Facebook is facing a crackdown in Europe for harvesting its users’ personal information and ‘selling’ the same to advertisers, a media report said. The European Commission is planning to stop the way the popular social networking website “eavesdrops” on its
Facebook added Skype video calling for the hundreds of millions of users of the world’s leading social network. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new video calling feature during an event at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto. “We think this
NEW DELHI: Singapore-based software applications developer U2opia Mobile has developed a new application for mobile phones that will allow them to access Facebook on all kind of handsets without paying for a data connection. “We are using USSD technology, which
Facebook admitted on that it had hired a public relations firm to highlight supposed flaws in Google Inc’s privacy practices but denied it had intended a smear campaign against the search giant. Facebook, which has taken privacy missteps of its
A British man has developed what he claims is the world’s first bullying alert system for social networking site ‘Facebook’, which scans text and flags up abusive behaviour.The father-of-four Paddy Clarke’s software scans walls and inboxes for trigger words and
A 26-year-old woman worried about the state of her country wrote on Facebook: “People, I am going to Tahrir Square”. The message was soon to snowball into a movement to oust Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The Facebook appeal by Asmaa
The fan page of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been hacked by a mystery invader who posted a message decrying the company’s attempts to cash in on its hugely successful site. Facebook declined to comment on the embarrassing security snafu,
An American mother who told police her 13-month-old son drowned in the bathtub while she was playing a game on Facebook was charged on Friday with child abuse resulting in death. Shannon Johnson, 34, of Colorado was advised of the
A University of Texas research has suggested that Facebook is making us more social, albeit in ways unique to the digital age. While the social network site is helping to close the social media generational gap, it’s being used differently
A 33-year-old man was jailed for life on Monday after admitting the kidnap, rape and murder of a teenager he met on the Facebook social networking site. Convicted sex offender Peter Chapman had cultivated his victim, Ashleigh Hall, 17, by