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In attempting to sum up the world in 2010, one word comes to mind:connected. Everywhere we go we carry devices that keep us connected to something important to us. Be it a sleek new tablet letting you share photos with the person helping load your groceries, or a smartphone making sure you don’t miss that late night e-mail from a colleague; we are now constantly connected to the world around us, more than ever before.
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The U.S. Department of State is advising the Congress and foreign governments about the implications of WikiLeaks releasing a massive cache of U.S. diplomatic cables.

The famous whistleblower website recently announced that its next release will be seven times larger than the Iraq War Logs one and suggested that it will redefine global history.

Despite denying it, WikiLeaks is believed to be in possession of a few hundred thousand diplomatic cables from U.S. embassies around the world.
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On April 16, 2007, Virginia Polytechnic Institute was site to one of the most horrific incidents ever to take place on a college campus—a shooting in which the perpetrator killed over 30 people and wounded many others.
Americans make over 237 million 911 calls every year—that's well over half a million per day. Needless to say, Virginia Tech students and witnesses called 911 on that awful day. But during the catastrophe, they also repeatedly tried to send texts to 911. Unfortunately, local emergency communications centers weren't equipped to receive them.
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Spotify, one of the most popular music streaming services in Europe, is constantly attracting new members from the seven countries it currently supports. However, it seems that financially the company is not as prosperous as it might seem.

Spotify can only be enjoyed in Finland, France, Norway, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, and this restriction means that inhabitants of other countries do not have access to it.

The consequence is that the sources of revenue are limited, and even though, according to a recently published report, the company's revenue for UK for the past year was $ 18.1 million, it actually translates in a net loss of $26.7 million, because of all the expenses, sales and distribution.

In an attempt to minimize the significance of this financial report, a Spotify spokesperson said: “2009 saw us focus on establishing a new and innovative music service and bringing it to millions of people across Europe.”
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More than 200 students at the University of Central Florida have come forward to admit to cheating after their professor gave a lecture on ethics that has become a YouTube hit.

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After the Mulve music downloading app burst onto the scene in September, it didn’t take long for it to be closed down and cold water poured on the fun. Now, just a couple of months later, a new application has appeared which not only does everything that Mulve did, but adds more sources, integrates music discovery, last.fm, a playlist and download manager, videos, lyrics and more.

While its birth was a relatively low-key affair, the launch of Mulve into the mainstream proved to be quite the opposite. In September the news of its arrival was reported on dozens of sites but it all came crashing down just a few days later. Undoubtedly prompted by IFPI, BPI and the Big Four labels behind them, the British police moved to make an arrest. Mulve was no more.
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