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Top 10 of the World's Theme Parks Battle for Social Dominance

Entertainment

Theme parks operators have a great synergy with social media.... keep coming up with cool stuff for people to play with and they will return billions of dollars in global word-of-mouth advertising. According to the Travel and Leisure, the Magic Kingdom is still the world's No. 1 most popular theme park, with more than 17 million annual visitors. The others rounding...

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Entertainment

Sony Website & Customer Accounts Hit with New Wave of Attacks

Sony just can't seem to catch a break. After locking down and overhauling its online services due to a cyber attack that revealed the personal information of over 100 million account holders -- and fixing a snafu in its password reset system -- Sony is under the gun once again....

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Social Media

It's Official - CoffeePledge Steam Reaches 300K Cups

CoffeePledge broke the 300K cups milestone officially at 5:23pm EST today, with its more than 40,000 user accounts. The world's first social media movement to leverage the coffee industry to fight cancer, is merely in its first 90 days of birth, and has already begun to build steam with social...

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Social Media

Starbucks is a Growing Brand Favorite on the CoffeePledge Network

As the total cups pledged continue to add up... so do the user requests to add favorite coffee brands to the cause. As of today, 44,000+ users nationwide have pledged to purchase more than 322,000 cups during CoffeeWeek 2011, to support the fight against cancer. Users have selected Starbucks as...

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Social Media

The World's 1st Coffee Social Network Launches

CoffeePledge officially launched its social network today for its 40,000+ users. The world's first social media movement to leverage the coffee industry to fight cancer, is still in its first 120 days of birth, and is beginning to heat up the pot of tens of thousands of coffee-lovers world-wide.CoffeePledge's social...

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Technology

5 Things You Need to Know about the iPad 2 Launch

It's the day after Apple's iPad 2 announcement, and by now you know the new device has two cameras and is thinner faster and lighter than the original. But are you ready for Friday, March 11, when the iPad 2 will go on sale? Apple's original iPad drew big crowds...

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Social Media

Top 10 Tweets While Facebook Was Down

Facebook crashed on Thursday, September 23, 2010. With its 500 million + users up in arms, die-hard Twitter users and rookies alike took advantage of the situation. The humor varied from witty to snarky, from observant to lame. Many claimed they "didn't care" or made snide remarks about the people...

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Entertainment

"American Idol" new judges to be unveiled Wednesday

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "American Idol" will unveil its new judging panel next Wednesday, ending months of speculation following the departure of old hands Simon Cowell, Ellen DeGeneres and Kara DioGuardi, Fox said on Thursday. The network said it would announce the lineup at the Los Angeles Forum, an arena...

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'Idol' contestant Adam Lambert accused of battery

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Former American Idol contestant Adam Lambert is accused of simple battery on a photographer on Miami Beach. A police report says 38-year-old Victor Eras was taking pictures of the singer Thursday when Lambert started running toward him "in an aggressive manner." Eras claims Lambert grabbed his...

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Entertainment

Netflix raises curtain on iPhone instant streaming

Netflix execs have been teasing us for months about an instant streaming app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Indeed, they've been promising it for so long that I'd pretty much forgotten about it. Until now. Netflix took the wraps off its new app -- or, to be more precise,...

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Entertainment

Google reportedly courts Hollywood for (more) YouTube movie rentals

Google has been dabbling in streaming movie rentals for months now, but word has it that the search giant wants to plunge into the pay-per-view market head-first. Hollywood, meet YouTube. You may have already seen YouTube's somewhat limited movie rental store, which opened in January with a handful of titles...

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Technology

Apple to end free case offer for iPhone 4 on Sept. 30

Claiming that the iPhone 4's infamous "death grip" problem is "even smaller than we originally thought," Apple announced Friday that it would end its offer of free cases for all iPhone 4 owners by the end of the month. After that, says the notice on Apple's Web site (which was...

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Entertainment

Hands-on with Halo : Reach

After last year's disappointing Halo 3: ODST and my personal "meh" reaction to the Halo: Reach multiplayer beta back in June, I figured I was pretty much Halo-ed out. After many hours of furious fragging with the final version of Reach, however, I learned that my love of Halo was...

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Technology

Is Apple eyeing newspaper subscriptions for the App Store?

Newspapers and tablet PCs sound like a match made in heaven, and publishers are understandably eager to boost sagging revenue by launching iPad-friendly versions of their respective rags. So guess who reportedly wants to help -- for a piece of the action? Nothing's confirmed yet, but the San Jose Mercury...

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Sports

Tiger Woods picked for U.S. Ryder Cup team

Some people can win for losing. Tiger Woods, who has yet to finish better than fourth at a professional golf tournament this year, was named to the U.S. Ryder Cup team Tuesday. Corey Pavin made Woods one of his four captain's picks, even though Tiger's best finishes this season --...

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Sports

Heisman Trophy to be taken away from Reggie Bush

The Heisman Trophy Trust, giver of the stiff-arm trophy, is giving Reggie Bush another stiff penalty. The trust is making him the first player in the 75-year history of the college football award to have the trophy taken away. It's only right. The running back should not have been allowed...

By Butch Maier | THE MAIER OF HOLLYWOOD