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Love a click away in Indonesia's Twitter Republic

12/02/2012 : He was a geeky kid from Yogyakarta, she a glamorous city girl in Jakarta. In a country with one of the world's most vibrant social networking scenes they fell in love on Twitter.
Europeans protest controversial Internet pact

12/02/2012 : Tens of thousands of people marched in protests in more than a dozen European cities Saturday against a controversial anti-online piracy pact that critics say could curtail Internet freedom.

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GPS court ruling leaves US phone tracking unclear
11/02/2012 : A US Supreme Court decision requiring a warrant to place a GPS device on the car of a criminal suspect leaves unresolved the bigger issue of police tracking using mobile phones, legal experts say.
Hacker group briefly knocks CIA website offline
11/02/2012 : The website of the Central Intelligence Agency was briefly inaccessible after the hacker group Anonymous claimed to have knocked it offline.
Facebook 'defriend' murders rattle tiny US town
11/02/2012 : A feud which started on Facebook ended with the early-morning slaying of a young Tennessee couple, found shot in the head with their sobbing baby still clutched in her dead mother's arms, police said.
Google users warned of threat to smartphone wallets
11/02/2012 : Users of Google smartphone wallets were being warned on Friday that there is a way to crack pass codes intended to thwart thieves from going on illicit shopping sprees.
Anonymous knocks CIA website offline
11/02/2012 : The website of the Central Intelligence Agency was inaccessible on Friday after the hacker group Anonymous claimed to have knocked it offline.
Video of US dad shooting daughter's laptop goes viral
11/02/2012 : A video of an angry American father pumping nine slugs from a handgun into his daughter's laptop has gone viral on YouTube and sparked an impassioned online debate over his parenting skills.
"Twisted Metal" gamers get shot at real gunplay
11/02/2012 : Fans of "Twisted Metal" will get to welcome a long-awaited sequel of the car-battle videogame with a real-world bang by blasting an ice cream truck to bits with a machine gun.
Expat French get Internet vote for first time
11/02/2012 : French citizens will for the first time this year be able to vote in a parliamentary election over the Internet, an experiment that could be extended to other elections if successful.
India probes Google over 'forex transactions'
11/02/2012 : Indian authorities are probing whether online giant Google broke domestic foreign-exchange transactions rules while shifting funds abroad, the Press Trust of India reported on Friday.
Germany freezes signing of disputed Internet pact
11/02/2012 : Germany on Friday halted the signing of a controversial international accord billed as a way to beat online piracy that has sparked angry protests, saying it needed more time to consider it.