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Twitter, meet Second Life – YouTube videos viewed 1 billion times a day

After all the wild economic swings we’ve endured the past decade, we have failed to learn some essential lessons.

New blogger rules aimed at shifting new-media world

Online scribes must disclose pay for reviews, feds say.

AT&T Relents, Opens iPhone to Skype, VoIP

Bowing to openness pressure from the FCC, AT&T renounced on Tuesday its opposition to internet telephone calls that use the iPhone’s 3G data connection.

Video chat gets an upgrade

A survey this spring by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that only about 20 percent of adult U.S. Internet users have participated in a video chat.

Online hate speech: Difficult to police … and define

"We’ve gotten to a place where we made it unacceptable for haters to hate in the public space." So they turn to the Web, where they can be anonymous.

Get all Americans online, panel says

The nation needs to give the same urgency to making sure all Americans have broadband access as the Eisenhower administration did in building an interstate highway system a half-century ago, a report released Friday concluded.

Summit takes hard look at future of journalism

Rapidly advancing technology may be to blame for the news industry’s present predicament, but the same digital tools promise a bright future if the sector can harness them to deliver customers the content they want in the manner they prefer.

Chemical found in air outside 15 schools – Oregon Protects Communities From Deadly Chemical Weapons With Massive Wi-Fi Network

"We didn’t have the time like you would during a conventional evacuation, like a hurricane, to spend two days getting people ready and setting up roads they would take," said Casey Beard, director of the Morrow County Emergency Management Agency, which operates one of the region’s three command centers. "We had to be able to instantly reconfigure our transportation network to move people away from the threat area."

Google Wave Will Invite Volunteers To Begin Preview

Google will begin inviting volunteers to a preview test of Google Wave, which enables individuals to communicate and work together with richly formatted elements.

U.S. Moves to Lessen Its Oversight of Internet

Washington said Wednesday that it would give other governments and the private sector a greater oversight role in an organization that oversees the Internet.