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92 arrested in northern Nigeria after recent religious violence the CNN Wire StaffBy 

January 1, 2011 -- Updated 0730 GMT (1530 HKT)

Jos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigerian authorities on Friday arrested 92 people allegedly affiliated with a militant Islamist group that the government says is responsible for a string of recent killings in the country's northeast. Police blame the group, Boko Haram, for attacks Wednesday that left three police officers and one civilian dead in Maiduguru and for Christmas Eve attacks on two Christian churches in the city that left five dead. Borno state Police Commissioner Mohammed Abubakar said those arrested were "members of a dangerous religious fundamentalist  (that) is anti-government." Maiduguru is the capital of Nigeria's Borno state. According to IHS Jane's, a defense and security analysis company, Boko Haram is a Sunni militant group that emerged in 2003 and is fighting for the implementation of strict Islamic law in NigeriaNigeria. Nigeria has been rocked by recent religious violence, with the government blaming it most of the recent attacks on Islamist extremists.

Christmas Eve attacks in the volatile city of Jos claimed at least 31 lives, but the Nigerian government has said it is unclear who is responsible. On Friday, there was a mass burial for 16 of the victims. "The perpetrators of this act are criminals under the guise of religion," said Benjamin Kwashi, the Anglican archbishop of Jos, at a memorial service. Three men were arrested with bombs in their possession in the vicinity of Jos on Christmas Day, authorities said The Jos region lies on a faith-based fault line between Muslim-dominated northern Nigeria and the mainly Christian south. At least four people were killed and another 13 wounded Friday in a bomb blast at an army barracks in Abuja, the deputy police commissioner said. 

How Facebook eclipsed Google in

2010

By Pete Cashmore, Special to CNN December 30, 2010 -- Updated 1510 GMT (2310 HKT) | FiBy Pete Cashmore, Special to CNN December 30, 2010 -- Updated 1510 GMT (2310 HKT) | Filed under: Social Medialed under: Social Media

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No. 1 most-visited site in the United States in (CNN) -- Facebook beat out Google as the 2010, according to Internet analytics firm Hitwise. 

How was Facebook able to outplay the former Web champion? And can Google make a comeback in 2011 and beyond? 

Let's begin by admitting that the Hitwise data doesn't represent the whole truth. For starters, Hitwise only measures unique visitors in the United States. What's more, Hitwise measures sites on a per domain basis: If the analytics firm were to include Google-owned YouTube in its calculations, Google's network of websites would outrank Facebook properties. 

Nonetheless, there's a tectonic shift at work here: Facebook, once easily dismissed as the next social networking fad, has seemingly discovered Google's weak spots. 

What are they, and can Google regain ground here? Identity Wars

The first area in which Facebook has bested Google is online identity. Remember the days when trying out a new website required entering your name, username, password and other details into a form? Now sites can opt to use your Facebook account for one-click signup, making life easier for both websites and their users. 

Facebook was able to make this move because the service was founded around the principle of real names. While this may have slowed Facebook's growth in its early days, the company now owns a massive database of more than 500 million identities, most of them real. 

As a result, Facebook is becoming the de facto identity system for the Web. The social optimization service Gigya claims that Facebook accounts for 46% of website logins

versus Google's 17%. 

Social struggles

Where else is Google behind? How about "social," one of the biggest Web trends of the past five years? Understanding the connections between people is Facebook's core competency, but Google has struggled to compete in the social networking arena. 

Google Buzz, widely considered a flop after a highly anticipated launch this year, unsuccessfully tried to turn Gmail contacts into social networking friends. Gmail users, it turned out, didn't need yet another social network, and didn't see their email contacts as synonymous with their real-life friends. That's a major hurdle for all of Google's social efforts: The company doesn't possess a "social graph" of our real-world connections. 

More troubling is that social gaming, with such Facebook hits as FarmVille, has become a megatrend over the past few years. Google has few inroads here. 

Google is expected to roll out a "social layer" uniting its Web properties in 2011, but the company has played down claims that it will launch a full social network, and expectations are low for Google's next social foray. Google could change its social fortunes through an acquisition, however: The purchase of social messaging service Twitter is the obvious move. 

Search Rivalry?

Google is synonymous with search and continued to reign supreme in 2010. Surely this is the one area in which the company can maintain its lead in the coming years. Google would indeed prove difficult to unseat in search, and yet Facebook may eventually gain a little ground here, too. Not only does Facebook possess a large database of every users' personal preferences, but its increasingly popular "Like" buttons allow members to express interest in particular Web pages. 

If the company felt so inclined, Facebook might be able to provide a search engine that delivers highly personalized results. Better still: Facebook may stockpile enough personal information to recommend relevant content without the need for a search box. 

Such a move is unlikely to unseat Google overnight, but this means of social discovery could lessen our dependence on search engines in the long haul. 

Google's big gains: Mobile, video

Facebook is only "beating" Google if we limit the playing field to the Web. But in the rapidly growing mobile sector, Facebook is a minor player. 

While the leading social network is attempting to bring social features to phones, Google owns an entire operating system: Android. What's more, Android is spreading like wildfire and proving to be a real challenger to Apple's iOS. Facebook, meanwhile, doesn't even have an iPad app. 

What about watching online video, one of the Web's most popular activities? Yes, Google wins there, too: As the owner of YouTube, the company serves up the vast majority of online video views. In neither mobile nor video does Facebook look to be a threat to Google's position. 

Google will always retain the lead, meanwhile, in professional life: From collaborative document creation to enterprise email, it's hard to see Facebook challenging Google's role in the workplace. 

An uncertain victory

In 2010, Facebook challenged Google where it is weakest: Online identity and the social Web. Given that "social" is the Web's fastest-growing trend, it's hardly surprising that Facebook has benefited from the rising tide. 

And yet Facebook only outranks Google on that very narrow metric: U.S. Web traffic. As mobile operating systems and app stores grow in popularity, is Web traffic really an accurate measurement of an Internet company's success? 

Oh, and let's not forget that Google still crushes Facebook on the number that really counts: Revenue. 

Airline passengers unloaded after 11

hours waiting on JFK tarmac

By the CNN Wire Staff

December 29, 2010 -- Updated 0326 GMT (1126 HKT)

 -- Airline passengers who spent 11 hours stuck on the tarmac at John F.  -- Airline passengers who spent 11 hours stuck on the tarmac at John F. New York (CNN)Kennedy International Airport were unloaded Tuesday afternoon in the latest example of the frustrating effects of a massive blizzard that delayed thousands of would-be holiday travelers. The airport, airline and government officials engaged in finger-pointing over delays on the tarmac. "There were a lot of people on the plane crying," said passenger Christina Edgar. "It was really a tough situation." She called the situation "just a bad judgment call." "They kept trying to get us to go, and they kept us on the plane with no choice," Edgar said. Travelers aboard the Cathay Pacific Airways flight from Vancouver, British Columbia, arrived in New York at 2:12 a.m. ET on Tuesday. They got off the plane shortly after 1 p.m. ET.