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EMI (Electric and Musical Industries Ltd.) has done it again! This time, they are suing social-networking site Hi5, video advertising start-up VideoEgg and 10 John Doe defendants for allegedly infringing on the copyrights of EMI content that appears on Hi5, particularly music videos.

Tech, sex and romance has a great bonding. In near future I won’t be surprised if tech companies send their executives to a sex or a romance conferences/gatherings rather than a boring client meeting. Sex conventions are always considered to be medicinal/clinical and pornographic in nature. Now, social-media has given it a new dimension. It has helped people to create smaller, targeted gatherings that treat sexuality and technology as inseparable. In near future such sex conferences would gain more popularity and will drive more and more people.

Social Networking Sites have caused a communication revolution. But we should also remember the famous quote from the film Spider Man “With Great Powers, Come Great Responsibilities.” What I mean is the potential of social networking sites are growing and so are the threats.
 
 
And Canada Defence Department seems to be taking the issue [...]

A lot of mergers and acquisitions have been happening in the ICT space. Newer companies have been raising investments to fund their operations and expansions. Below are some of the investments done by few companies.

 
1) IDG Invests $2.5 million In iViz
 
 
Data security is fast becoming a major issue faced by several IT and non-IT [...]

The Web is already Social. But engagement and interaction is still a problem.
 
 
There are multiple networks. The trouble with API’s today is that one application is restricted only to one network. And there are multiple networks.
 
So developers have to question –
 
-       Which API’s should I learn?
-       Which network should I get bet big [...]

 
We have recently written quite a bit about Microsoft’s stake in Facebook, Facebook itself, and Social Networking as a whole.
 
 
Microsoft gives us more reason to write about them. A few days back they purchased WebFives, a Seattle based, Mobile focused, Social Networking Site for an amount that has not been disclosed to the media.
 
 
(I think the amount has not been disclosed [...]

The world is running so is the technology. As work loads are increasing people are more tied up to their office chairs. People are left with very little time to keep in touch with friends and family and even socialize. So how do we stay connected to each other? Well, we just have got the [...]