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With the holiday season approaching at a breakneck pace, Apple is looking to cash in on procrastinators, unoriginal gift givers, and what's left of relationships you once shared with friends you haven't seen since high school. The company has unveiled a system powered by Gift Card Mall that allows Facebook users to purchase virtual iTunes gift cards to send to friends. The system allows ...
Being a blogger once meant posting online pictures of your cats in sweaters, to the delight of your immediate family and a few high school friends.
Prosecutors say Yarmey befriended the victim's mother to get close to the child.
ARLINGTON — The mayor of a suburban Memphis city apologized for a statement he made on his Facebook page that President Barack Obama deliberately timed his speech last week about the war in Afghanistan to block the airing of the “Peanuts” Christmas television special.
Facebook tries keeping up with Twitter by switching the default for status updates to share with everyone on the internet. It's a part of Facebook simplifying its privacy controls in hopes users will share even more. We're not in Facebook anymore, Toto.
Published: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 3:47 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 3:47 p.m. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - University of Tennessee officials say they are "cooperating fully" with the NCAA in its investigation into some of the school's football recruiting practices.
In response to requests, Facebook on Wednesday asked its 350 million users to update their privacy settings. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company has rolled out new privacy settings to give users more control over the content they share.
By: Evan M. Lopez Dept. of Jesus Loves You, Everyone Else Thinks You're an Asshole You know what we love more than being told we're going to hell? Nothing, that's what. So, on Dec. 6, we palled around with those delightful hatemongers from the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church , as the good Christian soldiers who brought you godhatesfags.com and jewskilledjesus.com ventured to the heathen ...
Gowalla One of the hottest areas for mobile phones is location-based services, software that lets friends tell each other where they're at around town and offers games or ads related to those locations. Austin-based Gowalla took a step toward the head of the pack of location-based service providers on Wednesday with an $8.4 million investment that featured some well-known backers. Greylock ...
With their Thanksgiving weekend shopping spree behind them, online shoppers spent more conservatively on their holiday gift lists last week, says comScore Inc.
On Thursday, December 10th , Hollywood Roosevelt hotel will host Friends Without A Border's first Annual Los Angeles Gala with all proceeds benefiting Angkor Hospital for Children. Co-chairs Jason Pomeranc, Kenro Izu, David Chang and Goodwin Gaw are joined by hosts Ali Larter and Hayes Macarthur, Amaury Nolasco, Diane Kruger and Josh Jackson, Anne Hathaway, Eva Longoria Parker, Jennifer Morrison ...
If you stream a lot of audio and video to your smartphone, get ready to pay more, an AT&T executive says. Apple stock soars after an analyst says its tablet could be ready for spring. Facebook is making big privacy changes. Plus: Rambus, eBay v. Craigslist.
CBS 6 viewers and Facebook friends can now get discount tickets to see "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" this weekend at the Schenectady Light Opera Company.
A company called Nuance, known for its speech recognition software, has released an iPhone app that will transcribe your speech into editable text. Dragon Dictation for iPhone will then let you send the transcribed text as an SMS message or e-mail, or copy the text to paste in other apps. It promises a 500 percent speed increase over typing on the iPhone's soft keyboard, but doesn't yet deliver ...
Facebook ready to roll out new privacy requirements, Apple is reportedly pitching its upcoming tablet to the publishing industry, and Mozilla readies mobile Firefox and Thunderbird 3.
Readers react to a bill in Uganda's parliament that would punish homosexual acts with prison or death.
Perhaps you don't want everyone to see the post you just published. Do you really want to allow your business contacts to see your opinions or other's opinions or desires posted on Twitter?
When Elayna Fernandez enters the room, everyone around her lights up. To see the joy and hope radiating from this petite mother of two, one could hardly believe the hardships she’s endured, moments that she’s used to turn her life into the success and inspiration she is today.
For the second year, PayPal is running the Regift the Fruitcake campaign, an effort to raise money for charity through the sharing of a virtual fruitcake. The slogan is, "By giving the gift no one wants, you're giving the gift that everyone needs." PayPal is asking people to participate by logging onto the site to create a fruitcake on behalf of a featured charity (there are 25 of them), make a ...
MONMOUTH — Monmouth-Roseville Superintendent Paul Woehlke said a change in weather conditions after 6 a.m. prompted a later than usual decision to cancel school Wednesday.
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