People like where they live for any number of reasons, but there are several stand-out qualities that ignite residents' passion for their communities - and how the area is dealing with the recession isn't one of them, according to a report released Tuesday by Gallup and the Knight Foundation.

A classmate from more than 20 years ago has contacted me on Facebook. Am I a jerk if I don’t accept?

To be honest, that depends. How well did you know said schoolmate? If you weren’t tight — we’re talking sharing dorm rooms or prom limos here, my friend — your obligation is borderline nonexistent.

Data allows tracking companies to attach unique identities to browsing behavior.

Many major social networking sites are leaking information that allows third party advertising and tracking companies to associate the Web browsing habits of users with a specific person, researchers warn.

That's the conclusion of a study on the leakage of personally identifiable information on social networks done at AT&T Labs and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

LONDON: Most people look for their long lost love on the Internet, a new survey has found.

The study found that one out of four people are using social networking sites like Facebook to search a childhood sweetheart. Search engine Ask Jeeves claims that nine percent even confessed trying to know details of a one-night stand.

Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government’s Web site, www.louisvilleky.gov, took third place in the 2009 Best of Web and Digital Government Achievement Awards, announced this week by e.Republic’s Center for Digital Government.

It’s the fourth consecutive year the site, which gets more than 14 million hits a month, has been named a top Web award winner.

“We’ve got a wonderful Web site, and it’s nice that others around the country recognize it,” said Mayor Jerry Abramson in a press release.

MARTINSBURG - The popular online social networking site Facebook helped lead to an alleged burglar's arrest after he stopped to check his account on the victim's computer, but forgot to log out before leaving the home with two diamond rings.

Jonathan G. Parker, 19, of Fort Loudoun, Pa., was arraigned Tuesday one count of felony daytime burglary.

According to court records, Deputy P.D. Ware of the Berkeley County Sheriff's Department responded on Aug. 28 to the victim's home after she reported the burglary.

By Chad Berndtson, ChannelWeb

If you're a "malvertising" maven with a yen for Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) AdManager, Microsoft wants a piece of you.

Microsoft this week filed five civil lawsuits in Seattle's King County Superior Court alleging that unknown individuals using various business names used Microsoft's online ad platform, Microsoft AdManager, to distribute malicious software.

Two-thirds of news stories are inaccurate, three-quarters are biased, according to a national poll by the Pew Research Center, which also found a heavy reliance on TV news.

The survey of 1,500 adults in July found that 63 percent of those polled thought news stories often are inaccurate compared with 29 percent who say stories are accurate.

Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon.

A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom.

Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.

Telkom said it was not responsible for the firm's slow internet speeds.

Online infidelity goes by many names: cyber affairs, cyber cheating, online affairs, internet affairs, internet infidelity.

All these terms apply to the same thing – a romantic affair involving intimate or sexually explicit communication between two people, one of whom is married or in a committed relationship, which is conducted primarily in cyberspace or over the internet.

Online affairs are the “flavor of the day” when it comes to infidelity and extramarital affairs.