Archive for April, 2011
Monday, April 11th, 2011
The Winklevoss twins cannot back out of a settlement with Facebook over claims that Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea, a US appeals court ruled on Monday.
A federal appeals court has ruled that former Harvard University schoolmates of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg can't undo their settlement over creation of ...
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Sunday, April 10th, 2011
Startup Reppler launched a service this week to help people shine on Facebook pages that have become resources checked by employers, college recruiters and even potential mates.
Reppler warns Facebook users about pictures or written posts that might hurt their images, highlights public information best kept private and rates how members ...
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
The NSW student who has been charged after a girl's 16th birthday party invitation went viral on Facebook will plead guilty, his lawyer said today.
"He's entering a plea of guilty," the boy's lawyer said in the Hornsby Children's Court this morning. But after magistrate Lisa Stapleton asked if it should ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
Queensland Police are increasingly using social networking site Facebook to garner tip-offs from the public.
The creation of the Queensland Police Service official Facebook page, which has 178,000 followers and is monitored by the police media unit, has led to an unprecedented level of interaction between police and the public.
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
US President Barack Obama has launched his reelection campaign with a social media barrage, turning once again to the online tools that helped propel him to the White House three years ago.
Obama, 49, announced his 2012 candidacy with a message on Twitter, a status update on his Facebook page and ...
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Monday, April 4th, 2011
A New Jersey school district suspended a first-grade teacher after parents complained that she had posted derogatory comments about her students on her Facebook page.
The Record newspaper reports that the teacher wrote about feeling like "a warden" and referred to her 6- and 7-year-old students as future criminals.
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
Facebook and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg have been hit with a lawsuit seeking more than $US1 billion ($963,298,329) in damages over a page on the social network which called for a "Third Intifada" against Israel.
Facebook this week shut down the "Third Intifada" page, which had almost 500,000 fans, but the lawsuit ...
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