Category Archives: Technology and Social Networks

Arrested for hitting facebook “like” button

New Delhi – As India’s financial capital shut down for the weekend funeral of a powerful politician linked to waves of mob violence, a woman posted on Facebook that the closures in Mumbai were “due to fear, not due to … Continue reading

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European Union Gives Google Four Months To Modify Privacy Policy

Google has four months to make its privacy policy comply with requests from European Union data protection watchdogs or start facing the possibility of disciplinary action at a national level. France’s Commission Nationale de l’Informatique, working on behalf of the … Continue reading

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Japan’s Softbank Corp to Buy 70 percent of Sprint

Japanese mobile operator Softbank Corp said it will buy about 70 percent of Sprint Nextel Corp, the third-largest U.S. carrier, for $20.1 billion – the most a Japanese firm has spent on an overseas acquisition. The deal, announced by Softbank’s … Continue reading

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Samsung Management Abusive to Factory Workers

Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, has been accused of exploiting workers at factories in China, where exhausting working conditions, forced overtime, and physical and verbal abuse have been reported. An investigation by China Labor Watch, a US-based … Continue reading

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Privacy Not Available When Using Hulu?

Can a privacy law passed in the era of videotape rentals be applied in the era of Internet streaming? Hulu, the online video content provider, is about to face the test. A lawsuit filed in a federal court in California … Continue reading

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Facebook Shares Continue to Lower

Shares of Facebook Inc dipped below $20 for the first time on Thursday, pummeled by ongoing doubts about its growth prospects, a string of recent executive departures, and the August 16 expiration of a lockup period on insiders’ share sales. … Continue reading

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Yahoo.com Hacked! Time to change those passwords!

Yahoo has been the victim of a security breach that yielded hundreds of thousands of login credentials stored in plain text. The hacked data, posted to the hacker site D33D Company, contained more than 453,000 login credentials and appears to … Continue reading

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DNS Changer malware: How do you know if your computer is infected

Washington-Internet users scanning their Twitter feeds or Facebook accounts Sunday might want to add one more quick click to check their computer for malware. Thousands of people around the country whose computers were infected with malicious software more than a … Continue reading

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“Thousands Could Lose Internet Access”, FBI

At midnight last night, the FBI shut down the servers it was using to keep internet service for millions of people going following a raid on hackers last year. Last November, the FBI arrested six Estonians and a Russian who it said … Continue reading

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Are Google & Amazon Taking Over The Internet?

Signs are pointing to “yes” according to a report by Scripting.com, which in fact states that: “Amazon and Google have made an audacious grab of namespace on the Internet.” An example. Google doesn’t intend to share .blog and it will … Continue reading

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LinkedIn and Eharmony Hacked

According to CNN: Russian hackers released a giant list of passwords this week, and on Wednesday security researchers identified their likely source: business social networking site LinkedIn. LinkedIn (LNKD) confirmed in a blog post late Wednesday afternoon that some of … Continue reading

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Are People Getting Bored With Facebook?

Honestly I’m not too shocked by this. Source: http://www.dailydot.com/business/facebook-reuters-poll-eric-jackson-disappear/ According to a new Reuters poll, “34 percent of Facebook users surveyed were spending less time on the website than six months ago, whereas only 20 percent were spending more.” About … Continue reading

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Facebook set to file for Initial Public Offering or IPO

Christ Taylor broke this news on Mashable.com one hour ago: The long-awaited tech IPO of the year — perhaps of the decade — is on. Facebook will file its paperwork for an Initial Public Offering on Wednesday, according to a … Continue reading

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Help STOP Republicans from blocking the internet with SOPA and PIPA-Best infographic video

Dear Friends and Fellow-Wordpress Users, You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant it. Today, I want you to know that there’s something going on in U.S. politics right … Continue reading

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