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  • Simple tips to secure your Facebook account on mobiles

    Mobile has made access to Facebook much easier, but the social networking site has also become susceptible to attempted hijackings and attempted thefts on cell phones. Here are a few ways to make sure that the most popular site is safe from being hacked. According to ABC News, one of the ways to safeguard your Facebook account is to always logout after using it on your mobile and use ...

  • Warners Twitter rant sparked by Sreesanth-linking image on IPL article

    Australian Test batsman David Warner was reportedly enraged by a picture linking him to spot-fixing suspect S.Sreesanth in an article by journalist Robert Craddock into corruption in the Indian Premier League (IPL), which led him to insult Craddock and his co-scribe Malcolm Conn on Twitter. An early morning text message from a friend in Australia is believed to have sparked the Twitter tirade ...

  • Warner facing CA disciplinary hearing over vitriolic Twitter outburst ahead of Ashes

    Australian opening batsman David Warner is facing a Cricket Australia (CA) disciplinary hearing for his vitriolic social media outburst at respected News Limited sportswriters Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn. Warner, whose captaincy aspirations have taken a hit, had been reported for breaching the code of behaviour of the CA, which will be deciding a date for the hearing ahead of this week's ...

  • Oz sports commentator sparks Twitter outrage with Indian gag

    An Australian sports commentator has sparked outrage on Twitter for an Indian impersonation during a news broadcast. Sandy Roberts had put on an Indian accent and made a joke about eating curry following coverage of the Indian Premier League (IPL) during Channel 7's news broadcast, News.com.au reports. According to the report, Roberts' action caused an instantaneous backlash against him in ...

  • FIR against Facebook Inc. for exhorting cow slaughter

    An FIR against Facebook Inc. and others has been registered by social activists Dr Nutan Thakur and Amitabh Thakur at Gomti Nagar police station Lucknow under section 153,290, 504, IPC and section 66 A Information Technology Act ...

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National Lampoon's Van Wilder

Upon finding out that he and his other fraternity brothers have been permanently kicked off campus, John Belushi's Bluto utters, in all sincerity, the single best line in all of National Lampoon's Animal House (1978): "Christ, seven years of college down the drain!" The line is funny for a number of reasons, including the fact that it illustrates so perfectly how, for Bluto, college is not ... ...

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  • Hunger Striker Launches Twitter Campaign to Close Gitmo

    Petitions have failed. Lawsuits have failed. Even campaign pledges from future presidents have failed. So now one Guantanamo Bay detainee is hoping that Twitter can help him shut down the infamous detention facility. Shaker Aamer, a Saudi citizen and former British resident, is one of 103 Guantanamo detainees currently on ...

  • Google News Snippets YouTube Embedded Videos Face Legal Challenges in Germany

    Webmasters will need to be much more careful about quoting content from online German publications after a new online copyright law comes into effect in Germany on August 1. The law, which targets search engines that provide snippets, originally would have given news sites the ability to seek monetary compensation for the supposed lost revenue caused by Google and other search engines when ...

  • Arrest for anti-gay Twitter threat in Puerto Rico

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A man has been arrested in Puerto Rico for a Twitter post that threatened a gay activist and made a reference to the Boston Marathon bombing, the FBI said Monday.Joseph Morales Serrano was taken into custody at his home in San Juan on a charge of cyberbullying for allegedly posting the threatening message on May 6, according to Special Agent Moises Quinones, a spokesman ...

  • Its Clearwire Eve Sprint expected to raise bid price for merger

    The wireless industry is watching Sprint Nextel Corp. for a higher bid on Clearwire Corp. before Tuesdays shareholder vote. Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR) shareholders vote at noon in Bellevue, Wash., on whether to accept or reject Sprints (NYSE: S) $2.2 billion acquisition offer. The vote comes as uncertainty around the deal is at a peak. Sprints bid, which offers $2.97 a share for stock that ...

  • C-leveled buys FINTEL adds CTO and software suite

    Denise DeSimone is CEO of C-Leveled. C-leveled, the North side consultancy that works with entrepreneurs and startups, is spreading its footprint west with the acquisition of Madison, Wis.-based FINTEL LLC. The deal brings FINTELs benchmarking and analytics software into C-leveled, and FINTELs co-founder Boris Nenide is joining C-leveled as chief technology officer and board member. Financial ...

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