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RockMelt has unveiled the public beta of its new Web browser featuring built-in social network sharing. Named after the company, the browser is built on Google Chromium. Its integration with Facebook is so tight that users must log into that social networking site first in order to use the browser.
Facebook pulled the wraps off its new mobile platform Wednesday at a special event held at its headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. The offerings in the platform were designed to appeal to consumers, businesses and developers and to expand the reach of the social network's geolocation technology, Place...
SCVNGR, a Boston-based company that offers a mobile real-world game of the same name, announced on Tuesday that it's going global. SCVNGR's a social game based on geo-location that lets players link up with friends on Facebook and Twitter. The game's simple -- players check in to different spots, su...
Facebook has introduced another new product to keep its 500 million user base engaged -- Friendship Pages, a new element to a Facebook page that displays content and connections shared between two friends. The page may contain photos in which they've both been tagged, wall posts, comments exchanged,...
Myspace announced a site redesign Wednesday as it attempts to cement its position as an entertainment niche in social networking and stem the flow of users to the exit door. The News Corp. unit is seeking to become the online destination for "social entertainment" -- a place where Gen Y'rs can share...
One almost has to pity Facebook. Less than a month after it rolled out user enhancements that were lauded even by privacy advocates, it is back in the doghouse, facing a class action lawsuit and testy inquiries from two members of Congress. The problem once again is privacy. Many of the most popular...
Facebook and Bing have teamed up in a move that could bring a touch more sociability to online search. Facebook users will see Web pages their friends like popping up when they launch a Bing search while logged into the social networking site. Further, when Facebook users search for their friends on...
Facebook has unveiled new measures to keep members secure when they log into its site. One is a temporary password; another is letting people sign out of Facebook remotely. Finally, it will also now regularly prompt members to update their security information. "Our new features are aimed at protect...
Facebook rolled out a package of new user tools Wednesday that stunned onlookers -- and not just because it had been widely expected that Facebook would make some kind of mobile phone announcement. Rather, it was the fact that Facebook introduced new tools with no crisis or controversy brewing in t...
Defying expectations that it would announce a complete site redesign, a new integration agreement with Skype or even a phone of its very own, Facebook instead unveiled a revamped groups feature on Wednesday, along with new tools to audit how apps are using personal data and to download all of a user...
Facebook is holding an invitation-only press event on Wednesday. The brief announcement -- that is, the prelude to the actual event -- has thrown the social media and blogosphere rumor mills into overdrive. What, the burning question is, will Facebook announce? Much of the speculation has centered ...
Web 2.0 -- everyone's favorite 2007 buzz word -- heralded the age of social networks and powered a fundamental shift in the Web: filtering out excessive noise while building connections to friends, organizations and communities. Creating a Facebook profile became a way of passage to keep up with fri...
Microsoft has taken Windows Live Essentials 2011 out of beta, and the online suite is now available for download. The suite works only on Windows 7 and Vista; it is not available on Windows XP. Dell will be the first global PC manufacturer to ship PCs with Windows Live Essentials 2011 and Windows 7 ...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt sees mobile devices augmenting our human existence in the future. Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt event this week, he outlined a vision in which mobile phones will autonomously conduct searches for us, and we'll never be lonely or bored because we'll always be able to get ...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg came forward to clarify rampant rumors that his company was working with a mobile handset manufacturer to make a Facebook-branded smartphone. The problem is, he didn't address the question. In an interview this week with TechCrunch, Zuckerberg asserted that people can me...
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