Facebook Seeks Free Love Among Data Center Giants
Last Updated on Saturday, 29 October 2011 11:26 Written by External Post Saturday, 29 October 2011 11:26
Facebook is dead serious about building common standards for efficient hardware in the data center. On Thursday, the social networking giant launched the Open Compute Foundation, an industry association that aims to reduce the cost and environmental
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Online Behavior Could Influence Insurance Rates
Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 November 2010 06:36 Written by External Post Tuesday, 23 November 2010 06:36
storagedude writes “There seems to be no end to the ways your personal data and online behavior can be used against you. According to the Wall Street Journal, insurance companies are considering using online behavioral and social networking data to try
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Users Sue Google, Facebook, Zynga Over Privacy
Last Updated on Saturday, 30 October 2010 12:41 Written by External Post Saturday, 30 October 2010 12:41
Trailrunner7 writes “A raft of class action lawsuits filed in Federal court charge the globe’s biggest social networking firms with violating federal communications privacy laws, allowing advertisers to profit from personal information harvested from
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Facebook comes down hard on Faceporn
Last Updated on Monday, 25 October 2010 01:20 Written by External Post Monday, 25 October 2010 01:20
Facebook is suing Faceporn for alleged trademark infringement. The social networking giant claims Faceporn copied its logo, aspects of its blue and white page design and other trademarks. A statement on faceporn.com says: “Due to unforeseen
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Facebook apps share data, says report
Last Updated on Monday, 18 October 2010 12:22 Written by External Post Monday, 18 October 2010 12:22
Many of Facebook’s most popular apps are sharing personally identifiable information of their users with dozens of advertising and internet tracking companies, in violation of the social-networking giant’s own rules, according to a Wall Street Journal
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Cyber-criminals Targeting Online Gaming Websites
Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 October 2010 12:01 Written by External Post Wednesday, 13 October 2010 12:01
adeelarshad82 writes “According to a June 2010 Nielsen NetView survey on Internet usage, online gaming has overtaken e-mail in terms of the total percentage of time Americans spend online. Only social networking scores higher. On average, online gaming
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China and Middle East biggest internet users
Last Updated on Monday, 11 October 2010 01:21 Written by External Post Monday, 11 October 2010 01:21
Internet users in the Middle East and China are the busiest and most enthusiastic, a study has revealed. Emerging markets are overtaking western Europe and North America in social networking, according to the digital life survey by market research firm
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Facebook granted geolocation patent
Last Updated on Thursday, 7 October 2010 01:22 Written by External Post Thursday, 7 October 2010 01:22
Facebook has been awarded a patent that appears to give it sweeping intellectual property jurisdiction over location-enabled social networking, something that on Wednesday. Considering the geolocation space still , the possession of this kind of patent
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Facebook Patents Location Social Networking
Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 October 2010 08:40 Written by External Post Wednesday, 6 October 2010 08:40
bizwriter writes “Facebook just received a patent with broad claims that would seem to cover much of what Google (GOOG) Latitude, Foursquare, Gowalla, and others try to do in letting users share their locations with others.Patent number 7,809,805, called
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Facebook, INQ reportedly developing smartphone
Last Updated on Thursday, 23 September 2010 06:01 Written by External Post Thursday, 23 September 2010 06:01
Facebook is working with mobile phone maker INQ Mobile to create two smartphones that will highlight core features of the social-networking giant, according to a Bloomberg report. The devices, which may have a network tie-up with carrier AT&T, are
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