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FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment The social websites are the big target now - MySpace, Facebook.People are less careful and more likely to click on a link or download something. Social networking sites as infection hotbeds Scott O'Neal oversees the FBI's response to computer... [15 Apr 2008]
Call to increase online data protection for teens
News The group - which includes the American Academy of Pediatrics, Children Now, and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)- plans to ask the Federal Trade Commission this week to establish rules that will help protect teens from data collection and... [10 Apr 2008]
People are mugs over identity theft
Comment But age and even a page on Facebook may attract a growing risk to both one's reputation and financial assets and more and more of us are placing these in danger on the internet - easy pickings for an army of fraudsters. [08 Apr 2008]
Facebook for BlackBerry racks up a million hits
News And commenting on the number of Facebook downloads, Mark Guibert, VP of corporate marketing at RIM, said in a statement: "When we launched Facebook for BlackBerry smart phones, we believed that consumers would recognise the value of marrying... [02 Apr 2008]
Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation
News Google first announced OpenSocial in October as a response to the plethora of announcements on behalf of social-networking sites that they would follow in Facebook's footsteps and create developer platforms of their own. [26 Mar 2008]
BlackBerry exec on women in tech, iPhones, Facebook - and finding the off switch
Comment We've got people who are carrying BlackBerrys who are using Facebook. Someone the other day told me that Facebook was banned at their school but she had a BlackBerry and suddenly she became the most popular person in school. [18 Mar 2008]
Amazon goes 'social shopping' on Facebook
News Online retailer Amazon has launched two applications for social networking site Facebook to allow users to share and buy products with their friends. People can also get gift recommendations based on information on their friends' Facebook profiles. [14 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.03.08
Round-Up Social networking and advertising is big business these days, just look at Microsoft's $250m investment in the $15bn-valued Facebook. It's only gone and bought social networking website Bebo in an $850m cash deal, hasn't it? [14 Mar 2008]
AOL snaps up Bebo for $850m
News Combined, they said, AOL will own a 'social graph' of 80 million people, bigger than the 67 million that the independently run Facebook currently counts but still significantly smaller than News Corp.s MySpace.com. [13 Mar 2008]
Bill Gates knocked off rich-list perch
News Setting out his own stall on billionaire's row is tech's boy wonder Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of social networking site Facebook. The 'face of Facebook' gets the accolade of being the world's youngest billionaire with his relatively modest $1.5bn and... [06 Mar 2008]
Poll: And the next killer app for mobiles is...
News Another big theme at MWC was mobile social networking, as operators talked up the benefits of Facebook access on the go. The Vodafone chief said despite years of talking about surfing the web on mobiles, networks, handsets and services have only... [04 Mar 2008]
'Generation Facebook' IT skills wasted at work
News The tech savvy of 'generation Facebook' is going down the drain at work, new research has found. Tony Speakman, regional manager northern Europe at FileMaker, told silicon.com: "The generation of people coming into the workplace now have had... [03 Mar 2008]
Mobiles on the moon, Google Android, Facebook fall
News Facebook suffers from social networking slowdown Another story that was big news on silicon.com this month is a report suggesting the UK may be falling out of love with Facebook. Surely not - not when other folk in the tech industry are only just... [28 Feb 2008]
LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking
Comment During 2007, LinkedIn doubled in size in all of its major regions including Europe and signed up its millionth UK member in October, making Blighty the largest market outside the US.silicon.com spoke to LinkedIn CEO, Dan Nye, about LinkedIn's... [28 Feb 2008]
Facebook suffers from social networking slowdown
News Alex Burmaster, European internet analyst at Nielsen Online, said this fall in Facebook users is not a sign that social networking is declining but more that the huge growth rates could not be sustained. [22 Feb 2008]
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