Archive for June, 2011
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
A British juror will be sent to jail for discussing a drug and corruption trial with a defendant on Facebook, a judge said.
Justice Igor Judge told Joanne Fraill - the first juror in Britain to be convicted for using the internet during a trial- that she would get a prison ...
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Facebook is approaching 700 million members but its growth is slowing and it lost users in the United States and Canada last month, according to a report.
Facebook itself does not regularly release membership figures except to announce milestones such as when it crossed 500 million users in July last year.
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
Queensland police are investigating 'root rater' Facebook pages that publicly rate the sexual abilities of school students after the state government moved to have them shut down today.
Browns Plains State High School students in Brisbane became the latest cohort to be targeted on Facebook pages calling on their peers and ...
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Thursday, June 9th, 2011
When US mother Alaina Giordano's story of losing custody of her two children because of breast cancer went viral online, it seemed like a callous injustice.
Blogs and social networking sites rallied to her cause, and soon she had a law firm willing to appeal the judge's decision.
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Facebook has quietly expanded the availability of technology to automatically identify people in photos, renewing concerns about the privacy practices of the world's top social networking service.
The feature, which Facebook automatically enabled for Facebook users, has been expanded from the United States to "most countries", Facebook said on its official ...
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
No plugging of Twitter accounts or Facebook pages on French broadcast airwaves.
France's audiovisual authority says TV and radio stations that promote their sites on the two gargantuan social media services on air are engaging in secret - and unfair - advertising.
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Monday, June 6th, 2011
Better check your Facebook settings before posting a party invitation online.
A teenage girl in Germany who forgot to mark her birthday invitation as private on Facebook fled her own party when more than 1500 guests showed up and about 100 police officers, some on horses, were needed to keep the ...
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Sunday, June 5th, 2011
Brisbane Court of Appeal judges this morning ordered Bradley Paul Hampson be set free after setting aside his 12-month jail term and replacing it with a six-month sentence.
Taking into account the 220 days he had already served in jail, he was released on a two-year probation order.
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
If he had a another chance, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt would have pressed the internet search leader to focus more on mounting a challenge to Facebook while he was still running the company.
"I screwed up," Schmidt said late Tuesday, US time, during a 75-minute question-and-answer session at the D: ...
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Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
A Facebook page offering round-the-clock booze delivery in Sydney has piqued the interest of NSW liquor licensing authorities, who are threatening fines of $11,000 and a 12-month jail sentence.
The Blind Pig Sydney page recently went live on Facebook, offering free delivery of six packs of beer and bottles of wine ...
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