Facebook and other social networks tend to promote self-esteem but also lower self-control both on and offline, says new research. ...
03:04 PM, Jan 15, 2013
New Delhi: Indian teens spend 86 per cent of their time daily on Facebook followed by 54 per cent on Twitter, a survey by McAfee today said. "On a daily basis, the surveyed Indian teens spend 86 per cent of their time on Facebook followed by 54 per cent time on Twitter," McAfee's 'Secret Lives of Teens' survey said. It added that 97 per cent of teens have access to...
05:35 PM, Nov 22, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook Inc is proposing to combine user data with that of recently acquired photo-sharing service Instagram, and will loosen restrictions on emails between members of the social network. Facebook also said on Wednesday it is proposing to scrap a 4-year old process that can allow the social network's roughly 1 billion users to vote on changes to its policies and terms of services. Facebook said it may share...
10:52 AM, Nov 22, 2012
London: Bullying using e-mails, texts or web-postings to abuse people is as common at the workplace as 'conventional' bullying at schools, says a study. The way cyberbullying influences both the victim and witnesses is more hidden at the workplace, according to study on occupational psychology. Christine Sprigg, Carolyn Axtell and Sam Farley of the University of Sheffield, with Iain Coyne of Nottingham University, have shone a new light on this...
11:22 AM, Nov 05, 2012
London: A social network for the dying - called "My Last Wish" - has been created to help dying people meet others who have similar hopes and ambitions which they wish to achieve before they die. The free app, created by a software company called White Lotus Corporation, is available in Apple's App Store, the Telegraph reported. "A social networking application to make friendship with those unknown people from corners...
09:54 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Microsoft has silently launched its social network So.Cl, which has been in private beta since December 2011. The site is now out of beta and is available to all users. So.cl, pronounced "social", is an experimental research project, developed by Microsoft's FUSE Labs, focused on exploring the possibilities of social search for the purpose of learning. So.cl combines social networking and search, to help people find and share...
01:37 PM, May 21, 2012
Brussels: An explosion of people checking into social networks is being exploited by mobile application makers and private detectives, who say they can use people's online chatter and photos to track them and find out where they live. In March, Apple stopped downloads of a "stalker" mobile application that told men where women around them were "hanging out", using only publicly available information from social networks. But other readily available...
02:25 AM, May 14, 2012
Toronto: Interested in sharing more personal moments of life to a small group of friends rather than a large network? An app called Path could help. Originally conceived as a way to post photos and videos for close family and friends to see, the app was re-released this month as a "smart journal" to enable users to share more about their lives. "Because Path is a smaller network that's built...
11:34 AM, Dec 27, 2011
New York: Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed the rise of social networks and mobile technology that's put the Internet at an arm's reach, day and night - yet a new study has found that people are even more distrustful of the information they find online. Three-quarters of Internet users find the Web an important source of information, but most people still don't deem the content they see online...
12:08 PM, Dec 15, 2011
New York: Google Inc. has opened up its Google Plus social network to everyone after testing it with a limited audience for 12 weeks. Google said in a blog post Tuesday that it will now let anyone sign up for Google Plus. Previously the service was only available by invitation, though it got easier to join in recent weeks. The company also added a search capability to Google Plus that...
07:45 AM, Sep 21, 2011
