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A 13-year-old New Yorker named Ruby Karp blogged about her fascination at why kids her age, or the so-called 'young millennials' are losing their interest in the world's most famous social media platform, Facebook, at Mashable.

Troy Ridling, a member of the Owasso First Assembly of God church in Oklahoma, recently stole the congregation's laptop. Not content with stealing his church's property, he attempted to commit another sin, but it was this act that led to his arrest.

Google remains as one of the most powerful and helpful tools for many people today. There is a saying that goes as far as “if you don’t know it, Google it.” People often recommend and turn to the search engine for any type of information they need. Lately, however, the quality of information provided in these search results seems s to dwindle.

A lot of times we see Facebook Scam pages with crazy liberal giveaways of Disneyland tickets, iPads, iPhones and supermarket vouchers. The prizes seem too good to be true as the offers seem to come from Industry Leaders .We all know that some posts are scams, but others seem legitimate.

The ambitious Australian project of providing high speed broadband to the nation by replacing the copper cables with the fiber optic cables is on schedule said Deputy PM and Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese.

Early Tuesday morning the twitter account of the Australian election commission was hacked and users started to get messages from the hacked account. The hacker launched a phishing attack from the hacked account aimed at getting the login details of the users

Facebook began the Bug Bounty programme 2 years ago, and the social networking site has given a million in bounties to those who have helped make the site safer.

After coming under heavy attack by the media, Twitter finally decided to take steps to check online abuse especially towards women. The Twitter Web site will now have a “report abuse” button, which is currently available in the Twitter app in iPhones, allowing users to stem the tide of the growing “trolls” online, reported Reuters.

“Bang with friends” is a casual sex app which allows users to connect with people on their friends list in facebook for casual sex. In a three step process the users are asked to get the bang with friends app and choose the friends they are interested in, if the friend is also interested, an email is sent to both parties indicating a positive interest and the rest is up to the users as to when and where to meet.

I've just completed a heavy schedule of talks at the Agora Financial Investment Symposium in Vancouver. All my talks centred on information economics, Web startups, and the productivity of the internet and its meaning.

So finally, the Moto X is out, and we almost know everything about the device including an expected price tag, specifications and much more. So you think you know almost everything about the device, and trying to move on? Stop and get a look over here, we present a list of specifications that Motorola didn't unveiled officially with the device.

Cyber espionage has become a hot subject for debate these days. All the countries deny spying yet at the same time accuse others of doing it. One man wants to put an end to this hypocrisy and wants honest international discussion on cyber espionage. According to itnews.com.au, the shadow communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull made these comments at a community forum on electronic privacy in Paddington last night.

Google is promising Starbucks customers in the U.S. Internet connection 10 times faster than the current speed they enjoy at the coffee shop chain. The speed could even be 100 times faster if the company-operated Starbucks is in a Google Fiber city such as Kansas.

As the world of mobile apps increase exponentially every minute, here are our top five best free mobile social apps for the first half of 2013.

A video from Russia showing a gay male teenager being harassed by other young people has become viral in various video sharing sites.

The social networking company shares soared in after-hours trading yesterday. Its mobile advertising sales advanced it to a stronger-than-expected quarterly profit from virtually nothing a year ago to 41 percent of its total ad revenue of $1.6 billion in the second quarter.

David Cameron issued a warning to Google, Yahoo and Bing if they do not start prohibiting internet queries for illegal images. Cameron said the law would rule over three companies by force if they refuse to ban the queries voluntarily.

A YouTube video of a drunken 26-year-old man from Stockport, New Zealand in a failed prank has gone viral in the video sharing site with more than 187,000 views so far. The 47-second video showed Sean Martin go up the roof of a bus stop, bare his bottom and then fall through the plastic roof material.

Although China's Internet penetration rate was 42 per cent as of last count, the South Asian giant continues to hold on to the number one post in terms of users. A report from China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) released on Wednesday said the penetration rate went up by 2 per cent to 44 per cent as number of users rose to 591 million.

If it were all up to televangelist Pat Robertson, he would add a Vomit button to Facebook as a response to newsfeed or photos or videos he does not like whenever checking the most popular social media site.

The shared gaming moments of 23-year-old Swedish gamer Felix Kjellberg through his PewDiePie channel are the most viewed videos the past week, garnering almost 50 million hits.

The British monarchy is joining social media - at least one of them. Prince Andrew, the fourth in line to the throne so far until the birth of Prince William and Kate Middleton's baby, just joined Twitter, using the handle @TheDukeOf York.

Marketers would think the last thing they need is another content management platform. There is already a multitude available but Intel thinks otherwise. The company is rolling out their CMS software offering marketers more control over their campaigns.

Though the mobile version of the mail application as productive as the desktop version but still it has its perks.

Google has killed their Reader officially. The application previously provided people a way to access their RSS feeds. While RSS feeds has become an important part of people’s lives especially those demanding news and information from different portals, Google decided that Google Reader is no longer worth keeping. Here is a list of the ten reasons why the company has done a great job doing so.

Inventor of the mouse, Douglas Engelbart, has died at the age of 88. Mr. Engelbart was a tech genius who not only came up with the idea of a mouse for a computer, but he had also put forward the concept of the ubiquitous Internet before other inventors and entrepreneurs commercialized it

Smartphones running on the Firefox OS are now on sale. Here's a quick assessment of what these phones can do.

Nokia has raised up its stake at the mobile broadband industry as it purchased the remaining stake of Siemens in their joint partnership for 1.7 billion euros.

Google (GOOG) decided to turn off their Google Reader for good. The product previously helped people go through feeds from multiple sites in a snap. Reader compiles RSS feeds and delivers them according to the preferences of the users. Apparently, Google thought their Reader “was not good enough” and decided to kill the application once and for all.