Computerworld-Facebook wants to get mobile phone users to forget text messaging and switch to its updated Messenger service. Facebook Messenger has been an instant messaging service of sorts for Facebook users until now.On Tuesday,the ...
As presidential election day unfolded on Tuesday,people spent time posting photos of long lines at polling places,tweeting about casting a vote and commenting on a viral video of a malfunctioning voting machine. Obama victory tweet ...
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Computerworld - Despite calls for Facebook to stop planned changes to the way it makes privacy policy, analysts are divided over whether the changes would be bad for users. Last week, Facebook announced that it's making an adjustment to ...
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Watch out, LinkedIn. Facebook is getting in your space. The social network announced Wednesday that it's launching an app to help users find jobs. The app, as of Wednesday afternoon, included 1.7 million job listings, in areas including ...
Tags: Facebook, new app, US, smartphone
Computerworld-The first decision every blogger faces is:Which blogging platform should I use?Movable Type,WordPress,Drupal,TypePad,Blogger,Posterous,Squarespace or Tumblr? Most of these products or services let you customize the ...
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After a disappointing Wall Street debut, all eyes will be on Facebook on Thursday when it makes its first quarterly earnings report as a public company. The world's largest social network is under a lot of pressure to show strong numbers ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made a vigorous sales pitch on Tuesday for his company's next-generation Fusion Applications and underlying technology platform, saying they constitute a more modern approach to cloud-based ...
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Verizon Wireless announced that the BlackBerry Curve 9310 smartphone will be available online on Thursday,and in stores in"coming weeks,"at a price of$49.99 after rebate with a two-year service plan. The announcement came just minutes ...
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IDG News Service - The venture capitalist Vinod Khosla recently described Silicon Valley as a state of mind, rather than a geographical place. If that's the case, that state of mind can increasingly be found in San Francisco. Young tech ...
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Ve Interactive's new VeCommerce is the world's first e-commerce software to have built-in, cart-recovery and remarketing technology. The variety of valuable features for online retailers will fulfill demands of today's e-commerce market. ...
Tags: Ve Acquires Adaptive, E Commerce Platform, Computer Products
IDG News Service - Faced with the challenge of overseeing the health of large caching systems, a Facebook engineer developed heat-map software to quickly pinpoint problems in the social network's data centers. The visualization monitoring ...
Tags: Facebook, data center, social network, social networking
U.S. law enforcement agencies with the help of Facebook have arrested 10 people from various countries in connection with international cybercrime rings that targeted users on the social network. The operation is said to have identified ...
Facebook users will no longer be allowed to vote on proposed policy changes at the company because their comments weren't good enough. The move prompted data protection regulators in Europe to seek urgent clarification from the company. ...
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Google has announced that it will alert users if they are being targeted by suspected state-sponsored attacks. The US-based internet firm says it will bring up a banner highlighting the danger when users are logged into their Google ...
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The Ethiopian government is blocking access to the Tor Network that enables online anonymity, according to Reporters Without Borders. Tor client software routes internet traffic through a worldwide volunteer network of servers to conceal ...
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