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A federal judge wants more time to consider a defense motion to throw out a case against a woman in a MySpace hoax that allegedly led to a 13-year-old girl’s suicide. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge George H. Wu indicated he would likely reject the (read post )

LOS ANGELES, BUSINESS WIRE — MySpace, the world’s premier social network, today announced a distribution agreement to bring Katalyst Media and partner David & Goliath’s original Web animation series Blah Girls (http://www.blahgirls.com) to MySpace (read post )

From left, Chris Prinzel, Ryan Wood, Jack Pfeister and Byron Clark make up Mogul Street Reserve. Rock moguls: Byron Clark, drums and vocals; Ryan Wood, guitar and vocals; Jack Pfeister, bass and vocals; and Chris Prinzel, lead guitar and vocals (read post )

MySpace and MTV have teamed with Auditude, an online advertising technology startup, to insert ads in pirated content. The goal: Allow content owners to profit from clips uploaded and distributed without permission. While the deal ( statement ) has (read post )

(CBS/AP) A federal grand jury in Memphis, Tenn., has indicted two white supremacists accused of plotting to kill Democrat Barack Obama and dozens of other black people. Twenty-year-old Daniel Cowart and 18-year-old Paul Schlesselman were arrested (read post )

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Twitter could be a tool for terrorists. From Wired.com: Could Twitter become terrorists newest killer app? A draft Army intelligence report, making its way through spy circles, thinks the miniature messaging software could be used as an (read post )

That’s according to analyst house Gartner that says government organisations could benefit from social networking technology if they approach it in the right way. Gartner analyst Andrea Di Maio told silicon.com the public sector could exploit social (read post )

The superstore chain on Monday launched “My B&N,” where online shoppers can set up personal pages focusing on their interests in books, film and music. They can also share information with Facebook and other social networks. “Through My B&N, book (read post )

If you ve ever found yourself in an unfamiliar neighborhood, wondering if a particular restaurant is any good, or in the book store trying to decide what should be next on your reading list, you might be a candidate for social-networking service (read post )

Companies including Microsoft are looking for ways to bring the community building tools of social networks like MySpace and Facebook to TV, the Wall Street Journal reports. Social networking has the potential to play a key role in shaping what (read post )

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MySpace has announced that an application for Android based phones has been created and will be available for download starting with Wednesday, when the G1 cell phone will be officially launched. At the same time, the popular iPhone application (read post )

Walking up to a classmate and making a threat can bring you a misdemeanor charge. Making the threat through e-mail or text message is a felony. In the eyes of the law, it isn’t what you say, it’s how you say it. Among the latest to learn that (read post )

The developers of Flock have announced v2.0 of the browser , which is launching today across multiple platforms. Flock is oriented towards social networking sites, and thus has built-in functions for sites such as Digg, Flickr and Twitter. The second (read post )

LOS ANGELES - First a CD-trading site, then a free Web-based music browser, lala.com is being born again. The site is relaunching Tuesday as a hybrid, offering the digital download functionality of iTunes and the free music streaming of MySpace Music (read post )

A former federal prosecutor has decided to take on his ex-employer in defending a woman against charges that she violated federal laws in allegedly creating a MySpace account used to bully a teenage girl who committed suicide. Orin Kerr, professor of (read post )

In what looks like an attempt to compete toe-to-toe with Apple’s iPhone, RIM announced a slew of new integrated application deals on Thursday to make its email-optimised smart phone more appealing to consumers. Email was the killer application that (read post )

IMAGES of young Australian surfers riding the waves off Bondi will be among activities screened online by Tourism NSW today. Sydney is to target the US youth market by launching MySpace MySydney , a pilot three-month campaign inviting young Americans (read post )

The teenager who committed suicide after an Internet hoax was not the only girl exchanging messages with a fake MySpace address allegedly operated by a woman now charged in the girl’s death, the woman’s lawyer said. Attorney Dean Steward filed a (read post )

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The third-largest social networking site in the world. Founders Ramu Yalamanchi and Akash Garg said they don t after having facebook and myspace is planning to dominate the international markets, the San Francisco-based site still has a lock on (read post )

Dear Fixer: I lost my cell phone late in April, and for the first few weeks in May I thought it might turn up. In fact, what happened is someone found my cell phone and ran up a lot of charges on Verizon Wireless, especially for text messaging. I am (read post )

Social-network builder Ning has deployed its support for developer applications for OpenSocial, something that it has been planning to do since Google kick-started the open-source project nearly a year ago. (It is now an independent organization .) A (read post )

W e know employers and recruiters use social networking sites to vet job candidates and even see what current employees are up to. Now we have a better insight into how they’re using that information, according to a survey by the Society for Human (read post )

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is plotting a possible push into the digital-music business in the wake of MySpace’s launch of MySpace Music last month. The surging social-networking giant is talking to a number of song-streaming services and music (read post )

BURLINGAME, CALIF. - Even as the economy seems to be crumbling, engineering work to enhance social networking sites is picking up. On Friday, social network incubator Ning cracked open its doors to reveal 30 applications built on the emerging (read post )

A police force has joined the social networking website Facebook to reach young people. West Midlands Police set up a business page on the site to “communicate and engage” with the younger community. The site contains news, appeals, details of most (read post )

The West Midlands Police force has created a Facebook page to try and “communicate and engage” with the younger members of its community. The page contains a number of things , including news on recent crimes, a most-wanted list of felons from the (read post )

What’s the top threat to data security going to be in 2009? According to the GTISC Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2009 out of Georgia Tech’s Information Security Center , the answer is malware specifically disguised as “benign social networking (read post )

We re hearing from sources close to social networking company MySpace that it expects to hit $1 billion in revenue this year, or at worst be within a hair s breadth of that number. Meanwhile, MySpace executives say that they only see growth in (read post )

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Eager to try out MySpace Music? So are we. But you’ll have to wait until midnight eastern to give it a spin at http://www.myspace.com/music . The press release is below, but if you want the bullet points: EMI, the lone holdout among the four big (read post )

Make room, iTunes. MySpace is hoping to shake up the digital music scene. In a bid to spruce up its popular online hangout, MySpace plans to flip the switch Thursday on a much-anticipated service that will give its roughly 120 million users free (read post )

I like to boast, smugly, that I haven’t paid for a CD in years. Instead, I subscribe to a music service called Rhapsody that gives me all the tunes I want for $12.99 a month. But with social-networking giant MySpace unveiling its new music service (read post )

Lori Drew, the woman accused of orchestrating an online hoax that allegedly led to the suicide of her teenage neighbor, planned to lure the girl to the mall and taunt her, prosecutors claim in court papers filed this week. Lori Drew is accused of (read post )

NEW YORK–Media mogul Rupert Murdoch will officially take on Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Thursday. That’s when MySpace is expected to launch MySpace Music, the music service formed by the world’s second largest social network and all four of the largest (read post )

Courtney Love is advertising for a new housekeeper on MySpace. The former Hole singer has grown so tired of orthodox agencies, she is resorting to the unconventional method to find a “non-freaky, non-thieving” employee. Posting on her blog, she wrote (read post )

News Corp s MySpace launches a new online music service on Thursday, aiming to loosen Apple s grip on the US music industry and challenge all other online rivals. The service, MySpace Music, also aims to come to the aid of a music industry (read post )

Apologies for the poor camera-phone quality. (Credit: Caroline McCarthy) NEW YORK–Spotted, Gossip Girl -style: Teen pop sensations the Jonas Brothers, heralding the launch of MySpace Music atop a billboard in Times Square. The launch of the News (read post )

With the October 7 trial date approaching in the MySpace Suicide case, we called up H. Dean Steward, the defense lawyer for Lori Drew, to see whether we should prepare Law Blog One for a journey to California. Judge George Wu, Jan. 19, 2006, in Los (read post )

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Users of the popular social-networking site Facebook are up in arms at plans to impose a new-look page layout on all its members. When details of the redesign were first unveiled several weeks ago, users could choose between switching to the new (read post )

Social-networking websites are fast becoming a key target for online fraud, according to Symantec’s latest Internet Security Threat Report . The report reveals that, for the second half of 2007, there were 87,963 “phishing hosts”, an increase of 167 (read post )

Yahoo! on Wednesday released a preview version of a free new iPhone application called OneConnect that can centralise communications and social-networking activity. Marco Boerries, executive vice president, Yahoo! Connected Life, said in a speech at (read post )

CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & ENTERTAINMENT — Staying connected with social networking destinations while on the go just got easier. VeriSign Messaging and Mobile Media, a division of VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet (read post )

September 12, 2008 (Computerworld) Two weeks ago, I shared my belief in this space that mobile social networking will become the most important business technology since e-mail. I spoke about the phenomenon as growing to prominence over the next few (read post )

Gartner found that social networking websites, instant messaging email, chat and file sharing are attracting significant levels of interest online. Read all about IT Check out the Editor’s Blog for the silicon.com chief’s take on the hot tech (read post )

If you’re using one of Concordia’s computers to check your Facebook page or other social network site, you’re out of luck. The university has banned access to some social networking site over concerns the sites may comprimise its own internal network (read post )

Chicago. - Could your future boss be perusing your profile? Twenty-two percent of hiring managers said they use social networking sites to research job candidates, up from 11 percent in 2006, according to a nationwide survey of more than 3,100 (read post )

MySpace has launched a feature enabling users to directly record and upload videos to MySpaceTV, the social networking site’s global video platform. MySpace said Thursday its users with Webcams are now able to upload their videos directly to the site (read post )

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HAIR today, gone tomorrow seems the likely tale of MTV babe Ruby Rose’s lesbian dalliance with Veronicas songbird Jess Origliasso. Rose was back home in Melbourne to host last night’s Redken Future Colour Competition, the Logies for new hairdressing (read post )

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Lindsay Lohan had words for her father on her blog. Lindsay Lohan lashed out at her father in a MySpace blog entry. The 22-year-old actress lashed out at father Michael by calling him a “public embarrassment” and a (read post )

LINDSAY Lohan has lashed out at her father Michael, calling him a “public embarrassment” and a “bully” in a MySpace blog entry posted today. The star hit out after Michael said in an interview with E! this week that gal pal Samantha Ronson was “using (read post )

Here’s how autumn used to work: News of big album releases trickled out. Fans marked their calendars. Retailers stocked up. And everyone licked their chops for a series of blockbuster Tuesdays through Christmas. The Internet, iTunes and inevitable (read post )

RSS feeds allow Web site content to be gathered via feed reader software. Click the subscribe link to obtain the feed URL for this page. The feed will update when new content appears on this page. Highlights Lindsay Lohan is an actress who grew up on (read post )

MySpace.com wants Apple to update its QuickTime media player software so it can’t be used in attacks on the social-networking site. The request comes after a worm in the form of a rigged QuickTime movie crawled onto MySpace.com over the weekend (read post )

The battle over the fate of Yahoo! remained up in the air last night as the struggling Web icon intensified discussions about a deal with Time Warner’s AOL unit, while its main suitor, Microsoft, looked to partner with News Corp. in an effort to (read post )

Many Americans will decide whom to vote for based on their MySpace pages. To save you the time of researching their sites, TIME’s Joel Stein reviewed all 18 of the candidates from both major parties ranked from lamest to coolest (read post )

Asuka Kosaka joined Facebook this year to connect with her English-speaking friends. But when the 29-year-old wants to share her thoughts and photos with 70 friends and family members in Japan, she heads straight for another site: Mixi. Mixi ( 2121.T (read post )

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Finally, game week is here. A final Monday that sucks sans football. Monday’s blow anyway, but it’s at least a little more interesting when you can talk smack to that jagoff in the cube next to you because he’s an Iowa State grad. As we do every (read post )

Meredith_Goldstein: www.joshuatreeband.com/schedule.html - I’m a sucker for the Joshua Tree. And these women - an all-female Queen cover band - well, they’re the champions. And they’re at Alchemist in JP next week [Aug. 28]: www.myspace.com (read post )

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NEW YORK _ Lisa Marie Presley is pregnant with twins Cindy Guagenti, her publicist, said Wednesday. The daughter of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley announced her pregnancy on her MySpace page in March. The babies are expected to arrive in the (read post )

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Lawriter, LLC a subsidiary of Collexis Holdings Inc. CLXS announced today the development of the first professional social network exclusively for law students. The site www.CasemakerX.com was showcased in Beta format at the American Association of (read post )

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Social networking has apparently gone to the dogs. Doggyspace.com brings together dog owners from all over the world, allowing them to create profiles, and share photos and videos of their pups. The Virginia-based site is 1 of a (read post )

One firm is betting on virtual cupcakes and Tamagotchi-like digital pets. Viximo, an 11-month-old Cambridge, Mass.-based start-up, has created four iPhone applications that revolve around digital goods–digitally produced images that people buy (read post )