SocialMedia

Google Blocks Facebook Data Transfers

Google is making moves to pressure Facebook into changing its stance on data portability

14 years ago

EU Seeks To Introduce Stronger Online Privacy Laws

The European Commission plans to strengthen the rules governing the collection and use of personal data online

14 years ago

Cuts? eWEEK Readers Say Tech Will Help

You say IT can boost efficiency (and we agree). Next: how should business go social - Facebook, Twitter or what?

14 years ago

Cameron Envisages Silicon Valley In East London

The government plans to attract high-tech visionaries and entrepreneurs to London’s Olympics site after 2012

14 years ago

Facebook Mobile Apps Refreshed For iPhone And Android

New smartphone apps from Facebook add single sign-on to iPhones and Androids, along with Deals for the iPhone

14 years ago

Google Exodus Signals Talent Mismanagement

As Google waves goodbye to Google Wave creator Lars Rasmussen and AdMob founder Omar Hamoui, Clint Boulton asks, what is…

14 years ago

Police To Get Facebook Lessons

Detectives will be trained to track down criminals on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter

14 years ago

PayPal Launches Mobile Micropayments Service

PayPal is launching a micropayments platform that will allow consumers to purchase goods and content online

14 years ago

Social Media Giants Pump $250m Into Startups

Amazon, Facebook and others invest in KPCB's sFund to encourage social applications startups

14 years ago

Facebook To Encrypt User IDs After Privacy Concerns

Facebook is planning on encrypting user IDs to allay privacy concerns after popular apps were found to be transmitting user…

14 years ago

Is Criticism Of Android’s Openness Justified?

According to Facebook developer Joe Hewitt, Android is being manipulated by operators. A Facebook engineer complaining about openness? Hmm... says…

14 years ago

Facebook Developer Sued Over Privacy Breach

Zynga, the developer behind the popular FarmVille app on Facebook, is being sued over allegations of privacy violations

14 years ago

Facebook Admits To New Privacy Breach

Facebook has just got poked in the security department after some of its most popular apps have reportedly been transmitting…

14 years ago

Public Services Start To Embrace Social Media

Public services are beginning to find uses for Twitter and other social media formats to improve their image

14 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg Believes Google Lacks Innovation

Facebook's Zuckerberg believes Google is no longer leading innovation, which he why he chose to partner with Microsoft on social…

14 years ago

Facebook, Bing Team Up Over Social Search

Microsoft has enhanced its partnership with Facebook so that the Bing search engine shows US users which sites and products…

14 years ago

Time We Gave The Kids Some Credit

Kids do daft things - that's a fact. But when it comes to the web, we need to accept they're…

14 years ago

One-Time Password Security For Facebook

Facebook users skittish about using their real password on public computers can now get a one-time password sent to their…

14 years ago

Facebook Offers Users ‘Complete Control’ Of Data

The new Facebook apps are designed to give users more control of the posts, photos and videos they have posted…

14 years ago

Home Secretary Lambasted For CEOP Assimilation

Phoenix Foundation “disgusted” and a government chief officer resigns over decision to disband child protection agency

14 years ago

MoD Advises Staff To Avoid Facebook Places

The Ministry of Defence is warning military personnel not to expose their locations of Facebook

14 years ago

Social Networking Sites Patch Security Flaws

A number of cross-site scripting flaws could have allowed attacks on users of Twitter, Facebook and MySpace

14 years ago

Adobe Updates Facebook Developer Platform

Adobe has updated its software developer kit for developers wishing to bring Flash together with social networking

14 years ago

Analysts Agree That Facebook Should Buy Skype

Facebook would do well to acquire VoIP giant Skype, analysts said, giving the social network's users calling capabilities and helping…

14 years ago

Facebook Rings Skype For Social Networking Links

Facebook users may soon be able to use Skype's VoIP PC-to-PC calling capabilities to phone a friend, rivalling Google's VOIP…

14 years ago

RIM Launches Social Developer Tools For BlackBerry

RIM's BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform lets developers integrate social features such as chat into their third-party applications

14 years ago

LinkedIn Users Targeted By Spam Attack

The attack on the LinkedIn social network follows attacks on Twitter, Facebook and others

14 years ago

Facebook Crashes Twice In A Comedy Of Errors

Facebook has apologised for an outage yesterday that cut off “many” of its users, caused by mishandling an error code

14 years ago

Salesforce Upgrades Colloboration Tool With Chatter 2

Salesforce.com has revealed the next version of its Facebook-like Chatter collaboration platform, known as Chatter 2

14 years ago

Any Facebook Phone Would Fail

Just supposing Facebook was making a phone, says Don Reisinger. How stupid would that be?

14 years ago