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Tweet enters Oxford English Dictionary!

The word `tweet` in the sense of social networking has entered the hallowed pages of the Oxford English Dictionary with the lexicon breaking its rule that a new word needed to be in use for ten years ...

Internet making family photo albums passe

The increasing trend of sharing photographs online on social networking sites heralds the end of the traditional family photo album, a new UK study has found.

Google pledges to donate 5 million dollars to charities to rid web of child porn

Google has vowed to spend a whopping five million dollars to remove child pornography and abuse from the web through `hashing` technology.

Facebook reveals `snoop data` requests made by US government

Social media giant Facebook has revealed the number of ` snoop data` requests made by the US government in the last year.

Yahoo was forced by court to obey NSA`s handover request: Report

Internet corporation Yahoo had been reportedly forced into furnishing user data to the US-led NSA`s Prism programme following court orders in 2008.

Google`s `Internet balloons` to offer web access to remotest areas

Google revealed top-secret plans Saturday to send balloons to the edge of space with the lofty aim of bringing Internet to the two-thirds of the global population currently without web access.

Yahoo to decide ad charges based on social media influence

Internet corporation Yahoo has filed a patent to make ad charges based social reputation of viewers measured in terms of their social media presence.

Microsoft mogul Bill Gates joins LinkedIn

Microsoft mogul Bill Gates` has joined LinkedIn.

Thousands of gmail accounts hacked in Iran, says Google

Internet giant Google says it has blocked a "politically motivated" phishing against thousands of gmail users in Iran on the eve of the country`s presidential election.

Google to pay million pounds to charity monitoring online child porn

Internet giant Google has pledged to donate 1 million sterling pounds to the British charity The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which monitors online child porn.