The telecom secretary, Mr. R. Chandrashekar said on Thursday that India won’t censure social networking sites like Facebook & Twitter but they will have to follow the rules of the land. “We don’t believe in censorship of any kind. All over the world, every company has to operate in accordance with the law. Any company [...]
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January 6th, 2012
Website Reveals German New-Nazis
A hackers group has attacked new-nazi groups in Germany, crippling about 15 websites and exposing the hundreds of extreme right wing supporters. The hackers affiliated with the “hacktivist” group Anonymous have opened a “Nazi-Leaks” website listing the names and personal details of people who are account customers at far-right shops as well as contributors to [...]
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No Comments »December 29th, 2011
Man kills himself after girl unfriends him on Facebook – The Times of India
A 21-year-old Briton hanged himself after a girl removed him as a “friend” on social network Facebook. Simon Foxley from Hyde, Gloucestershire, became interested in the girl after meeting her on the website. But when he told her of his romantic feelings, she “unfriended” him from her list, said the Daily Mail. Foxley tried to [...]
December 26th, 2011
Hackers steal US security firm data
Hackers on Sunday claimed to have stolen 200GB of emails & credit card data from United States security think tank stratfor, promising a week-long Christmas-insspired assault on a long list of targets. Members of the loose hacking movement known as ‘Anonymous’ posted a link on Twitter to what it said was stratfor’s secret client list [...]
December 24th, 2011
Facebook to Improve Transparency
Facebook has agreed to make several changes to its services to improve transparency and better protect personal data of its millions of users outside the US, following an in-depth audit of its international headquarters that was released Thursday(December, 22, 2011).
July 15th, 2011
Google+ users are nearly male – Google+ stats trackers
Here’s an interesting tidbit from the Google+ stats trackers: Three quarters (or more) of Google+ users are male. SocialStatistics, a third-party site that gathers data from select profiles, pegs the percentage of male users at 86.8%, while FindPeopleOnPlus, which curates information from about a million users, says men constitute 73.7% of Google+. FindPeopleOnPlus also discovered [...]
May 25th, 2011
WordPress Drops Support for IE 6
The popular blog publishing tool WordPress has joined the growing cadre of sites dropping support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 web browser. The recently upgraded WordPress.com brings a handful of new features and a revamped, cleaner design in the admin pages, but perhaps the biggest news in the release is that the admin pages no [...]
April 26th, 2011
Facebook launches deals program, rivals Groupon – IBNLive
What happens when you cross the world’s largest social network with one of the hottest business models in e-commerce? Facebook wants to find out. Facebook is launching a deals program Tuesday in five US cities, following on the popularity of Groupon and other services that offer deep discounts – for example: $50 worth of food [...]
