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Research in Motion and MySpace, two names that I believe need no introduction, have just announced a new collaboration set to bring a special MySpace application to BlackBerry smartphones. Designed to offer "rich content and data" to RIM-made handset owners, the upcoming MySpace app will integrate all the important s... |
12 September 2008
02:48 GMT |
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Public persons are surely among the people who care the most about their reputation. This is only understandable after all, since, if a celebrity's private account on a social network is hacked, then the one behind it can make quite a few easy bucks by blackmail. This was precisely the case with the person who b... |
5 September 2008
06:50 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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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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An American 49-year-old woman who pretended to be a 16-year-old boy caused, as prosecutors say, the death of a young girl. Now that she's been indicted, her aim is to avoid trial by all means, by having the charges dismissed. Her lawyer, as cited by the Washington Post, is trying to convince the judge that Lori ... |
24 July 2008
06:25 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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Google and News Corp's popular social network site MySpace have signed an agreement that will enable MySpace users to benefit from Google search software technology. According to the Mountain View company, MySpace users will be able to search their e-mails faster than ever before, thanks to Google's technol... |
29 May 2008
09:40 GMT |
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The social networking site MySpace is indirectly involved in a trial against a Wisconsin teenager. Alex Phillips, a user of MySpace, faces jail after he was caught posting indecent photos of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend on his MySpace page. It appears that this was a vengeful act on behalf of the teenager, prompted ... |
22 May 2008
07:03 GMT |
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The short story so far goes something like this: a 13-year-old girl who met a 16-year-old boy on the social networking service MySpace fell in love with him after chatting on the website. The 49-year-old mom of the boy got involved into the relationship and posed as her son while chatting with the girl. After several... |
16 May 2008
09:37 GMT |
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The fact that spamming is annoying, dangerous and, besides all, illegal is well known. However, this doesn't stop spammers from sending tons of unsolicited emails every day, most of them going straight into our inboxes. The good news is that some of the spammers really pay for their malicious actions, the best e... |
14 May 2008
04:34 GMT |
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It seems like the YouTube representatives and the Indonesian authorities couldn't reach an agreement over the long criticized anti-Islam movie appearing on the video sharing service. Today, IndosatM2 along with other Internet service providers based in Indonesia announced that they have imposed restriction for u... |
8 April 2008
06:02 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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Everex has just unveiled a new version of its MyMiniPC miniature box, powered by the eye-candy Linux derivative gOS. The new offering from the green computer manufacturer comes with a MySpace update, that ranges from the desktop theme to the included MySpace applications and API software. For the sub-$500 price tag, ... |
7 April 2008
08:24 GMT |
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It's a well-known fact that the social networking websites out there, including here MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Bebo and other services, are quite popular among today's Internet users as they record millions of new accounts every day. What's really bad is that an important percentage of the social network... |
4 April 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Yesterday was a productive day for Verizon Wireless, as the second largest US mobile carrier announced the availability of MySpace and other popular mobile websites on its subscribers' mobile phones. All Verizon users who own Mobile Web 2.0 enabled handsets can, from now on, enjoy more entertainment while on th... |
29 March 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Back in November 2007, when Google released the OpenSocial platform, it only had a few partners that agreed to support the OpenSocial APIs, including Bebo, HI5, MySpace and Friendster. As you can see, most of them are actually social networks although the alliance also included other names such as Salesforce and Orac... |
26 March 2008
16:06 GMT |
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The case that circled the world and mesmerized the media for the past year and a half has seen its final decision being made today. Impersonators of the woman claimed to have staged the hoax that convinced 13 year old Megan Meier to commit suicide will not be prosecuted. After the decision to not charge Lori Drew for... |
28 February 2008
15:06 GMT |
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The Censor-full China Central Television (CCTV) will allow two China-based web sites to offer streaming broadcasts of the Olympic events. Originally, under the January introduced Internet censorship plan, every site that wasn't government-owned would be blocked, thus making streaming impossible.MySpace China and... |
28 February 2008
10:43 GMT |
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Yahoo! was a bit of a visionary when it decided to go for the music market with all it had. First came an MP3 player, and then the plans to deliver ad-supported free tracks started taking shape. Amazon has geared up for the same purpose and Apple's iTunes' position starts to look shaky every moment passing.... |
21 February 2008
03:41 GMT |
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It's still under complete hush-hush, so any details are not yet available, but talks have been reported to have been held between Internet giant with clay feet Yahoo! and Media Empire News Corp. The two companies had nothing to comment on the supposed conjoining but a person familiar with the situation, quoted b... |
14 February 2008
12:36 GMT |
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What MySpace has been trying to accomplish for quite a while now, to top Facebook in growth, finally happened this January. News Corp.'s social network has felt Mark Zuckerberg's startup breathing down its neck since the first months the two were competing and the numbers showed last year that Facebook woul... |
13 February 2008
05:27 GMT |
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The second largest social network in the United Kingdom, Bebo, has just had the rumor veil surrounding its current situation pierced and there is some light going through the hole left. Not much, you know how the M & A talks can go, but just enough to be sure that they're not on their own.Talks about this first ... |
13 February 2008
03:27 GMT |
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Probably for those who live their second lives on MySpace, this gaming site launch is not such a big surprise, but for me it is. Everybody knows that MySpace is the most popular social network site that allows you to do almost anything that it is possible in a virtual world: friends make friends, people gain populari... |
12 February 2008
04:07 GMT |
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Why bother with working on some feature that will just set your other work back, when you can have others do the work for you? That must have been the company policy regarding the Spanish version of the page, for which Facebook gave its users total freedom to translate. That can't be right somehow, but I just ca... |
8 February 2008
06:21 GMT |
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The great Google turned about some shortcomings in the last fiscal quarters, mostly due to not being able to monetize its advertising on the MySpace social network. With an earful of criticism and hurt pride, the Mountain View-based company simply cannot turn away from the segment and admit its defeat.According to a ... |
7 February 2008
16:56 GMT |
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Once upon a time there was a big social network reigning over its smaller siblings from far up in the sky, where its success propelled it. But then came its worst nightmare, a new rival and because it too was based on people's profiles and friends, heir to its throne. That spooked the fearless (to that moment) l... |
6 February 2008
14:51 GMT |
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The boom that Facebook recorded and that boosted it to the second spot in the social networks ranking was mostly due to its applications, which had a huge pull to users and developers the same. Now, they look to be on a descending trend, after the huge figures they recorded in the last two months of 2007. The reason,... |
30 January 2008
12:41 GMT |
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"Now this is a story all about how/ My life got twisted upside down." These were the starting two lines from Will Smith's "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" theme song. The following is also a story about how Officer John Nohelj's life went awry, and all that because of one of his friends on MySpace.Like the maj... |
28 January 2008
17:56 GMT |
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Last week, there was a security risk for all the MySpace users that had their profiles set to "Private" because somebody found a way to view their photos without having to be in the friend list. Several YouTube videos on how to do that were quickly uploaded and the photo downloads soon took wings.A 17 GB file contain... |
25 January 2008
17:16 GMT |
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Facebook must have spooked shivers down MySpace's spine. From the outside, it looks like the biggest (still) social network in the world is trying to expand into all directions at once. It just opened offices in Russia and a homepage for the community there, a similar course of action is coming in Turkey (MySpac... |
24 January 2008
09:38 GMT |
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Besides time loss, social networking from the office is also an open window to hackers and exploiters who take the opportunity to attack the sites of the companies whose employees enjoy socializing over the Internet.As usual, there are two sides to every story. The one that is condemnable is that by linking in and be... |
21 January 2008
16:26 GMT |
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When you're most bored and have nothing to do, you start surfing the Internet and in particular the social networks in order to see how your friends have been doing. I don't know if that's the way it works for you, it does for me. And while merrily browsing through my account on MySpace, I just chanced... |
21 January 2008
06:11 GMT |
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"The Internet is for Porn!" said a song that roamed the web a couple of years ago, being lip synced to all sorts of characters, from Disney's famous Alladin to World of Warcraft Tauren that acknowledged that they seek mostly pornography when using the Internet. Nothing closer to the truth with about 80-90 percen... |
18 January 2008
15:06 GMT |
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The battle between the two social networks is now harsher than ever. Before Facebook, MySpace ruled the market in numbers of visitors by far and it didn't look like it would relish that position very soon. Despite the privacy problems that FB encountered with its Beacon program, it now slowly creeps behind the l... |
17 January 2008
13:36 GMT |
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Last week, it was Secret Crush. Today, it is called Rita. Both of them are social networking components that may seriously damage people's computers. Secret Crush was a Facebook application that attempted to drop some sort of malware on vulnerable users' systems. Rita is somehow different. It is a MySpace r... |
14 January 2008
14:31 GMT |
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This is momentarily not confirmed, but a familiar source with the agreement between News Corp's MySpace and 45 US states said that, according to it, the social network would include several online protections and also participate in a working group to develop age-verification and other technologies.Some of the t... |
14 January 2008
13:06 GMT |
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The biggest social network in the world, MySpace, has allegedly been subpoenaed along with others, according to "The New York Times", in connection to the suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier in October 2006. This has been not confirmed by Thomas Mrozak, a spokesman for the United States attorney in Los Angeles, but "T... |
10 January 2008
15:06 GMT |
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MySpace, the 6th website in the Alexa rank, tends to become more popular than traditional TV, a recent survey made by Future Laboratory and commissioned by the social networking website revealed. According to the Financial Times, an important part of the 1,000 people included in the survey admitted that they "would r... |
7 January 2008
15:06 GMT |
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In case a virus avalanche is spotted on the web, you're usually advised to avoid visiting suspicious websites that may attempt to deploy the infection on your computer and browse only legitimate and known-to-be-clean pages. But today, it is proved once again that this security measure may not be as useful as it ... |
4 January 2008
07:11 GMT |
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Don't rule Windows Live Spaces out of the race for eyeballs on the social networking world just yet. Over the past year, the Redmond company's online social hotspot delivered a consistent evolution in terms of the audience it managed to attract. According to Marketing Charts, and based on statistics compile... |
19 December 2007
06:12 GMT |
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Since 2007 represented a huge success for social networking services, such as MySpace and Facebook, the attackers have adapted their techniques and targeted their attempts to the users connected to these websites. Security company MessageLabs rolled out an annual security report today, revealing that this year'... |
10 December 2007
09:05 GMT |
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Let's suppose you're a soccer player for Aston Villa, but you've always dreamed to join Chelsea. In case Roman Abramovich declared his interest for you, what would you have done in order to get the transfer? You would have strived to impress and prove that you would be a great addition to the squad at... |
10 December 2007
03:38 GMT |
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In case you're one of the millions computer employees who spend hours working for their company on the Internet, you surely know it's pretty difficult to avoid visiting other websites or services which are not related to work. Many of us access YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo Messenger, forums or any oth... |
6 December 2007
03:28 GMT |
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MySpace has always been known to have the shoddy, crappy layout that you just have to put up with, because of the many features that the site offers. If it was eye-candy you were after, you'd either be off playing some fully supported game on your latest FX 8800GT or you'd be browsing the wallpapers over at... |
5 December 2007
06:26 GMT |
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Yep, you've read it right, a pedophile hacker received a sentence of 110 years in prison after he was found guilty of hacking MySpace accounts and harassing underage girls. In fact, all the hacker wanted was pornographic content but he managed to cause an extremely high fear after he threatened the girls with al... |
4 December 2007
08:02 GMT |
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'I'm a pro, I know what I'm doing,' a famous quote says. Well, this time it's somehow different because the IT professionals ignore major security measures and publish their information on very large and popular websites. According to ITPro, a study conducted by Microsoft and security vendor ... |
29 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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