He identifies Asia and Europe as the source of a large percentage of the world's junk e-mail, as well as other countries that are well insulated from American prosecution and lack strong cybercrime laws.

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Google's move is a sign that the world of social networking and that of other online services, such as e-mail and search, are rapidly converging.

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Three police investigations are currently examining allegations of phone hacking, e-mail hacking and corrupt payments to police at the News of the World and other papers owned by News International, the UK arm of News Corp.

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"It's important for African-Americans to see there are other race struggles going on in the world, " says Wells, whose e-book "Black Paris Profiles, " shares the stories of 24 black American and Afro-Caribbean folks who reinvented their lives here.

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The Linux subculture is a team of thousands of volunteer programmers across the world, most of whom have never met each other and communicate only by e-mail.

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Firms that have wrought technological miracles and left their commercial mark on the world usually have cellar-loads of reports, memos, e-mails, financial statements and other unpublished materials.

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