Archive for June, 2011
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
Justin Timberlake apparently wasn't satisfied with just playing a social media impresario in the movies, so now he's becoming one in real life.
The pop star, who played Napster co-founder Sean Parker in The Social Network, a movie about Facebook, has joined Specific Media in buying its downtrodden rival, MySpace, from ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Pope Benedict, who at 84 still handwrites his speeches rather than use a computer, used an iPad to publish his first post on Twitter.
The pontiff tapped in English on the tablet device: ''Dear Friends, I just launched News.va. Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus ...
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Google, which has been frustrated by a string of failed attempts to crack the social networking market, has introduced a full-fledged social network dubbed Google+. It is the company's biggest foray into social networking since co-founder Larry Page took over as chief executive in April.
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Monday, June 27th, 2011
Richard O'Connor, a landscape architect was fired for overusing an email chat service has been found to have been unfairly dismissed. It is the latest case for Fair Work Australia that deals with internet and social media use in the workplace.
He had been employed by Outdoor Creations, in Melbourne. He ...
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Sunday, June 26th, 2011
A NSW school whose students participated in a Facebook site used for cyber-bullying has threatened to expel students under 13 who are using the social networking site.
In an email to parents the principal of Northern Beaches Christian School, Stephen Harris, warned that students registered on Facebook and under the social ...
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have opted not to go to the US Supreme Court with their bid to get out of a deal they made in a lawsuit charging that Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for Facebook.
A spokesman for the attorneys declined comment on the decision to abandon the suit ...
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Children as young as eight are joining online social networking sites, and primary school pupils are increasingly exposed to cyberbullying, a senior officer at the Australian Communications and Media Authority has warned.
''The issues such as cyberbullying and the excessive use of technology that [were] in secondary schools 12 or 18 ...
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
You can do it all on Facebook — post photos, catch up with old friends and, apparently, arrange for someone to whack your child's father.
Cops say that that's exactly what London Eley of Southwest Philadelphia in the US did on May 23, after she had a heated argument with Corey ...
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Monday, June 20th, 2011
At least three months before the revelation that former congressman Anthony Weiner was sending lewd messages and photos to women online, a small group of self-described conservatives was monitoring his exchanges with women on Twitter.
Now there is evidence that someone else created two false identities on Twitter in order to ...
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Thursday, June 16th, 2011
A South Australian Family First MP is working on legislation to force Facebook to give parents a bigger say in the online activities of their children.
Upper house MP Dennis Hood is drafting a bill that would allow parents to be better informed and to have more control over information their ...
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