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  3 Mobile launches 'Facebook phone'

  3 Australia today announced that it will exclusively offer the INQ mobile phone in Australia.

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  My.BarackObama.com stays online after election

  While much has been written about  the impact of President-Elect Barack Obama's successful use of social networking and other Web 2.0 tools, the campaign had been mum about the future of My.BarackObama.com, the campaign's social network, immediately ...

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  Google, Microsoft, Facebook and MySpace talk platforms

  As Web application platforms rise in importance and popularity, Google, Microsoft, MySpace and Facebook executives shared tips for keeping developers happy, disagreed on philosophical issues like standards and articulated wish lists of applications t...

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  SAP invests in LinkedIn

  SAP's venture capital arm has sunk an undisclosed sum of money into LinkedIn, the business-oriented social-networking site.

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  Yahoo aims to get more social with updated user profiles

  Yahoo continues to roll out its Open Strategy aimed at overhauling its platform and services by opening itself to more developers and becoming more social with the debut Thursday of a new universal user profile.

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  MySpace, Facebook show tools to ward off child predators

  MySpace is using technology to analyze whether potential users trying to sign up for the social network may be registered sex offenders, the company's chief security officer said Wednesday.

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  IBM launches social software think tank

  IBM is opening the Center for Social Software, a think tank for developing social technologies, officials said during a presentation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday.

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  New tech guide helps parents tackle cyber bullying and Net nasties

  Parents of students at NSW public schools are set to receive a copy of the Department of Education and Training’s latest technology guide for parents, aimed at helping them understand their children’s use of information technology in schools and at h...

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  Get ready for mobile social networks

  Mobile social networking is a small part of the way people use their mobile phones, but industry officials expect that use will grow, and not just for teenagers who want to text their friends or send short video clips.