WASHINGTON - Social networking tools like Twitter might offer a platform for people to make new friends, but it can also raise a variety of legal issues concerning the right of publicity, says an intellectual property attorney.

WASHINGTON - Electrical engineers at UC San Diego have designed novel music discovery games on Facebook in order to improve their experimental music search engine that is capable of listening to new songs and accurately labelling them with words-with no help from humans.

WASHINGTON - With Facebook offering personalized URLs for its users, a media expert suggests that organizations, celebrities and politicians better claim theirs early, otherwise they may later have to battle cyber squatters.

CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. - A high school computer whiz didn't get a high grade for a recent feat: designing software to shut teachers out of the grading system.