Archive for February, 2011
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has obtained a temporary restraining order against a stalker who he claims has been following him and harassing him for financial support for his family.
Citing law enforcement sources and legal documents, gossip site TMZ said Zuckerberg obtained the restraining order against 31-year-old Pradeep Manukonda after he ...
Posted in Social Networks | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
In dating land, revenge is now a dish best served online, with jilted lovers using Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to dish the dirt on their exes.
And what would once have been a heat-of-the-moment spray can now live on forever, dredged up by a simple Google search.
Posted in Social Networks | No Comments »
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Hacking and art have mixed in a freshly-launched dating website that lets visitors seek mates by sifting through profile pictures "stolen" from Facebook.
Facebook frowned on the site lovely-faces.com, saying that "scraping" or mining information violates the terms of service at the world's leading online social network. Facebook was investigating and ...
Posted in Social Networks | No Comments »
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
News Corp has doubled its profits, but its troubled MySpace site is now for sale, while increased newspaper revenues were wiped out by a drop in money from book sales.
Second-quarter net income doubled to $US642 million from last year on slightly higher revenue of $US8.76 billion. That growth came mainly ...
Posted in MySpace | No Comments »
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
The Industrial Relations Commission this afternoon ordered that the two sacked prison officers be reinstated tomorrow pending a further hearing on February 9.
During the heated hearing, Justice Frank Marks criticised the NSW Department of Corrective Services for taking its action without consulting the Public Service Association and expressed disappointment that ...
Posted in Social Networks | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
With the unruly sounds of protests in the background, the Egyptian man declared there were 50,000 demonstrators in the streets of Cairo.
''And the number is growing,'' he said, raising his voice to be heard on the recording.
Unedited, raw, anonymous and emotional, Egyptian voices are trickling out through a new service ...
Posted in Social Networks | No Comments »