“Facebook has announced it is going to try and push deeper into the mobile phone market”. The Facebook application is already widely used on both the I-phone and Blackberry allowing people to update and check their Facebook profile on the move. This is nothing new. However it is rumoured that Facebook are looking to make [...]
The internet has become a mans best friend in recent years, however at times it can also become someones biggest nightmare. This was the case for a “14 year old girl from Hertfordshire who included her address on a Facebook invitation to her house party”. The teenager originally invited 15 of her closest friends to [...]
We all know the Twitter world is used to tweets. However today, “Tweets” are replaced with tweaks. Do not worry, they are not taking away the 140 character limit that we know you love so dearly, instead they are including “pictures and video”. Third party programs have always had access to Twitter’s output via its [...]
There at it again. Its not the ipad or the iphone this time, instead Apple are to launch a new social network for music in their next addition of itunes called Ping. Ping allows you to “follow your friends and discover new music” allowing you to see what they are listening to. “It also allows [...]
What is the first thing you do when you get home from work? Check Facebook. How do employees pass the time on their lunch break? With social media. Social media has established itself into everyday life, and it’s not going to budge anytime soon. Businesses should stop looking at social media as a social out [...]
It is believed 45% of consumer’s time is spent using various kinds of media. This comes from research regulated by “Ofcom”, the first to track exactly how long consumers spend using various kinds of media. Consumers can now access information from mobile phones, ipads, TV’s radios and the Internet. Increasing the amount of time absorbing [...]
Eric Schmidt comments come as hundreds of millions of web users worldwide are increasing the amounts of personal information using social networking sites such as Facebook, Twiter and other sites, the chief executive warned that users may not be fully aware of the consequences. He believes that all young people will eventually be allowed to [...]
It is believed that almost “40 percent” of employees in India play golf not as a hobby but to “mingle” with senior business executives. Golf is also popular in China, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia, where 33% of people questioned in a survey said they all used the sport as means of professional social networking. In [...]
A series of photographs in which a young girl appeared to have found an elaborate way to quit her job has been exposed as a hoax. The girl, “Jenny” posed for 33 photographs with a whiteboard, each with a separate message written on it, claiming that her sexist boss “Spencer” had bad breath and spent [...]
The man responsible for the publication of of personal details from over 100 million Facebook users has spoken out to explain his actions. Ron Bowes scanned Facebook profiles using a piece of code and collected data that was made public by each user. The list has been compiled into one downloadable file and uploaded to [...]
