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(AP) -- He's hairy, his table manners are atrocious, and he wants to be your friend on Facebook. http://www.physorg.com/news173168532.html Biology Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:23:36 EST news173168532 MySpace on Monday began synchronizing user status updates with wildly popular microblogging service Twitter. http://www.physorg.com/news172758214.html Technology Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:50:01 EST news172758214 While rescue crews intensify their search for a Chicago doctoral student missing in a remote region of Costa Rica, help is coming from an unlikely army of online supporters from around the globe. http://www.physorg.com/news170615994.html Technology Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:10:01 EST news170615994 Nearly half of US employers research the online profiles of job candidates on social networks such as Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn, according to a new survey. http://www.physorg.com/news170011734.html Technology Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:30:01 EST news170011734 (AP) -- Social networking hub MySpace said Wednesday it is acquiring iLike, a popular music application on rival Facebook, in the first move by new management to expand after a series of drastic cuts and writedowns. http://www.physorg.com/news169920116.html Technology Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:20:03 EST news169920116 Google on Wednesday added social-networking features to its customizable homepages by adding software "gadgets" that enable people to play and stay in tune with friends online. http://www.physorg.com/news169377674.html Technology Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:40:01 EST news169377674 Children are searching online for videos, social networks, games and, yes, porn as they grow up in an Internet Age, according to computer security firm Symantec. http://www.physorg.com/news169283709.html Technology Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:40:01 EST news169283709 (AP) -- As the Pentagon warns of the security risks posed by social networking sites, newly released government documents show the military also uses these Internet tools to monitor and react to coverage of high-profile events. http://www.physorg.com/news169132958.html Technology Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:23:16 EST news169132958 (AP) -- Global media company News Corp. says its fourth-quarter net loss hit $203 million due to huge impairment charges at MySpace, while its operating profit for the year was slightly worse than it predicted due to the weak economy. http://www.physorg.com/news168708912.html Technology Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:01:51 EST news168708912 MySpace launched its own email service, MySpace Mail, for the 130 million users of the social network. http://www.physorg.com/news168241385.html Technology Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:50:01 EST news168241385 One of the big Internet things these days is social networking. There's Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, hi5, YouTube, the list goes on and on. Then there's your personal blog that you maintain, your own website with even more stuff about yourself and you never dreamed that keeping in touch with so many could be so exhausting. But there you have it. You are connected, accessible and everyone out there has a chance to share the wonderfulness of you. But perhaps you are just now beginning to discover that being on so many online places comes with its own set of problems. Like for starters, how does one find out everywhere you are? http://www.physorg.com/news168109170.html Technology Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:00:01 EST news168109170 (PhysOrg.com) -- Furious competition between social networking sites is compromising the protection of users' data, a Cambridge University study has concluded. http://www.physorg.com/news167400726.html Technology Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:30:04 EST news167400726 (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. is sprucing up its Web site's home page with a long-promised makeover that is supposed to make it easier to see what's happening at the Internet's other hot spots. http://www.physorg.com/news167372397.html Technology Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:30:14 EST news167372397 Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the number of people using the online social networking service has climbed to 250 million. http://www.physorg.com/news166941296.html Technology Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:50:03 EST news166941296 (AP) -- In a counter-punch to the world's biggest online hangout, a small Web company called Power.com has sued Facebook, saying it doesn't follow its own policy of giving users control over their content. http://www.physorg.com/news166449289.html Technology Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:55:10 EST news166449289 (AP) -- Facebook is overhauling its privacy controls over the next several weeks in an attempt to simplify its users' ability to control who sees the information they share on the site. http://www.physorg.com/news165686863.html Technology Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:20:01 EST news165686863 (AP) -- Twitter Inc.'s founders still haven't decided how to cash in on their popular Internet messaging service - to the delight of a rapidly growing audience. But the deliberate approach may not prevent a gold rush among opportunistic outsiders. http://www.physorg.com/news164972088.html Technology Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:35:12 EST news164972088 (AP) -- Social-networking site MySpace said Tuesday it plans to cut 300 jobs, or two-thirds of its overseas work force, in an effort to rein in costs and focus on countries where it has many users and better business opportunities. http://www.physorg.com/news164957846.html Technology Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:41:35 EST news164957846 At the Bargain Zone, a freight surplus store in Lee's Summit, Mo., office manager Jeff LeMasters was clear about cell phone and Internet rules for employees: http://www.physorg.com/news164456048.html Technology Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:10:01 EST news164456048 (AP) -- The astronauts headed to the international space station include a Twittering skipper, a classically trained musician who named her son after one of Columbia's fallen astronauts, and a former Navy SEAL who went into Afghanistan two weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. http://www.physorg.com/news163910461.html Space & Earth Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:41:20 EST news163910461 (AP) -- Facebook is further embracing the real name culture it touts as one of its founding principles - and catching up with rival MySpace in the process. http://www.physorg.com/news163859029.html Technology Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:24:15 EST news163859029 The number of minutes Americans spent on social networking sites nearly doubled in the past year with Facebook and Twitter enjoying explosive growth, according to a new study. http://www.physorg.com/news163254287.html Technology Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:25:17 EST news163254287 (AP) -- The new leaders of News Corp.'s MySpace said Wednesday they need to innovate to rejuvenate the social networking site, which has suffered from stalled user growth. http://www.physorg.com/news162707202.html Technology Thu, 28 May 2009 05:27:01 EST news162707202 The July sentencing of a Missouri mom convicted for her part in an Internet hoax that led to a teenager's suicide may disappoint those looking for justice. http://www.physorg.com/news162489293.html Technology Mon, 25 May 2009 16:56:16 EST news162489293 Hulu.com is to provide a live stream of an upcoming concert by the Dave Matthews Band in a first for the online video website better known for showing full-length television shows and movies. http://www.physorg.com/news162223390.html Technology Fri, 22 May 2009 15:03:40 EST news162223390 A federal judge in Los Angeles has once again delayed a ruling in the criminal case against Lori Drew in a St. Louis-area cyber-bullying linked to the suicide of teenager Megan Meier. http://www.physorg.com/news161960408.html Technology Tue, 19 May 2009 14:01:05 EST news161960408 Traffic to the website of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention soared in April as Americans searched the Internet for information about swine flu, research firm comScore said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news161544349.html Technology Thu, 14 May 2009 18:26:16 EST news161544349 Federal prosecutors are asking a federal judge to send Lori Drew to prison for three years for her role in the online harassment of a teenage girl in Dardenne Prairie, Mo., who killed herself. http://www.physorg.com/news160906247.html Technology Thu, 07 May 2009 09:12:00 EST news160906247 The White House on Friday opened doors at online hot spots MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. http://www.physorg.com/news160411008.html Technology Fri, 01 May 2009 15:37:10 EST news160411008 (AP) -- Twitter quitters outnumber the flock of habitual tweeters on the rapidly growing online communications service, a new study suggests. http://www.physorg.com/news160291248.html Technology Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:21:20 EST news160291248