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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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