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Shoshanna Berman, an intern in New York City, is happily dating her ideal future husband: a nice, young -- and tall -- Orthodox Jewish man who is also outgoing and easygoing. On date two, they bonded while scalping tickets at a Knicks game. Date ten, she remembers, was an all-night drive to Philadel...
The Internet is the greatest educational tool since the advent of books, but it is also a sinister playground for prowling predators searching for young prey. It is particularly unnerving to think that these predators can enter a living room undeterred by locks or alarms, and unseen by parents or th...
The CNN/YouTube Democratic Party candidate debate on Monday has sparked a wide variety of commentary. Much of it has been fairly positive despite a few moments during the event that bordered on ridiculous. The debate invited YouTube users across the country to record themselves asking the candidates...
If executives at MySpace expected to win praise as good corporate citizens for ridding their Web site of 29,000 registered sexual offenders, those hopes have vanished by now. Since the news came out, criticism of the social networking site only seems to have grown among public officials, parent and ...
Social networking Web site MySpace has found and purged more than 29,000 sexual predators using the site, a number described by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal as an "exploding epidemic." The figure is more than quadruple the amount MySpace said it found two months ago. In May, MySpa...
Mobile phone powerhouse Nokia has acquired the small, privately held media sharing company Twango -- a 10-person outfit that currently works out of a cofounder's basement in Redmond, Wash. Despite the company's small size and basement digs, Nokia clearly sees potential in Twango's solutions and visi...
It is the rare political debate in which a winner is definitely declared. Sure, there have been a few in which candidates delivered zingers. The vice presidential debate between Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen ("Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy") tops the list. Monday night's Democratic presidential de...
You can't label it a Web operating system. Don't refer to it as a simple platform or a bunch of applications. Yes, you can accurately call Parakey "acquired." The hard-to-describe startup, created by Mozilla Firefox cofounders Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, is now owned by Facebook. The deal is the firs...
Harry Potter may have the Marauder's Map to show him where his friends are, but Sprint customers will soon have Loopt to help them find and connect with each other. Mountain View, Calif.-based Loopt announced Tuesday that it has launched its namesake service on Sprint technology, using the GPS capab...
Sony Pictures Entertainment has recast Grouper, a video-sharing Web site it acquired last year for $65 million, to attract a more professional caliber of contributed content. The strategy is to differentiate Grouper, which has now been renamed "Crackle," from the more amateur video-sharing sites suc...
One-third of all teens who use the Internet have been the victims of cyber-bullying, or harassment online, according to a study released Wednesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Girls are more likely to be cyber-bullied, as are teens who lead active online lives, the study finds. "...
YouTube may be the dominant player in the video-sharing arena today, but MySpace is stepping up its own bid to compete in that realm as it relaunches and renames the video portion of its social networking site. MySpaceTV, as the company renamed it Thursday, is available to all Internet users, whethe...
Social networking sites MySpace and Facebook may seem fairly similar from the outside, but the two sites are increasingly splitting along class lines, according to a new report. In a nutshell, MySpace tends to be populated by teens who are younger and from lower-income families with less education, ...
YouTube is adding a local twist to its popular video-sharing site with new versions tailored specifically to the local culture in nine countries, the company announced Tuesday. Users in Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom can now enjoy fully trans...
Given that a swarm of presidential candidates in both the Republican and Democratic camps have participated in several formal television debates, many voters may already be feeling election fatigue some 18 months before the big day. That should not stop viewers from tuning in on July 23, however, wh...
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