New Delhi: Reportedly, the social-networking giant Facebook is going to introduce a new 'life-saving' feature that has the power to save lives. According to reports, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook, is slated to announce details about this new feature in an exclusive interview with ABC's Robin Roberts, which is scheduled to be telecasted on Tuesday. Zuckerberg is believed to flash the tool at the company's Menlo Park, California, headquarters. While Zuckerbegr...
04:31 PM, May 01, 2012
Houston: Social networking site Facebook has unveiled changes to its new terms of service, tweaking earlier drafts in an apparent effort to ease users' concerns about privacy and how their information is used. Based on the feedback from users, Facebook released a new set of proposed changes on Friday and offered more detailed explanation of its revisions. Since 2009 the social network has taken a unique approach with its "Statements...
10:37 AM, Apr 21, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday ordered for serving summons to US-based social networking site Facebook through e-mail to respond to a suit which seeks action against it for allegedly hosting objectionable contents. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh ordered serving of summons to Facebook through e-mail within three days as the internet giant has made no representation to the court and several summons issued against it have gone unserved....
06:32 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Kolkata: Even as the controversy surrounding the arrest of Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra over a cartoon on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is still afresh, the West Bengal Police has also started probing a complaint of defamation against social networking sites, including Facebook. The complainant alleges malicious campaigning against Mamata Banerjee on social networking sites. The case was handed over to the CID on Wednesday. The police is now tracking...
09:00 AM, Apr 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Google India's name was on Friday taken out from the suit for trial of various social networking websites for allegedly hosting offending contents, after it was pointed out to a Delhi court that it is merely a software developing firm. Administrative Civil Judge Praveen Singh dropped the case against Google India agreeing with its plea that it does not operate any social networking website. The court also...
11:50 AM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: In an innovative measure, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has decided to host a social networking site linked to its portal allowing engineering students interact with each other about their projects. It will also deploy software major Microsoft's popular live@edu, a free suite of hosted Microsoft services and applications intended for educational needs, as a solution to provide better communication and collaboration platform both for institutes...
08:43 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: The popular photo taking, editing and sharing app Instragram which just recently made a successful entry into Android will soon become Facebook property. The news of Instragram being acquired by the social networking giant was announced by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a post on his Facebook timeline. The latest Facebook acquisition will add the excitement as the company prepares to hold its initial public offering in May....
11:37 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Washington: People who are ignored by others online may feel just as bad as if they had been excluded in person, according to a new study. "If you've ever felt bad about being 'ignored' on Facebook you're not alone," said Joshua Smyth, professor of bio-behavioural health and of medicine at Penn State, who co-authored the study. "Facebook - with its approximately 800 million users - serves as a place to...
10:45 AM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: Popular global social networking website Facebook has released an all new updated application for the iOS based devices. The application is fully compatible with New iPad's retina display and along with that the developers have also improved the application a lot to give users a better, all-round experience. The interface of the Facebook app has also been tweaked to match the high resolution that the display offers. Besides,...
03:40 PM, Apr 04, 2012
California: Google Inc. is taking the threat posed by Facebook Inc.'s Internet social network more seriously since co-founder Larry Page returned as CEO a year ago. Although Facebook is far smaller than Google, Page is worried the social network is gaining valuable insight into its users' lives that could lure away online advertisers. Here's how the two companies compare, based on the latest available data: Annual revenue: Google, $38 billion;...
10:46 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda frequently entertains dignitaries from all over the world, but he was a touch star-struck on Thursday when he hosted a young billionaire with a whiff of celebrity: Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. As cabinet ministers filed through Noda's residence for a late afternoon meeting, it was Zuckerberg who drew a fusillade of camera flashes from a hefty media contingent as he strode through the...
01:14 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Shanghai: It is a marriage made in heaven for shopping addicts. Social shopping, the merger of social networking and e-commerce which has hooked millions of users in the United States, has now captured the attention of China's Internet giant. Alibaba Group's social shopping platform Fa Xian (faxian.etao.com), launched on a testing basis four weeks ago, is already luring 60,000 viewers a day. "Over the long run, social commerce in China...
12:44 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Calling the country's IT rules as "flawed", experts at a seminar Thursday said the right to freedom of expression should also provide protection to the content creators. Speaking at a debate organised by Foundation of Media Professionals (FMP) at the India International Centre, veteran journalist R Jagannathan held "vested political interests" responsible for the attempts to curtail freedom of expression of media and censorship on social media. "The...
12:19 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Manila: A Philippine Catholic school is witholding the diplomas of six high school boys who uploaded Facebook photos that appear to show them kissing each other, an education official said Friday. A day earlier, a Philippine court rejected another Catholic school's decision to bar five girls from graduation ceremonies because they had posed in bikinis for photos posted on Facebook. The cases test the limits of privacy in a conservative...
11:49 AM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Facebook, Twitter might be flavour of the season, but email remains more popular than social media as a method of Internet communication for Indians, says a survey. According to global research firm Ipsos, 68 per cent of people across India, who are connected online, send and receive emails while about 60 per cent communicate via social networking sites. "Internet penetration in India has been very good in recent...
11:15 AM, Mar 30, 2012
London: Facebook is not just about reaching out to friends but also foes as a new application allows you to add enemies to your profile. EnemyGraph is a new application, available for free to all facebook users, which lets you add enemies to your Facebook profile, including real victims from your friends list, or from other users of the application. You can also declare 'war' on any product, person or...
05:29 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New York: Facebook is warning employers not to demand the passwords of job applicants, saying that it's an invasion of privacy that opens companies to legal liabilities. The social networking company is also threatening legal action against those who violate its long-standing policy against sharing passwords. An Associated Press story this week documented cases of job applicants who are being asked, at the interview table, to reveal their Facebook passwords...
11:57 AM, Mar 24, 2012
Menlo Park: Facebook has acquired patents from IBM as it girds itself for litigation, including a lawsuit by Yahoo. A company spokesman on Thursday confirmed the purchase but did not provide details. Earlier, Bloomberg News said Facebook acquired 750 patents covering technologies dealing with software and networking. It cited a person with knowledge of the transaction who was not named in the report Thursday. Last week, Yahoo Inc. sued Facebook,...
12:31 PM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: Exactly six years ago, on March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, posted the first ever tweet. "just setting up my twttr," read the tweet from @jack. At only 24 characters, the first tweet was way within Twitter's 140 character limit. The reason Jack Dorsey mentions Twitter as twttr is because that was the original code name for the project. The public launch of what was to...
02:06 PM, Mar 21, 2012
