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First-ever 'conception' recorded on Twitter!
A best man's prank turned out to be an embarrassing internet extravaganza for a newlywed couple, after intimate details of them conceiving a baby were Tweeted live from their...


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Plans for porn Internet domain name 'dot.xxx' revisited
Officials are looking to give the go ahead to a plan to create an Internet domain specifically for adult...
Nosql Supporters Challenge Relational Databases
Traditional relational databases aren't going away anytime soon, but proponents of a new approach gathered in Boston this week for the NoSQL Live conference. DatabaseJournal has the report on this...
Amd Planning Netbook Chip For 2011
Datacenter Growth Seen for 2010 [March 8, 2010] A new study finds that IT decision-makers are planning large datacenter rollouts. But they'll have plenty of concerns to contend...
Google Ready To Make China Decision
Google expects an outcome soon from its talks with China over a censorship and hacking dispute, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday. Google threatened in January to shut its Chinese...
Facebook To Announce Plans To Take Over The Internet With Facebook Pages
according to a WSJ report , Facebook plans to launch a tool set for Web developers who want to make their off-Facebook Web sites look and work more like on-Facebook...
Internet Aids Terrorist Recruiting, Radicalization, Pentagon Says
Militant and terrorist groups are using the Internet to streamline their terrorist recruiting, radicalization, and training. The man who allegedly attempted to blow up an American airliner on...
Myspace Upping Ante In Online Social Games
. "We initially embraced games a few years back with a gaming platform but at the end of the day it was fairly isolated in certain parts of MySpace,"...
Bing Gains Us Search Market Share For Ninth Straight Month
AFP/Getty Images/File – Microsoft's Roger Wong (2nd R) demonstrates maps using Bing at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics...
Twitter Becomes More Proactive About Phishing
designed to protect its users from these types of attacks. The new security measures will focus on Twitter direct messages (DMs) -- private tweets addressed to a specific user -- and corresponding...
Zeus Botnet Dealt A Blow As Isp Troyak Knocked Out
linked to the notorious Zeus botnet have been taken down, knocking out a third of the command-and-control servers that run the network of hacked machines. ...
After 3 Rejections, Global Internet Agency Reopens Discussion On '.xxx' Address For Porn Sites
In this March 22, 2007 file photo, Stuart Lawley, chief executive of ICM Registry Inc., poses for a photo in his Jupiter, Fla home, Thursday, March 22, 2007 by one of his computers. THE ASSOCIATED...
Investment Of $239 Million In Sasktel Network To Enable High Speed Internet Across Saskatchewan
With SaskTel's plans to invest $239 million in its communication network, more customers will be able to use cellular and data devices, like Apple's...
Conan O'brien Picks One Twitter User To Follow. The Result, She Says: 'it's Totally Nuts'
CONWAY TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers. This week, she has 20,000 — as well as a new iMac computer and offers to help pay for a dress and drinks for...
Palm Inc. Teeters In Crowded Smart Phone Market
In This March 8, 2010 photo, a customer uses a Palm Pre Plus at Best Buy in Mountain View, Calif. Last year, Palm Inc. thought it had all the right pieces for a rebirth in the market it helped...
Summary Box: Palm Struggles In Its Phone Comeback
PALM'S PROBLEM: As smart phones have gotten more popular, Apple Inc.'s iPhone and Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerrys have benefited while Palm has fallen behind. ITS SOLUTION: Sleek new phones,...
Conan's Lone Twitter Followee: 'it's Totally Nuts'
CONWAY TOWNSHIP, Mich.—Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers. This week, she has 20,000—as well as a new iMac computer and offers to help pay for a dress and drinks for her...
Raw Milk Hearing In Eau Claire Draws Hundreds
Hundreds of people packed a legislative hearing in Eau Claire today on legalizing the sale of unpasteurized milk. The proposed legislation would allow consumers to buy raw milk directly from a farm...
Bridget Coleman, Mother Of St. Paul Mayor, Dies At 84
A family portrait, circa 1962, shows Bridget Coleman, top left, along with Chris Coleman on the lap of his father, longtime Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Nicholas Coleman. Pictured from left are...
Ex-itasca County Deputy Sentenced For Sex Crimes
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. — A former Itasca County sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to roughly 12 years in prison and six years of supervised release for sexually abusing a teenager over several...
Police Say Iowa Burglar Broke Into Church, Watched Porn
AMES, Iowa — Second-degree burglary charges have been filed against an Ames man who broke into a church where he allegedly used the institution's electronic equipment to watch pornography. ...
'lost Boys' Actor Corey Haim Dead At 38
HOLLYWOOD - FILE: Actor Corey Haim arrives at a Fashion Show on March 19, 2009 in Hollywood, California. Haim died at 3:30am on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 of an apparent accidental drug overdose,...
Apartment Hunters Rely On Internet Before Visiting Real Estate Firms
TOKYO — Many apartment hunters are checking the Internet before going to real estate companies, which in turn are offering benefits to potential clients as part of sales campaigns. The...
Lost Drive Puts National Guard Data at Risk
Tens of thousands of Arkansas National Guard soldiers became the latest victims of a security breach at a military base after an unencrypted external hard drive was discovered missing last...
Tech Stocks Rally Ten Years After Topping Out
Tech stocks marked the tenth anniversary of the bursting of the dot-com bubble with a rally, led higher by chip stocks. 10 years after touching an all-time intraday high of 5132.52, the Nasdaq added...
Mariposa Bot Shipped With Vodafone Smartphone
Panda Security discovered Confiker, Mariposa and Lineage password stealing malware samples installed on a recently purchased Vodafone HTC Magic...
Google adds bike directions to maps
Google Inc. added bicycling directions to its maps service. The Mountain View company (NASDAQ: GOOG) has its “biking directions team” in Seattle, and Shannon Guymon, who works there,...
Google China talks conclusion seen soon
Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly said Wednesday that a conclusion is likely soon in negotiations with the Chinese government regarding the search company's future in that country. ...
LANL awards $100M waste-disposal contract
TerranearPMC LLC to haul and dispose of waste produced by stimulus-funded cleanup work. LANL received federal money through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to demolish and remove Cold...
Jury rules against Smith & Nephew in Kinetic Concepts patent case
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St. Patrick’s Day party closes L Street
Henry and Simon de Vere White are two owners of de Vere's Irish Pub. This is the restaurant's second annual St. Patrick's Day block...
Nimsoft to be sold for $350 million
, a Redwood City-company that sells information technology performance and availability monitoring products. CA, based in Islandia, N.Y., said in a statement that Nimsoft will help the company gain...
CA to buy Nimsoft in $350M deal
in an all-cash transaction valued at $350 million. Redwood City-based Nimsoft was No. 9 on the Business Journal's 2009 list of fastest-growing private companies. The company had revenue in 2008...
Global agency reconsiders '.xxx' for Internet porn sites
NAIROBI, Kenya — A global Internet oversight agency is reopening discussions about whether to create a ".xxx" domain name as an online red-light district where porn sites can set up shop away...
Summary Box: OnLive game streaming to come in June
THE SERVICE: OnLive will let you "stream" popular high-end games over the Internet, using a mechanism similar to watching TV shows or listening to music online. THE NEED: Players don't have to own...
Marketplace for Google Apps Targets Microsoft Office
With its mind in the clouds and an eye on rival Microsoft, Google on Tuesday launched an online application store for third-party programs that can be integrated with its...
Amazon ruffles Canadian feathers with depot plan
, as booksellers grumble that it can't understand the role of Canadian culture. "Individual Canadian booksellers have traditionally played a key role in ensuring the promotion of Canadian...
Eyeblaster plans initial public offering, again
and services to advertisers, said in a regulatory filing that it planned to go public. Eyeblaster indicated at the time that the offering price could total up to $115 million, though it noted that...
US Expert: Chinese Gov't Likely Behind Massive Cyberattacks
is likely behind recent cyberattacks on U.S. government Web sites and on U.S. companies in an apparent effort to quash criticism of the government there, an expert on U.S. and Chinese relations said...
Google Apps Store Seeks Cloud Collaboration Boost
will likely trigger the age-old argument of whether it's better to have a single-vendor collaboration suite or assemble "best of breed" applications from multiple vendors. Google...
AT&T tries to avoid outages at SXSW conference
AT&T is boosting its wireless network in Austin, Texas, for the South by Southwest Conference Thousands of iPhone users strained the company's wireless network at last year's event AT&T says...
After 3 rejections, global Internet agency reopens discussion on '.xxx' address for porn sites
In this March 22, 2007 file photo, Stuart Lawley, chief executive of ICM Registry Inc., poses for a photo in his Jupiter, Fla home, Thursday, March 22, 2007 by one of his computers. THE ASSOCIATED...
Stocks rise after inventories fall and sales gain
NEW YORK — Scant buying lifted stocks for a second day today after the government reported a drop in companies' inventories. The Dow Jones industrials rose only 3 points as the market remained...
Spouses have bathroom privacy rights, Minnesota appeals court says
Richard Allen Perez Beware, guys: That wedding ring does not give you the OK to secretly videotape your wife disrobing in the bathroom. The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that a spouse has a...
New charges filed against Denny Hecker
< 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } Denny Hecker was hit with 18 new criminal charges Tuesday, and federal authorities searched property belonging to his close friend who died last week in an...
PeekYou Appoints Search Engine Marketing Expert Eric Ludwig President & COO
Eric Ludwig as President & COO. Ludwig brings over 15 years of experience in technology commercialization and marketing to PeekYou, and is tasked with developing new tools and applications for...
I T dept s website cloned
In an attempt to cash in on the financial year end rush, fraudsters have cloned the official website of the income tax (I-T) department to send emails to people seeking minute details of debit and...
IT Job Market Heating Up: Report
Cyber Attacks Hit 75% of Enterprises in 2009 [February 24, 2010] Symantec's latest report has more unsettling news for IT security...