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Facebook Launches New App For Certain Feature Phones

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On Wednesday, January 19, Facebook launched a new mobile application. The new app is designed to facilitate data-free access with more than 12 phone carriers for 3 months. The application is called Facebook for Feature Phones. According to Facebook’s blog press release, the app is compatible with over 2,500 mobile devices from major companies like [...]

More Privacy Troubles Ahead For Facebook

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It seems like Zuckerberg is at it again, allowing Facebook to access even more of your personal information. Last Friday, Facebook announced it has modified its platform, making members’ home address and telephone number fully available to developers. It seems as though this information will be used for some useful programs, but if members aren’t [...]

Wife Sues Husband For Reading Her Emails

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The first case of domestic unauthorized email login is being due to be tried in February 2011. The case is being brought before the court by Michigan woman, Clara Walker. She claims that her third husband, Leon Walker, accessed her email without her consent. She further alleges through her lawyer that he used the emails [...]

Facebook Getting Ready To Enter China?

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Robin Li – owner of China’s largest search engine Baidu – were seen having an informal meeting last week. The meeting has led to rumors of the companies bridging the gap between Facebook and China. Facebook’s site has been blocked in China since 2008 by the Great Firewall, but Zuckerman has [...]

Auto-Tagging: Face Recognition Is Coming To Facebook

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Facebook is once again revolutionizing social media protocol by introducing face recognition tag suggestions. The tool will trawl through the billions of photos on Facebook to help identify friends of friends on the site. On average 100 million photos are uploaded every day to Facebook. The face recognition software will significantly reduce tag times for [...]

Mark Zuckerberg Is Person Of The Year

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Time Magazine has announced its Person of the Year is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg’s main competition for the coveted title came from WikiLeaks front man, Julian Assange. Time awarded the honor to Zuckerberg in recognition of his achievement of connecting over half a billion people worldwide on his social networking platform. At 26, Zuckerman’s [...]

YouTube Now Without Time Limits

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Ever since it rose to popularity, YouTube has maintained limits on how long videos uploaded to the site could be. For years the limit was ten minutes, then in July of this year, YouTube increased it to fifteen. YouTube set these limits in order to keep people from uploading television shows and films that were [...]

Facebook Sued Again By Winklevoss Twins

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Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are filing another lawsuit against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The twins have successfully sued the social networking site before but feel they were tricked into asking for too little money. They now say that a former acquaintance told them that the company was worth much less than it actually was. The [...]

Facebook Profiles Changed For Better Advertising Reach

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The new Facebook profile platform was released over the weekend. The launch, unsurprisingly, coincided with Mark Zuckerberg’s interview of 60 minutes. The new profile will focus on social relationships, but also introduces significantly higher quantities of advertisements. On Facebook’s Blog, Josh Wiseman explains that the new profile is going to focus on introducing people with [...]

Appeals Court confirms Pirate Bay Convictions

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The court recently denied the appeals of three men previously declared guilty of accessory to a crime against a copyright law. The men had been part of a group of four men running the Pirate Bay website. There is one remaining member of the group, and he is still waiting for the courts to make [...]