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Affluent and urban drawn to online social networks: Nielsen

Technology / Internet

created Sep 26, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Market-tracker Nielsen reported on Friday that the ranks of US online social network users continue to grow, with cyber communities tending to attract people who are affluent and urban.


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Fox News taps MySpace for citizen journalists

Technology / Internet

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

MySpace on Monday invited its members to become volunteer "uReporters" by supplying news pictures or videos for use at the social networking website and Fox News network.





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Customers browse the Internet in a cybercafe in Abidjan on August 11, 2009

Cyber crooks riding social-networking wave: report

Technology / Internet

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A hacking incident report released Monday warns there has been a steep rise in attacks at social-networking hotspots including wildly popular microblogging service Twitter.


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Cyber-crooks targeting social-networking websites

Technology / Internet

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Computer security specialists warn that Facebook users have been hit with a series of data-stealing attacks in the past week as cyber crooks increasingly stalk social-networking websites.


Facebook was blocking links to bogus websites set up to look like the home page of the popular social network

Facebook users hooked in new 'phishing' scam

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created May 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Facebook on Friday was blocking links to bogus websites set up to look like the home page of the popular social network in a "phishing" attack by hackers.


Microsoft websites were the most visited in September

Microsoft websites top spots in September: comScore

Technology / Internet

created Nov 07, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Industry tracker comScore on Friday released a study showing that Internet users in September spent more time at Microsoft websites that at any other online properties.


Customers surf the internet at a cyber cafe in London

Bebo social network expands into Europe

Technology / Internet

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Social networking website Bebo on Monday announced the launch of five new European-language versions, its first major expansion outside the English-speaking world.


Cisco has launched new software that shines light on potentially troublesome websites

Cisco shines light on dark corners of the Web

Technology / Software

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Cisco launched software that shines light on potentially troublesome websites hidden in what the US computer security firm dubbed the "Dark Web."


Online social networks leak personal information to tracking sites, new study shows

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 4

More than a half billion people use online social networks, posting vast amounts of information about themselves to share with online friends and colleagues. A new study co-authored by a researcher at Worcester Polytechnic ...


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Facebook opens core to outside developers

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created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook on Monday cleared the way for outside developers to craft software applications that do clever, creative or useful things with data streamed as updates at the social-networking service.


Facebook said it has blocked a link at the heart of a "phishing" scam being used to dupe members

Facebook fights 'phishing' scam

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created May 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Facebook Thursday said it has blocked a link at the heart of a "phishing" scam being used to dupe members into revealing passwords to accounts at the social networking website.


Authors find social networking technology helps reveal what matters most in campus culture

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook and other social networking sites aren't just online spaces where students can connect, they're the frontier of self-definition and identity to the first generation raised with the Internet, according to a new book ...



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