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Social Networks Spread Iranian Defiance Online

Jun. 15, 2009
Social media sites are challenging levers of state media control and allowing Iranians to find novel ways around restrictions.
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So-called social media soaring in Canada

TORONTO, April 6 (UPI) -- Canadians are glomming on to Facebook, YouTube and other so-called social media in a big way, a study by media and marketing concerns released Monday indicates.

Social networks changing communication

AUSTIN, Texas, March 15 (UPI) -- The ongoing growth of social networks like Facebook and Twitter are revolutionizing communication, experts said at a festival in Texas.

Survey: Canadian baby boomers use Internet

TORONTO, March 5 (UPI) -- Canada's online baby boomers are using the Internet to e-mail family and friends more often than picking up the telephone, a survey indicates.

Big profits elude big social Web sites

NEW YORK, May 12 (UPI) -- Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace have large memberships but big profits from social network Web sites elude U.S. corporations, industry analysts say.

Young voters share politics via Internet

NEW YORK, March 27 (UPI) -- Young politically minded Americans, in a new twist on the oldest tool in politics -- word of mouth -- have become both consumers and conduits for news.

First boomer files for Social Security

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The so-called silver tsunami began Monday when a Maryland woman became the first of the baby boomer generation to file for Social Security benefits.

IBM's 'business-grade' social networking

ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. computer giant IBM Corp. Monday unveiled social-networking software like MySpace, YouTube, and Flickr, but for corporate use. IBM's Lotus Connections, which IBM dubbed "business-grade social computing," lets business people post personal profiles abo

Computer age produces new social system

TORONTO, June 20 (UPI) -- A Canadian scientist says members of peer-to-peer file sharing networks, like the early users of Napster, are part of a previously unseen social system.

Social networking sites still popular

NEW YORK, May 12 (UPI) -- MySpace led in first place of ten popular social networking sites that collectively grew 47 percent year-over-year, according to Nielson//NetRatings.

China to wage war on Internet pornography

BEIJING, July 17 (UPI) -- A senior Communist party official in China says the country should wage a people's war against pornographic Web sites.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler