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A recent study conducted by the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, revealed that the Internet is quite a simple way to meet someone to marry, since lots of respondents admitted they having found their sweetheart online. According to the findings of the research, six percent of the married Internet users... |
9 April 2008
16:51 GMT |
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The MI6 Marketing Conference, that takes place in San Francisco and concentrates on the business side of games development, featured a lengthy panel discussion about the MMO business modes and the potential for growth that free-to-play games could have in the near future.The most important speakers were Daniel James ... |
9 April 2008
16:06 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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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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There are lots of people who think that Facebook and all the other social networks on the web have a bad influence over kids and teenagers, but a Saudi father went beyond this. Because her daughter was using Facebook to socialize and to communicate with members of the opposite sex on the Internet, the father has beat... |
31 March 2008
08:14 GMT |
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Some people go to the social networks because they are bored and think that by getting in touch with some of their old friends (or girlfriends) might spice up their life a bit (especially if they have posted pictures). Human nature is petty and cruel and there's no need to feel ashamed in case you ever found you... |
15 February 2008
05:51 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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If the deal were to go through, it would be one of the best things that could have ever happened to the social network. It would give it the prominence in the mobile world that none has and in return for it there's nothing it would be actually giving up, perhaps some stake for Nokia in Facebook. Ok, ok, that... |
21 January 2008
19:46 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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People always think about learning a second language but barely ever get around to actually do it with lack of time and raised tiredness levels being the main factors for that happening. And in case you were asked at one point in your life "Sprichst du Deutsch" and you weren't even able to answer the saving "Ja,... |
15 January 2008
05:23 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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A few days ago, everybody has started talking about a new backdoor that targets the MSN accounts and attempts to steal usernames and passwords stored on an affected system. Today, Roel of Viruslist.com published a closer analysis on the threat, revealing that it was created by someone from Netherlands. "Firstly all t... |
7 January 2008
14:31 GMT |
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The social networking market seems to be one of the top attractions these days, as more and more companies get focused on this side of the industry. Today, another social networking service made its debut as Brad Hefta-Gaub, a former executive with RealNetworks and Revenue Science, and Phil Sabin, formerly with Reven... |
4 January 2008
11:34 GMT |
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Birthday Calendar, a newly released Facebook application, has managed to attract almost 2 million users in just one month since it was first released, BitDates Solutions, the developer of the utility, proudly announced today. Users from about 100 countries all over the world added this application to their profiles, ... |
14 December 2007
15:06 GMT |
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A new report powered by the Office of Communications revealed that Britons are the consumers who spend more time connected to social networks that any other Europeans. The report compared the United Kingdom with other European countries including France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain. In addition, Japan, Canada an... |
13 December 2007
05:37 GMT |
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We all know how annoying a CAPTCHA is, but we've all understood that they are pretty useful when it comes to our security on the Internet. That's why we accept them even if sometimes we can't read them and type the text correctly. But, what if you are asked to reproduce some unexpected CAPTCHAs like "r... |
13 December 2007
02:49 GMT |
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Security companies from all over the world prepare their predictions for 2008 related to the security threats which are expected to evolve next year. One of the most interesting report comes from Finjan Inc., the company that predicts an avalanche of threats over the Web 2.0 technologies with more powerful and bad-i... |
11 December 2007
15:06 GMT |
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We all know that some Internet users are addicted to their favorite web service but this is way too much. Listen to this: a college student from Michigan got banned on Facebook and decided to write to Michael Arrington of TechCrunch to help him receive his account banned. But look what he wrote: "I just can't be... |
14 November 2007
04:38 GMT |
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Louise MacBain from Canada decided to create a service which can easily compete with FaceBook although it targets only a limited segment of users. MyArtInfo is a social networking service which aims to bring artists to the website and allow them to share their creations with other Internet consumers from all over the... |
13 November 2007
15:06 GMT |
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GetSafeOnline.org, an organization which fights for better online security, conducted a new research which revealed that no less than 88 percent of the Internet users installed all kinds of security software such as firewalls, antiviruses, anti-spyware tools and others. But what's more interesting comes from the... |
12 November 2007
16:31 GMT |
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MySpace and Skype will announce a deal today which is meant to help both companies reach new consumers and evolve into different markets. The idea of the agreement is pretty simple: MySpace will promote Skype as the main communication tool on its social networking website, offering the VoIP client to all the register... |
17 October 2007
04:10 GMT |
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Market researcher comScore conducted a new study concerning the social networking websites accessed from several European countries. The research revealed that UK consumers are the most attracted by this kind of services since no less than 24,9 million visitors access Facebook, Bebo or MySpace at least once per mont... |
10 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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MySpace, one of the most popular social network web sites today, has yet again been asked to better protect its users against all kinds of possible illegal activities that might occur on the site. The most recent event concerning this kind of illegal activities has been the commercialization of steroids through the u... |
30 September 2007
16:09 GMT |
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We all know that Google wants to expand its mobile offering with new products or even hardware devices but for now, the Mountain View makes small steps which can support its evolution in the future. Yesterday, when Google actually celebrated its 9th anniversary, the super giant made itself a nice present: the acquisi... |
28 September 2007
03:13 GMT |
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Here are some words: 'social network' and 'Google Earth'. We all know their meaning but what do they have in common? Well, nothing I would say. While a social network is a web service which puts you in touch with other Internet users, Google Earth is a downloadable application that provides detail... |
24 September 2007
03:58 GMT |
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The battle between the web-browsers is about to get a new competitor as the Flock developers have recently introduced some innovative tools which might represent a threat for the Internet giants. Flock is not a very popular browser but it may come with new utilities which can boost its number of users. In fact, the u... |
18 September 2007
04:34 GMT |
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A new UK study conducted by the Internet service provider Pipex revealed that most of the web users with ages over 60 connect to the Internet only with a single goal: to check their email account. The survey was conducted only in the United Kingdom and included 500 Internet users. What's more interesting is that... |
4 September 2007
09:37 GMT |
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Playboy finally launched Playboy U, a new social network that targets only teenagers and especially students from the US universities. What's most interesting about this new webpage is that 'high schoolers, old dudes and your mom can't join,' as the official page of the service. Sadly or not, you ... |
23 August 2007
05:09 GMT |
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The social networking website, Facebook, has just released a version of its site especially designed to work on the iPhone. This is one of the most welcomed apps for this handset, from all those that have been released until now in order to make it even more user-friendly.The new Facebook interface is capable of slid... |
16 August 2007
04:52 GMT |
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loopt announced that its social mapping service is going to launch with mobile operator Sprint in the coming weeks. The loopt service will allow Sprint customers to share their location with friends, send proximity-based messages and view location-based photos and content on the go using the GPS capabilities of selec... |
17 July 2007
10:18 GMT |
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Ccube announced the launch of a social network which connects users that use the phone. The service links the users' name on Ccube with their preferred connectivity device, which can be a mobile or landline phone, or a VoIP service. Ccube allows users to connect with friends on sites like MySpace, LiveJournal an... |
7 May 2007
09:44 GMT |
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NewBay Software announced that Orange UK has licensed its UGC Gateway to enable easy integration with third party mobile blogging, album and other social networking sites. Orange UK is already using NewBay PIXOTA handset imaging client to drive one-click uploads to the Orange Photography album. With NewBay UGC Gatewa... |
17 April 2007
09:14 GMT |
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Jaxtr announced the launch of the public beta of a new service that brings voice to social networks and blogs. Users around the world can now sign up for a free Jaxtr account that links their mobile or landline phones with their online network. Jaxtr is easy to use, users simply add their Jaxtr widget to their online... |
20 March 2007
07:32 GMT |
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Mobango, the owners of Mobango.com - a website for publishing, converting and sharing user-generated content for mobile phones - announced that site members now have access to 1Gb of memory for their "WAP locker". This feature of the site enables members to store their favorite videos, images, ringtones, games and so... |
10 March 2007
10:31 GMT |
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VelvetPuffin announced the launch of a social networking service that allows its users to communicate, create and share user-generated content using a mobile phone or a desktop computer. Combining all the popular features usually found in social networking sites, the service allows users to send messages, create poll... |
5 March 2007
07:36 GMT |
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