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Creepy 'Girls Around Me' App Gets Busted by FourSquare, Raises Privacy Concerns

Girls Around Me
The Girls Around Me iPhone app, developed by Moscow-based company iFree, is a stalker's dream, and should be a wake-up call for appropriate privacy settings on Facebook. The app has been around since December, but it's avoided the radar so far, buried in the hundreds of thousands of apps in Apple's App Store, until Cult of Mac brought it to light.
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U.T Student Cartoonist Stephanie Eisner Fired over Trayvon 'Colored Boy' Drawing

The Daily Texan, a University of Texas student newspaper, has fired Stephanie Eisner, one of its staff members, because of an editorial cartoon addressing the Trayvon Martin case, reported MSN News. The student was dismissed from the publication on Thursday, two days after the illustration first appeared on the Opinion page of newspaper.
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Patrick Dempsey Dead At 46 Or Just Another Twitter Death Hoax?

Sometimes, Twitter seems more like a digital graveyard than it does a social microblogging website. Just about every week, one celebrity is pronounced dead on the Twitter coroner's office in a death hoax with the standard RIP [insert name here] trending topic. This week: Patrick Dempsey died in a car accident when RIP Patrick Dempsey became a trending topic at the Twitter Medical Examiner's office, prompting Grey's Anatomy fans to begin grieving for Dr. McDreamy....
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Spotify Keeping Free, Unlimited Music Option For Users

Spotify, the music startup that has taken the Internet by storm due in large part to its presence on Facebook, has some good news for those who use the ad-supported version of the service after saying it will continue to offer unlimited music.
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Facebook Wants Ceglia 50 Percent Ownership Lawsuit Dismissed: Why?

Facebook has formally asked a federal judge to dismiss its ongoing case against Paul Ceglia, citing a mountain of evidence that would prove Ceglia's claims were fraudulent. Attorneys for Facebook called the lawsuit opportunistic and fraudulent, while Ceglia's attorneys claim their client, seeking half-ownership of Facebook, deserves his day in court.
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Twitter coverage of court gets struck down

A lawyer discovered how far the U.S. Supreme Court will go to close itself off from the public when it hears a case, no matter how many people on Twitter may be interested.
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Fake Tweet from Will Smith About Trayvon Martin, Kim Kardashian Goes Viral on Twitter, Internet

A tweet, allegedly from Will Smith, contrasting the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin with the flour bombing of Kim Kardashian, went viral on Twitter Tuesday before it was proven to be fake. WE live in America where a girl that threw flour on Kim Kardashian was arrested on site. But the man who KILLED Trayvon Martin is still free, the tweet from @ReaIWiIISmith read, referring to George Zimmerman. A screenshot, along with the tweet, went viral on Tuesday.
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Tour Thailand On Google Street View

Google rushed out its panoramic Street View maps in Thailand on Friday as part of the country's efforts to show tourist hot spots have recovered from last year's floods.
Apple May Integrate Baidu Search in iOS: Should Google Be Afraid?

Apple May Integrate Baidu Search in iOS: Should Google Be Afraid?

Apple's actions are day-by-day making it clear that the world's most valuable company is separating from Google. Earlier reports indicated that Apple was parting ways with Google Maps in iPhoto and now, according to the latest reports, Baidu is going to be the default search engine for iOS device in China.

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