Omg! Positive tone boosts Yahoo celeb site to top

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Think of the most popular brands in celebrity news, and you'll probably come up with a small list that includes Entertainment Tonight, US Weekly and People.

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For long, the geeks had discussed of the D-day when the OS would disappear and everything would be accommodated in a cloud. At this day,  Cloud computing is a throwaway word that includes everything from web mail to Facebook.  Amazon had an important role in the development of cloud computing by modernizing their data centers after the dot-com bubble. They found that the cloud architecture could significantly improve their internal efficiency and started offering access to their system through the Amazon Web Services in 2005 on a utility computing basis. Google, IBM, and a number of universities followed the suit getting involved in large scale cloud computing research project in 2007. A year later, a number of organizations started switching from company-owned hardware and software assets to per-use service-based models. This marked the emergence of cloud computing. There are vague concepts on cloud computing circling the web. To clarify the concept we present a detailed FAQ on cloud computing.
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Mozilla's updated Web browser Firefox 3.5 comes with a host of new functionality and features as reviewed in our blog. But things are not running smoothly for the latest Firefox version. Well, I come across these titles Firefox BugDay, Catch Missed Blocker, Critical, and Major 3.5 bugs! in Mozilla's forum. There's much noise over the buggy behavior of the Firefox 3.5. To down the raised eyebrows Mozilla would be releasing a patched version of its browser, renaming it as Firefox 3.5.1. However, the bug fixes would take several weeks. In the meantime, host of bloggers are annoyed over the bug- prone Firefox suffering from slow load time, crashes caused by TraceMonkey JavaScript engine and more than 50 other foul-up.

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MELBOURNE - Ben Southhall had a rather wayward first day of his 'Best job in the World', when he misspelt the name of the island he was on while writing on his blog.

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NASA astronaut takes Twitter to space en Espanol

WASHINGTON — NASA has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts is breaking a new space Twitter barrier. He'll tweet from space in Spanish and English.

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With Twitter's foray into mainstream media there has been a urge for real-time search and urgency of delivering topical data. Google and Facebook are working out significant changes on their search tools to fillip status updates. In the meantime, tweets seem to be doing a better job in indexing the web. In a bid to offer real time search features Microsoft took the opportunity to add Twitter updates to its much-hyped search engine Bing. Currently the Twitter-related results are limited only to searches on prominent Twitterers themselves, not nearly all tweets.

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Facebook plans to simplify privacy settings

NEW YORK — Facebook is overhauling its privacy controls over the next several weeks in an attempt to simplify its users' ability to control who sees the information they share on the site.

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Can you imagine online dating is responsible for more than 120 thousand marriages each year? Well, who knows who came up with the concept of online dating, but it's here to stay and reign millions of hearts across the world. We  have already delivered the top Facebook dating apps and this time it's my stint with world's largest micoblogging site where I'm sure there are more dreamy eyed singles waiting  to find their other half. Well I've no idea about the number of singles out there in Twitter. But, this is for all you twitterholics looking for a dream date in 140 characters or less. It's just not enough, if Juliet had to convey Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name…, lol.

Well, there are just a few sites that allow you to start dating Twitter followers. After exhaustive googling I got across some cool Twitter online dating site which I gotta share with you. So next time you gotta crush on a twitter user, you   can help yourself on a date.

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World's second most popular web browser Firefox offers faster web browsing, better tab handling, newer interface tweaks and many more with its latest 3.5 version (read our previous Firefox 3.5 RC review) which is now available for download. However the improvements are, by no means, a leap ahead of the previous version and rather common and implemented just to keep in pace with the other competing web browsers like Safari or Chrome which have gone through a lot of developments as Apple and Google poured in enough  money understanding the need of a good browser in coming years. We have made a review of the latest 3.5 version to let you know what new features they incorporated in Firefox 3.5 version and what else did not impress us.
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A new version of the Internet browser Firefox was released Tuesday, offering users more speed and privacy and greater compliance with new Internet video standards. The release of Firefox 3.5 (download)came as the open source browser is proving an increasingly formidable challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, which once had over 90 percent market share. In June Firefox has a 22.5 percent market share according to web metrics company Net Applications, behind Internet Explorer's 65.5 percent. Though Internet Explorer's share has been declining for some time, the slide has accelerated over the last year since Firefox released version 3.0.

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