WhitePages people search ( www.whitepages.com ) announced last week that they will add social network profiles from Twitter and Facebook to their people search engine. Users will now be able to search for a person’s phone number and address as well as profile pages on Facebook and Twitter for people. Whitepages hopes the addition of […]
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California’s Contra Costa county has implemented a new “data-mining” system that warns authorities of possible welfare fraud so authorities can catch individuals and groups before they steal large sums of money from the government. The new data mining system is designed to stop public assistance cheats and help prosecutors with fraud investigations. In a recent […]
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A report by online ad network Millenial Media shows that, despite the bad economy, mobile web users are increasingly visiting online dating sites during the holidays. Millenial Media is one of the largest mobile ad networks and their records show that peoples’ response levels with advertising for online dating services grew 19 percent during the […]
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A chat on a phone dating service led to the arrest of an Evansville, Indiana man on drug charges. A woman called police after talking to Lawrence McDonald on a telephone dating service Friday night. McDonald reportedly told the woman during their talk that he was engaged in a sexual act with a minor. The […]
In what could be another new low for self-centered and obsessive social networking, CNN is reporting that a mother in Florida was busy on Twitter while her 2 year old son was helplessly drowning in the family’s backyard pool. Then, within minutes of discovering her son’s death, the social networking mother was back on Twitter […]
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