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Finally the count down begins for the most awaited Cricket Tournament – the Indian Premier League T20 that is beginning from tomorrow. Here is good news for the cricket lovers and the gamers. The latest official IPL T20 game by the Indiangames is all set for you to play. You need ...

Microsoft launched the revamped MSN homepage on March 9, with plans to make this new version available to 100 percent of users within the coming weeks. In addition to a newly streamlined design, the homepage also allows quick access to social-networking services such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as ...

Facebook is expected to enable location sharing in its users' News Feeds, a move that could automatically make the social network the dominant platform for location-based Web services. Twitter already has a geolocation feature that has been spotted in the wild. Meanwhile, social location upstart Foursquare will offer a free ...

Microsoft began rolling out its redesigned MSN homepage on March 9, five months after first previewing the newly streamlined Website. Among new features, Microsoft has integrated social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook into the homepage, as well as MSN Local Edition, which tailors news and information to the ...

Using Facebook for this sort of thing is a lot more fun than looking up your boring ass high school classmates. (The Chive)

Some 25.1 million people are accessing Facebook via a mobile Web browser, a growth of 112 percent from January 2009, according to new research from comScore. Twitter use via a mobile browser grew 347 percent to 4.7 million users. MySpace lured 11.4 million users. In total, some 30.8 percent ...

All that being said, there are enormous opportunities with email marketing for small business campaigns. Bottom line, tens of millions of people check their email inbox more than a dozen times each day giving companies a great chance at finding success with email marketing for small business.

Coolhaus has had lots of success using Twitter to promote the business and daily specials. Natasha likes to send out tweets to create excitement for daily flavors and even has a little fun with her following with trivia. She’ll send out a tweet as a question and everyone that shows ...

The Department of Defense granted military personnel access to Facebook, Twitter, Google Apps and other user-generated applications in a Feb. 26 memorandum. The move followed a review that began last August after the U.S. Marines and U.S. Army released contrasting policies for social network site use. The DOD clearly ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his employees Feb. 23 secured a patent for technology related to its vaunted News Feed, securing the foundation of the social network for years to come. Since feeds have become the staple of social networks MySpace and Twitter, some bloggers see the patent as a ...

Social networking behemoth Facebook reported a glitch in a software update that caused users' private messages to land in the wrong in-boxes, stoking new fears over the site's security. - The ubiquitous social networking site Facebook says a technical glitch resulted in the Website temporarily sending private messages ...

Twitter says its users are tweeting a combined 50 million times each day, indicating a huge bump in Twitter use despite claims by some that the Twitter machine is slowing. However, Twitter faces steep social networking competition from Facebook and now Google Buzz. If the growth rate keeps up, it ...

In an American Idol first, show producers announced last week that contestants are now allowed to post updates on their progress throughout the competition on Idol-approved pages on social networking sites — including MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter.

Jamere Holland has been dismissed from the University of Oregon football team for a series of bizarre Facebook postings. Holland posted to Facebook twice after Oregon suspended linebacker Kiki Alonso after Alonso received a DUI on Saturday. Holland’s Facebook profile was set to public, meaning his wall posts were visible to ...

Google Buzz is not intended as a challenge to Facebook or Twitter, but as a unique complement to those Web services, the Google executive overseeing Buzz told eWEEK. While he lamented the Buzz privacy woes, Bradley Horowitz, vice president of product management for Google, also said he was encouraged by ...

Gist, the free Web application that lets users manage their personal and professional contacts in Microsoft Outlook, Google Gmail and Salesforce.com, is leveraging Facebook Connect to put a bridge between itself and the leading social network. Users may access fresh Facebook content, including status updates and other News Feed content ...

The buzz around Google Buzz over the past week touched off a new round of discussions about privacy. Concerns about social networking are becoming an all too familiar fact of life for services like Facebook, Buzz and others. After taking some hits, Google made a number of changes to Buzz, ...

Microsoft announced partnerships with Facebook and MySpace that would see social-networking information from those services ported into Outlook, as well as the release of LinkedIn for Outlook beta. LinkedIn for Outlook will enable users to view their contacts updates and photos alongside e-mails, and update their Outlook contact lists with ...

Google Buzz won't threaten Facebook in the social networking arena because users are comfortable with the service and have created a lot of content there. Buzz will hit a ceiling and that ceiling is the number of Gmail users, the majority of which are probably also Facebook users. It's hard ...

With its new Google Buzz service, Google believes that if it can mimic some of the sharing functionality that makes social networks so successful, it will keep its Gmail users from going to Facebook and Twitter. In a best-case scenario, Gmail would gain millions of new users via Buzz, with ...