Archive for May, 2011
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
The online battle over freedom of speech has taken a dramatic turn with the revelation that a British local authority had forced Twitter to hand over the details of a user the council had accused of defamation.
Twitter, based in San Francisco, was ordered by a Californian court to disclose to ...
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Monday, May 30th, 2011
A spokesman for New York Representative Anthony Weiner says a lewd photograph sent from the Democrat's Twitter account is just "a distraction" perpetrated by a hacker.
Weiner spokesman Dave Arnold told The Associated Press in an email Sunday the Twitter episode was "a distraction" from the congressman's "important work representing his ...
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Sunday, May 29th, 2011
Lawyers for Facebook are calling a man's federal lawsuit claiming part ownership of the company ''a fraud on the court''.
In their latest legal response, the lawyers for Facebook have accused Paul Ceglia of doctoring a 2003 contract that he says proves he bought into the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's idea ...
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
The Daily Camera reports 30-year-old Elaine Ellis from Boulder, Colorado returned home Saturday morning local time to find that her bike lock had been ripped out of a brick wall and her $US500 bike missing.
She quickly tweeted news of her missing cycle and included a mobile phone photo a neighbour ...
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
She doesn't have a computer, and thinks the social networking site is called Facelift, but feisty Melbourne woman Helena Mackay is accruing online friends at an astonishing rate.
The 87-year-old who famously confronted an intruder in her St Kilda flat and yelled "You're a naughty boy", joined Facebook yesterday and, by ...
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Japan's Toyota Motor says it plans to create a private social networking service that will let cars "tweet" their drivers when they need servicing.
The Japanese automaker said it would work in conjunction with US cloud computing firm Salesforce.com to create the "Toyota Friend" service for owners of electric cars and ...
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Monday, May 23rd, 2011
Pittwater Council has launched a Facebook page that has more than 220 ''likes'' and also has a Twitter feed updated daily with about 1500 followers, plus a regular blog by the general manager, Mark Ferguson.
''Our social media tools are aimed at extending council's ability to communicate with residents, especially those ...
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
Facebook and Microsoft have formally unveiled an alliance to ferret out child porn and those that share such images at the world's leading online social network.
Facebook will use PhotoDNA technology developed by Microsoft and Dartmouth College computer science professor Hany Farid to search for matches to pictures in a National ...
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Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Facebook managers have banned a controversial group that circulated images of scantily clad women without their consent.
A Facebook spokeswoman today said "The Brocial Network" site had been removed.
She said the group was taken down because it violated Facebook's terms on the use of real names.
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Images of scantily clad women are being widely circulated without their knowledge through a private "men's only" Facebook group, reigniting the debate for stricter privacy laws for social media in Australia.
Since its inception two weeks ago, "The Brocial Network" has attracted more than 8000 members, including at least four players ...
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