SocialMedia

FBI Arrests Facebook Spam King

Facebook spammer Sanford Wallace has turned himself in to the FBI after a July indictment in the US

13 years ago

Research Uses Face Recognition To Find Personal Data

Researchers have shown off the ability to discover personal data using simple face recognition software

13 years ago

Facebook Offers Bug Bounties

Facebook has followed Mozilla, Google and others in offering cash for the disclosure of security flaws

13 years ago

Facebook And Vodafone Launch Social Mobile Phones

The mobile and social networking giants have teamed up to produce a Facebook-dedicated, pre-pay handset

13 years ago

Readers Prefer LinkedIn For Business

Google+ has overtaken Facebook, but LinkedIn still rules business social circles. Next: What's your top IT issue?

13 years ago

Tilera Chips Beat Intel And AMD Claims Facebook

Facebook engineers say Tilera’s multi-core processors are more efficient than low-power Intel and AMD chips

13 years ago

Most British Firms To Hire ‘Social Media Managers’

Research has found British businesses are getting to grips with online matters

13 years ago

comScore: Google+ Hits 20 Million Visitors

Google+ has more than 20 million users, and has not even moved out of the invitation-only phase yet

13 years ago

Email Matches Voice On Readers’ Devices

eWEEK readers do email as often as voice on their mobiles. Next: which social network is best?

13 years ago

AVG Promotes MultiMi As Digital Lifecoach

AVG is securing MultiMi's future by adding its market reach to help those who need to juggle their digital lives

13 years ago

Microsoft Tests The Water With Social Network Leak

Microsoft says its socl.com launch was an accident, but the company was most likely trying to gauge a reaction, says…

13 years ago

Facebook To Google+: Ten Reasons To Switch

Facebook is a hugely successful social network, but the features in Google+ could tempt some users away

13 years ago

Spiceworks Plans Cloud Social App To Buy Ink

Social network for IT pros now lets members issue RFQs and buy ink cartridges online

13 years ago

Google Unlocks The Data That Facebook Hoards

The Data Liberation Front fights Facebook by making it easy for users to take Google+ data with them

13 years ago

Google To Announce Business Profiles Trial This Week

Companies selected to take part in Google's business profiles trial will be informed this week

13 years ago

Anonymous Launches ‘AnonPlus’ Social Network

Hacktivist group Anonymous has been banned from Google+, and is working on its own social network, AnonPlus

13 years ago

Leaked ‘Tulalip’ Site Points To Microsoft Social Efforts

A leaked web page suggests that Microsoft might be stepping up its social networking efforts

13 years ago

Security Tops Readers’ Cloud Woes

Our readers still think the cloud lacks security. Next: What business tasks do you do on your mobile?

13 years ago

Facebook’s Web Presence Creeps Up On Google

Google still rules the search market in the UK, but Facebook's popularity is starting to impact on web traffic

13 years ago

Google+ Pleases Investors

Ahead of its latest earnings report, Google+ is giving Google investors warm feelings

13 years ago

Facebook Launches App For Feature Phones

Facebook's Every Phone app brings social networking to phones dumber than a smartphone

13 years ago

Analyst Predicts 20m Google+ Users By Weekend

One analyst predicts Google's social networking site could reach 20 million users by this weekend

13 years ago

Yammer Opens European HQ In London’s Tech City

Enterprise social network Yammer has opened a new European headquarters at London's 'Silicon Roundabout'

13 years ago

Google+ User Estimate Hints At Rapid Growth

Google+ is estimated to have signed up at least 5 million users in the United States alone

13 years ago

Facebook Needs ‘Major Rewrite’ Warns Database Guru

Facebook's reliance on MySQL is unsustainable and requires a total rewrite, warns Michael Stonebraker

13 years ago

Facebook Hit By Video Calling Scam

Just days after launch, the scammers have started hitting on Facebook’s video callers with a fake application

13 years ago

Video Calling Trend Adds A New Face To Social Networks

Facebook Video Calling with Skype is attracting interest from all sides of the industry, including scammers

13 years ago

Hacker ‘Discovers’ Facebook Music Service

A clue in the coding of Facebook’s video chat service hints at ‘Facebook Vibes’ music app

13 years ago

Google Spams Google+ Users After Disk Overload

Full disks resulted in Google+ users getting multiple notifications - a bad start for the vaunted Facebook killer

13 years ago

Facebook, Google Face Off On Video Chat

Facebook and Google are taking different approaches to integrating video into their social networks

13 years ago