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• Twitter moving into its own data center

  Twitter hopes to improve the reliability of its service by moving into its own, custom-built data center later this year, the company said on Wednesday.

• AOL offers new mobile portal, app

  AOL Thursday opened a new smartphone portal and introduced an application that will initially be exclusive to Android.

• Flipboard launches iPad app to adulation, rush of users

  Flipboard, a new iPad application that presents the news links in a user's Twitter and Facebook media streams in the style of a magazine, launched to immediate adulation on Wednesday but the rush of users meant a few glitches for early adopters.

• Twitter's tech problems take a toll on developers

  The recurrent technical problems that have affected Twitter for the past seven weeks have also taken a toll on developers of external applications built for the microblogging service.

• Birst offers concurrent user pricing for BI

  On-demand BI vendor Birst announced Tuesday that it is now offering the option of concurrent user pricing, a licensing model few BI providers use because it can limit the amount of money they make compared to typical "named user" pricing.

• Foursquare registers 100 millionth check-in

  Foursquare, the location-based social-networking service, registered its 100 millionth "check-in" on Monday evening, the company said Tuesday.

• Wikileaks turns submissions engine back on

  Wikileaks has turned back on its system that allows whistleblowers to securely submit documents to the site after it was down for maintenance, according to the organization's blog.

• Judge refuses to force Dutch ISP to block Pirate Bay

  Dutch anti-piracy foundation Brein has failed in its attempt to force Dutch ISP Ziggo to block access to The Pirate Bay. The famous torrent site will remain accessible for Ziggo subscribers.

• Crash course: HTML 5 video

  If you want to watch Internet-delivered video on your PC, the vast majority of Web sites have settled on a single, consistent way to do that. That's the good news. The bad news is that this single, consistent delivery system is Adobe Flash, with all its security and stability issues.

• Researchers: Password crack could affect millions

  A well-known cryptographic attack could be used by hackers to log into Web applications used by millions of users, according to two security experts who plan to discuss the issue at an upcoming security conference.

• Old Spice Guy: Most Brilliant Ad Campaign Ever?

  The Old Spice Guy is perfect, obviously. Zero body fat, the supernatural ability to embody masculine ideals, and a baritone deadpan delivery that instantly unleashes awesome into the world.

• Surveys: Social-networking users worry about privacy

  Privacy remains a concern for a significant portion of people who use social-networking sites, if the findings from two recent surveys are any indication.

• Mobile Facebook users hit 150 million

  Facebook has about 150 million mobile users, up from just 100 million in April, and is counting on cell phones as the key platform for the future, according to the social-networking giant's head of mobile products, Eric Tseng.

• Man claims 84 percent ownership of Facebook

  A New York man has filed suit against Facebook claiming he owns 84 percent of the world's largest social network. Paul D. Ceglia, the man behind the lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, claims Facebook owes him damages relating to a 2003 contract between Ceglia and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

• Microsoft Outlook pulls in Facebook status updates

  You can now check your Facebook status updates and add friends within Microsoft Outlook, thanks to an update to the Outlook Social Connector plugin.