A new report released by a top computer security firm on Monday showed an alarming increase in the number of hacker and spam attacks in social networking websites, threatening to hamper operations online.
Based on the study, Sophos said that there has been a significant increase in the online attacks particularly in social networking sites like [...]
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 [...]
Major mobile phone manufacturers are rushing to join the social networking bandwagon as handset makers recognized the emerging trend among users in keeping in touch with the friends in the social websites.
With the boom in the number of social networking site users, mobile phone makers like Nokia, Samsung, and Motorola are rushing to develop new [...]
A high-ranking Indonesian Islamic cleric over the weekend warned fellow Muslims from the indiscriminate use of social networking sites, saying that use of websites like Facebook often lead obscene actions and other un-Islamic practices.
In a statement issued on Friday, cleric’s spokesperson Abdul Muid Sholid said that popular social networking sites represent everything against their religion, [...]
Friendster is a social networking website, founded in Mountain View, California by Jonathan Abrams. It was launched on March of 2002, and now it’s one of the most famous social networking services in the world, and it is more widely used in Asia. In the Philippines it is the second most visited site, only next [...]
