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Why we love to hate Myspace
Myspace is gradually inviting users to "new Myspace," the first big refresh in the post-News Corp era, and already the claws have come out.
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Smart TV owners seemingly tuning out most apps
They may be called smart TVs, but that doesn’t stop the vast majority of us from using them as basic boob tubes.
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Why You Should Pay for Apps
So you just got a smartphone or tablet for Christmas. Great! Now buy some apps. No, not free apps. You, or a special someone, just spent, what, $200-plus on your new gadget? Plunk down $10 for some apps. It's good for everyone.
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Snapchat rises: Why Poke's decline shows Facebook's inability to invent
Facebook's Poke app, a copy of red-hot Snapchat rose almost to the top of the iTunes appstore on launch. A few days later it has tanked, making me wonder: can Facebook really invent any new Internet behavior or is it destined to be a copycat forever?
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Cowards Are Black mailing Women to Death
The most despicable corners of the internet house a byzantine network devoted to sharing screen-captured images of naked—and often underage—girls.
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In-Flight Broadband Is Set for Takeoff
The Federal Communications Commission announced Friday a streamlined process for airlines to get approval for in-flight broadband technology.
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How Music Ruled Twitter in 2012
To Jimi Hendrix, music was a religion. To Twitter users, music is a conversation starter and so much more. Here's how music ruled Twitter in 2012.
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One in four US hackers 'is an FBI informer'
The FBI and US secret service have used the threat of prison to create an army of informers among online criminals
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10 Marketing Trends for 2013 You Haven’t Heard
What would you find in a wordcloud of 2013 marketing/consumer trend lists? Big data. Cloud. Mobile. Trust. Direct delivery. Quantified self.
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Netflix to Increase CEO's Pay
Netflix raised Chief Executive Reed Hastings's compensation package to $4 million for 2013, essentially doubling his pay this year.
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Child porn investigation uncovers a web of evil
As soon as they saw the terrified boyâs photo three years ago, federal agents Peter Manning and Gregory Squire had the same thought: we have to save him. The child, about 18 months old, was naked from the waist down and clutching a stuffed rabbit. That image led to 33 arrests and the discovery of 138 children who were violated.
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This Is Why You Don't Donate Sperm on Craigslist
If you've ever considered selling some or your swimmers on Craigslist for a little extra scratch, you might want to give it a little more thought. William Marotta, who did just that, wound up having to pay child support for his biological child, despite having signed away all rights to the little...
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Religion, politics, sports… What people around the world do and do not talk about on social media
You probably think you know pretty well in which settings it is or isn't OK to raise touchy subjects like religion or politics. But on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites, the rules of conversational engagement are still a work in progress. Different countries are writing those rules differently. A recent survey, conducted by the...
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Google Is Attacking Apple From The Inside Out—And It's Working
After years of hammering away at Apple's share of the smartphone market with cheap-to-free Android phones, Google has lately adopted a new tactic to win mobile. Call it "the worm strategy"—because Google is attacking Apple from the inside out.
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The Web in 2013: Already old, or forever young?
New Year’s Day has long been one of my favorite holidays. It caps a week of year-in-review stories that underscores how ghastly the past year has been – fiscal cliffs, mass shootings, super s...
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40 Cool Things to Do With Your Posts "After" You Hit Publish
Blogging isn't a case of “If you post it, they will come.” Your role as a blogger doesn't end as soon as you hit Publish. In fact, that’s only the beginning.
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The Bookstore Strikes Back
Two years ago, when Nashville lost its only in-town bookstores, the novelist Ann Patchett decided to step into the breach. Parnassus Books, which Patchett and two veteran booksellers envisioned, designed, financed, and manage, is now open for business and enjoying the ride.
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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt to visit North Korea
Google's executive chairman is preparing to travel to one of the last frontiers of cyberspace: North Korea.
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Would You Use Facebook if It Looked This Insanely Different?
Facebook is what church and bathing used to be: a daily, comforting, familiar ritual. And so it's not without cause that people go nuts whenever it's redesigned. But if you thought Timeline was radical, check out this (unofficial) prototype.
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Record 5-Year Prison Term Handed to Convicted File Sharer
The leader of the in-theater camcording gang known as the IMAGiNE Group was handed a 60-month prison term Thursday in what is the nation’s longest sentence in a file-sharing case.
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