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 information between its own service and other businesses or affiliates that Facebook owns to "help provide, understand, and improve our services and their own services."
One of Facebook's most significant affiliate businesses is Instagram, a photo-sharing service for smartphone users that Facebook acquired in October for roughly $715 million....
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10:52 AM, Nov 22, 2012
The sex scandal that forced CIA Director David Petraeus to resign has generated bizarre plot twists. Another top general exchanged what have been described as 'inappropriate emails' with a key figure in the scandal; both generals were drawn into an ugly child custody battle; and a shirtless FBI agent leaked a report to a congressman. ...
11:11 PM, Nov 14, 2012
Washington: The scandal involving former CIA Director David Petraeus widened on Tuesday as US defense officials said they were looking into "flirtatious" e-mails between General John Allen, the top US commander in Afghanistan, and a woman at the center of the affair. Defense Department officials said they were sifting through 30,000 pages of email and other communications between Allen and Jill Kelley, a Florida socialite whose complaints about harassing messages...
07:54 AM, Nov 14, 2012
London: Are you sending 'too-friendly' emails with kisses and smileys to your clients and colleagues? You better stop! A survey by a office products company in UK found that kisses on emails to clients are disliked by 66 per cent people while 44 per cent said they didn't approve of smiley faces in mails. Two-thirds of people said that they regard simple mistakes in an email as 'shoddy' and would...
01:48 PM, Aug 11, 2012
London: The secret-spilling group WikiLeaks said it was in the process of publishing material from 2.4 million Syrian emails - many of which it said came from official government accounts. WikiLeaks' Sarah Harrison told journalists at London's Frontline Club that the emails reveal interactions between the Syrian government and Western companies, although she declined to go into much further detail. Harrison quoted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as saying that "the...
11:48 AM, Jul 08, 2012
London: The WikiLeaks website said on Thursday it had begun publishing more than 2 million emails from Syrian government officials that would embarrass not only Damascus, which is trying to crush a 16-month rebellion, but also its opponents. WikiLeaks spokeswoman Sarah Harrison told a news conference the emails were from Syrian political figures, government ministries and companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012. She read out a statement quoting...
12:50 AM, Jul 06, 2012
New York: An Indian diplomat's daughter, who was jailed for a day on suspicion of sending obscene emails to her teacher, has filed a lawsuit against the city of New York and her school authorities seeking USD 1.5 million in damages for her wrongful imprisonment and suspension from school. 18-year-old Krittika Biswas, the daughter of Vice-Consul in the Consulate General of India in New York Debashish Biswas, was detained and...
12:19 PM, May 08, 2012
New York: Emails from Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard days show the dropout-turned-Facebook CEO as a young entrepreneur losing patience with a client's delayed payments. "I contracted out my services for money, and even though I seem to continually be providing services, I don't seem to be receiving money from you guys," he wrote on Sunday, January 25, 2004, according to court documents filed on Monday by Facebook's lawyers. The deal, writes...
10:56 AM, Mar 27, 2012
London: The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than 5 million emails from a US-based global security think tank, apparently obtained by hackers. WikiLeaks did not say how it had acquired access to the vast haul of internal and external correspondence of Strategic Forecasting Inc (Stratfor) of Austin, Texas. Hackers linked to the group Anonymous said at the beginning of 2012 that they had stolen the email correspondence...
11:28 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala's Director General of Police Jacob Punnoose on Tuesday denied ever having snooped on emails of some people, including a former Muslim lawmaker, as reported in the media. Punnoose was reacting after Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy ordered an urgent inquiry into media reports that the Kerala Police Hi-tech Cell since November was snooping on emails of 189 people, all of whom were Muslims. The list included a former...
11:58 AM, Jan 18, 2012
New Delhi: US authorities are investigating allegations that an Indian government spy unit hacked into the emails of an official US commission that monitors economic and security relations between the United States and China, including cyber-security issues. The request for an investigation came after hackers posted on the Internet what purports to be an Indian military intelligence document on cyber-spying, which discusses plans to target the commission - apparently using...
03:27 PM, Jan 10, 2012
New York: Some 8 million people received emails from the New York Times on Thursday offering a special discount if they would reconsider their decision to cancel their subscriptions. The trouble is, the offer was supposed to go to only about 300 people who had decided to stop taking home delivery of the newspaper - it was erroneously sent by a New York Times employee to more than 8 million...
11:06 AM, Dec 29, 2011
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10:51 AM, Dec 28, 2011
Frankfurt: The backlash against twenty-four-hour connectivity has started. Carmaker Volkswagen has agreed to deactivate e-mails on German staff Blackberry devices out of office hours to give them a break. Under an agreement with labour representatives, staff at Europe's biggest automaker will receive e-mails via Blackberry from half an hour before they start work until half an hour after they finish, and will be in blackout-mode the rest of the time,...
12:24 PM, Dec 24, 2011
London: Imagine reading emails and text messages on your contact lenses which are linked to internet. It may sound a bit utopian, but scientists claim that your imagination could soon turn into a reality. In fact, the futuristic technology has taken a step nearer, thanks to an international team which claims to have developed a prototype lens that could potentially provide the wearer with hands-free information updates. The scientists from...
11:46 AM, Nov 22, 2011
New Delhi: The number of phones and email accounts being tapped in the country nearly doubled during the month of July, with central security agencies making fresh requests for monitoring 3,420 phone lines and 465 email accounts. A total of 4,350 phone lines and 501 email addresses were under surveillance and fresh orders were received from the Home Secretary recently for monitoring of an additional 3,420 telephones and 465 e-mails...
08:46 AM, Sep 19, 2011
New Delhi: Two days after terror struck at the heart of Delhi, investigating agencies are still groping in the dark for conclusive leads even as a spate of mails now hamper the probe. Gujarat has been put on a high alert after a third e-mail warned that Ahmedabad will be the next terror target. On Friday evening a fourth e-mail surfaced from a person named Chhotu Minani, claiming to be...
09:43 PM, Sep 09, 2011
Melbourne: Four Australian police officers were sacked and disciplinary action initiated against 15 others in connection with the circulation of racist emails wherein they joked about the electrocution of an Indian. While four have been sacked, one has been demoted, another five have been fined up to $ 3000 and placed on 12-month good behaviour bonds for their involvement in the case. Nine officers will front the disciplinary panel on...
09:29 AM, Oct 10, 2010
Climategate scandal involved the leaked e-mails from scientists at the University of East Anglia's CRU. ...
10:36 AM, Jul 08, 2010
