Archive for the ‘Social Networks’ Category
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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