Note to Republicans: Racist "humor", the Internet and political ambitions don't mix. Audra Shay, vice chairman of the Young Republicans and the leading candidate to be elected its chairman on Saturday, is now the latest in a growing list of ...Read More
Windows only: Fishbowl, the Facebook client demoed at Microsoft's introduction to Silverlight 4, is now available for download—and it adds quite a few new desktop features to the Facebook experience, including badges, a mini news feed, and more.
At first glance, ...Read More
Qwisk, which is launching today at the Real-Time CrunchUp, is an innovative new way to add a social twist to your browser. The site, which is a product of Y Combinator-funded company Socialbrowse, connects with you with your friends on ...Read More
Adding Twitter and Facebook to game consoles is a good idea, but both Sony and Microsoft are missing the point. These social networks are tools that can be used for all kinds of things. Their usefulness to gamers doesn't spawn from ...Read More
Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack appears to have no problem financial regulators. In fact, Mack, speaking at a financial journalist panel held by Bloomberg last night, said that banks "cannot control ourselves." The government, Mack said, "has to step in ...Read More
Verizon rankled AT&T with their "There's A Map For That" ads that took aim at AT&T's spotty service, and mocked the iPhone app tagline, "there's an app for that." AT&T responded by slapping Verizon with a lawsuit, and has also just ...Read More
Microsoft announced the availability of Silverlight 4 in beta at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) today. Some of the new features include more fluid animations, Webcam, microphone and printing support, 200 percent faster start times than Silverlight 3, deep zoom ...Read More
Salesforce.com is offering the capability to integrate Facebook and Twitter into its sales and customer support offerings, another sign the company is making a full-shift to the social web.
How deep is this move? On stage this morning at Dreamforce, Mark ...Read More
Dreamforce 09 Tired of the Facebook hype and metaphors stretched to breaking point? Well, now you've got "Facebook for the enterprise" from Salesforce.com, trying to stake out its place in enterprise collaboration. On Wednesday, the software-as-a-service provider announced Salesforce.com Chatter, which ...Read More
NEW YORK - Users of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles can now brag about their achievements on Facebook as both systems integrate the social network this week. Microsoft Corp. switched on a slew of new features for ...Read More
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff jokes about having 5,000 of his closest friends on Facebook. As result, he says, he knows more about strangers than his employees. Wednesday, at the company's annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce.com introduced Salesforce Chatter, ...Read More
Facebook is coming to a PS3 near you as part of the latest 3.10 update, which will be rolled out over the course of the next day. We knew it was coming, but Sony has been vague about exactly when ...Read More
JPMorgan Chase is letting Facebook users help decide how to give away $5 million. The idea is to get small, local charities on Chase's radar. The "Chase Community Giving" will let Facebook users choose from more than half a million charities that ...Read More
Facebook must have real traction when even the New Oxford American dictionary decides to take note of a term that has emerged into the vernacular due to the prevalence of the social network, but some people are scratching their head ...Read More
Loic Le Meur, founder and chief executive of Seesmic, demonstrated a new Windows version of Seesmic's desktop console for managing your alerts and accounts in Twitter and Facebook today at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. After the presentation, ...Read More
The annual fall update for the Xbox 360 dashboard is here, bringing with it support for Last.fm radio, Facebook and Twitter integration, and HD streaming through Zune's online marketplace.
To grab the update, just fire up your Xbox and sign into ...Read More
HANOI, Vietnam—Vietnam's growing legions of Facebook users fear that the country's communist government might be blocking the popular social networking Web site, which has become difficult to access over the past few weeks.
Facebook has more than 1 million users in ...Read More
Peter White, who is campaigning for a seat on Havering council in east London, attacked the monarch and called for Royal residences to be sold off. His posted the message on the Facebook page of Andrew Rosindell, the Tory MP who ...Read More
Sony has revealed via the official PlayStation blog that PS3 firmware 3.10, due "soon," will allow the console to communicate with social media site Facebook. The news comes on the eve of Microsoft's latest Xbox 360 Dashboard update roll-out -- ...Read More
OMG! It’s that time of year again! For realsies! We just tossed the rotten jack-o’-lantern and already New Oxford American Dictionary announces its “Word of the Year.” For 2009, that word is a verb, one which we in our social-network obsessed ...Read More
The theme of this year's National Anti-Bullying-Week, which starts today, is cyber-bullying. In fact, after name calling cyber-bullying is the most common type of bullying, as a recent study for the Department for Children, Schools and Families revealed. It is ...Read More
