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Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old CEO of Facebook, is Time magazine's Person of the Year. Few technology leaders before him have been given the title. "You" got the honor in 2006 -- "you" as in YouTube generation. Another Harvard dropout -- Microsoft founder Bill Gates -- got it in 2005, but he was o...
A tweet that may prove sweet for Google's bottom line has sparked discussion about what constitutes public relations in the age of social media. "There are over 300,000 Android phones activated each day," Google Android development director Andy Rubin -- aka Twitter user "Arubin" -- tweeted Dec. 8 t...
Hackers struck at the Gawker blog network's servers over the weekend, stealing more than 1 million rows of data, including cracked passwords. Gawker has been scurrying to revamp security on its servers as a result, and has put up an FAQ page on this issue. Meanwhile, Twitter has been hit with a wave...
A long-simmering legal dispute between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and two former Harvard University classmates is back in the public eye after partially redacted court documents filed this summer in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court surfaced on Radar Online.com. The documents, ...
It would be natural to assume that George W. Bush and Mark Zuckerberg have nothing in common. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, is a Baby Boomer, while Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive officer of Facebook, is a member of the millennial generation. Those facts alone suggest th...
Links to malware-infested sites and other threats lurk in many Facebook users' news feeds, according to research from security vendor BitDefender. Among approximately 14,000 Facebook users who installed BitDefender's Safego security and privacy app, about one in five has malware in his or her news ...
Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee worries that the Web's most successful inhabitants are gradually chipping away at its "egalitarian" foundations. "The Web as we know it is being threatened," writes Berners-Lee in a Scientific American essay. "Large social-networking sites are walling off information...
Social networking began as a fascination of the young on college campuses, but it has grown to embrace all age groups all over the world. It's a phenomenon with a potential that's barely been scratched, especially in business. Barry Libert, though, would like to see that change, and he's ready to sh...
China this week sentenced online activist Cheng Jiangping to one year in a labor camp for retweeting a message urging an attack on the Japanese pavilion at the recently concluded Shanghai Expo, according to Amnesty International UK. News of the sentence comes as tension within China over the country...
From the beginning of the social media revolution, it was obvious that the legal system was going to have trouble keeping up. It started when file-sharing sites like Napster trampled on copyright laws on their way to completely changing the way music is sold. Then, more than a few amateur bloggers...
What can users expect from Facebook's new messaging system, which will be able to deal with messages from and different types of communication media? Will it really take in messages from different types of messaging systems -- email, SMS, text, etc. -- and output responses to those systems? Bearing ...
Everything about Facebook is big. A half-billion users, 700 billion minutes a month spent there. It has 900 million pages, groups and events, according to the Facebook stats page. A new social networking startup, Path, is aiming the opposite direction -- at least with its core functionality. The ne...
Facebook on Monday announced what CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as the next generation of messaging. It spans across a user's messaging systems, offering retention of a user's conversation history and a social inbox. "We don't think that a modern messaging system is going to be email," Zuckerberg to...
Given the dominance of the major players in the browser market, any press release announcing a new one might as well be a suicide note. That hasn't discouraged developers from introducing new browsers. Some of those browsers have even been able to spark some initial buzz -- although the kind of buzz...
Once upon a time, the word "hypertexting" referred to the process of linking one page of text to another through a specific Internet protocol. Now, public health researchers are using it to describe the practice of sending mobile phone text messages in the extreme: "hyper," as in lots, and "texting"...
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