MySpace And WSJ Sending One User To Davos

MySpace, The Wall Street Journal, and the World Economic Forum, are giving a MySpace user the chance to be a citizen journalist at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. The MySpace Citizen Journalist winner will be chosen by a panel of experts and will join the Davos press corps using MySpace to report on the conference news and interview world leaders…

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Google Books Suffers Defeat In French Court

The Google Books project suffered a significant blow today in France as a Paris court found Google guilty of copyright violations.  The search giant's been ordered to stop scanning books, remove information from its database, and pay some hefty fines.

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Twitter Gets Hacked by “Iranian Cyber Army”

Twitter was hacked last night, and when users went to Twitter.com, they were presented with a message from someone claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army. TutorialsTips has posted a video on YouTube showing what Twitter looked like as it was compromised.

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Amazon Kindle Breaks Monthly Sales Record

Amazon.com has announced that December has been the best month for sales of its Kindle electronic book reader. The company did not provide any sales figures or comparisons for its Kindle, but did say it is the most wished for, and most gifted item across all of Amazon.

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Android Crowds iPhone In New comScore Report

In several key respects, the Android platform has almost caught up to the iPhone, according to new statistics from comScore.  There are still a lot more iPhones floating around in the great, wide world, of course, but otherwise, Android's doing extremely well. Let's start with the table below.  It illustrates that, more than the average smartphone user, Android users do a lot of things other…

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