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Article | 13/01/2010 Facebook joins Apache foundation
Facebook Tuesday joined the Apache Software Foundation as a Gold sponsor, looking to cement its commitment to open source and pledging to help drive t...
Article | 12/01/2010 Zuckerberg Comments Underscore Internet/Privacy Conflict
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg added fuel to the ongoing privacy debate with recent statements that users no longer care about privacy. While the statem...
Article | 12/01/2010 Facebook CEO Zuckerberg causes stir over privacy
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's contention last week that privacy is becoming less important to online users caused a stir across the Internet and amon...
Article | 5/01/2010 Facebook cuts off access to profile-killing service
Deleting your Facebook profile is easy. Just follow the link and submit your request. But merely disappearing from Facebook might not be cathartic eno...
Article | 24/12/2009 Facebook traffic jumps in Japan but it still lags Mixi
Facebook has seen an almost fourfold increase in the number of visitors to its Web site from Japan in the last year but the site still lags far behind...
Article | 29/12/2009 Top 10 tech stories of the decade
While the computer industry in the 1990s thrived as corporations re-engineered business processes to incorporate IT, this decade has seen technology t...
Article | 22/12/2009 Facebook group crowns UK's no.1 Christmas song
This might have been an upset of major proportions for the music industry but at the end of the day, it just underscored the power of Facebook.
Article | 18/12/2009 Got Facebook privacy concerns? You ain't seen nothing yet
Carnegie Mellon University researcher, Tom Mitchell, says that privacy risks "on a scale that humans have never before faced" hinder real-time data an...
Article | 18/12/2009 Privacy groups bring Facebook complaints to FTC
Ten privacy and consumer groups, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), filed a complaint Thursday with the U.S. Federal Trade Co...
Article | 16/12/2009 ComScore: Facebook breaks 100M US unique visitor mark
Facebook's staggering usage growth continues unabated, as the company surpassed the 100 million U.S. unique visitor milestone in November, the first t...
Article | 16/12/2009 Facebook testing tool to push updates onto Twitter
Facebook and its social networking compatriot Twitter are jointly taking new steps to help users share information.
Article | 15/12/2009 Facebook and Google: Contrasts in privacy
The headlines recently have been dominated with news of online privacy. Facebook has implemented changes that affect the privacy of status updates, an...
Article | 15/12/2009 New Facebook privacy choices help business users
Facebook's new privacy controls make it easy for users to present different information to business contacts and personal friends, but only if the use...
Article | 15/12/2009 Bank's antifraud tactics stun security expert: How much do they know?
Checking out of a Hilton hotel in London, security expert Roger Thompson was told his Visa card had been declined due to suspicions it was stolen, a s...
Article | 15/12/2009 Facebook privacy: Zuckerberg's profile unzipped
How much personal information can you glean from Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's profile? That depends on when you happened to be viewing i...