SWOFties Embracing Twitter & Facebook In Droves

Mark Zuckerberg's visit to Vietnam has drawn the attention of the tech community throughout the world. However, the massively popular social networking site's Vietnamese wing has refused to provide any details regarding his...

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has claimed that limiting or blocking access to social networking platforms was ‘unacceptable'. Speaking during the London Conference on Cyberspace, Hague said that basic human rights like...

Facebook has made place for one of the most admired entrepreneur of the tech world, Reed Hastings on its board of directors.The chief executive officer of Netflix, the leading movies and shows rental service in the United States...

It's looking increasingly like Facebook's bubble has burst, in developing nations at least. No-one could deny that the social networking site is one of the Internet's most important cultural phenomenons having passed half a...

UK mobile phone services provider TalkTalk released out network-level home internet security software for its users.The company’s HomeSafe security software allows users to protected their PCs, smartphones and any other...

Chinese blogger and activist Michael Anti was banned from Facebook for using an alias - but in an environment built on fiction, isn't the social network's insistence on using 'real names' just censorship in disguise? Anti, an...

Social networking platform Facebook has dished out the Facebook Happiness Index for the UK, derived after analysing status messages posted by Britons all year long. Facebook's data, which is available through a Gross National...

Flipboard, a new iPad application that compiles users' social media streams into a personalised magazine, has been launched today.The newly launched Flipboard application will directly synchronise with users' profiles on social...

The world's largest social networking website, Facebook, might have changed its privacy settings but this doesn't seem to be enough to calm down privacy campaigners worldwide. According to the Guardian, Privacy International said...

Facebook has hired a former Bebo chief executive, named Joanna Shields, to oversee its operations in Europe, as the social networking giant Facebook is looking to turn its enormous popularity into profits. Joanna Shields, who...

A professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University has found out that human beings are physically limited to being able to link up and manage up to 150 friends at most, regardless of any other societal...

Emma Brady of Baxenden, Lancashire, has become the first person ever to be divorce by a partner through Facebook, the popular social networking website that has more than 150 million active users worldwide. The ex-Mrs Brady only...

World renowned dictionary compiler Collins has created a list of some of the prominent “words to watch” for the year 2009, a number of which are said to be originated from web-based activities.  The soaring...

The Information Security Forum (ISF) is warning of an increase in malicious threats including attacks from organised crime and industrial espionage, along with a rise in mobile malware and Web 2.0 vulnerabilities. These are just...

There is an emerging movement afoot amongst consumers and the media that has been labeled the “participatory culture”.Defined as new ways of life that lead people to create and circulate new self-made content...