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Popular online network MySpace.com will find it tough to win the kind of following it has on US college campuses as it expands into Asia. Like foreign Web brands before it, including South Korea’s Cyworld and Yahoo! Days, MySpace — which lets members look up friends’ blogs and songs posted by their favourite artists — may find its global label counts for little beyond its home market

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Universal Music has filed a suit against social networking site MySpace for violating copyrights of artists Universal represent.Universal, a division of Vivendi Universal, filed the complaint against MySpace, a unit of News Corp, in the federal court in Los Angeles, where News Corp and MySpace are located, MySpace spokesman Jeff Berman said. MySpace hosts thousands of personal web pages and diaries that carry text, video and sound features, defended its content on Friday, noting it is a free website and that it makes efforts to abide by the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Tribe.net

Networking company Cisco Systems is to buy the underlying technology assets of also-ran social networking site Tribe.net, according to a report in the New York Times. The paper says the announcement will be made this week.As the New York Times points out, it’s a curious match. With 55,000 employees, Cisco makes networking equipment for large companies, while Tribe.net has eight employees, and has been outpaced by successful social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook.

Broadband Year

Aiming to bring fruits of the digital revolution to more and more people, India has set a target providing 20 million broadband connections by the end of 2010. nine million broadband connections will be set up by the end of this year, which is being celebrated as Broadband Year.

Twitter,

Facebook, MySpace, Friendster and other social-networking Web sites already let users keep close tabs on their friends.next big thing in social networking is Twitter, a new service that lets users post short comments about what they are doing at any given time of the day via their cellphone, instant-messaging service or Web site.When a user submits an update, the service posts it online and sends it out to the person's list of friends.

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TUL Corp has announced the PowerColor X1950 SCS3, touted as the world's fastest silent graphic card. This graphic card runs passively, at the same time, maintaining its original specifications, including: 575MHz core engine, 1380MHz effective memory speed, 256MB GDDR3, and 36 pixel processors. The X1950 SCS3 comes with VIVO, HDCP, and is Windows Vista ready.

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Following in the footsteps of deals with MySpace and Facebook, eBay is now on board with Bebo, reports the Wall Street Journal. Social networking sites have a large teen user base, an age bracket eBay is keen to target. Over 50 percent of Bebo users are under 18, compared to eBay’s 35-44 age range. It is unclear at this point how the companies plan to enforce eBay’s minimum age limit of 18 on social websites where the minimum age is as low as 13.