Archive for September, 2010

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Porn charges laid in B.C. sex assault posted on Facebook

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Police have laid the first charges in the sexual assault of a teenaged girl who investigators say was drugged and raped by several males while others watched and posted pictures of the attack on Facebook.

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Facebook and Skype ’set to announce deal’

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

The social networking site and internet telephony company are poised to announce a ‘far-reaching partnership’, according to reports Facebook users may soon be able to make voice and video calls from the social-networking site if rumours of a partnership deal with Skype prove to be correct Photo: PA Facebook and Skype are on the verge of announcing …

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AOL buys TechCrunch

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

TechCrunch blogs will become part of the AOL Technology Network “while retaining their editorial independence,” AOL said in a statement today.

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Jimmy Carter to be kept overnight for observation

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

Former President Jimmy Carter’s grandson has reported that his grandfather is “doing fine” after being rushed to MetroHealth Hospital in Cleveland, OH, Tuesday morning.

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Census work jobs on offer

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

SHEFFIELD Council’s contractor Capita is recruiting temporary staff to help with the 2011 national census, to be held next March 27.

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Microsoft ditches Live Spaces for WordPress.com

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Microsoft Corp. is giving up on its own blog network and, in a new partnership, will start sending new Windows Live users to a competing platform instead.

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Parents warned after paedophile is jailed

Monday, September 27th, 2010

Parents have been warned that their children are not safe from paedophiles even in their own bedrooms as one of Britain’s worst ever internet child sex abusers, from Cornwall, has been jailed.

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Facebook dispute sparked fatal shooting at N.J. birthday party, family says

Monday, September 27th, 2010

A blood stain can be seen next to a candle on the entrance’s driveway of a house along Irvington Avenue where Ashani Wilks was shot to death by the DJ at a party Friday night in Somerset County.

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Facebook, gadgets galore… Indian children take to ‘multi-tasking’

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

By Madhulika Sonkar, New Delhi, Sep 26 : Nikita Mathur types an e-mail, updates her profile status on social networking site Facebook, wades through her study notes and manages to have a phone conversation as well.

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‘The Social Network’s’ Andrew Garfield has a way with emotion

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

Reporting from London - - Andrew Garfield doesn’t do Facebook. But if he did, the 27-year-old British actor would no doubt be fending off lots of requests right now from people wanting to be his cyber friend.

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The Record: Neark’s windfall

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

HERE CAN be no question a ‘ we need to do better by children growing up in Newark.

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How to disable Facebook Places

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

Facebook announced on Friday that Facebook Places, its new, location-based service, has arrived in Canada.

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‘Social Network’ Launches Ads … On MySpace

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Where better to promote “The Social Network,” a not-so-flattering upcoming movie about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, than on MySpace? MySpace, which propelled social networking into the mainstream when Facebook was still in its infancy, used “The Social Network” to roll out a splashy new ad unit on its homepage Wednesday.

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Postman faces jail over child sex abuse

Friday, September 24th, 2010

A postman from Cornwall is facing jail after admitting using social networking sites to abuse children over a five-year period.

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Facebook working on creating two smartphone devices

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

Facebook is working with mobile phone maker INQ Mobile Ltd to create two smartphone devices that may have a network tie up with AT&T Inc, Bloomberg said, citing three people familiar with the matter.