Florida’s Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee has ordered all judges and lawyers in the state to “unfriend” each other on the popular social networking website Facebook to avoid future compromise.
The ruling, which came out on November 17, stated that online friendships among judges and lawyers could create an impression that they are being influenced with their [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
World’s biggest social networking website Facebook will release the newlayout design for its Groups feature, which is aimed to make communication and activities sharing among friends easier and more presentable.
In its previous design, Groups in Facebook can only see updates about their network on a particular member site they joined in. But with the new [...]
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 [...]
Internet giant Google Inc. is set to redefine the way people look at social networking websites with the launching of the much anticipated Google Wave, which combines all the features of popular social platforms like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. Or even more.
According to research firm Gartner Inc. chief analyst Ray Valdes, Google Wave has the [...]
A new survey by independent research firm for Robert Half Technology showed that more than 54 percent of companies in the United States implement a “No Facebook” policy at work.
According the study, some 54 percent of the 1, 400 respondents said that workers in their companies were “completely prohibited” to use Facebook and other social [...]
