Facebook launched a Facebook Messenger app for smartphones on Tuesday. However, users found partial code for a video chat component tucked away inside it if they were early enough. Facebook messenger was announced in a Facebook blog as a “faster way to message on mobile” for the iPhone and Android smartphones. Shortly after the app [...]
The infamous “Spam King” Sanford Wallace has been brought up on federal fraud charges for allegedly using phished Facebook accounts to send 27 million spam messages in 2008 and 2009. If the charges hold at their current state, Wallace could serve more than 16 years in prison. Wallace formed the spam company Cyber Promotions in [...]
Netflix shares fell 5.8 percent on March 8th. What happened that day? Warner Bros. announced plans to start offering movie rentals on Facebook. They also plan to allow users to purchase movies as well. How would you pay for these? Facebook credits. 10 Credits is approximately $1, and a movie has been quoted to be [...]
Have you ever found yourself flinging birds and trying to destroy objects? If so, hopefully it’s only on the ever-popular “Angry Birds” application. It’s become very popular recently, and I installed it myself to figure out why people were talking. To my surprise, I found myself playing it over and over. It’s a very addicting [...]
Keyboards are always being redesigned and reformed to fit the needs of the users. It should come as no surprise that it has happened yet again. And this time, the keyboard has dove full-fledged into the realm of social networking. Hotkeys make this keyboard different than the average, and make it stand out more than [...]
Paul Mapplethorpe and Kelly Coxhead have been together for 10 years now, and Kelly is becoming impatient. She has said her dream wedding is on 11/11/11, but Paul is a bit uneasy. Paul said that in order for him to marry her, she will need to get 1 million supporters on Facebook before her dream [...]
On Monday, a case started in October of 2010 was finally settled involving American Medical Response of Connecticut Inc. and Dawnmarie Souza. Souza was fired for criticizing her boss on Facebook. Although the criticizing on Facebook may not be ethical, the National Labor Relations Board found that the ambulance company acted on “overly broad” rules [...]
One of the most annoying aspects about Facebook is that whenever it’s your birthday, people will always post on your wall, and it will become flooded with happy birthday comments. Well, Facebook is going to fix that problem. From now on, all your birthday comments will be grouped into a single collapsible thread. Much better [...]
So, Facebook passed a pretty big milestone today. On the Facebook blog, founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that they now have 500 million active users. Yes, five hundred million! Let’s put this number in perspective: There are 307 million people in the United States. So that means, that everyone in the US could have an account, [...]
Be careful what you say online, especially if it is about a business. People are starting to receive more defamation lawsuits from posting negative comments about various businesses on social sites like Twitter, Facebook, etc. Businesses, rather than combat negativity with better customer service, are turning to the scare tactic of legal fees and intimidation to [...]
