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Another tech giant has decided to come forth with some details about the information they have been required to deliver to the authorities in the past few months.
Apple, who has denied even having heard of the NSA PRISM program before the documents were leaked two weeks ago, is now revealing how many requests ... |
17 June 2013
05:13 GMT |
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Facebook is unveiling something next week. It's not saying, what obviously, but it has invited the press to come and see the shiny new product. Like every time a company makes an invitation like this, the speculation ran wild. But this time around, there wasn't much to speculate on. There haven't been ... |
15 June 2013
18:31 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Facebook beta application is now available for download for the owners of Windows Phone 8 devices, namely version 5.0.1.5.
According to a recent article on Plaffo, the new app iteration arrives on devices with support for more languages, including German and Italian.
No other info on the enhanc... |
15 June 2013
08:51 GMT |
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Twitter agrees with Google that Facebook’s deal with the Federal government, in which the social giant could disclose information request numbers to the public, wasn’t nearly good enough. Twitter’s legal director Ben Lee wrote on his personal account soon after news about the Facebook deal came th... |
15 June 2013
08:41 GMT |
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Google isn't impressed by what Facebook and Microsoft were able to reveal regarding user data requests from the government. In fact, it believes it's a step back for users, as far as it's concerned. “We have always believed that it’s important to differentiate between different types of g... |
15 June 2013
07:31 GMT |
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Sync.ME - Social Contact Sync version 6.5.4 is out for iPhone and iPod touch with an all-new set of features and improvements, including the return of Facebook integration.
In addition to the returning Facebook integration, Sync.ME now integrates with the LinkedIn network, and features birthday reminders and greetin... |
15 June 2013
06:07 GMT |
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Facebook is preparing some mysterious product launches, as it has announced a new media event for June 20. “A small team has been working on a big idea,” the message says. The company gives the invitation for everyone to learn about a new product they are about to launch, ABC News reports. This w... |
15 June 2013
04:46 GMT |
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Google, Facebook & co. have been on the defensive ever since the PRISM document got leaked. The document seems to show that several large web companies are willingly making it easier for the US government to spy on their users. But the companies involved have vehemently denied this. However, they were prevented from... |
15 June 2013
04:44 GMT |
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Facebook has revealed that the US government has asked for data on between 18,000 and 19,000 users in response to some 9,000 to 10,000 requests, in the last six months of 2012. This comes after leaked NSA documents seemed to indicate that the spy agency had direct access to the servers of Facebook and several other... |
15 June 2013
04:18 GMT |
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Facebook is getting ready to kill the Sponsored Results in the coming month.
These ads have appeared alongside brands, groups and mostly in searches since August 2012, Engadget reports.
However, Facebook has decided to finally cut the program after noticing that marketers were using Sponsored Results and mobile a... |
14 June 2013
04:45 GMT |
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Google is shutting down Reader. It says people just aren't consuming news like they used to, so a dedicated RSS reader is simply antiquated. The millions of people who are currently using Google Reader would beg to differ, but that won't change the company's decision. Still, Reader's demise at le... |
14 June 2013
03:56 GMT |
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The rapid switch to mobile devices has caught most companies unprepared. Some mobile-first startups cashed in, like Instagram for example, but big web companies had a rougher time adjusting. Google made a big bet on mobile early on, and it's now starting pay off. It took a few years to get here, but Google is n... |
14 June 2013
03:33 GMT |
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It may be shocking to find out at this point, but MySpace is still around. Don't worry, your embarrassing photos and choice of grammar are still far behind, as this is a new MySpace for a new generation. Or something like that. At this point, it's unsure that even MySpace knows what MySpace is or should be... |
13 June 2013
11:41 GMT |
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A little over a year ago, when Facebook went public, investors seemed to be extremely concerned with the fact that the social network wasn’t making enough money from advertising.
For the first quarter, the company announced an impressive increase in ad revenue. And things are only going to get better if forec... |
13 June 2013
10:50 GMT |
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Parse, the only other big Facebook acquisition outside of Instagram, has grown about 25 percent month-over-month. It now services 100,000 apps.
At the end of April, when the acquisition was completed, Parse had about 80,000 apps so the growth is quite obvious, TechCrunch reports.
The company claims that three fac... |
13 June 2013
08:59 GMT |
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While Facebook has joined Microsoft and Google in a request sent out to the U.S. Government regarding permission to publish data and be more transparent about surveillance, they’re not going to reveal anything else until they get the green light.
“We are prevented by law from talking about anything rela... |
13 June 2013
04:37 GMT |
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In a recent interview, comedy writer Rick Polito more or less accidentally revealed that he was the man behind many of the jokes on “Star Trek” star George Takei’s Facebook page. He’s apologized for spilling the beans since. If Takei was a regular guy or even a “regular” celebrit... |
13 June 2013
02:57 GMT |
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Facebook finally joins the hashtag bandwagon and officially announces the new feature that is already being rolled out across the world.
The rumor that Facebook was developing this new feature has been going around for months, but it seems that only now has the social network decided to roll out the changes.
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12 June 2013
14:21 GMT |
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ChatJS is a jQuery script that will embed a Facebook-like chatting system on any desired Web page. It works together with an ASP.NET/SignalR server-side system for relaying and pushing messages between users.
ChatJS can be used for providing a real-time chat utility for any website or Web product developers might be... |
12 June 2013
12:01 GMT |
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Security researcher and founder of illSecure.com, Junaid Hussain, aka TriCk, has identified an open redirect vulnerability in Facebook.
The security hole was reported to Facebook around two months ago. The social media company has confirmed its existence and it is currently working on a fix.
In the meantime, since ... |
12 June 2013
11:52 GMT |
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Facebook's already one of the biggest websites in the world. It operates at a massive scale and does everything it can to both optimize the site and infrastructure and speed things up for its users. But optimization will only take you so far. At one point, you have to start adding more horsepower, meaning serv... |
12 June 2013
10:42 GMT |
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Not long after Google asked the US government to be allowed to disclose the number of secret FISA requests for user data it receives, Microsoft and Facebook followed suit. Neither company went as far as Google in their requests, but the essence is the same. "Permitting greater transparency on the aggregate volume an... |
12 June 2013
03:07 GMT |
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Mark Zuckerberg seems to be sticking to his statement from a few days ago regarding Facebook’s connection to the NSA data collection program.
At the annual shareholder meeting, which was held in California, Zuckerberg said the company stands behind the initial statement, TechCrunch reports.
“I wrote t... |
12 June 2013
02:38 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Facebook application is now available for download for the owners of BlackBerry 10 smartphones, namely version 10.2.0.
The new application release brings along a refreshed look and feel of the newsfeed, through updated icons, aimed at making navigation and communicating with users’ social networ... |
11 June 2013
06:51 GMT |
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Facebook has completely changed the underlying infrastructure powering the service several times now, and you haven't even noticed. That's actually a sign that Facebook is doing a great job at it. A site the size of Facebook has to rely completely on its own tools and technology. This means great flexibili... |
11 June 2013
05:20 GMT |
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Facebook has announced that it's reducing the number of ad options it offers. Currently, there are 27 ad formats, much more than needed. The most interesting change is to the maligned sponsored stories, which use people's likes as a sort of endorsement. Sponsored stories, which actually got Facebook target... |
8 June 2013
08:21 GMT |
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The PRISM spy scandal is far from over. After the initial reports from the Washington Post and The Guardian, all the major tech companies were on defense.
The government acknowledged that such a program, to syphon data from all major tech companies, existed, with Congress oversight, but said that it wasn't as ... |
8 June 2013
04:28 GMT |
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The jury in the case of 18-year-old Cameron D’Ambrosio have refused to indict the teen
for alleged terrorist comments.
According to the Inquisitr, D’Ambrosio was jailed on May 1 and has remained in jail until now for rapping on Facebook and mentioning the Boston Marathon bombers.
“[Expletive] a bo... |
8 June 2013
03:29 GMT |
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Larry Page isn’t the only CEO to be outraged by PRISM-related allegations, but also Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.
The CEO’s statement is similar to that Facebook released yesterday, in which they were denying providing “direct” server access, as The Next Web points out.
Zuckerberg&rsqu... |
8 June 2013
02:30 GMT |
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Facebook has made available for download a new flavor of its mobile client for devices running under Google’s Android operating system, namely version 3.3, providing users with the possibility to easily change who can see something they have shared.
Additionally, the new application release enables people to ... |
7 June 2013
05:41 GMT |
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The Facebook advertising products are about to get simplified by the end of the year.
The company has announced that it will half its ad units by the end of the 2013 after it analyzed the feedback received from marketers.
Apparently, the social network’s products were too complicated and redundant. So, Face... |
7 June 2013
04:06 GMT |
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It's no big surprise that, after The Guardian revealed that the phone records of every American are being handed over to the NSA and the FBI, more details are coming through. Now, both The Guardian and the Washington Post are talking about a government program to suck data directly from nine big Internet compa... |
7 June 2013
02:36 GMT |
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As the scandal keeps growing in amplitude about the National Security Agency and FBI collecting data through phone companies, more tech giants deny they’ve been involved in such activities.
Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Apple have denied the reports that they’ve given the government agencies access to the... |
7 June 2013
02:30 GMT |
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Being in the public eye, be it for entertainment purposes or on the political scene, often means having to deal with lots of negative or simply unwanted attention. The wife of Alabama State Senator Shadrack McGill is fed up with the kind of attention he’s been getting for some time.
So she’s taking to F... |
6 June 2013
05:36 GMT |
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Most companies and organizations restrict access to social sites, such as Facebook, at work, and for obvious reasons.
There's little need for most people to be able to access Facebook at work, even if the site tries to win over more and more companies.
But few organizations dictate how their employees can use... |
6 June 2013
05:02 GMT |
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Facebook has announced that it is launching its local currency payments API and gives developers September as a deadline for switching from Facebook Credits. According to the social networking giant, support for Facebook Credits will end on September 12. This means that everyone has time to switch to the new paymen... |
6 June 2013
04:19 GMT |
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Facebook Now is one of the top social network clients available in the Store right now, not only because Facebook doesn’t want to create its own Metro app, but also because it boasts quite a great feature package. A new version of the client is now available in the Store and brings fixes for some issues that c... |
5 June 2013
14:41 GMT |
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Pipe, the Facebook app that enables you to send files as large as 1GB to friends, is now almost ready to come out of beta. The file sharing app is using the Facebook social graph and latches onto the idea that people will want to send large files to each other via Facebook. While there are some people who will fin... |
4 June 2013
10:51 GMT |
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Cloning Facebook profile is a practice used by cybercriminals to scam people for quite some time now. However, over the past week, reports have been coming in from South Africa about hundreds of Facebook profiles being cloned.
The cloned accounts are used by the crooks to befriend the victim’s friends and abus... |
1 June 2013
13:21 GMT |
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Zoho Corporation has released a new iOS application which acts like Facebook for business, “[an] enterprise social network for your company that boosts your productivity and enables you to collaborate effectively.”
The app has a Company Stream where you send and receive messages from coworkers, and follo... |
31 May 2013
10:34 GMT |
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A fake kidnapping ended in the death of a 15-year-old girl in Maine, reports say. Nichole Cable of Glenburn was reported missing on Mother’s Day. Her disappearance set off alarms and prompted search parties in the neighborhood. 20-year-old Kyle Dube has been arrested in Cable's kidnapping and murder. Her... |
31 May 2013
03:47 GMT |
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Viddy Inc. has rolled out an update for users of its simplistic video editing app on iOS platforms, adding the ability to promote yourself in social media circles.
With Viddy 2.5 you can now promote your profile on social media, and share your works with people you know via email and text (during upload).
Thanks to... |
30 May 2013
18:21 GMT |
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Facebook has rolled a verified page and profile feature, similar to Twitter's, purpose-built for celebrities, brands, and people who might want their fans to know for sure that it is them indeed. "Today we're launching verified Pages to help people find the authentic accounts of celebrities and other high... |
29 May 2013
17:13 GMT |
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Amazon is making it possible for developers to incorporate a new authentication service, Login with Amazon, and you can probably guess what it does.
Developers can add an Amazon login option to their apps, enabling the 200 million or so Amazon customers to use their existing credentials in games, apps, and sites.
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29 May 2013
13:31 GMT |
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Facebook has responded to criticism over its tolerance of hate or harmful speech. Several groups have been ramping up pressure on the company to deal with the problem. While Facebook does have terms of service which forbid certain types of speech, critics believe it has been failing to enforce them properly. Not o... |
29 May 2013
08:19 GMT |
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Facebook may be facing problems in Italy, where an organization has filed a criminal complaint over the site's role in the suicide of a 14-year old girl, Carolina Picchio.
The site's role was that of being used by several of the girl's high school colleagues to share a video in which the girl looked ... |
28 May 2013
12:07 GMT |
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Facebook has fixed an issue in the Page Manager app which caused it to leak private photos. The issue only affected Page Manager users, but it was a rather serious bug.
Any photos attached to private messages sent via the app would be posted publicly on the page's timeline rather than be sent privately. In cert... |
28 May 2013
11:46 GMT |
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Yahoo may have snatched up Tumblr, but it was hardly the only one looking into the deal. Facebook is rumored to have been interested as well.
It's been a year since the Instagram acquisition, which has gone down rather well for Facebook, so another buy on that scale may have made sense.
While Tumblr has been ... |
27 May 2013
12:11 GMT |
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Facebook has to run a fine line between getting people to share more and respecting their privacy. Sometimes it manages to strike a balance, sometimes it doesn't. Either way, the company gets a lot of scrutiny over privacy issues, as it should. So it definitely doesn't need to be actively leaking out... |
27 May 2013
10:26 GMT |
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Pakistani police have successfully rescued a boy who had been kidnapped with the help of Facebook. Teaching kids not to talk to strangers is as good an idea as ever now that "strangers" are only a few clicks away. But, for all the alleged dangers of Facebook and Co., kids are as safe on Facebook as they are in re... |
27 May 2013
10:08 GMT |
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