Archive for July, 2011
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
The Daily News says US marshals and New York City Police Department detectives tracked Victor Burgos down to an apartment in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood earlier this week, sitting at his computer with his Facebook page open.
The 29-year-old suspect was wanted by Utica police on multiple arrest warrants for domestic violence ...
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
When you think of Bono or Lady Gaga, the term "Silicon Valley entrepreneur" hardly springs to mind.
For now, at least. The U2 frontman and pop sensation join Justin Timberlake and Ashton Kutcher among the growing ranks of celebrities who, rather than employ their star power to hawk consumer products, are ...
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
Microsoft received much Twitter flak after a small PR account for Xbox encouraged followers to remember recently deceased musician Amy Winehouse by buying her last album on the company's entertainment marketplace, Zune.
After about an hour of retweets - with comments such as "classy", "crass much?" and "Microsoft – failing at ...
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
A US judge has blocked the latest courtroom campaign by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss to undo a deal they made to settle a squabble over who came up with the idea for Facebook.
US District Judge Douglas Woodlock in Boston on Friday granted a request by Facebook that the case there ...
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Monday, July 25th, 2011
A young council roads worker has been sacked after commenting on Facebook that the council had too many office staff and not enough workers.
Alec Armstrong, 21, posted the remarks on a Hepburn Shire residents' page last month and had his employment terminated five weeks later for what the Victorian council ...
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Sunday, July 24th, 2011
Ways to force Facebook to give parents access to their kids' profiles will be discussed today by state and federal attorneys-general in a meeting that will also examine an 18+ Facebook age limit.
The idea was first proposed by a South Australian Family First MP, Dennis Hood, and is being championed ...
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Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Infamous hacker group Anonymous has launched its own social network after being rejected by Google's freshly-launched online community.
A message on the anonplus.com website promised that the Anonymous social network would be for everyone and listed online monikers of developers taking part in the project.
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
The exciting climax drew 7,196 tweets per second, according to Twitter. Paraguay's penalty shootout win over Brazil in a Copa America quarterfinal later the same day came close to beating it with 7,166.
The previous record of 6,939 was set just after midnight in Japan on New Year's Day. Other spikes ...
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Sunday, July 17th, 2011
Google's ambitious attempt to take on Facebook is bearing fruit with Google+ now counting more than 10 million members and more than a billion items are shared there every day.
Rather, Google's new social-networking endeavor is about trying to gain valuable insights into people's lives and relationships. This could help the ...
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Thursday, July 14th, 2011
A new research finding which underlines the need for more investigation into internet-driven ''mind change'', says neurologist Susan Greenfield.
Baroness Greenfield, the high-profile British brain expert, says teenagers may be chatting with friends more than ever on Facebook but the loss of eye contact and physical closeness is unleashing changes equivalent ...
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