Facebook has launched a new feature called Graph Search that allows users to search anything their Facebook friends have shared, including photos and posts. However, the feature is yet to be made public. ...
09:54 AM, Jan 16, 2013
Facebook's stock opened above $32 for the first time since July on anticipation about upcoming products and financial results. ...
06:09 AM, Jan 15, 2013
Iran's police chief says the Islamic Republic is developing new software to control social networking sites. ...
12:46 PM, Jan 06, 2013
Iran's police chief says the Islamic Republic is developing new software to control social networking sites. Gen. Esmail Ahmadi Moghadam was quoted in Iranian newspapers on Saturday as saying the new software will prevent Iranians from being exposed to malicious content online while allowing users to enjoy the benefits of the Internet. He did not say when the software would be introduced. ...
11:54 PM, Jan 05, 2013
Nearly a week after Facebook launched its New Year's messaging feature, the social networking site was on Monday forced to drop the app following a flaw that allowed anyone to see and even delete personal messages intended for others. The popular website had last week launched its Midnight Message Delivery feature to allow users to send New Year's messages to friends that automatically arrive on the stroke of midnight. ...
08:26 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Many Sachin Tendulkar fans believe that the cricketing legend deserves a proper farewell. ...
01:53 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Facebook has announced a new app that erases pictures and messages within 10 seconds of being sent, the Daily Mail reported. It is an advanced version of one of the social networking site's original apps, the "poke". ...
03:56 AM, Dec 24, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook says it is testing a service that will charge users $1 to guarantee that messages they send to people they are not connected to arrive in users' inboxes, rather than in an often-ignored folder called "other." Launched in 2011, the "other" folder is where Facebook routes messages it deems less relevant. Not quite spam, these include messages from people you most likely don't know, based on Facebook's...
07:12 AM, Dec 21, 2012
Dubai: Facebook - banned in Iran due to its use by activists to rally government opponents in 2009 - has an unlikely new member: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Launched a few days ago, the Facebook page 'Khamenei.ir' displays photographs of the 73-year-old cleric alongside speeches and pronouncements by the man who wields ultimate power in the Islamic Republic. While there are several other Facebook pages already devoted to Khamenei,...
01:40 AM, Dec 18, 2012
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of some arrests over certain postings on social networking sites, Telecom and IT Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday said a provision in the Information Technology Act has been misused in some states and the Centre will soon issue an advisory to check it. "As per our assessment, there has been misuse (of Section 66A of IT Act) in some states...It is my personal opinion and...
12:30 AM, Dec 15, 2012
San Francisco: An election victory tweet from US President Barack Obama - "Four more years" with a picture of him hugging his wife - was the most retweeted ever, but the US election was topped by the Olympics as the most tweeted event this year. Obama's tweet was retweeted more than 810,000 times, Twitter said as it published a list of the most tweeted events in 2012. "Within hours, that...
01:40 PM, Dec 12, 2012
New Delhi: Social media is the playground of hoaxes and many of these just refuse to fade away. The 'cosmo rays from Mars' rumour (and also its rebuttal) has been doing the rounds for long and has again reappeared with renewed gusto on our timelines. The hoax message with information attributed to NASA and BBC says, "Tonight 12:30 am to 3:30 am cosmo rays entering Earth form Mars. So switch...
06:23 AM, Dec 12, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook says some users were briefly unable to access the site because of a technical glitch. The social networking site with over 1 billion users worldwide says on Monday it made a change to its domain name system setup. The change resulted in some users temporarily not being able to reach the site. The problem was detected and the site is now fully back. A DNS acts like...
08:47 AM, Dec 11, 2012
New Delhi: Google is going full steam ahead with its social networking service Google Plus. Soon after adding its Plus One feature to apps on Google Play. Google has announced the launch of Google Plus Communities. Though Google has an existing community product called Google Groups, Communities on Google Plus are more closely integrated with Google Plus, which is a major focus for the Internet giant. "With Google+ Communities there's...
02:31 PM, Dec 07, 2012
Vatican City: Pope Benedict XVI will start tweeting in six languages from his own personal handle @Pontifex on December 12. The Vatican said on Monday the pope will be using a question and answer format in his first Tweet, focusing on answering questions about faith - in 140 characters. The pope sent his first tweet last year from a Vatican account to launch the Holy See's news information portal. The...
05:23 PM, Dec 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Attorney General is expected to give his opinion to the Supreme Court on Friday on a petition challenging the controversial Section 66(A) of the Information Technology Act. This, even as politicians and cyber experts say the section should be re-written. The petition challenging the controversial Section 66(A) was filed by a Delhi University student. Even as the debate over Section 66(A) continues, Mumbai's Joint Police Commissioner, Himanshu...
07:48 AM, Nov 30, 2012
New Delhi: A week ago Mozilla introduced its new social API and also announced its first social integration with Facebook Messenger for Firefox. With the Facebook Messenger for Firefox users no longer need to keep Facebook open in a tab to be notified of new updates. Facebook Messenger for Firefox keeps users connected to Facebook irrespective of the website they visit on the Firefox Web browser. It also allows users...
02:46 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Ahmedabad: The battle for Gujarat is fast turning into a web war with both the BJP and the Congress trying to woo the youth on social networking sites. The Narendra Modi election machine has thrown a lot of muscle behind its social media strategy. For instance, even those who aren't registered members of the BJP, can now meet Modi personally, by posting the most number of messages on social media...
06:36 AM, Nov 25, 2012
Jerusalem: Excessive internet communications through social networking sites such as Facebook may lead to psychotic symptoms, including delusions, anxiety and confusion, according to a new study. A study by Tel Aviv University found a connection between gradual development and exacerbation of psychoticd symptoms and intensified use of computer communications. "As internet access becomes increasingly widespread, so do related psychopathologies such as internet addiction and delusions related to the technology and...
06:07 PM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: While it was always possible to email a tweet, but not directly from Twitter. Now Twitter has added a new feature that will let users to email tweets directly from the Twitter message stream itself. Twitter also announced improved Android and iPhone apps and also enhancements to Twitter search. The new ability to email a Tweet directly from twitter.com will roll out to all Twitter users in a...
10:57 AM, Nov 16, 2012
