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Facebook has reportedly introduced a "Pay Later" option allowing users to spend Credits, its universal virtual currency system for social games and apps, that they don't have and pay for them later. When users who have never purchased Credits try to buy virtual goods in a Facebook game, the social network presents a pop-up asking them if they want to pay later and receive a bill for the game. The site then sends an email receipt and shows a negative Credits balance on their Games dashboard.

In what her lawyer said is a first-of-its-kind case, Melanie Beacham, of St. Petersburg, Fla., filed a complaint against MarkOne Financial, LLC, alleging that employees of the Jacksonville, Fla.-based company harassed her and her family members over Facebook to intimidate her into paying an alleged debt.

Yesterday, Google made its first foray into fashion with Boutiques.com, the search engine’s new, flashy e-commerce site. The New York Times said that the site “significantly improves how fashion is presented and sold online.” That’s some high praise.

At time of publication, "Here Comes the Sun" is the top Beatles song, charting at number 19 on the iTunes list. There are currently 55 Beatles songs in the Top 200 songs, which means the Beatlemania has infected more than a quarter of the list. It's not just individual songs that have been popular, either. All 13 of the Beatles' studio albums were released on Tuesday in addition to a two-volume Past Masters set and the Red and Blue collections. Each of these is listed in Top 200 albums. Even the lowest album on the list, "Beatles for Sale," is still pretty popular at the 38th spot. iTunes currently lists three Beatles albums on its top 10. Abbey Road is in the number five position, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is number nine, and The Beatles 1967-1970 (The Blue Album) has grabbed the tenth spot. "We're really excited to bring the Beatles' music to iTunes," former Beatle Paul McCartney said in a statement. "It's nice to see the songs we originally released on vinyl receive as m

Google has fired the worker who leaked word that it's handing out $1,000 holiday bonuses and companywide raises of at least 10 percent, according to a report in CNNMoney.com. The worker leaked the news to, among others, . CNNMoney says several sources tell it that, within hours, Google informed staffers it had dismissed the leaker, who wasn't identified. CNNMoney says Google wouldn't comment on the leak or the firing.

Recognizing the market dominance of onetime rival Facebook, MySpace is making it possible for users to carry over their likes and interests from their Facebook profile to their MySpace page. More Software Insights White Papers Data Center Evolution Without Revolution Missing the Mark in Middle-Market Outsourcing: Configuration vs Customization Reports Sun's Future Under Oracle The Right Place For Social Networking Videos nformationWeek's Andrew Conry-Murray spoke with Mike Rowland about Joe Tucci's speech at the EMC World convention in Las Vegas. Mike is the Creative Support Manger of Cabela's. MySpace, which was once the largest online social network, made a dramatic attempt this summer to revive its fortunes through a major redesign of the site around entertainment, creating a place where people can get information on, share, and discuss celebrities, music, movies, and TV. In doing so, MySpace ceded to Facebook the job of providing a place for people to discuss and share the late

In a sign of the companies' divergent fortunes, MySpace said Thursday it will let its users log in to their Facebook accounts through their MySpace page. Doing so will port the likes and interests they have listed on their Facebook profiles to MySpace, where they will get a stream of entertainment content based on these interests. MySpace users have already been able to sync their status updates to their Facebook profiles. Thursday's announcement is a deeper integration of Facebook's technology into MySpace. It doesn't involve any financial transactions.

The holiday shopping season has yet to officially begin, but retailers already have a big seller on their shelves. Microsoft (Stock Quote: MSFT) has sold a million units of Kinect in the first 10 days of the gaming system’s release. The company hopes that the momentum continues through the busiest shopping day of the year during Thanksgiving weekend.

Twitter is testing a new People tab, positioned next to the Home, Profile and Messages tabs on the home page. The new feature suggests friends for you, lets you browse Twitter users through interests, or find new Twitter buddies through other services such as Gmail, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Hotmail and Messenger. It also shows the accounts you've recently followed and viewed, with the ability to quickly browse accounts that are similar to those you've followed.

Contacted by Engadget, Woz said he was misquoted and defended the iPhone, having clearly touched a nerve back at Apple through the misattributed remarks. "Almost every app that I have is better on the iPhone," he said in a recorded phone conversation posted by Engadget.

The four largest recording companies claim in court papers that Lime Wire, the company behind the LimeWire file-sharing service, has thumbed its nose at a court injunction that requires the peer-to-peer network be shut down, CNET has learned. Lime Wire posted this note to its Web site the day a federal judge ordered the file-sharing service be shut down. (Click to enlarge.) "Defendants have demonstrated in no uncertain terms that they either will not or cannot do what the injunction commands," wrote lawyers working for the Recording Industry Association of America.

Every week, sister iPhone and iPad site FingerGaming rounds up the top-grossing iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad applications, as current that day in the iTunes App Store, and this chart is now available on Gamasutra. This week's U.S. revenue charts see Smurfs' Village and Cut the Rope leading iPhone sales, while Robokill emerges as a top seller on the iPad.

It seems we can't all get along. It seems that everyone is splitting up these days. Today, one reads of Eva Longoria filing divorce papers against the San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker. Indeed, the Huffington Post now has a whole section devoted just to divorce. Can we possibly blame the Church of Social Networking, Facebook, for these woes? Or at least some of them? Might Facebook be to blame for creating so many desperate housewives and husbands? One man of God, the Rev. Cedric Miller, believes that all married couples should close their Facebook accounts in order to protect the sanctity of their marriages.

Worried that today's kids are getting lazy? Well brace yourself: Nintendo's new video games can play themselves. Just what is the world coming to? In a move to help struggling gamers negotiate tricky parts of a game, Nintendo has started releasing games with a built-in auto-pilot mode. You'll be able to "play" the latest game -- Donkey Kong Country Returns -- when it is released for the Wii on Sunday.

This has turned into the year of Internet TV, or at least the year of the Internet set-top box. Google has launched its TV play. Apple and Roku have updated their Internet STBs, and Boxee (a cult favorite among techies and hackers) has moved beyond just software and delivered its own hardware box as well.

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Users of Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 can sync their Office documents to the Google cloud, without ever leaving Office. Once synced, documents are backed-up, given a unique URL, and can be accessed from anywhere (including mobile devices) at any time through Google Docs. And because the files are stored in the cloud, people always have access to the current version.

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