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  Kutcher and CNN Battle for Millionth Twitter Fan

  Electronic Arts will make you a star in its upcoming video game The Sims 3 and give you a free copy of every single game EA makes in 2009 if you're Ashton Kutcher's one millionth follower on Twitter. But there's a catch: Kutcher has to beat CNN to t...

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  Twitter attracting techie labs

  As Network World's Alpha Doggs network research blogger, I've been searching Twitter in recent months for vendor, university and government labs and research operations using the popular microblogging service. While I've found a handful, I'm not impr...

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  Tweet to compete

  If you still think Facebook is for twentysomethings clinging to their college years and Twitter is for people with too much time on their hands announcing what they had for breakfast, think again.

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  9 Dirty Tricks: Social Engineers' Favourite Pick-Up Lines

  What the average guy might call a con is known in the security world as social engineering. Social engineering is the criminal art of scamming a person into doing something or divulging sensitive information. These days, there are thousands of ways f...

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  Twitter list: 10-plus rock bands and assorted singers

  Got e-mail last night from the oh-so-literary indie band The Decemberists informing me that lead singer <a href="http://twitter.com/colinmeloy">Colin Meloy</a> is now twittering. Impressively, his historic first tweet was on Jan. 12 ("is surveying th...

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  Connect to customers with Twitter

  Either your customers already use social networking tools or you have an untapped, online audience.

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  The top must-follow Twitter feeds

  Web celebrities and gadget gurus keep their followers up to date in 140 characters or less

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  How 10 Famous Technology Products Got Their Names

  Coming up with a great technology product or service is only half the battle these days. Creating a name for said product that is at once cool but not too cool or exclusionary, marketable to both early adopters and a broader audience, and, of course,...

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  Twitter for business: 5 ways to tap the power of the tweet

  Imagine a business tool that lets you broadcast information about your company, listen in on discussions about how people are using your products and what they think of them, and get involved when one of your customers -- or one of your competitors' ...