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All things music from the Tennessean.com entertainment staff. So today's the day, Bonnaroo lovers: the unveiling of the 2010 Bonnaroo music line-up. There've been plenty of rumors , and even an announced detail or two , but over the course of the day we'll find out a big hunk of the for-sure talent cache for this year's installment of the ...

Police are investigating a vicious online attack against a new Christchurch principal.

Every day, millions of people update their profile on Facebook. In fact, according to Facebook, users spend 55 minutes a day on the site.

A little over a week since we saw it leak into the wild, the Samsung Monte S5620 has been officially launched.

Put yourself in their shoes. They are twins. It's the morning of their 20th birthday.

Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear if they want to listen to music for free online.

A new set of audited figures for mobile internet use, the GSMA Mobile Media Metrics, reveal a landscape with one very tall peak Facebook mobile: absorbed nearly 50% of the 4.8bn minutes spent online via mobile in the UK in December More than 25% of UK's population a ' some 16 million people a ' accessed the Internet from mobile phones in December.

RightNow Technologies Inc. is poised to benefit from a number of factors including expanded business opportunities for a new product that monitors customer conversations over social networking sites, an analyst said Monday as he upgraded the company's stock.

The South African Afrikaans rap group performed self-styled "Zef" music with explicit lyrics, which has raised some eyebrows in South Africa's mostly conservative Afrikaans community Marius Bosch JOHANNESBURG, S.AFRICA: A South African Afrikaans rap group has taken the Internet by storm with explicit in-your-face lyrics, provocative performances ...

Mary Brophy Marcus USA Today A new report paints a picture of how teens and young adults are using social media these days.

Saveology.comA , a consumer comparison-shopping portal focused on lowering the cost of living for households by providing valuable cost savings on known brands and services, announced today Michael Aronowitz : , Chief Marketing Officer of Saveology.comA , : will join as a guest speaker during the CableLabsA Cable Information Services Summit in ...

WHEN Angela and Maryanne Vourlis woke up yesterday, their 20th birthday, they logged on to Facebook expecting to read well wishes and greetings from friends.

First, the independent Ross Perot contingent. Then, the liberal "netroots" mobilization.

Cynthia Frank is one of a growing number of pet owners using social networking sites to show off their animals and connect with other pet lovers.

Madden NFL has traditionally been a cash cow for EA but the next game that comes out might not cost you a penny.

Following public pressure, the Jakarta governors office has announced that it will remove a statue of President Obama as a boy from a park in the Indonesian capital.

Why is the 'Bollywood sena' not taking a stand against the Shiv Sena?, ask Shah Rukh Khan's miffed fans who say a majority of the film fraternity has chosen to keep quiet on the Shiv Sena attacking the superstar for his stand on Pakistani players in the Indian Premier League .

Friends of schoolgirl Francesca McFall, who is believed to have been murdered by her father, have been speaking of their shock at her brutal killing.

The swearing-in this week of Republican Scott Brown as the junior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts caps a dramatic, come-from-way-behind election campaign that owes much, though not everything, to a shrewd use of online information technology and social networking.

FriendFinder Networks Inc., the publisher of Penthouse magazine, became the third U.S. company to postpone an initial public offering this year amid the deepest stock-market slump since March.