Reuters - The Pentagon announced on Friday it has authorized the use Twitter, Facebook and other so-called “Web 2.0″ sites across the U.S. military, saying the benefits of social media outweighed security concerns.
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AFP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao plans to take part in an online chat with Internet users around the country and overseas on Saturday, state media said, in a repeat of a similar exercise last year.
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AFP - The Pentagon said soldiers will be allowed to Tweet, blog and update their Facebook pages on the US military’s non-classified computer network under a new policy.
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AFP - Google on Saturday quickly activated an online “person finder” tool to allow relatives and friends to find loved ones following the huge earthquake in Chile.
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PC World - After Chile’s massive earthquake and potential Pacific Rim tsunami damage, relief organizations, government agencies, corporations and throngs of people are on Google, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other services to seek and provide information and help.
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AP - Apple’s iTunes has sold its 10 billionth tune.
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AP - Bill Warren founded an early online job board in the 1990s, helped kick-start an industry and was president of Monster.com, one of the leading Internet career sites. But these days he’s not very happy with the results.
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AP - STARTING OVER: Bill Warren founded the first online job board in 1992 and later was briefly president of Monster.com, a leading employment Web site. Now he’s spearheading a challenge to the commercial boards.
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PC World - Google has offered a general explanation of how it ranks its search results, one day after the European Commission said it was looking into antitrust complaints against the company.
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PC World - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will ask Congress for US$12 billion to $16 billion to pay for building and maintaining a nationwide mobile broadband network for emergency response agencies, including police and fire departments.
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