Pakistan issued a ban on the social networking website, Facebook, due to the posting of a contest that solicited images of the Prophet Muhammad. According to most Muslims, images of the Prophet Muhammad are blasphemous. Since, Facebook has blocked access to that particular content for Pakistan only and issued an apology. A Pakistani court in [...]

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The US Department of Defense will now allow social networking and Web 2.0 social tools access within it’s Non-Classified Internet Protocol Router Network (NIPRNET). A statement “Responsible and Effective Use of Internet-based Capabilities” (DTM 09-026) was released on February 25th to formally allow social networking use within the non-classified network–unifying the policy across military branches [...]

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This graph represents US job loss from December 2007 through January 2010. This graph shows job loss from the Bush Presidency through January 2010 of the Obama Presidency. The source of the data is the Bureau of Labor Statistics, US, 02/12/2010.

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Blue Cross has decided to raise premiums by as much as 39% even though they recently set record profit levels up to $4.7 billion dollars last year. In addition, the insurer has refused to provide reason for the huge increase in premiums. As a result, Congress and state insurance regulators are planning to investigate the [...]

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Following the Google investigation of recent hacking attacks, which resulted in the discovery of potential Chinese government involvement or acceptance, the US State Department will formally protest to the Chinese Government demanding an explanation. “We will be issuing a formal demarche to the Chinese government in Beijing on this issue in the coming days,” said [...]

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On October 15th, Americans are required to declare all off-shore bank accounts. Some estimates suggest that there may be as much as tens of billions of dollars hidden in the off-shore accounts of private citizens. Many wealthy citizens have already announced their hidden accounts. Approximately 4,000 clients of UBS and other private banks have come [...]

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Regina E. Dugan, the Director of the Pentagon’s research section(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), has began to tour college campuses to build research relationships. With the Bush Administration secrecy was the modus-operandi. The Pentagon must put it’s best foot forward to win back these relationships with the scholarly world. So far the schools listed on [...]

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The Federal Trade Commission is seeking increased transparency with product endorsement on blogs and social networks. Paid product endorsements on blogs, Twitter, Facebook and other social websites will need to reveal their sponsorship, otherwise they will be faced with fines, a lawsuit or other penalties. The new guidelines will come into effect on December 1st. [...]

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Although customs has possessed the right to inspect high tech gadgets like laptops and digital cameras, they have not always exercised that right. From now on, high tech gadgets will undergo inspections from the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as they pass across the border from Mexico to the United States. Customs and Border Protection [...]

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The FBI is using a data-mining system that closely resembles DARPA’s Total Information Awareness program. The purpose of the data-mining system is to uncover terror sleeper cells in the US. The data collected by the system includes travel records, including hotel and airline records. The FBI has plans to expand the program to help solve [...]

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