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'Facebook Shutting Down' and 3 Other Rumors About the Site
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsLet's just be clear: Facebook is not shutting down. A ridiculous rumor began circulating over the weekend that the Internet's premier social network will be closing up shop on March 15, 2011. And while, hypothetically speaking, pulling the plug on Facebook would be a fascinating experiment in drastically altering how people communicate, the company denies it has any plans to stop operating. According to one theory, the rumor is the result of a satirical article published by tabloid site the Weekly World News. Mashable reached out to Facebook Director of Corporate Communications Larry Yu, who ...
What Will Apple Reveal At Tuesday's iTunes Event?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 15) --Even by Apple hype standards, the message currently posted on the company's website is enough to get make you wonder what Steve Jobs has in store for the world. "Tomorrow is just another day," the screen's text reads. "That you'll never forget." Yes, Apple is at it again, whetting appetites for yet another product roll out. On Tuesday at 10 a.m. , the company will hold an event to announce changes to iTunes, just in time to squash a little of that @Facebook.com thunder. The Apple.com home screen currently features four clocks -- California, New York, Tokyo, and London -- ...
Verizon iPhone Confirmed by Wall Street Journal: Instant Reactions
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 6) -- The bell has tolled. Apple Inc. intends to mass-produce a new iPhone model in the coming months that will allow Verizon Wireless to sell the smart phone by early 2011, according to The Wall Street Journal. Apple has held an exclusive deal with AT&T since introducing the iPhone in 2007. Did someone say "Veriphone?" According to the report: "The new iPhone would be similar in design to the iPhone 4 currently sold by AT&T Inc. but would be based on an alternative wireless technology called CDMA used by Verizon, these people said. The phone, for which Qualcomm Inc. is providing a ...
'Eff You' LeBron! Celtics Re-Sign Delonte West
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 2) -- The burgeoning rivalry between the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat just got a lot more, well, heated, as the Celtics just re-signed Delonte West, who played alongside LeBron James with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Until recently, West was best known as the guard who was arrested for being caught on a three-wheel motorcycle with loaded guns and a guitar case, "El Mariachi" style. But then came James' uninspired play in the playoffs and subsequent bolting to Miami to team up with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. Rumors have swirled that West was sleeping with James' mom, Gloria, which ...
Prop 8 Judge's Personal Life Debated After Ruling
By not in system - AOL NewsSAN FRANCISCO (Aug. 6) -- The federal judge who overturned California's same-sex marriage ban this week is a Republican who once came under fire for his membership to a powerful all-male club that had only recently allowed blacks to join. But after Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn Walker struck down the voter-approved ban known as Proposition 8, he became something else in the minds of some: a gay activist. Rumors have circulated for months that Walker is gay, fueled by the blogosphere and a San Francisco Chronicle column that stated his sexual orientation was an "open secret" in legal and gay ...
Palin Denies Internet Speculation That She Had 'Work' Done
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyIt's come to this. Former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska has publicly denied Internet rumors that she had breast enhancement surgery. It all started when the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate showed up at the Belmont Stakes in New York a week ago in an outfit that some thought made her look, well, bustier than she had previously appeared. Fox News' host Greta Van Susteren asked her directly about the speculation on her show "On the Record." "No I have not had implants," Palin said. "I can't believe we're even talking about this." "I think a report like that is about as real and ...
N.Y. Gov. David Paterson: Shadowboxing Rumors About . . . Who Knows?
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyLike troubled politicians before him, New York Democratic Gov. David Paterson appeared on Larry King's CNN show Thursday night to denounce "salacious and outrageous charges" and to liken his ordeal to a "Kafka-esque situation." Paterson even had to sit there placidly when King (who has been married eight times himself) asked, "Do you have an open marriage?" But what makes Paterson's plight a modern media parable is that he is going up against The New York Times over a story that has never been printed. Welcome to the wacky world of America's most beleaguered sitting governor not named Mark ...
NY Gov. Paterson Faces Frenzy of Rumors
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Feb. 10) -- It's like watching a dog chase its tail. New York politicians and reporters are caught up in a dizzying swirl of rumors about what's in a story The New York Times is doing on embattled Gov. David Paterson. There were whispers of a "bombshell" to be dropped Monday -- then delayed until Wednesday -- about a scandal involving sex or drugs or maybe something else that would force Paterson to resign. Nobody really knows because the Times story doesn't exist yet. Even so, with every passing day that the article doesn't appear, the media circus gets a little wackier. The governor's ...
Palin and Book Banning
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThere's a lot of misinformation out there regarding the books that Sarah Palin doesn't want your children to read. Phony lists have been sent around the Internet, and some have wrongly claimed she wanted to physically burn books she and her church deemed offensive. But while those rumors are unfounded, the story of how Palin inquired about the removal of certain books from the public library -- and the subsequent firing of Wasilla's chief librarian -- raises, yet again, questions about Palin's fitness for executive office. ABC's Brian Ross recently filed this report:In tandem with the ...
Obama: 'Back Off!'
By Dave - Politics DailyObama definitely needed to get in front of this and he has:Barack Obama said Monday he was offended by claims his campaign fanned rumors about Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin, telling the press to "back off" stories about her pregnant daughter.... "I hope I am as clear as I can be. So in case I am not, let me repeat, we don't go after people's families, we don't get them involved in the politics. It is not appropriate and it is not relevant," Obama told reporters in Michigan. ... Obama also noted that his late mother had given birth to him when she was only 18. "I would strongly ...
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