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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

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

Leaked ‘Tulalip’ Site Points To Microsoft Social Efforts

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

14 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

14 years ago

Google+ Pleases Investors

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

14 years ago

Facebook Launches App For Feature Phones

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

14 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

14 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

14 years ago

Facebook Needs ‘Major Rewrite’ Warns Database Guru

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

14 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

14 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

14 years ago

Hacker ‘Discovers’ Facebook Music Service

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

14 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

14 years ago

Facebook, Google Face Off On Video Chat

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

14 years ago

Google+ To Target Businesses

Google+ is to compete with both LinkedIn and Facebook by allowing businesses to join

14 years ago

Google’s Schmidt Lays Out Grand Plan For Google+

Google's Eric Schmidt outlined the search giant's vision for Google+ at a conference in the US yesterday

14 years ago

Facebook-Skype Deal Deepens Microsoft Alliance

Facebook's new Skype integration is another marker in its long-deepening relationship with Microsoft, says Nicholas Kolakowski

14 years ago

Facebook Launches Free Video Chat With Skype

The social networking giant also adds group chat, improved interface, and reveals it has 750 million users

14 years ago

Technology Overwhelms One In Three

A third of people feel so overwhelmed by communications technology that they are desperate to escape it

14 years ago

Forrester: The Cloud Is Inherently Green

The cloud is inherently green, but cloud service providers need to broaden the scope of their green credentials

14 years ago

Scammers Exploit Google+ Launch

Fake invitations to Google's new social network send users to a Canadian Viagra vendor

14 years ago

Facebook Engineers Clone Google+ Circles

Circle Hack is an unofficial Facebook application that imitates one of the key features of the new Google+

14 years ago

Facebook Video Chat Deal With Skype Rumoured

Facebook's 'awesome' new product is rumoured to be an in-browser video chat tie-up with Skype

14 years ago

Greenpeace Makes Peace With Data Centres

Data centre operators should be more open about their energy use, according to Greenpeace

14 years ago

Google+ Gets In A Huddle Muddle?

Part of Google+ uses the name of an existing social media player. On the command, unleash lawyers!

14 years ago

Google Redesign Backs Social Effort

The Google search pages have been tidied up, and it's designed to boost the use of the Google+ social tools,…

14 years ago

MySpace Sale Rumoured To Go Through This Week

The sale of MySpace by its owner News Corp could be imminent, according to reports in the US media

14 years ago

Google Launches Facebook-Like Google+

Google+ is a bid by the search engine to get access to another lucrative ad market in social networking

14 years ago

Security Firm Offers Facebook-Sitting Security Service

An Essex-based security firm is offering to post fake updates on Facebook and Twitter while clients are on holiday

14 years ago