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    Federal communications regulators proposed new rules on Tuesday that they say will help bring broadband to all of rural America.


  • Wael Ghonim (center), the 30-year-old Google Inc. marketing manager who was a key organizer of the online campaign that sparked the first Egyptian protest on Jan. 25, talks to the crowd in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Newly released from detention, Mr. Ghonim was greeted by cheers, whistling and thunderous applause when he declared, "We will not abandon our demand, and that is the departure of the regime." (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

    PANNER: Accelerating change in Egypt

    As an Internet entrepreneur, I am watching events in Egypt with a different perspective. What is playing out on the streets in Cairo has a strange resonance with what is playing out on the commercial Internet today.


  • Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard grimaces as he heads to the bench after being hit in the face during play by Boston Celtics center Semih Erden in the first half of an NBA basketball game in Boston on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

    Magic's Dwight Howard annoyed by contract talk

    Magic center Dwight Howard says he is annoyed by the recent talk about his contract and the possibility he would leave Orlando when he becomes a free agent.


  • SANDERS: Revolution and common sense

    "A revolution is not a tea party."


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Ujjwal Singh, here with fellow Google employee Steve Crossan and Twitter Vice President Katie Stanton, devised a way of letting fans share voice messages with celebrities; it has been repurposed to help Egyptian protesters.

    Google keeps Egyptians tweeting

    Even before his first day on the job at Google, Ujjwal Singh was trying to figure out how to use his passion for the spoken word and the company's technological prowess to help Egyptians bypass government efforts to muzzle the massive protests there.


  • Advertisers make their pitch during Super Bowl

    In the Super Bowl of advertising, Eminem was everywhere, Roseanne Barr took a big hit from a log and Joan Rivers became a GoDaddy girl.


  • How Google removed the muzzle on Twitter in Egypt

    Even before his first day on the job at Google, Ujjwal Singh was trying to figure out how to use his passion for the spoken word and the company's technological prowess to help Egyptians bypass government efforts to muzzle the massive protests there.


  • Astronaut Mark Kelly prepares to discuss his decision to command the final flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavor during a news conference at Johnson Space Center  on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011 in Houston. Kelly's wife, Representative Gabrielle Giffords is recuperating from a gunshot wound to the head in a Houston hospital.  AP Photo / Michael Stravato)

    Giffords' astronaut husband decides to fly shuttle

    The astronaut husband of wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will head to space in April, a decision announced almost one month to the day that his wife was shot in the head.


  • MSU suspends G Ravern Johnson for critical tweets

    Mississippi State's Ravern Johnson has been suspended for Saturday's game against LSU because of "inappropriate tweets" sent following the team's 75-61 loss to Alabama on Wednesday.


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