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Technology News
Virgin Media to trial fiber broadband over telegraph poles
Broadband provider looks at alternatives to putting cables in the ground

Virgin Media will use telegraph poles to extend the reach of FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) in a test in the UK village of Woolhampton, it said on Thursday.



MySpace connects with Microsoft Outlook
Social network aims to reinvent itself

Now under new management, MySpace is looking to reinvent itself and rise like a Phoenix from the ashes. The once dominant social networking site fell from nearly 70 percent of the social networking market, to only 30 percent in less than a year, and was plummeting on the verge of extinction.



Salesforce.com down for North American customers
Twitter abuzz with irritated cloud users

Salesforce.com customers were abuzz on Twitter Thursday morning as the result of what they described as a North American outage of the cloud computing service.



CA buys Nimsoft to expand cloud computing services
CA pays $350m for systems monitoring firm

CA continued its shopping spree, agreeing to buy IT management software maker Nimsoft for $350 million. 



States Bring Purpose-Driven Social Networking Tools to Schools

Should a state spend $1.15 million on a Web-based portal designed to connect students, support college and career transitions?