A Canadian woman who claims to suffer from major depression said that her insurance company has decided to deny giving her benefits after seeing her Facebook account with posted pictures showing her smiling face.
Nathalie Blanchard has been on leave from her job after a doctor diagnosed her with major depression. While she received employer-provided benefits [...]
Nathalie Blanchard, a Canadian woman who was on a long-term leave due to major depression, allegedly lost her benefits after her insurance agent with Manulife found a Facebook photo of her, appearing that she was having a good time.
In an interview, Blanchard said that she has been on leave for over a year from her [...]
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 [...]
Security and administrative loop holes in popular social networking website Facebook have been bared after a group calling itself “Control Your Info” hijacked some 300 groups sites.
Technology experts believe that the attack on Facebook groups’ sites will prove that Facebook has been negligent in implementing its security measures. The experts also pointed that Control Your [...]
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 [...]
