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Woman Facing Prison Time for Facebook Post
Internet April 1, 2014
People have warned Facebook users since the inception of the social media giant that they should be careful what they post for the world to see. Because while you can delete a Facebook post from your profile, you can’t ever undo the fact that it was once up there... Read more
YouTube has become one of the most popular socila media video platform, with more than six billiob hours of videos watched every month. These stats prove it is even beating Facebook, with teenagers choosing YouTube over the social media giant. As a result of a huge young audience following,... Read more
Facebook Buys Oculus For $2 Billion
Internet March 27, 2014
Facebook has just made another huge purchase. This time they have furthered their interest in the fields of virtual reality with the purchase of Oculus for $2 billion.  Oculus is the company behind the virtual reality headset, the Oculus Rift. The headset is coming soon to PC and Android... Read more
Facebook DeepFace is 97% Accurate
Internet March 20, 2014
When you see someone you know, your brain identifies that personâs face in nanoseconds. It is a relatively simple task for us to accomplish. For a computer, on the other hand, things are not that simple. Cue the Facebook DeepFace project. The social media firm says it has developed a... Read more
Facebook Messenger Trojan Issue
NewsSocial Media March 17, 2014
A piece of malware is making the rounds through the Facebook social network, on its way it is stealing credentials and account data. Security firm Malwarebytes has claimed. The Trojan spreads by Facebook’s Messenger service. It messages a victim masquerading to be one of their âfriendsâ using the popular term... Read more
Facebook Pages Gets A Makeover
InternetSocial Media March 13, 2014
Last week Facebook gave its news feed an overhaul and now Facebook Pages is set to be transformed too. The company has announced that it making changes to how it looks for both visitors and admin, saying that it will have a more “streamlined” look. In the old design... Read more
Facebook Building New Data Centre in Sweden
Internet March 13, 2014
Facebook has been serving traffic form their data centre, in LuleÄ, Sweden, for approximately a year now. The centre has been hailed as one of the greenest facilities on the planet.  Now they plan to construct a second data centre which will be even more eco friendly. The social... Read more
Facebook has been shelling out some serious money over the last few years. First of all there was the purchase of Sequoia capital-backed Parakey in 2007, then, a few years later and at a more costly amount came Gowalla for $3 million. Next up in the big purchase line... Read more
Time is now up for Facebook Messenger for Windows following Facebook’s announcement that would be shutting down the app on 3rd March 2014. âWeâre sorry, but we can no longer support Facebook Messenger for Windows, and it will stop working on March 3, 2014,â the message states. âWe really... Read more
Nearly 5 Million People Download Telegram as Whatsapp Alternative
InternetMessagingMobileSocial Media February 28, 2014
While WhatsApp was down over the weekend, people turned to the messaging service Telegram instead; nearly five million people signed up for the app, placing it at the top of the App Store chart. Telegram is now the number one app in the social networking category, beating WhatsApp, Facebook... Read more
If you are someone who owns a Windows phone, you have probably noticed by now that the Facebook Messenger app, which is so prevalent on Android and iOS devices, is not available for your device. Don’t misread me – Windows phones do have a version of Facebook Messenger built... Read more
Have you ever been in a situation where you wished you could’ve had all of your friends around you right at that very moment to offer you advice? Me neither. Here’s an example: you’re on a blind date and you have no idea what you should talk about, or... Read more
Last week Facebook announced that it is acquiring the messaging company WhatsApp for an approximate total of $16 billion. Included in the deal is $4 billion in cash, $12 billion of Facebook shares and an extra $3 billion in restricted stock units which will be granted to WhatApp’s founders... Read more
Flood Hack Helps UK Flood Victims
Internet February 23, 2014
This year has seen some of the worst flooding in decades, within the UK. Many people have been getting involved with trying to find a solution to this problem. The technology community is no different.   Using government data, volunteers from the tech community are trying to design and create a... Read more
Prince Drops Lawsuit Against His Fans
Internet February 10, 2014
The artist formerly known as Prince, or Prince, however he likes to be called these days, has been popular in the news lately. And he hasn’t been in the news for promoting a new album or anything like that, either. He’s been in the news primarily because he decided... Read more
Year Of Code Backed By UK Government
Internet February 6, 2014
The Internet is increasingly important to the future of the worldâs economy. There is however a really big problem. The education systems that are currently in place, do not push the needed and required skills enough. Therein lies the issue; it comes down to the priority of the education... Read more
RIP Facebook in 2017?
Internet January 30, 2014
People it seem, have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. Some love it, some hate it, and some may admit that they have a slight addiction and that they hate to love it. You can’t go very far without hearing about someone on Facebook, seeing someone on Facebook, or running... Read more
Dumbest Criminal Award Goes To This Facebook User
InternetSocial Media January 28, 2014
You’ve probably heard it a million times – there’s no such thing as the perfect crime. Eventually every crime will be solved and the details will be spilled out into the open. Just like there are no perfect crimes, there obviously aren’t any perfect criminals, either. Now, let’s be... Read more