The New Oxford American dictionary has named “unfriend” as the 2009 Word of the Year, which literally means removing someone as a friend on popular social networking websites like Facebook and Friendster.
The word was chosen from a pool of finalists with a technology savvy lineage, Oxford said in a statement.
Oxford’s US dictionary program senior lexicographer [...]
Firewall Vendor Palo Alto Networks, in a study, said on Thursday that social networking and digitally-based collaborations are now consuming large chunks of enterprise networks.
With the growth of social networking, the risks involved in using such platforms also followed suit.
Based on the study, the use of popular social networking websites has significantly increased in the [...]
After years of dominance in the online social networking arena, MySpace has now started its long descend down as managers of the popular social platform are having hard time handling competition against Facebook and Twitter.
Analysts said that it will surely be a dark future for the once bright star of the Internet as it continues [...]
Social networking giant Facebook has scored another legal victory after the US District Court in San Jose, California on Thursday ordered “Spam King” to pay $711 million in damages over unsolicited mails sent to users webpages.
Sanford Wallace, also know as Spam King, was ordered by the court to pay the social website $711 million for [...]
Peek, the company that specializes in affordable texting and email-only mobile devices, has launched a new gadget called TwitterPeek, which is a Tweet-only device and was designed for frugal Twitter users.
For an introductory price of $99 at Amazon.com, Peek aims to attract heavy Twitter users who wanted to save up on their mobile phone bills.
Amol [...]
The use of social networking websites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace has posed serious new challenges to businesses operating around the world as technological advancement go beyond what is required in financial institutions, a new report from securities regulator showed on Tuesday.
In his speech, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) chief executive Richard Ketchum revealed that [...]
A new study conducted by Citibank showed that social networking websites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter actually no has direct implication in doing business, citing that more than half of the respondents do not use such platforms in their businesses.
Based on the survey, small businesses in the US don’t show any interest in using online [...]
A new survey conducted by research group Pew Internet and American Life Project showed that the number of users on Twitter are dominated by the younger generations because of the boom in mobile technology.
The study, which was released on Wednesday, said that the number of people sharing updates and other status services on their Twitter [...]
Some 24 executives of major technological companies in the US, including social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, have expressed their support for net neutrality following speeches from Democrats at the House of Representatives who were concerned over its implementation.
In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, tech company executives said that the openness and [...]
A team of experts at the Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia has developed new software that would address the growing number of people committing suicide by monitoring their social networking webpage.
Yen-Pei Huang, one of the co-founders of the software, said that the number of suicides has grown into an alarming scale, adding that prevention is [...]
