Billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sued 11 big names in the web namely Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook, Youtube, eBay, AOL, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, and Staples.
The suit was filed against the companies for allegedly violating four patents owned by his now-defunct program, Interval Research.
One of the four patents is said to cover internet commerce [...]
Notice something new with your Facebook page?
Right beside “Update Status” on your wall… well, some beta testers would actually find “Facebook Questions” right there.
This new feature enables the user to post a question which will become automatically public to all users of Facebook. The scheme designers hope that this would allow the asker to have [...]
Lady Gaga ccould be the biggest name in 2009; and her popularity avalanche does not seem to have any intention of slowing down. as the 24-year old performer is on the verge on becoming the first living person to have 10 million Facebook fans.
Barack Obama meanwhile, is at a second place with a respectable 9.4 [...]
Dictionary.com defines the verb like, as (1) to take pleasure in; find agreeable or congenial; (2) to regard with favor; have a kindly or friendly feeling for (a person, group, etc.); (3) to wish or prefer. But come the latter part of the decade, the word evolved into a new meaning, something more technological in [...]
Is there anything that facebook can’t do? Aside from the fact that it has become the most visited website, trumping Google’s well established lead. But aside from playing the role of consumer favorite, it plays the role of a hero to a mother and her kidnapped kids.
A mother from Southern California was able to locate [...]
You heard it right, just when we all thought Facebook could not possibly get any more monstrous, it locks cyber fingers with Yahoo! – another gargantuan internet monster (redundancy intended).
With designs of becoming the world’s ‘largest social network”, Yahoo! struck a deal to integrate the news feeds from Facebook into the engine’s core services.
This partnership [...]
Be glad you are using the best invention of the past decade. That is of course, if you are on Facebook as Facebook is named best invention of the past decade.
The survey, performed on several Britons, asked more than a thousand people to name their favorite invention within the past decade. Almost 75 percent of [...]
Facebook is vulnerable to hacking.
If you carefully read the instructions when adding third party apps on your Facebook profile, you’ll see that these programs will ask for your permission to access your web information and even publish them online.
Aside from the fact that users hardly took notice of this warning, Facebook has now granted third-party [...]
