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Police in the UK have ordered Google, Twitter and Facebook to remove photographs claiming to show the recently released murderer of James Bulger, who was killed in Liverpool 20 years ago. In addition to the injunction that bans the photos, authorities threatened Monday to take legal action -- in ...
Step aside, Google: Now it's Facebook's turn to take flak from France. A few months back, France demanded that Google pay for displaying links to French media's news articles. Next, a French Internet service provider demanded that Google pay extra for bandwidth consumed by YouTube. Now, in the most ...
North Korea is modernizing its technologies -- as only North Korea can. Foreigners are now able to bring their phones, with the caveat that they must purchase North Korean SIM cards upon arrival. Now Koryolink, a North Korean mobile phone provider, plans to launch a 3G data service -- but only forei...
Microsoft has made its new Outlook.com email service generally available, following six months of receiving and incorporating user feedback. The service is ready to scale to a billion people, the company said, and Hotmail users will be shifted over to form the core of that base. The preview attracte...
HTC launched its newest smartphone Tuesday, sporting a revamped interface and new entertainment features. The HTC One has a 4.7-inch display in an industrial-looking aluminum body. It also has a refreshed Sense interface, HTC's take on the Android operating system. Its BlinkFeed home page gives One ...
Facebook is allowing users with a little extra money to promote the status updates, photos or videos of a friend on the social network, according to multiple media reports. The world's largest social network uses certain algorithms to determine which posts get the most traction on Facebook. Users ar...
Iran's defense minister is going to be ticked off at the Photoshop minister. A photo of Iran's Qahar 313 stealth fighter is bunk -- just like the last one. After being called out for its fake stealth fighter pic last week, Iran went all in and released a new, updated photo of the jet soaring over Mo...
Rembrandt Social Media is suing Facebook for its use of the Like button, according to the BBC. Rembrandt claims that Facebook's success is owed, at least in part, to patents belonging to Dutch programmer Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer, who died in 2004. Facebook declined to comment, but a lawy...
Raytheon reportedly has developed software capable of quickly mining social networks for information that can reveal where particular individuals have been and where they may be going. The Rapid Information Overly Technology reportedly can track check-in posts and geotagged photos in social media. F...
Apple, Microsoft and Adobe reportedly have been summoned by the Australian Parliament to explain why their products cost so much more in Australia than elsewhere. The tech trio was called by the House Committee on Infrastructure and Communications, which is overseeing an inquiry into why hardware an...
An attempted antipiracy campaign came screeching to a halt when, after just four days, the Icelandic Film and Movie organization, SMAIS, took down its Facebook page. SMAIS apparently wanted to spur dialogue with Icelanders, but that backfired when Facebook users -- who were "fans" of the SMAIS page ...
Facebook Graph Search is coming, and now -- before it hits -- is a good time to tweak your Facebook privacy settings. What is it? Graph Search is a new search function within Facebook. It's not yet been officially launched, but it is available in Beta. Graph Search differs from existing Facebook sea...
Tired of Facebook? You're not alone. More than half the members of the social network have taken a break from it from time to time, and more than a quarter told researchers they planned to spend less time there in the future, according to a report released Tuesday by the Pew Internet Project. In add...
Twitter has joined a rapidly growing list of U.S. companies to report a major cybersecurity incident. The social network admitted late last week that it was able to shut down a live attack, but not before hackers may have been able to access personal information on 250,000 users. The social network...
Facebook dropped a bombshell on its developer community last week with the rollout of a clarified platform policy -- one that de-friends certain apps. The new policy spells out which types of apps can use its data. Namely, developers must show "reciprocity"; their apps must let users post content to...