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Facebook Places lets mobile device owners with Facebook accounts share their exact location and find the whereabouts of their friends. The free service, starting to roll out now, can be accessed from iPhone, iPod Touch, Android devices, BlackBerry Torch and the iPad. - More

Welcome to Facebook — population 500 million. That’s about as many users as there are females in India. So it's not surprising that companies would get around to exploiting the house that Mark Zuckerberg built sooner or later. That goes triple for travel-related industries, whose clientele tend to be extremely active on social network... - More

SmartCruiser.com, a division of Palm Coast Travel, announced that it has launched its own proprietary cruise booking engine and a totally new site design. Previously, SmartCruiser.com used third-party software to power its site. - More

Masan, South Korea takes spot for fastest city in the world Russia remains the top attack traffic source, followed by U.S. and China Majority of mobile providers achieve average maximum speeds greater than 2 Mbps - More

Search giant could collaborate with makers of online game communities like Playfish, Zynga - More

IN-DEPTH: Interview with Doug Hesley, corporate director of revenue management, Norwegian Cruise Lines - More

Millions of Americans use Twitter – just don't ask any of them to pay for it. - More

Research Identifies Motivations for Consumers ‘Layering’ Online Interactions - More

MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of eMarketer's new report 'Maximizing the E-Mail/Social Media Connection,' to their collection of Social Networking market reports. - More

With Expedia, Orbitz, and other online travel stocks hovering just above the basement, news of Facebook and Google dancing around the travel niche cannot be thrilling. Online travel, in case you’ve been trapped in a dungeon somewhere, is about to take off like a rocket. For some that is. - More