Archive for April, 2011
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
NSW public school teachers have been granted permission to use Facebook, Twitter and other social media in the classroom. Students are still blocked.
It was the former Labor government that decided teachers should be able to access social media from yesterday, which was the first day of the second school term ...
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
The head of the Australian Christian Lobby and former special forces soldier Jim Wallace has "unreservedly" apologised for commenting against gay marriage and Muslims on Anzac Day.
Jim Wallace, the managing director of ACL, wrote on Twitter this morning: "Just hope that as we remember Servicemen and women today we remember ...
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
A Buckingham Palace guard has been axed from his regiment's duties on the day of the royal wedding after he ranted about Catherine Middleton on Facebook.
Scots Guardsman Cameron Reilly, 18, called the bride-to-be a "posh bitch" on the social networking site.
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
A Brisbane Facebook "troll" who vandalised tribute sites for dead children with offensive comments and child porn wants bail pending an appeal of his jail term.
Bradley Paul Hampson yesterday launched a bid for bail from his cell at Brisbane Correctional Centre, Wacol.
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
The former deputy premier Carmel Tebbutt has been accused of breaching electoral laws after her campaign team accepted a donation from a social media company to run her ''Keep Carmel'' Twitter campaign during the election.
Brad Keeling, a former OneTel director and now head of strategy and development at One Small ...
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Monday, April 18th, 2011
An internet predator that targeted Christchurch schoolboys in New Zealand invented attractive personas and then killed them off.
Police, who describe the scam as cruel, say the 28-year-old Auckland woman used several fake online profiles – depicting young and pretty women – to befriend unsuspecting high school boys.
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Sunday, April 17th, 2011
A US woman who was playing a game on Facebook while her 13-month-old son drowned in a bathtub has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Shannon Johnson, 34, of Fort Lupton, northern Colorado, cried as District Judge Thomas Quammen told her he didn't think she was a bad person or ...
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Facebook's tangled founding story is about to get more complicated, thanks to a man named Paul Ceglia.
Anyone who has seen The Social Network knows about Eduardo Saverin and the Winklevoss twins. Facebook co-founder Saverin was forced out, sued Facebook and settled for a 5% stake of the company. Tyler and ...
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
The Facebook application High School Memories lets people share recollections of their teenage years. It might surprise some users to learn that the app's creator isn't old enough for high school himself.
Cyrus Pishevar, a 13-year-old resident of Palo Alto, California, developed High School Memories after seeing how popular it was ...
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
Emails allegedly written by Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg are cited in a new court filing by Paul Ceglia as proof of his claim that he's entitled to 50 per cent of the company under a 2003 contract.
The revised complaint, filed yesterday in federal court in Buffalo, New York, includes new ...
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