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• Bill Gates launches Gates Notes to share his thoughts

  As if joining Twitter and rejoining Facebook in the same week weren't enough, Bill Gates has now launched a Web site on which he can share his thoughts.

• Tech tools tell the story of earthquake in Haiti

  The worst earthquake to hit the Caribbean in 200 years struck Haiti on Tuesday. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near the Haitian Capital of Port-au-Prince, where it devastated the tiny nation, causing an unknown number of deaths and widespread destruction. But despite being the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti's Internet connected devices were key tools in telling the rest of the world about the emerging crisis.

• Group behind Twitter hack takes down Baidu.com

  The group that took down Twitter.com last month has apparently claimed another victim: China's largest search engine Baidu.com.

• Twitter's own account caused blackout, says DNS provider

  Hackers redirected Twitter.com's traffic to a rogue Web site for more than an hour early today by accessing its DNS records using an account assigned to Twitter, the company that manages Twitter's DNS (Domain Name System) servers said today.

• Twitter to host developer's conference in San Francisco

  Twitter announced the organization of its first official developers conference, Chirp, in San Francisco.

• Facebook testing tool to push updates onto Twitter

  Facebook and its social networking compatriot Twitter are jointly taking new steps to help users share information.

• Tech mergers and acquisitions to grow in 2010

  After a glacially slow start to 2009 in the mergers and acquisitions market, tech companies started buying again in the second half of the year and analysts expect the resurgence in takeover activity to continue in 2010.

• Yahoo extends Twitter integration in search engine

  Yahoo will begin inserting Twitter posts directly into its general Web search results page on Thursday, expanding on an initial integration of Twitter into its search engine.

• Top quotes of the year

  As the year draws to a close, we thought about the memorable quotes related to IT and offer, in no particular order, 15 that stuck with us.

• Tibco's 'Tibbr' aims to be enterprise Twitter

  Middleware vendor Tibco said Monday it is preparing to release Tibbr, a messaging system with strong echoes of the popular Twitter microblogging service.

• Twitter previews new mobile site

  Twitter has built a mobile site from scratch for its social networking and microblogging service, acknowledging that the current one, while reliable, has an unimpressive user interface and a modest feature set.

• 'Twitter' is the Word of the Year

  The dramatic leap in the use of social networks this year has extended to the language that surrounds them.

• Get real business results from social media

  Can you tell which of the following tweets is from a small but rapidly growing company?

• Open-Xchange integrates Facebook, Twitter with e-mail inbox

  Open-source collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange plans to open its e-mail inbox to messages from social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

• Twitter turns on geolocation functionality

  Twitter is now allowing its externally built applications to provide geolocation features to end-users, after announcing its intention to do so in August.