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Reuters By Yinka Adegoke and Jennifer Saba NEW YORK (Reuters) – News Corp is open to a sale of beleaguered MySpace after a relaunch of the social network as an … News Corp Might Be Open To Selling MySpace News Corp. Open to Options for MySpace Cyber Monday: Wanna Bid for MySpace? |
SEO is changing rapidly, in part due to the increasingly social nature of the web. A look at what’s driving these changes and some of the implications of how they impact our behavior. …
Appolicious – Android’s European takeover… Much Android-related news this year has been about its growth. Thanks to widespread distribution, Google’s (GOOG) Android has taken on Apple (AAPL) in a formidable way, and is succeeding on many levels. That unstoppable growth has been a thorn for Microsoft (MSFT) too, as it looks to re-enter the mobile OS game with the heavy-hitting Windows Phone 7 system.
AP – Bristling over the unauthorized release of more than a quarter million classified State Department documents, the Obama White House on Monday ordered a government-wide review of how agencies safeguard sensitive information.
AP – The online website WikiLeaks on Sunday blamed the temporary outage of its site on a denial-of-service attack by unknown hackers trying to prevent its release of hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. State Department documents.
Digital Trends – Nintendo’s holiday bundles may have done the trick. Today, the game maker announced that it sold a combined 1.5 million systems during the week of Black Friday. Breaking the numbers down, the Big N sold about 600,000 Wii consoles and 900,000 Nintendo DS handhelds.
AP – The Supreme Court agreed Monday to referee a $290 million dispute between Microsoft Corp. and a Canadian technology company over complaints that a tool used in the popular Microsoft Word program violated patent protections.
PC World – Hacking-happy users of iPhone 3G and 3GS models can now unlock their phones to work with other carriers, thanks to a new hack. The iPhone Dev Team released this weekend a new carrier unlock for the older iPhone models, which allows you to use any SIM card with the latest software update from Apple, iOS 4.2.1.
AP – A pastor who barred church officials from using Facebook, saying it can lead to adultery, will take a 90-day sabbatical and return to his post, a church elder announced Sunday. The decision follows the pastor’s admission that he engaged in a three-way sexual relationship a decade ago.
Ben Patterson – The last thing we should be doing during Thanksgiving is checking our work e-mail, right? Yet most of us do, according to a recent survey â and some of us even admit to peeking at our in boxes because it’s …
Ben Patterson – Like many of you, I rent a sluggish, stubbornly quirky DVR from my cable carrier â and boy, do I hate it, so much so that I often dream of swapping it out for a speedy, easy-to-use TiVo. So what’s …