Archive for March, 2011
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Google will begin allowing users to personally endorse search results and web pages, its latest attempt to stave off rival Facebook while trying to jump onboard a social networking boom.
The so-called "+1" button will start to appear alongside Google search results for select users from today, letting people recommend specific ...
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
Add ''Facebook depression'' to potential harms linked with social media, an influential doctors' group warns, referring to a condition it says may affect troubled teens who obsess over the online site.
Researchers disagree on whether it is simply an extension of depression that some children feel in other circumstances, or a ...
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Sunday, March 27th, 2011
Parents of boys at a Sydney private school have been urged to monitor their sons' use of Facebook, with a warning that any mistakes they made in teenage years could be permanently recorded on the internet and catch up with them later in life.
The headmaster of Shore, Timothy Wright, wrote ...
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Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Can Facebook save lives? Here’s video evidence, telling the story of college student Nitesh Bhakta, who spotted hooded burglars in his living room. He quickly grabbed his laptop and slipped undetected into the attic as the intruders tied up his grandmother and sister and then ransacked the house.
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
Whether you think Twitter is the greatest thing to happen to communications since Gutenberg or the worst, there's plenty of evidence to support your views. For the prosecution we have Charlie Sheen, who attracted 1 million followers in 25 hours and 17 minutes earlier this month as his manic ranting ...
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Facebook and three of Australia's largest web companies have criticised Labor's planned mandatory internet filter, saying it is not the answer to protecting Australians from the web's worst excesses.
The comments - by security experts who are employed by Yahoo, ninemsn, Microsoft and the social networking pioneer Facebook - were delivered ...
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Monday, March 21st, 2011
A word of caution to any would-be bigamists who may be reading this: if you’re posting photos of your second wedding to Facebook, you might want to make sure your first wife can’t see them.
That’s precisely what Richard Barton Jr. of Grand Rapids, Michigan, did; he’s now out of jail, ...
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Sunday, March 20th, 2011
Victorian teenagers are ignorant of the legal pitfalls of using social media - such as posting explicit photographs of themselves or others online - and only 1 per cent would ask an adult for advice about dangers online, a study has found.
A Monash University-led study of more than 1000 year ...
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Thursday, March 17th, 2011
The free messaging and internet phone service Skype carries a number of worrying security concerns which could put users living in oppressive regimes in danger, says the advocacy group Privacy International.
The free internet telephony service has around 700 million users worldwide, including at least 20 million in China and an ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
NSW Police say they have identified a schoolboy as the person behind spreading a young girl’s birthday party invitation to more than 200,000 people online that included her name, home address and mobile phone number.
Head of the North Shore Local Area Command, Superintendent Terence Dalton, said the boy would ...
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