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Facebook, Twitter and MySpace developers, in partnership with several unnamed social networks, have released a software called Don't Be Evil, meant to integrate their networks into Search Plus Your World - a new feature by Google.

A YouTube video allegedly posted by Anonymous to announce that its next big target would be Facebook and that the social networking site would be brought down on January 28 is a hoax, the hacktivist group has said.

Facebook, one of the many companies that opposed the SOPA bill, contributed $1.35 million to lobbyists last year. The sum pails in comparison to Google, which spent $9.98 million, and Microsoft, which spent $7.34 million over the course of the year.

The NHL champions visited the White House this week to meet the president.

Focus on the User--a group of developers from Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and other social networking sites--has created a bookmarklet that can be added to any web browser and adds Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Quora, Tumblr, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Myspace, among other social networks to Google search results. The service was built as a proof of concept that social content could be added to Google's search results.

The sudden crackdown on popular online storage and file-sharing site Megaupload has prompted rivals FileSonic and uploaded.to to commit suicide by voluntarily limiting their file-sharing services and allowing users to only retrieve the files they have personally uploaded. No wonder, the U.S. feds' action has left everybody wondering whether other sites like Rapidshare, MediaFire, Dropbox, etc., which offer file-sharing and cloud storage services, will be next in the crosshairs of anti-piracy ...

President Barack Obama will be hosting a Google Hangout session on January 30th at 9 p.m. (EST) in addition to offering an enhanced version of the State of the Union speech on January 24 at 9 p.m. (EST).

Amid the fuss over crackdown on Megaupload, a rival file-sharing service provider FileSonic has voluntarily halted its service partially.

Donald Hux, who was suspected of killing former Gov. Mike Huckabee's first cousin Sandy, his ex-wife Amy, and kidnapping their family, was shot and killed in a deadly police shootout on Sunday night in Union County, Arkansas.

When Disney shareholders vote to re-elect directors at its annual meeting in March, neither Steve Jobs' wife nor a representative from his trust will be on the ballot, even though the trust is the media company's largest shareholder.

This is not the first time Megaupload's founder Kim Dotcom had his brush with the law. In 2002, he was convicted in what was then the largest insider-trading case in German history and a Munich court sentenced him to 20 months probation and a 100,000 euro fine. Can he win the legal battle this time?

Takeover talk swirled around Research In Motion on Monday as investors and analysts pondered whether new Chief Executive Thorsten Heins had been appointed to lead a turnaround of the struggling smartphone maker or prepare it for sale.

Jay Leno Outrages Sikhs With Joke Referring to Golden Temple

The nude photo of Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani has enraged several members of the Muslim community, particularly since one of the more principal tenets of Islamic fundamentalism has always been to ban women from any degree of nudity. The decision by Farahani, therefore, is a bold one and one that has, predictably, sparked controversy across the world. However, she isn't the first Islamic actress who has shed her clothes and her inhibitions. There are at least 3 others who have already ...

Absinthe, the latest untethered jailbreak, created specifically for Apple devices running iOS 5.0.1, is all set to open a new world full of tweaks for you.

ASUS recently launched an Android Ice Cream Sandwich update for its latest Eee Pad Transformer Prime, and it will do the same for the first generation of its tablet in February, the announced on its North America Facebook Page.

The massive online protest last Wednesday, in which Wikipedia and thousands of other Web sites closed down or otherwise protested and helped to kill controversial online piracy legislation, was widely heralded as an unprecedented case of a grassroots uprising overcoming backroom lobbying.

A Thai man married a corpse bride earlier this month, and images and information he released on the Internet have caught quite a stir. Chadil Deffy, a Thai television director, married his dead girlfriend's corpse and posted a video of the event on social network sites Facebook and YouTube,. The seach term man marries corpse bride has ignited on the Web.

Asus has confirmed that it will roll out the Android 4.0 update for the Transformer Prime Tablet in the UK starting Sunday.

SOPA and PIPA, two bills that caused bedlam in the online world last week, are dead. But for how long?

When Walt Disney Co. shareholders vote to re-elect directors at its annual meeting in March, neither Steve Jobs' wife nor a representative of his trust will be on the ballot, even though the trust is the media company's largest shareholder.