Archive for September, 2010
Thursday, September 30th, 2010
Facebook users in Australia can share their location with friends from today after the social networking website launched its Places feature.
Keen to avoid another privacy backlash, Facebook stressed the service would be opt-in and users would have to check in to venues before their location was revealed on their page. ...
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
An Iranian news website says a court has sentenced a well-known Canadian-Iranian blogger to more than 19 years in prison.
The conservative website, Mashreghnews.ir, which is close to Iran's presidential office, says Hossein Derakhshan was convicted on charges of cooperation with hostile countries, spreading propaganda against the ruling establishment, promotion of ...
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Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg has donated $US100 million to schools and let a film crew from Oprah through his house, possibly as a precursor to negative publicity surrounding new movie, The Social Network.
Shy Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has provided a rare glimpse inside his modest abode and rejected suggestions his ...
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Monday, September 27th, 2010
Bloggers and tweeters are filling the gaps left by traditional media in Mexico that are limiting their coverage of the country's drug wars because of pressure from the cartels.
''Shots fired by the river, unknown number of dead,'' read a recent tweet on a busy feed from the northern border city ...
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Sunday, September 26th, 2010
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced a $US100 million ($A105.5 million) donation to public schools in a move that could enhance his reputation just before the opening on an unflattering movie about him, The Social Network.
Zuckerberg told Oprah Winfrey he picked schools in Newark, New Jersey's largest city, for the ...
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
She had been married for less than a month when a shock discovery - that her husband already had a wife - brought their honeymoon phase to an abrupt end.
There on Facebook was photographic proof: wedding pictures of her husband with his other bride. The case came before the Family ...
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
A new way to cause mischief quickly spread through short-messaging service Twitter yesterday before the site could fix the problem, as mysterious "tweets" of blocked-out text propagated themselves and caused pop-up windows to open.
Shortly before 10 am (2400 AEST), Twitter said on its "safety" feed on the site that the ...
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
ONE of two schoolgirls who complained of being stalked by a cyber predator on Facebook has been exposed as the perpetrator.
The 12-year-old girl, from a northern beaches school, tied up police resources for three weeks at great cost to taxpayers before being arrested. No charges would be laid, police said.
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Sunday, September 19th, 2010
Politicians know they have made it to the big time not when they are sworn into a federal ministry, but when someone sets up a fake Twitter account in their name.
The list of parliamentarians who have been satirised in 140 characters or less confirms it. Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott, Kevin ...
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010
A mother's fear that her 12-year-old daughter was being stalked by a paedophile on Facebook sparked an in-depth, almost month-long investigation involving the Australian Federal Police.
But police have been left dumbfounded by the discovery that the person who harassed and sent pornographic images to the girl via the site was ...
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