Tag: "Facebook"
Facebook launches optimised mobile site
Facebook has launched a new mobile optimised site that is designed for speed and very low data cost – 0.facebook.com Facbook has around 100 million users globally accessing Facebook from their mobile, so this does seem like a smart move to service countries with low data services. This service is not available in Australia just […]
Read More | ShareApple to patent Facebook iPhone integration
Apple has submitted a patent to integrate the Facebook application into the iPhone as a native application, instead of a 3rd party application. The patent specifically show how to add a contact as a Facebook friend. You can begin by connecting to Facebook and sending a friend request to one of your contacts (target device). […]
Read More | ShareMySpace ups security in wake of Facebook privacy concerns
MySpace has announced that their privacy options are changing which will result in user profiles to be defaulted ‘private’ only sharing personal information to friends. This seems to be the exact opposite of Facebook’s current strategy. MySpace, Co-President Mike Jones comments: “We respect our users’ desires to balance sharing and privacy, and never push our […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare growing FAST- 600,000 checkins per day
Foursquare is now getting 600,000 checkins per day from users worldwide. In March they were getting 400,000 checkins per day, and in February was generating 1 million checkins per week. Foursquare is growing fast. Apparently Yahoo has walked away from their previous to buy Foursquare for $100 million, but may be back with a lower […]
Read More | ShareFacebook to release new security features
Amid all the controversy of Facebook’s privacy policy lately – the company realises more and more scammers and hackers are trying to use the site for identity theft. With a globally user count of over 400 million is not surprising. As a result the Facebook security team have come up with a raft of new […]
Read More | ShareSydney Facebook murder twist
Police have charged James Dannevig – a 20 year old male for the murder of 18 year old Sydney teenager Nona Belomesoff. It is alleged James Dannevig set up a Facebook account using a fake alias – Jason Green and pretended he was an employee of the NSW Information Rescue and Education Service and lured […]
Read More | ShareFacebook meet turns to murder for Sydney teen
Police have found the body of 18 year old Leumeah teenager, Nona Belomesoff. Nona met 2 men on Wednesday the 12th of May after chatting on Facebook for a supposed camping outing but instead have been missing ever since. A 20 year old Leumeah man has been charged with murder, refused bail and will appear […]
Read More | ShareFacebook to review privacy policy
In light of all the Facebook privacy changes over the last 6 months, Facebook now says they are going to simplify their privacy controls. Many users have complained how Facebook has handled their personal information and sharing with 3rd party advertisers/ applications. Several well known technology bloggers have voiced their concerns for Facebook urging users […]
Read More | ShareSydney teen Facebook meeting goes bad
Nona Belomesoff, an 18 year old lady of Cecil Hills met up with 2 men she met off Facebook earlier in the week. Since then her parents and friends have not see or heard anything from Nova – her phone is turned off and all are concerned for her welfare. One of the men, a […]
Read More | ShareZuckerberg in trouble over leaked IM chat
Mark Zuckerberg founder of Facebook is facing heat over a leaked Instant Message conversation dating back to 2003. It can be seen he is mocking users who join his social network, which was at the time call The Facebook, in which he operated from his Harvard dorm room. The conversation reads: Zuck: Yeah so if […]
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