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Research In Motion, typically considered an enterprise device developer, continues to push its consumer strategy with new services announced Thursday, including MySpace and Tivo applications and a music service for BlackBerry users.

The era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform.

Chris Carrara thought it was interesting that Ticketmaster set up a Facebook site and almost overnight gained more than 150,000 "fans." So he started looking at page after page of Ticketmaster "fan" pages and discovered most had no "friends" at all. Given that the whole point of Facebook is to connect to people you know, he found that odd and began to wonder if maybe, just maybe, Ticketmaster was just making up "friends" to show how popular it is:

A report released by MessageLabs, a UK-based security vendor, found that nearly 20 percent of organizations blocked social networking and dating sites in February due to concerns about employee productivity and malware. In addition, the number of websites blocked by filters was nearly 47 percent, which, according to MessageLabs, should spur IT departments to update their electronic use policies to reflect newer Web 2.0 technologies.

An executive at Microsoft has an unusual idea for beating spammers. Powerful software tools and supercomputers aren't involved, but kittens are.

To sharpen the quality of images in its Virtual Earth mapping application, Microsoft has signed a deal with DigitalGlobe's GlobeXplorer, a provider of aerial and satellite photos.

The Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco last week was intended as a gathering of the best Internet minds talking strategy, but at times it felt like a big group hug: "Congratulations, we survived the bubble bursting!"

Google and Yahoo ranked at the top on customer satisfaction at e-business Web sites, according to a report that measures search engines, portals and online news and information sites.

Citrix Systems agreed Thursday to acquire application acceleration hardware vendor NetScaler for around US$300 million (AU$397.5 million) in cash and stock.

Media conglomerate IAC/InterActiveCorp agreed Monday to buy search and portal Web site operator Ask Jeeves in a stock-swap deal the companies valued at around US$1.85 billion.

System administrators looking for an open source alternative to expensive network management and monitoring application suites might find the Nagios software suite worthy of a test drive.