With the aim to get an application that will let the users to view President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration on 20th January while interacting with other members, CNN. com is partnering with social networking site Facebook.

This integration will allow the users of Facebook to click onto a special CNN. com Live page to see the inauguration and other activities and they will also be able to stay on the page and still be linked to Facebook.

A novel authorized reseller program for Google Apps is being launched on Thursday by Google that will allow partnered businesses enfold Google Apps with their own services in special bundles that can be resold. Things like localized customer service, hardware installation, file migration, and special hosting for things that fall outside of Google's built-in Sites service would be included in it.

In the late afternoon on Tuesday, Carol Bartz, executive chairman of the board of Autodesk Inc. was confirmed as the new CEO of Yahoo! Inc. by the online company itself.

It has been learnt that Bartz will immediately start with the new role as CEO and a member of Yahoo!'s board of directors.

Via a statement, Roy Bostock, Chairman of Yahoo!'s board informed, “We are very excited to have Carol Bartz leading Yahoo! into its next era of growth. She is the exact combination of seasoned technology executive and savvy leader that the board was looking for.”

Since the Chinese authorities cracked down on online porn over the weekend, it shut down nearly 50 additional websites and also instructed Internet giants like Google to end any sort of links with such material.

It should be noted that as a part of a month-long campaign, that the government informs is aimed at stamping out online pornography, a total number of 91 sites have been shut down or blocked since Thursday.

Washington, Jan 12: Just one negative comment on you on the web may be enough to cost you your job, and to evade such an impact, an expert has now given tips on how to avoid and repair comments that could tarnish your internet image.

According to estimates, over 70 percent of employers do a Web search on job applicants as part of their hiring procedures, and more than 50 percent of them confess that they do not prefer applicants who are found to have negative information about them online.

Youth-focussed mobile service provider Virgin Mobile has announced that it has linked up with MySpace for offering social networking services. Virgin Mobile users would be glad to know that under the tie up, MySpace would offer its social networking services on Virgin Mobile's WAP-enabld phones starting at Rs 2,999.

Virgin Mobile's youth clients can access to world's major social networking site by simply click on the MySpace link on vBytes and log in the user ID and password. There will be a daily charge of just Rs 5 for accessing vBytes.