SocialMedia

Dorkbot Malware Continues To Spread On Facebook

Sophos warns that a piece of Facebook malware is continuing to spread through Facebook chat.

13 years ago

Social Media Badly Used By Councils During Strike

Just 22 percent of councils provided "excellent" coverage during public sector strikes, says survey

13 years ago

Facebook Buys Gowalla For Location Sharing

Facebook has acquired location sharing service provider Gowalla, a key competitor to FourSquare

13 years ago

Facebook Signals Hiring Spree For New York Office

Facebook is to hire thousands of new engineers as it boosts its workforce for a rapid growth push

13 years ago

Industry Predicts More Advanced Attacks in 2012

Cyber-adversaries are gearing up for even more advanced attacks. Fahmida Rashid Explores the security outlook for 2012

13 years ago

Syria Bans iPhones To Stop Protestors Talking

Apple's iPhone banned to silence reports of violence against protestors in Syria's Arab Spring revolt

13 years ago

Marc Benioff Still Loves Oracle And Microsoft Bating

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dislikes Oracle and Microsoft and cannot resist revealing his reasons

13 years ago

GCHQ Devises Code-Cracker Game To Recruit Spies

Intelligence agency GCHQ has gone to social media with a code-breaking challenge for would-be spies

13 years ago

British Apple Worker Sacked For Facebook Posts

An Apple Store employee who ranted on Facebook about his job has lost his claim of unfair dismissal

13 years ago

Salesforce Adds Social Marketing To User Options

Salesforce's Social Marketing Cloud uses its Radian6 assets to track and improve company profiles

13 years ago

HP: 50 Zettabytes Of Data Created Each Year By 2020

As data explodes HP Labs is showing some ideas on how businesses can cope with it

13 years ago

Facebook Settles Over Misleading Privacy Changes

Facebook has settled Federal Trade Commission charges of deceptive behaviour over privacy settings

13 years ago

US Patriots v EU Liberals In 2012 Cloud Olympics

Cloud services could lose, in an Olympian contest over privacy between US patriots and EU human rights defenders, says Eric…

13 years ago

Facebook Heading For Largest Ever Tech IPO

Facebook flotation could raise $10bn and value Facebook at $100bn, say sources

13 years ago

EC To Stop Facebook Eavesdropping

An EC Directive will ban information harvesting on social networking sites for targeted advertising

13 years ago

eBay Buys Hunch Decision Engine

eBay has purchased Hunch, a social search startup that failed to gain traction in the mainstream

13 years ago

Don’t Shut Social Networks During Riots, Experts Agree

Facebook, and Twitter are a source of information and rioters have other networks, say experts

13 years ago

New Tech Is Fine, But People Don’t Like Change

Old habits die hard, so don’t fight them. Instead give your staff tools they will actually use, says David Lavenda…

13 years ago

BSA, Microsoft Join SOPA Opposition

Even an anti-piracy group opposes SOPA, the proposed US anti-piracy legislation

13 years ago

Facebook Expands Green Open Hardware Push

The Open Compute Project is looking deeper into green data centres, from storage to systems management

13 years ago

HTC and Facebook To Release “Buffy” Smartphone

Into every generation a phone is born. One phone in all the world, chosen to stop the threat of Google

13 years ago

A Chilling Message For Well-Connected Social Networkers

Websense sees social media identity theft as a growing threat for 2012. Eric Doyle argues that it is a present…

13 years ago

Facebook’s Data Centre Awarded LEED Gold

Facebook's data centre has been praised for its energy efficiency, despite criticism from Greenpeace

13 years ago

Skype Adds Direct Facebook Friends Video Chatting

The integration partnership deepens with direct connection for Facebook-to-Facebook calls through Skype

13 years ago

Websense Predicts Explosive 2012 For Cyber Crime

London Olympics, US presidential elections, and Mayan calendar will lead to broad attacks by criminals

13 years ago

Facebook Pursues Attackers After Porn Spam Attack

Facebook said it has identified the people who used a cross-site scripting vulnerability to spam users

13 years ago

Model Metrics Consultancy Bought By Salesforce

Salesforce acquires mobile, social cloud specialist to bolster itself against Oracle, SAP and other rivals

13 years ago

Porn and Violence Floods Facebook Newsfeeds

Users have complained of violent and sexual images appearing on their profiles

13 years ago

W3C Publishes Online Privacy Drafts

Web standards maker W3C proposes a standard for "do not track" features in browsers

13 years ago

Diaspora Co-founder Found Dead

The privacy-conscious Facebook challenger has lost one of its creators, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, aged 22

13 years ago