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Microsoft continues to develop and introduce strategies designed to increase its share of the search engine market, and the latest initiative involving an evolution to the existing partnership with Facebook is by no means an exception from the trend. Following the launching of the SearchPerks program at the start of ... |
8 October 2008
05:42 GMT |
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All Points Bulletin from Realtime Worlds is said to be the closest thing to a Grand Theft Auto MMO we're going to have until Rockstar finally decides to take the big step and create an open world multiplayer experience built on their very successful franchise.And now the developers are saying that they plan to c... |
7 October 2008
04:24 GMT |
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A group of researchers from the Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas, the Institute of Computer Science Greece, has demonstrated the threats that can be employed via Facebook applications. The scientists created a simple application, called “Picture of the Day,” which promised to display one impres... |
5 September 2008
08:20 GMT |
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A woman named Hiroko Yoda was not allowed to create an account on Facebook. After eliminating all the other sources that could have determined the social network to reject her registration, she came to the conclusion that her last name was the reason for it. Having to share her cognomen with the famous Sta... |
30 August 2008
06:44 GMT |
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After the tremendous success registered by Facebook, with the social network managing to wind its way past competitors to get to the first place worldwide, it seems like a movie about its outset and evolution is the thing to follow. Aaron Sorkin, the writer of the "West Wing" series and of several awarded motion... |
29 August 2008
03:45 GMT |
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Facebook has unofficially announced, via its blog, that the social network has reached 100 million users. “We hit a big milestone today -- 100 million people around the world are now using Facebook. This is a really gratifying moment for us because it means a lot that you have decided that Facebook is a good, t... |
27 August 2008
17:20 GMT |
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A while back, we reported on the conflict between the two Indian brothers, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, who created Scrabulous, probably people's favorite application on Facebook, and the company that owned the North American copyrights for the board game Scrabble. Following a legal complaint from Hasbro, Faceboo... |
26 August 2008
03:06 GMT |
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Facebook, iPhone version, is getting updated in September! The developing team has invited fans to have a look at some of the upcoming features in version 2.0. Full details and screenshots are available below."It's been a few weeks since we released Facebook for iPhone 1.1, and many of you are wondering what... |
21 August 2008
11:55 GMT |
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Intel will provide Facebook users with all the necessary resources necessary in order to create a professional 5-minute short film, using the latest technologies. Several users will take part in the project that is to start this fall. Requirements details will be offered as soon as Mass Animation is put into practice... |
18 August 2008
10:51 GMT |
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Last fall, Facebook was excited with the launch of a new feature which showed friends what the latest online purchases of Facebook subscribers were. Beacon could have been a fun way to share one's preferences, without personally telling everyone in the network about the latest movie he had bought online. But the... |
15 August 2008
11:35 GMT |
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The social networks market is generally characterized by important gaps in the year-over-year evolution of the most popular hotspots. Although still holding on to the global second place, the annual rate of growth that MySpace managed to achieve was of only 3%. However, some may say that growth is of good omen, no ma... |
13 August 2008
06:05 GMT |
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The worm that we previously reported on as being the latest threat to Facebook and MySpace community has been eliminated, as users can no longer click on malicious links. Max Kelly, Head of Security at Facebook, assures that at least Facebook users can forget about the danger and put it behind them."We spent most of ... |
8 August 2008
08:53 GMT |
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Social network websites enjoy, worldwide, a well-defined and engaged audience. Japan makes no exception to the rule, as over 56 million users were reported to have accessed their personal social network webpage at least once in June. While Mixi, a Japan-based network, recorded the largest audience, of almost 13 milli... |
8 August 2008
06:18 GMT |
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One of Adobe's applications, Flash player, is used by two versions of a malicious software in order to infect the computers of Facebook and MySpace social networks users, as we already reported. Users are taken to certain fake websites that promise to reveal exclusive videos of celebrities or hidden-camera foota... |
6 August 2008
08:53 GMT |
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FBI warns users not to open any emails that are headed by the "FBI vs. Facebook" subject. They do not contain any information regarding a lawsuit, an investigation, or other activity that the two parts could be involved in. Clicking on the eye-catching titled emails will result in users being infected with a storm wo... |
4 August 2008
05:56 GMT |
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Kaspersky Lab released a warning for MySpace and Facebook users, regarding two new versions of a worm, Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.a. and Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b respectively, that put the security of those who have accounts on the two web services at risk. The MySpace worm creates some catchy phrases that are sent to... |
2 August 2008
05:36 GMT |
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Intel and Facebook inked a partnership agreement for the optimization of Facebook's hardware and software for the datacenter infrastructure the company is currently building. Facebook's increasingly rich media applications including videos, music, photos and more impose leveraging the processing power of th... |
1 August 2008
03:50 GMT |
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As we previously reported, Scrabulous, Facebook's most popular game, was removed from the website, because of a lawsuit filed by the legal owners of the board game Scrabble. Hundreds of people expressed their anger at the company, almost wishing they were not U.S. or Canada citizens, because they were the only o... |
31 July 2008
09:39 GMT |
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Scrabulous, one of the most popular games that could be found on Facebook, has been shut down. Those who now want to connect to the application receive the message "Scrabulous is disabled for U.S. and Canadian users until further notice," although users from outside of America also complain that their access to the g... |
29 July 2008
11:58 GMT |
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Social networks mean a lot of things for many people who check their accounts daily, afraid of losing any of the comments, the photo updates from their friends or other information that allows them to be socially active. In the U.S., Facebook is, by far, the most visited website of this type, with almost 30 million u... |
28 July 2008
04:17 GMT |
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Casual game publisher extraordinaire Majesco says that it is planning to make a move to Facebook, in an effort to broaden its portfolio of games and to attract a bigger audience. It has chosen developers Rocketbowl and the Shapshot Studio of Large Animal Games to create Bananagrams. The game, due for an August releas... |
25 July 2008
03:21 GMT |
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Facebook announced the start of a program that would enable users to connect to other online applications and websites, without the need to authenticate their sessions each time they log on. Through feeds, Facebook users can now connect and share different information from partners like CBS.com, Red Bull, Twitter, Di... |
24 July 2008
05:15 GMT |
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The online experience of Facebook users is becoming increasingly thrilling by the day. CasualCafe, a company that develops and delivers browser games for different platforms, signed a partnership with Facebook, which would enable the social network's users to get their hands on two brand new Flash based games. T... |
22 July 2008
08:48 GMT |
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Although online applications that imply some virtual reality features are often criticized by those who consider them barriers to real life interaction, studies prove there really is no need to worry. Eryn Grant, a PhD student at the School of Humanities, Queensland University of Technology, conducted a study that sh... |
21 July 2008
08:08 GMT |
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As we previously reported, Facebook has entered a legal action against what seems to be an exact copy of the American social network. Although the formal announcement of the lawsuit has not been made yet, studiVZ, the company that was accused of plagiarism, has released a quite intriguing statement regarding the matt... |
21 July 2008
04:49 GMT |
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Facebook has released a new design in order to make the management of the webpage easier, as well as to allow users to upload more content to their personal pages. The Wall is probably the most interesting feature the team from Facebook made available. Designed as a forum, it allows users to upload photos, videos and... |
21 July 2008
03:53 GMT |
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Facebook's popularity makes some take on the recipe without worrying about copyrights, hoping that the benefits will outrun the risks. This did not prove very efficient for StudiVZ, a German social network for students whose "look, feel, features and services" are incredibly similar to Facebook's, as the co... |
19 July 2008
05:58 GMT |
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Facebook has failed to provide the necessary security measures for the users that have specifically requested that information provided by them remains private. According to Sophos, company that specializes in providing antivirus and antispam security solutions, Facebook has accidentally made public the birth dates ... |
16 July 2008
09:09 GMT |
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Google's supremacy on the search engines market is guaranteed for a long while from now on. The case of France, which is one of the most devoted markets to Google's search engine, supports this affirmation. A study provided by comScore reveals that, in May, 82% of the French Internet users conducted their s... |
15 July 2008
09:25 GMT |
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Lawyers too follow the trends and use, in a high percentage, the online social networks. 67% of the lawyers aged between 25 and 35 have an account on one of the networks LinkedIn, Plaxo, Facebook or MySpace, as a survey shows. The percentage decreases as the age grows; 49% of the attorneys from the 36-45 category use... |
14 July 2008
09:42 GMT |
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On July 14, Facebook is launching a beta version of the users' profile design. As Pete Bratach, Facebook developer, says on the official blog, users can opt for a new appearance of the entire website, a feature that is now available only for ''sandbox,'' an application that gives users the op... |
8 July 2008
11:51 GMT |
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When Electronic Arts closed a deal with Hasbro regarding the use of its Monopoly brand (EA is clearly interested in such titles) and of other intellectual property, there were many people thinking that Scrabble would be one of the first games to be re-done in an electronic form by the videogame publisher.Now Electron... |
8 July 2008
02:46 GMT |
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Britons are heavy Internet users. As a study conducted by Nielsen Online shows, between June 2007 and May 2008, the average number of minutes spent monthly by the U.K citizens on the Internet surpassed 33 million. The leader, with 2,626 minutes and 7.8% of the market share, is MSN Messenger. The first runner up, gett... |
7 July 2008
09:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has started a campaign called Xbox 360, presenting Rock Band Live, which will eventually reward some lucky fans in the UK, Germany and France (a total of eleven people) with a week at the Ibiza Rocks Hotel. But, since many Rock Band fans do not live in the mentioned countries and Microsoft doesn't like... |
17 June 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Facebook, one of the biggest social networking websites, has recently received a new feature - that enhances one of its already released features, namely Mini-Feed. The fellows at Facebook worked out a way to make its users import stories from other sites directly in their Mini-Feed. This new ability was announced a ... |
26 May 2008
10:27 GMT |
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Facebook, the so-popular social networking website, is currently working on a major update which will bring several improvements to the service. One of the most important updates is related to the security of its users because Facebook wants to make the profiles more spam-resistant and reduce the amount of spam messa... |
22 May 2008
04:34 GMT |
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Cellufun and Facebook announced the beginning of a collaboration that brings more than 40 mobile games for all the visitors of Facebook's website. More exactly, Cellufun came up with a "Facebook application" hosted on the famous social networking site, which allows users to play games either from a mobile phone ... |
21 May 2008
09:30 GMT |
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Last week, Google released their Google Friend Connect product, which has been said to make non-social websites offer social networking capabilities. The new product has also been advertised to increase the traffic level of a particular website, thus enabling it to generate a higher revenue. It appears that new produ... |
20 May 2008
10:19 GMT |
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Facebook wants to become an even more powerful player on the social networking market by using an instant messaging platform, AllFacebook, an unofficial Facebook blog wrote today. According to the same source, the new platform will come with support for Jabber/XMPP support chat, which means the Facebook application w... |
14 May 2008
09:04 GMT |
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Social networking websites, like Facebook, MySpace, hi5 are a common place for children. Under 18 users who have profiles on the above mentioned sites are susceptible to abuse from adults pretending to be minors. This problem has been reported in the US for quite some time now and legal measures against it have been ... |
9 May 2008
11:23 GMT |
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Today's social networks have an amazing influence over their users, the number of the registered members being absolutely huge, somewhere near millions. The most recent proof is a water fight set up by a Facebook user who managed to gather no less than 350 other members in the United Kingdom. The only problem is... |
9 May 2008
09:07 GMT |
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The extremely popular social networking website Facebook met a huge growth since it was first launched on February 4, 2004. The user influx and the increased amount of horsepower required to run a Web 2.0 site led to significant infrastructure upgrades that extended the number of Facebook servers.The social networki... |
25 April 2008
04:06 GMT |
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Phishing scams and Facebook are two of the most popular web-related things these days although they have pretty different meanings and purposes. Phishing scams are extremely dangerous attacks, usually launched via email addresses, which attempt to steal users' private information through a fake website which loo... |
24 April 2008
03:17 GMT |
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Facebook is a phenomenon these days and anybody must admit it since the entire web talks about this social network. And because it's so powerful and popular, Facebook is able to turn a simple man into a huge star over night. This is exactly what happened in Calcutta, India after two brothers created a Facebook g... |
22 April 2008
17:51 GMT |
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I have to say just from the beginning that I'm not one of those Facebook-addicted fans and I have only created an account for testing purposes. Maybe I'm a little bit subjective, but I can't really understand people's addiction to Facebook, and to social networks in general. OK, Facebook is great,... |
17 April 2008
16:31 GMT |
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Blogs and social networks are two of the most popular technologies nowadays, having an impressive yet continuously growing number of users. People like blogging because they're usually free and because they are able to write their own articles without too much effort. On the other hand, social networks connect c... |
16 April 2008
16:46 GMT |
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Facebook has millions of users, the company's representatives even estimating that approximately 250,000 new accounts are created every day. Because of that, the website is somehow forced to improve its functions periodically, in order to satisfy the majority of members and bring them the features they need. Tha... |
16 April 2008
10:23 GMT |
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Facebook, the famous social networking website, is again causing problems in Israel due to its continuously growing popularity: officials are not allowed anymore to publish confidential information on Facebook because it may become available to all the people who surf the Internet, Associated Press reported today. As... |
11 April 2008
10:07 GMT |
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Last week, we told you about the Saudi girl who was killed by her father after having been caught chatting on a social network. Today, another report concerning such ways of communication hits the web: two rival gangs were using these websites to organize fights between their members. According to the Belfast Telegra... |
8 April 2008
05:28 GMT |
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Since kids' online security is one of our main concerns, authorities from all over the world analyze and think about new methods that would improve security measures and stop web threats from reaching the youth population. Virginia is now the first state that will introduce mandatory online security lessons in a... |
7 April 2008
17:06 GMT |
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