Fort Mill on Facebook

The Town of Fort Mill has a new communication tool, and it's right at your fingertips.

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Related Topix: Fort Mill, SC

The Age

University students' 'pro-rape' page on Facebook

A GROUP of past and present University of Sydney students set up a ''pro-rape'' page in the sports and recreation section on Facebook, describing themselves as ''anti-consent''. The students, mostly from an elite, all-male college, initially ensured the ''Define Statutory'' group had an open and public profile, and proudly displayed their ...

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Telegraph News International News

Fort Hood shooting: Reaction

As the details of the massacre began to filter out across the country, many people connected to the military expressed their surprise and dismay.

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Related Topix: US Army, US Military, Fort Hood

Denver Post

"Honor" killing comes to the U.S.

Faleh Hassan Almaleki is accused of using his Jeep Cherokee to run down his daughter, 20, and her boyfriend's mother.

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Related Topix: Maricopa County, AZ, Glendale, AZ

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