Connecticut,United States

The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.

U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a tantalizing glimpse of issues related to privacy and crime-fighting.

Think you know who's behind that "friend" request? Think again. Your new "friend" just might be the FBI.

The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too. U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a tantalizing glimpse of issues related to privacy and crime-fighting.

Think you know who's behind that "friend" request? Think again. Your new "friend" just might be the FBI.

Paul Karpowicz has nothing against broadband. But he has no plans to take part in a government effort to bring it to more homes.

Karpowicz is president of Meredith Broadcasting, which owns 12 local TV stations from Portland, Ore., to New Haven, Conn. Meredith also holds unused TV airwaves covering some of those markets and Karpowicz intends to use them to stream programming to handheld devices.

La crisis y las deudas siguen persiguiendo a la fotógrafa estadounidense Annie Leibovitz (Connecticut, 1949), quien en 2009 ya había tenido problemas importantes en sus finanzas. Esta vez ha recurrido a un fondo de inversión privado norteamericano para hacer frente a las cuantiosas deudas que amenazaban con hacerle perder los derechos sobre el trabajo de una vida, según ha informado el Financial Times en su edición impresa.

La crisis y las deudas siguen persiguiendo a la fotógrafa estadounidense Annie Leibovitz (Connecticut, 1949), quien en 2009 ya había tenido problemas importantes en sus finanzas. Esta vez ha recurrido a un fondo de inversión privado norteamericano para hacer frente a las cuantiosas deudas que amenazaban con hacerle perder los derechos sobre el trabajo de una vida, según ha informado hoy el Financial Times en su edición impresa.

A growing number of police departments are turning to mobile camera systems to fight motor vehicle theft and identify unregistered cars.

The cameras read license plates of parked and moving cars -- hundreds per minute -- and check them against vehicle databases, said Lance Clem, a spokesman for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, which purchased several systems for its police vehicles last fall.

TXU Energy, a large Texas utility company, will lease rooftop solar power systems to their customers in the Dallas area.

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