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Russian businessman trademarks emoticon

December 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · The Web

A series of punctuation marks used to convey a wink in text messages – known as an emoticon – has been trademarked in Russia, says a local businessman. – BBC News A businessman from Russia has apparently succeeded in trademarking the winking smiley (or emoticon), . Oleg Teterin says he won’t go after individual users [...]

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Woman killed over Facebook post

October 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Blah

Just saw this BBC News story. Man killed wife in Facebook row A man has been jailed for life for stabbing his wife to death over a posting she made on the social networking site Facebook. Full story, BBC News The guy was obviously out of his mind, but I guess her changed relationship status [...]

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