At least seven police officers in the United Kingdom have resigned, two have been sacked and 150 are facing disciplinary action for posting inappropriate comments or photos on social networking site Facebook in the last four years. Police officers used the website to comment on other people’s wives, harass other people and brag about beating up people during protests. Some of them even tried to befriend crime victims and revealed police operation details. The background data were released to the Press Association after a pre-planned...
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The new look of Facebook is available starting today. The Timeline feature, which was unveiled at this year’s F8 Developer’s Conference in September, offers users a virtual history similar to a digital scrapbook. Timeline maps out each user’s profile as a series of events arranged chronologically. The Timeline, the company’s biggest interface change, is the result of a six-month development work, where developers did not only create new software, but they also worked a way to quickly roll out the service to 800...
A new study shows that micro blogging site Twitter is as influential as the judges of X Factor when it comes to how the audience vote on the show. According to a study conducted by media agency Carat, Twitter is more than 42 percent more influential than other news sources in the behavior of deciding voters. The study, which had 13,000 total respondents, is believed to be the first research conducted on social media’s influence on audience’s voting behavior. The research also shows that the trust of viewers is shifting to non-traditional...
Last week, social networking site Facebook has announced that around 600,000 accounts get hacked in one day. The company then decided to add the “Trusted Friends” feature, a new security feature that will help prevent attacks that allows users to choose 3 to 5 friends that they can trust. Now, a hacker group warned that this may actually backfire. The Hackers Online Club said that the social network’s “Trusted Friends” can fail if the victim is fooled into accepting accounts from the hacker as friends. Facebook...
Social networking site Facebook is now planning to build a new server farm up north, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, to improve the sites performance for its European users, company officials said Thursday. The move will mark the first time Facebook opens a server farm outside the United States. UK-based news publication The Telegraph said that the facility, which is located at Luleå town in northern Sweden, will use as much power as a town of 50,000 residents. Even though the servers will rely on the cold Arctic air to keep them running,...
Those of you thinking you’ve found the holy grail of offers, £500 in free Asda and/or Argos vouchers for Christmas by visiting a Facebook page, we’re sad to say it’s a scam. Facebook scammers have started to exploit Christmas shoppers early this year, with posts on users walls inviting their friends to claim free vouchers. The one which is most common seems to be free vouchers for Argos, although there are scams for Pizza Hut vouchers, Asda vouchers, Starbucks, Tim Hortons and plenty more floating about. The sneaky...
After months of waiting, Facebook has finally released its first ever app for the Apple iPad. On Monday, the social networking site announced that users of the Apple iPad will finally have a Facebook app, designed specifically for the device. Today, more than a year and a half since the tablet was launched; iPad users only had to use the Facebook for iPhone app or a number of third-party apps. “Many of you have been asking about Facebook for iPad. Today’s it’s finally here,” wrote Facebook Mobile Engineer Leon Dubinsky...
Social network site Facebook has quietly rolled out a new translation feature last night, aiming to break language barriers between users from different countries. The new service, which uses Bing Translate, enables users to translate contents from Facebook Pages, like comments and posts, into their chosen language. Any public page that is not in a user’s native language can be translated by clicking on the “Translate” button on the post. Users will have the option to improve the generated translation as well. “When...
Social networking site Facebook is now ramping up its fight against annoying and harmful scam attacks by checking outbound links for malware and viruses. According to a report by The Next Web, by using a system developed by security company Websense, the service will scan links as a precaution to protect users. “A platform as popular as Facebook is naturally a target for attackers,” wrote Websense on its blog. “We have been working with Facebook and their security teams for a number of years in order to keep their users...
Following a story from Mashable that Facebook will launch its highly-anticipated iPad app at the Apple media event on October 4, tech news site TechCrunch has reported that the iPad version of Facebook’s app is “about to launch.” According to MG Seigler, the app has been ready to go for a while. That also goes to another Facebook project called “Project Spartan,” which is an HTML 5 app store for Facebook apps. According to Siegler, the Project Spartan and the Facebook app for iPad are “joined at the...