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Actor Ashton Kutcher, CNN in Twitter duel

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Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher has challenged CNN to an online duel to see who can be the first to amass one million Twitter followers.

 
 
 

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Forgotten Internet accounts put consumers at risk

Two-thirds of Canadians who are on the Internet have forgotten or abandoned personal accounts on websites, leaving a gold mine for cybercriminals intent on gaining enough personal information to steal their identities, according to an Ipsos Reid survey.


 
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Website to exhibit world's greatest historical treasures

One of the most ambitious attempts to connect an often bitterly divided world through an "intellectual cathedral" will be launched here next week.


 

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Song-a-day Mann a budding Internet star

Jonathan Mann is an Internet minstrel, writing a new song every day to serenade his growing online audience.


 
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Google helps, not hurts newspapers, executive says

Google Inc helps newspaper websites make money through online advertising and does not misappropriate their content, a lawyer for the search engine said on the company's blog on Tuesday.


 
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Yahoo looks outside its walls with new music service

Yahoo is partnering with other online music providers as the Internet giant tries a fresh approach to getting an edge in the evolving digital music business.


 
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U.S. senators seek to squash spam

Two US senators declared war on spam on Thursday. Senator Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine, and Senator Bill Nelson, a Democrat from Florida, introduced legislation aimed at curbing unsolicited text messages on mobile devices.


 
 

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Kutcher out-tweets CNN...

Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher beat media-giant CNN on Friday...


 
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YouTube orchestra debuts...

A symphony orchestra composed of 96 musicians from 33 countries...


 
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YouTube adds more Hollywood...

YouTube announced partnerships with Sony Pictures and other ...


 
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IBM's 'Racetrack' speeds...

Soon your computer and electronic gadgets could be much smaller...


 
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Twitter fights off computer...

Micro-blogging service Twitter was targeted by a wave of attacks...


 
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Facebook to welcome ...

Hot social networking website Facebook expects to welcome its...


 
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Bogus security software...

Hackers are increasingly hiding viruses in bogus computer security...


 
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iTunes to launch 3-tiered...

Apple Inc and major music labels are betting that the launch...


 
While Facebook may be useful for party invitations and professional networking, some people shun the website after being burnt by a callous colleague or former significant other.

B.C. cops shut down ...

The RCMP has shut down a Facebook group out of Surrey, B.C., ...


 
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Yahoo looks outside ...

Yahoo is partnering with other online music providers as the...


 
Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams. A report says Google is interested in buying Twitter.

Google in talks to buy...

Google Inc may be in talks to buy internet start-up Twitter, ...


 
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U.S. senators seek to...

Two US senators declared war on spam on Thursday. Senator Olympia...


 
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Kutcher out-tweets CNN...

Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher beat media-giant CNN on Friday...


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Stephanie Myles

Canada, UFC a match made in Montreal

The UFC is absolutely loving Montreal. As it should. For the second time in a year, more than 22,000 ultimate fighting and mixed martial arts fans jammed the Bell Centre. And local hero Georges St-Pierre wasn't even on the card this time.

 
L. IAN MACDONALD

Harper has managed to cut his Quebec support in half

It's 2004 all over again, according to the big EKOS poll released by the CBC the other day. An election today would produce a Liberal minority government, at 36.7 per cent, with Conservatives at 30.2 per cent and the NDP down to 15.5 per cent.

 
PAT HICKEY

Gainey rolls dice and hits snake eyes

Bob Gainey reached into his bag of tricks last night and came out with nothing.

 
DOUG CAMILLI

Amy, Snoop in the studio: lots of smoke but no results

Amy Winehouse, in St. Lucia where she's playing a music festival next month, tried to record some tracks with Snoop Dogg, reports the British paper The Sun. You get no prize for foreseeing the way the session went:

 
 
 
 
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