A person's Facebook profile may reveal signs of mental illness that might not necessarily emerge in a session with a psychiatrist, a new study suggests. ...
04:41 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Haryana police on Friday began putting names and details of convicted rapists on a government website even as two youths were arrested in Jind district for allegedly recording and circulating the obscene MMS of a teenager. Haryana police have started a process to put names, addresses and crime details of at least 2,500 convicted rapists in the past about a decade on the website, a senior police official said here...
03:03 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Mumbai: Social networking giant Facebook is making a "huge effort" to weed out fake profiles to prevent misuse of such identities, a senior company official has said. "Absolutely, there is a huge effort," Facebook India business manager Pavan Varma told PTI when asked about the company's action on this front. If Facebook doubts the ownership of an account, it will ask the user to identify himself/herself, he said. The doubt...
02:32 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Mumbai: Social networking giant Facebook is making a "huge effort" to weed out fake profiles to prevent misuse of such identities, a senior company official has said. "Absolutely, there is a huge effort," Facebook India business manager Pavan Varma told PTI when asked about the company's action on this front. If Facebook doubts the ownership of an account, it will ask the user to identify himself/herself, he said. The doubt...
02:19 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Berlin: A German data protection official called Wednesday for social networking site Facebook to delete biometric profiles of people stored without their explicit consent, saying they breach European privacy rules. In other words, he wants Facebook to delete users' faces from its databases. Johannes Caspar, head of the Hamburg office for data protection, said talks with Facebook to bring its business practices in line with German and European Union privacy...
03:45 PM, Aug 16, 2012
New Delhi: Continuing its old habit of rolling out changes to users' profiles, the social networking giant has announced improvements to the photos section that appears at the top of the timeline. This is seen as one of the major visual overhauls by Facebook. "Today we're announcing improvements to the photos section that make viewing photos more enjoyable," said Emily Grewal, product manager, Facebook, in a post in the Facebook...
02:37 PM, Jul 31, 2012
Probationary Officer (PO)/Management Trainee (MT) A Probationary officer (PO) or a Management Trainee (MT) is the first level to enter the banking world. He or she reports to immediate seniors who evaluate his performance in the tasks assigned to him. Initially, a Probationary Officer can be assigned any work from a wide gamut of ongoing banking activities. Normally the probation period is of two years in which the officer is...
04:20 PM, Jul 05, 2012
New Delhi: If you are a "Chutiya", your Facebook account might get blocked! No pun intended. This is what Facebook is doing these days. Of late, Facebook reportedly blocked accounts of almost all the members of the All Assam Chutia Students' Union (Aacsu), confusing their surname "Chutiya" with Hindi slang. However, Chutiya, pronounced as Sutiya, is the name of a community in Assam. But "Chutiya, or Chutia" is also a...
06:27 PM, Mar 13, 2012
Chicago: Whether it's pruning friends lists, removing unwanted comments or restricting access to their profiles, Americans are getting more privacy-savvy on social networks, a new report found. The report released on Friday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that people are managing their privacy settings and their online reputation more often than they did two years earlier. For example, 44 per cent of respondents said in 2011...
08:00 AM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: It seems like Facebook has decided to surprise its users at intervals. After launching the 'Subscribe' button and 'Smart Lists', followed by changes to 'News Feed', Facebook has now announced an update to photos uploader that makes it faster and easier to share photos on Facebook. Now, when photos are uploaded to an album, users can see each photo as it uploads and watch the upload progress in...
10:50 AM, Nov 21, 2011
London: Trying to woo a woman just by posting your best-looking snap alongside an online profile may not be the best idea after all -- a study has found that women can identify a physically attractive man just by reading his profile. According to the university study, good-looking men were able to convey their confidence and attractiveness in their written self-description and the women volunteers were able to recognise their...
04:16 PM, Nov 15, 2011
Jakarta: Facebook dominates social websites in Southeast Asia as more than 50 per cent of netizens have an active profile on it, a report said Tuesday. The report released by Nielsen, a global information and measurement company, said that 91 per cent of Indonesian digital consumers maintain an active profile on Facebook, the highest across the region. Netizens in the Philippines follow with 81 percent, Malaysia 78 per cent, Singapore...
03:47 PM, Nov 15, 2011
The spirit of the festival season is in the air and here's what it would be like if the gods had Facebook to stay connected. ...
04:29 PM, Oct 13, 2010
Pakistan has shared DNA profiles recovered during the investigations. ...
10:34 PM, Mar 08, 2009
