An EC Directive will ban information harvesting on social networking sites for targeted advertising
eBay has purchased Hunch, a social search startup that failed to gain traction in the mainstream
Facebook, and Twitter are a source of information and rioters have other networks, say experts
Old habits die hard, so don’t fight them. Instead give your staff tools they will actually use, says David Lavenda…
Even an anti-piracy group opposes SOPA, the proposed US anti-piracy legislation
The Open Compute Project is looking deeper into green data centres, from storage to systems management
Into every generation a phone is born. One phone in all the world, chosen to stop the threat of Google
Websense sees social media identity theft as a growing threat for 2012. Eric Doyle argues that it is a present…
Facebook's data centre has been praised for its energy efficiency, despite criticism from Greenpeace
The integration partnership deepens with direct connection for Facebook-to-Facebook calls through Skype
London Olympics, US presidential elections, and Mayan calendar will lead to broad attacks by criminals
Facebook said it has identified the people who used a cross-site scripting vulnerability to spam users
Salesforce acquires mobile, social cloud specialist to bolster itself against Oracle, SAP and other rivals
Users have complained of violent and sexual images appearing on their profiles
Web standards maker W3C proposes a standard for "do not track" features in browsers
The privacy-conscious Facebook challenger has lost one of its creators, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, aged 22
Google has purchased Katango to automate the Circles process in the Google+ social network
Facebook will agree to 20 years of privacy audits to end privacy investigation
Google+ is not a social network that competes against Facebook, says a senior Google executive
A twitter service is to be held on Twitter to commemorate and to raise awareness for Remembrance Day
Two-thirds of British social network users do not wish to engage with "social" businesses, a survey says
Facebook is ensuring its new headquarters in California is a fit place for sustainable living
Shutting down social networks in the interest of public safety is OK, says the British public
Google+ could add 20 million users by the end of the year, thanks to Google.com, Hangouts and Pages
As consumerisation blurs the lines of personal and professional, Comtact’s Dominic List looks at ways to cope
At last, Google has allowed businesses to set up their own pages on its Google+ social network
People are just as critical as technology in safeguarding your network, says Terry Greer-King of Check Point
Google has integrated YouTube into Google+, as well as putting +1 extensions into the Chrome browser
It's not as easy to scrape personal data as researchers claim, says Facebook
Researchers criticise Facebook's security after stealing 250GB of personal data from Facebook users