Archive for August, 2011

New Music on Myspace

Monday, August 8th, 2011

Check out the New Music Tuesday playlist featuring the best of today’s new jams on Myspace! . Kanye West and Jay-Z “Watch The Throne” — After months of false starts and speculation, Kanye West and Jay-Z’s highly anticipated collaboration Watch The Throne is here and if game-changing songs like “Otis” And “Lift ...

MySpace loses another friend

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

MySpace might be old hat by social networking standards, but one woman is glad the court system hasn't completely forgotten about it. Julie Riggs received some justice in late July when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court decision and revived her claim that News Corp., previous ...

Trademark Battle

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

In an eyebrow-raising trademark battle, Facebook filed suit against adult dating site Shagbook in May. Facebook’s contention: that the world’s largest social network would be “damaged by the issuance of a registration for the mark Shagbook.” Shagbook has now filed its own opposition, along with counterclaims, with the United States ...

Google+ 25M Users & Counting

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Google is a latecomer to social networking but its new site, Google+, is growing much more rapidly than Facebook, MySpace and Twitter did in their early days, technology experts said. While Google+ may be the fastest-growing social network ever, it remains to be seen whether it can pose a serious threat ...

Terroist Twitter Account Hacked

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

The hacker group Anonymous has hijacked the Twitter account belonging to Anders Behring Breivik, the man behind the attacks earlier this month in Norway. The disparaging tweets began Sunday afternoon. They at first were made to look like Breivik himself sent them from prison, but the hackers eventually identified themselves ...

Bomb Threats On Facebook

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Khaled Zakaria, 30, faced Parramatta Bail Court yesterday charged with one count of using a mobile phone to menace or harass and two counts of making hoax threats using a mobile phone. In documents tendered to the court, police said Mr Zakaria, of Greenacre, threatened to bomb intelligence agency ASIO, stab ...