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In brief: NHS IT chief to leave, Facebook "fogies", Vodafone wireless price cuts
News Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook are reporting a huge influx of older members, according to The Sunday Telegraph. Membership of Facebook is growing fastest among the over-25s, the... [18 Jun 2007]
Facebook Connects with other sites
News Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has officially rolled out Facebook Connect, a way for apps not on the Facebook Platform to leverage the Facebook social network.... [24 Jul 2008]
Facebook Connect goes global
News Facebook has announced that its log-in system, Facebook Connect, is officially open for business for non-Facebook sites. The social network is making the implementation of... [05 Dec 2008]
Facebook: 'We're making money'
News Facebook announced on Tuesday it has achieved a positive cash-flow, and has reached 300 million active users around the world. A blog post from CEO Mark Zuckerberg read: "As of today, Facebook now serves... [16 Sep 2009]
Facebook to kill Beacon: Info-sharing programme crumbles under privacy concerns
News It's finally over for Beacon, the ill-fated advertising programme that Facebook launched two years ago. The social network has settled a year-old class action lawsuit that targeted its alleged failure to provide adequate... [21 Sep 2009]
Facebook adds open source guru to its books
News The news started to emerge in various Twitter feeds and personal blog posts on Monday: David Recordon, a Six Apart developer and prominent open-standards advocate, has left the blog software company to take a job at... [26 Aug 2009]
Facebook CEO: No IPO for "years"
News Facebook's CEO has very publicly doused speculation about an imminent initial public offering. What with all the hype and frenzy surrounding Facebook, Zuckerberg not surprisingly attracted a spill-over... [18 Oct 2007]
Facebook for iPhone gets an overhaul
News The third major edition of Facebook for iPhone has just crept into the iTunes App Store. It's a huge update, with numerous advanced features that make Facebook more interactive than before and which... [28 Aug 2009]
Facebook search gets a Twitter-like makeover
News New users to Facebook (and probably some existing users, but not all of them yet) are getting a new search experience in Facebook starting this week. The new interface for search makes it possible to see... [12 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Facebook saves teen from prison
Comment I just chanced upon a news story about an innocent New York teenager who had armed robbery charges dropped by prosecutors thanks to evidence provided by his Facebook activities. The 19-year-old was released as his... [16 Nov 2009]
iPhone 3G apps, Microsoft cloud OS, Facebook ban, YouTube police...
News Companies urged not to ban Facebook iPhone 2.0 cuts business mustard, says Gartner From location-savvy pub finders to a microblogging facilitator, a photo-editing tool, games and of course the ubiquitous... [01 Sep 2008]
Facebook adds Nielsen to friends for ads
News As part of the Advertising Week festivities in New York, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg is slated to make a marketing-related announcement on Tuesday morning. The announcement of a partnership with... [22 Sep 2009]
Facebook users get voice updates
News Facebook and other social networking addicts can now post updates to their walls or Twitter feeds with voice calls through their mobile phones. The new service from SpinVox allows people to set up an account to manage... [25 Oct 2007]
Facebook faces lawsuit over privacy concerns
News A group of Facebook users filed a civil lawsuit in the US on Monday that alleges the social networking site is violating California consumer privacy laws. The five plaintiffs are described as two children younger than... [18 Aug 2009]
Facebook crushes spam apps as five more attack
News Facebook on Thursday said it had disabled six rogue apps that were stealing Facebook users' log-in credentials and spamming people, and within hours more appeared. Facebook "will... [21 Aug 2009]
