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The Roman Catholic Church further solidified its place in the 21st Century today after Pope Benedict XVI sent out his first holy tweet via an Apple iPad to announce the launch of the Vatican's fresh new website, News.va. As a bonus, the 84-year-old pontiff gave his blessings to the digital realm. “Dear Friends, I just launched www.news.va. Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI,”… Read More

Increasingly aware that it needs to engage positively with the online world, the Vatican is hosting a one-day summit with 150 Catholic bloggers in an effort to reach out to the faith-based blogging community. The effort marks the first time the Vatican has officially engaged with bloggers, and reflect's the Catholic Church's realization that it needs to embrace the online world to communicate with the faithful and bring its message… Read More

The pope promoted the use of the digital world as a means of making the Gospel known in remarks to 20,000 pilgrims at his weekly audience Wednesday. He says that the Internet has brought about change in the way news is distributed and how people relate to each other. Benedict urges young people to use the potential of the Internet to build a better world through bonds of friendship and solidarity. He also underlines the need for a what… Read More

The Vatican has had its own website since 1995, but it’s attempting to reach further into the 21st century by launching its own, dedicated channel on YouTube, which will carry video and audio footage of the Pope’s speeches, as well as Vatican news. The Pope launched the venture by saying: "You must find ways to spread – in a new manner – voices and pictures of hope, through the internet, which wraps all… Read More

The Vatican has announced that is collaborating with Internet giant Google on a project to bring Vatican TV Center and Vatican Radio to the Internet—and part of the deal will apparently include Pope Benedict XVI getting his own YouTube channel. The Vatican says it will announce details at a news conference January 23rd, which will be presented by officials of the Holy See as well as Henrique de Castro, Gogole's managing… Read More

A new web tool has been developed by researchers in the US to track the identity of organizations that edit pages on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, andit’s revealed some very interesting and disturbing things.   The tool, called Wikipedia Scanner, has revealed that computers at the CIA madechanges to the entry about Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and that it appears the Vatican altered a page relating to Sin Fein… Read More

As another Holocaust Remembrance Day rolls around April 25, Encyclopedia Britannica announced today they were unveiling a new Web feature to

MusicMatch's popular Jukebox software is bundled with Apple's iPod MP3 player, but it's doubtful for how much longer. In September MusicMatch launched its own online MP3 download service as a rivalto Apple's iTunes Music Store. And last month Apple launched iTunes for Windows with a glitzy launch at which Bono – perhaps already thinking of a curl of white smoke rising above the Vaticanspelling the words “Yes,… Read More