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New Facebook Data Center Uses All Home-Grown Servers
Nearly all the technology in the new Facebook data center in Lulea, Sweden, from the servers to the power distribution systems, is based on Open Compute Project designs.
Are your kids surfing, chatting, posting and sharing online this summer?

Bell Media Partners with Twitter For Perfect Pairing of Twitter and TV
Bell Media is the first Canadian broadcaster to partner with Twitter for Canadian television-related industry research
Pinterest, the next social network to go out of this world?
Chris Hadfield, the Canadian astronaut who captured international attention with his prolific use of Twitter, Nyberg will likely be using the social network to communicate her experiences to those of us still back on Earth.
Dell Launches Second Phase of Social Media Training for Channel Partners

Police nab woman for hitting cyclist after reading her tweets
Everyone knows by now to be careful what you tweet: parents could read it, employers could read it, and in the case of a rash tweet made by a British woman, the police are reading it, too.
Gartner Says India Has The Potential To Lead The World In The Nexus Of Social, Mobile, Cloud And Information But May Waste The Opportunity
Key Issues Faced By Infrastructure and Operations Leaders Will Be Addressed At The Gartner Infrastructure, Operations and Data Centre Summit, 13-14 May in Mumbai
Facebook May Buy Crowdsourced Map Firm Waze for $1B
Analyst Avi Greengart questioned whether the mapping aspect of Waze would be that important to Facebook. 
One-third of Canadians don’t go a day without checking social media: survey
One in three anglophone Canadians says not a single day goes by without checking into their social media feeds.
Twitter’s star Canadian hire faced with ‘incredible opportunity’

IBM Drives Enterprise Adoption of Big Data, Cloud, Mobile and Social Business Technologies
WestJet Improves Traveler Experience with Real-Time Interactions
Social business gets failing grade

HP Launches New Class of Server for Social, Mobile, Cloud and Big Data
Software defined servers designed for the data center and built for the planet
Will you turn your phone over to Facebook?

Wikipedia project raises concerns over social media in class
University of Toronto prof taken to task by online info portal for class editing project
IBM Social Sentiment Index: Analysis of Traffic in Five Canadian Cities Reveals Top Factors Citizens Feel Most Impact Congestion
Drivers in five major Canadian cities are stressed about their commutes and they are coping by using their thumbs and tweeting about it, according to the IBM Social Sentiment Index.
Gartner Says Second-Screen Users Will Drive Social TV Activities
Most Social TV Experiences Are Delivered Through Companion Apps for Portable Devices, Rather Than TVs
Researchers say Facebook Likes Reveal a Lot About You
Privacy advocate Marc Rotenberg said the study showed it was possible to use the data to infer information about Facebook users that they might not know they were revealing.
Facebook plans 7 March media event to unveil new News Feed
The News Feed, of course, is the centre of the Facebook homepage that lists status updates, photos, videos and more from people and Pages that you follow on Facebook.
LinkedIn's Diverse Revenue Stream Is a Strength
With a revenue stream that is both fast-growing and diversified, LinkedIn seems to have something that Facebook and other Internet companies lack.
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