Archive for July, 2011
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
A Reuters review of the Westlaw legal database shows that since 2008, federal judges have authorised at least two dozen warrants to search individuals' Facebook accounts. Many of the warrants requested a laundry list of personal data such as messages, status updates, links to videos and photographs, calendars of future ...
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
In a recent Fox News interview, the 27-year-old "Black Swan" star was asked whether she knew about Sergeant Scott Moore's video asking her to accompany him to the Marine Corps Ball in Greenville, North Carolina, in November. The annual event marks the founding of the Marines in 1775.
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Monday, July 11th, 2011
The world’s largest social networking website, Facebook, has entered a partnership with the software provider Skype that will offer its users the ability to have live free video chats with each other.
The move intensifies the heated rivalry with the internet search engine Google, which launched its own social networking ...
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Sunday, July 10th, 2011
Google is leaving open the door to more co-operation with social-media giants Facebook and Twitter, and believes there is room for multiple social networks as it rolls out its own, executive chairman Eric Schmidt said.
He also said the company would co-operate fully with US antitrust regulators but will not let ...
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Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new video calling feature during an event at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto.
"We think this is awesome because we're using the best technology that's out there for doing video chat with the best social infrastructure that's out there," Zuckerberg said.
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
Hunter Matthews is lucky to be alive and can safely say that social media platform Facebook saved her life.
The 17-year-old student was home alone and asleep at her 65-year-old grandmother's Charnley St unit in Kearneys Spring, Queensland on Monday night when a heater ignited clothing and the mattress she was ...
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
The Twitter feed for Fox News' political news - FoxNewspolitics - sent out a series of "malicious and false tweets", starting around 2am local time (4pm AEDT), Fox News confirmed in a statement. The posts had not been taken down hours later.
"BarackObama has just passed. The President is dead. A ...
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Sunday, July 3rd, 2011
Undercover liquor inspectors ordered spirits and beer using phone numbers listed on two Facebook pages in the early hours of Saturday after a report by Fairfax Media last month exposed a loophole in liquor licensing laws.
It is understood the two operators targeted were The Blind Pig Sydney and The Beer ...
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