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Twitter's been the subject of embarrassing outages, spam concerns, and serious questions about its general usefulness.  None of this seems to matter much, though, as new data from Compete shows that the service is growing at an extremely impressive rate.

Okay, so I may have been wrong when I said Hillary Clinton wasn't as popular as some gym socks. That was based on a completely unscientific straw poll of every sensible person I know. Hitwise has data, though, that suggests otherwise. Traffic to Hillary's website after her big announcement trounced Barack Obama's website traffic.

It's not so much suicide that's causing alarm in Japan - death by one's own hand is woven into the nation's fabric - it's who's committing it and how. Just this week, nine people in two separate events were found dead in their cars after forming Internet suicide pacts, and the trend is on the rise.

The boys and girls and blinkx said they've added a few new friends to their list, doubling the number of content partners and in the process, adding quite a bit of video content to their already large database.

Three models of the Mac mini will include 512 MB of memory, with the starting price remaining at $499.

The importance of having a complete index should never be underestimated when it comes to search. All the relevance algorithms in the world don't mean much if the indexes being searched aren't the least bit comprehensive.

They say money can't buy happiness, but somebody ought to be happy that Bill Gates and his Gates Foundation are putting up $250 million more in the name of global health.

Bill Gates announced that the Gates Foundation will more than double its funding for the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, which was launched in 2003.