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Google has partnered with several major providers of online music to launch a music search engine.  Now when you type in the name of a song, artist or title, you can access audio or video previews of your music search query.  The previews will be available via links to MySpace,… Continue Reading »

The Pogoplug has been loved by several Gadgetell writers from the time we stumbled upon them during CES 2009 and since then they have only gotten better.  Now the latest announcement coming from Pogoplug has them partnering with Seagate. The partnership means that the Pogoplug service is going to soon… Continue Reading »

A Missouri woman is the first person to be charged with a felony under the state’s new cyberbullying law.  The 40-year old woman is accused of posting a teen girl’s photo, email address and cell phone number on the “Casual Encounters” section of Craigslist.  The section is meant for adults… Continue Reading »

Digsby, the popular IM and social media client, is getting closer to being the only application you need to access the social web.  Digsby has long had Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and LinkedIn as part of the application, and today is looking to improve on all of them.  It also announced… Continue Reading »

The U.S. Marine Corps have officially banned social networking from military networks.  This means no Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace, among others.  The ban has actually been in place for sometime, but has only just now become official.  Marines who want to access such sites on their personal computers and devices… Continue Reading »

Starting tomorrow, MySpace plans to start use of its own webmail.  They already have IM and a messaging service when you are actually logged into the site, but now users will have their own email address ending in “@myspace.com.”  I can see younger demographics, and artists/bands really liking the new… Continue Reading »

A new company is claiming it can offer background support on all the top social networking sites like Twitter and Digg - for a price. uSocial says that if you are willing to fork over some cold hard cash they can boost your Twitter followers or Diggs by about a… Continue Reading »

If you’ve ever signed up for an account at a site like Flickr or Amazon, you are familiar with terms of service and privacy policies.  Every site you can create an account with has both.  You can’t get an account without agreeing to them, but how many of us actually… Continue Reading »

According to the researching firm Nielsen Online, the United States has experienced an 83 percent leap in the number of time spent on social networking websites.  No big surprise that Facebook experienced one of the biggest leaps, with over 700 percent growth in just a year.  Figures should that users… Continue Reading »

RIM’s BlackBerry is about to get a lot more unproductive.  Welcome to the BlackBerry App World, which will help get RIM’s super-duper business machine to compete against the iPhone and its App Store.  To get to the BlackBerry App World, you have to download it.  You can download it from… Continue Reading »