Microsoft strikes search deals with Twitter, Facebook
Microsoft has reached collaboration agreements with Twitter and Facebook to get their members’ public status updates and messages indexed and presented in useful ways on the Bing search engine.
Internet junkie detox center claims US first
A dedicated internet and gaming addiction recovery program has opened shop in Fall City, Washington, which claims to be the first of its kind in the US.
Social media and the internet do not spread democracy
It’s been a demoralising political summer for the Internet’s social media idealists. The early promise of a democratic Twitter powered revolution in Iran has been replaced by a series of …
Family values return, thanks to the internet
Here’s a strange thing: everyone is increasingly desperate for attention and yet we spend more and more of our leisure time in rooms with other live humans in them, ignoring …
Facebook Lite looks like Twitter rival
Facebook appears to be upping the ante against Twitter with the launch of Facebook Lite, a simplified version of the site, which provides a stream of user updates and looks …
Web attack ‘aimed at one blogger’
A “massively co-ordinated” attack on websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter was directed at one individual, it has been confirmed.
Facebook confirms DoS attack same day as Twitter
Popular social-networking site Facebook was hit with a DoS (denial-of-service) attack Thursday, but the attack did not appear to be as severe as one that crippled Twitter the same day.
Middle-aged learning to love social networking sites
Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are no longer the preserve of the young with middle-aged people logging on to them in ever larger numbers, according to Ofcom, the …