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Reuters – Google Inc has held talks with gaming companies as it looks to develop a new service to compete with social networking website Facebook, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

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Reuters – Google Inc has held talks with gaming companies as it looks to develop a new service to compete with social networking website Facebook, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

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Mashable – The social media and networking phenomenon is growing extremely fast in the UK. Eighty-five percent of the population is online; they spend more than six hours on social media sites every month, nearly 60% of them read blogs and 64% have their own profile on a social network.

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Macworld.com – It’s been a big day for Apple, what with the new iMacs, Mac Pros, and the Magic-est Trackpad ever to set foot on the Internet.

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PC World – Ask.com hopes it’s found the answer to increasing its market share — and no, the plan doesn’t involve a butler named Jeeves.

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AFP – The Walt Disney Co. is adding a new cast of characters to its vast entertainment stable, buying online social game maker Playdom in a deal worth up to 763 million dollars.

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AFP – Microsoft on Tuesday denounced Yahoo! Japan’s Internet search alliance with Google, saying it would give Google near-total control over the third-largest market for search queries in the world.

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AFP – Microsoft on Tuesday denounced Yahoo! Japan’s Internet search alliance with Google, saying it would give Google near-total control over the third-largest market for search queries in the world.

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AP – iTunes’ top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending July 26, 2010:

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AFP – Sweden’s Stieg Larsson is the first author to sell more than one million books in Amazon’s Kindle electronic bookstore, the online retail giant said Tuesday.

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AFP – Ever worried about having an ugly baby? Fret not, a popular dating website exclusively for beautiful people has branched out to provide a fertility forum aimed at creating beautiful babies.

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PC World – Could this be a return to the days of Mr. Jeeves? Ask.com announced in a blog post this week that it is going back to its roots as a question-and-answer focused search service. The “new” Ask.com was launched in an invite-only private beta on Monday that takes advantage of the “explosion of the social Web,” the company says.

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Mashable – Yesterday, a little vid started spreading around that web that is glorious in its simplicity: a man moonwalking through the corridors of that most meme-producing of establishments: Walmart.

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Mashable – 37signals has just released Campfire for iPhone [iTunes link], a free native iOS app that lets you connect to your Campfire network on the go.

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Reuters – Broadband services are getting faster in Britain but the gap is growing between advertised speeds and actual download rates, telecoms regulator Ofcom said on Tuesday.

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AFP – Japan’s top Internet portal Yahoo! Japan on Tuesday announced a search alliance with Google, in a deal that would see both giants dominate the Japanese market in a possible blow to Microsoft.

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Reuters – Yahoo Japan, Japan’s largest Internet portal operator, will adopt Google’s search engine, refusing to follow Yahoo Inc in choosing Microsoft as a partner.

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AP – Yahoo Japan Corp. said Tuesday that it will use Google technology to run its search engine and search ad delivery system, after a similar deal in the U.S. was derailed by regulators concerned about a monopoly.

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Reuters – When it comes to social media, most winemakers prefer to drink alone.

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Reuters – Yahoo Japan, Japan’s biggest Internet portal operator, said on Tuesday it will adopt U.S. rival Google Inc’s search engine and advertisement delivery system and provide Google with its data.

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Mashable – Yahoo Japan said it will be replacing Yahoo’s search technology with Google’s, dealing a serious blow to the global Microsoft-Yahoo search partnership.

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Reuters – Ask.com, the Internet search engine owned by IAC/InterActive Corp, is seeking some human help answering web surfers’ questions.

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PC Magazine – What if you could put a box on your blog that lets visitors calculate the relative costs of living of any two cities they entered, or compare stock data, sports stats, or even Oscar winners? Wolfram Alpha promises to do just that.

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AFP – Google made a pitch for more government software business, unveiling a new suite of Internet-hosted calendar, email and other products that meets official US security requirements.

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AP – The House on Monday celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act by approving legislation assuring that the disabled have full access to the Internet and television.

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AFP – Facebook on Monday launched a Web page devoted to staying safe on the Internet.

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AP – NBC Universal on Monday unveiled an advertising network that pools together ad inventory for all of its 21 websites. The move means advertisers now can buy ads to target certain audiences, instead of by website.

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AP – THE PUSH: Google Inc. is gearing up to sell its Web-hosted applications such as e-mail and word processing to a wider range of federal, state and local government agencies.

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AP – Shocking in scope if not in content, the leak of 91,000 classified U.S. records on the Afghanistan war by the whistle-blower website Wikileaks.org is one of the largest unauthorized disclosures in military history.

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Reuters – Two-time drama series Emmy winner “Mad Men” returned to AMC on Sunday night after a whirlwind of previews and promotions in print, broadcast and online.

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The Upshot – The White House condemned Sunday night’s leak of more than 90,000 secret military records covering the Afghanistan War by WikiLeaks, an organization that posts secret documents online. National Security Adviser Jim Jones, in a statement, said “the United States strongly …

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AP – THE FCC PLAN: The Federal Communications Commission wants to auction off a prime piece of wireless spectrum called the D Block to the wireless industry.

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AP – Two years ago, the Federal Communications Commission stumbled as it tried to create a nationwide wireless broadband network for police officers, firefighters and emergency medical workers, delaying the construction of what everyone agrees is an urgently needed system.

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Mashable – Ahoy, social sailors! Hop aboard for another round of Internet catch up, courtesy of the good ship Mashable.

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AFP – Top technology and media executives wrapped up a three-day conference in Aspen, Colorado, during which they grappled with — and left unresolved — the question of whether readers will pay for news online.

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AP – These aren’t your average family snapshots.

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AFP – The British royal family has opened an account on photo-sharing website Flickr, Buckingham Palace announced Sunday, in their latest attempt to move with the times.

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Reuters – Buckingham Palace said on Sunday it has launched an account with online photo management site Flickr.

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AFP – Internet radio star Pandora has topped 60 million users and most new members are joining the service using mobile devices, its founder said Saturday.

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AP – Former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, who was forced to resign after a blogger posted comments she made to an NAACP audience about race, is unsure about returning to a government job, she says.

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PC World – The world is almost out of IP addresses–or at least it’s almost out of the IPv4 addresses that IT admins and users are most familiar with. Fortunately, IPv6 has been developed to exponentially expand the pool of available IP addresses while also providing a few other benefits.

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Reuters – The Obama administration on Friday proposed trying to enhance access for people with disabilities to websites for hotels, retail stores and other public sites as well as improve access to movie theaters.

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AFP – US immigration officials on Friday launched an online tool to help people find illegal aliens who have been placed in US custody.

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AP – The Justice Department is seeking ideas from the public on how to make the Internet more accessible to people with disabilities.

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NewsFactor – AOL is working to leverage the trends of the times with a new smartphone portal and two Android apps it hopes will capture consumer attention in an increasingly competitive mobile marketplace.

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NewsFactor – To the list of dwindling worldwide resources add Internet addresses. According to experts, the nearly 4.5 billion current addresses aren’t enough, only six percent of available addresses are left, and the Internet will run out of addresses by sometime late next year.

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AP – While Disney CEO Bob Iger was chatting with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg at a major media summit in Idaho this month, Khan Manka Jr. was squiring around the lodge bar looking for a drink.

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Mashable – VEVO and YouTube have taken another step to establish themselves in the online music space by announcing a partnership with American Express to launch a series of live-streamed concerts, “Unstaged: An Original Series from American Express.”

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Reuters – Increased spending may have hurt Amazon.com Inc’s quarterly profit, dragging down the largest online retailer’s shares, but analysts believe the investments the company made will benefit it in the long run.

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PC Magazine – On Thursday, Qwest rolled out its “Heavy Duty” VDSL service with a compelling value proposition: up to a 40-Mbits/s connection for a promotional price of $29.99 per month.

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