If Pinterest is looking over its shoulder, it's probably keeping an eye on We Heart It, an image-based social networking site that has quietly amassed a user base of 20 million. We Heart It is a social site focused on photos, much like ...
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Facebook is where many people go to get news about their friends'latest parties and vacations. Now,if reports are accurate,Facebook may soon be where smartphone and tablet users can get the latest news from around the world. Industry ...
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The White House has added Instagram to its social media portfolio with President Barack Obama posting a photo of his family taking off on a trip to Africa. "The First Family takes off for a three-country trip across Africa #MarineOne ...
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Want to anonymously post your ideas and opinions on a social network? You can. The Duvamis social network went was launched late last month with a mission of keeping the identity of its posters from other users -- and site operators. ...
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Facebook has admitted that it exposed six million users' private phone numbers and email addresses to unauthorised viewers over the last year. The social media network blamed a technical bug for the data breach, which has resulted in ...
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As the consumerisation of IT takes a tighter grip on IT users' daily lives, and BYOD becomes an increasingly common way to work, the importance placed on developments in the devices market has grown, even in the last six months. Further ...
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THE rarely heard underwater sounds of the Great Barrier Reef are now being captured by a cutting-edge acoustic recorder. The JASCO Applied Sciences Autonomous Multichannel Acoustic Recorder Generation 3 (AMAR G3), which is moored at a ...
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With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case. The social ...
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Speculation abounds that Facebook Thursday will unveil tools to enable its popular Instagram app to take and share short videos. Though analysts say Facebook offered no pre-briefings about the announcement, those interviewed for this ...
Net Nanny today announced the availability of Net Nanny with support forMicrosoft Windows 8, providing safe web browsing in real time and related parental controls for all Microsoft Windows users. Available immediately, the new release ...
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Tweeting has become so popular that the Oxford English Dictionary broke one of its own rules to add 'tweet' to its lexicon this month. "Tweet" is listed as both a noun and a verb that's used in social networking. The addition of stands ...
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Enterprises are under heavy pressure to change their approach to IT security because of a "nexus of forces" that include big data, social networking, mobile and cloud computing, according to Gartner. Ray Wagner, managing vice president of ...
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GOOGLE has announced a deal reported to worth more than $US1 billion ($1.06bn) for crowd-sourced map app Waze in a move to stay ahead of Apple and Facebook in lifestyles centred on smartphones and tablets. The US Internet search giant did ...
Facebook is phasing out its Credits virtual payment system and will be transitioning all games integrated into the social network to a new local payments API by Sept. 12, the company announced Wednesday. The migration is part of a larger ...
Following the leaking of a court order that showed that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been harvesting mobile phone call data from the carrier Verizon (and possibly others too), new revelations by The Washington Post claim that ...
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