Survey Shows Facebook More Important Than TV Or Magazines For Girls

The announcement by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) about using Facebook as means of gathering intelligence illustrates the increasing adoption of social networking sites by organisations. GMP has announced it is working with...

New government proposals could see sex offenders details, all 30,000 of them, being passed on to social networking websites like Facebook, Bebo or Myspace to prevent them from contacting young people. Websites could be asked to...

The AOL Time Warner group has purchased Social Networking Website Bebo for $850 million earlier today in a surprise move that leaves only a handful of players left in the field.Bebo has been rumoured to be looking for a quick...

“Social networking swept through the internet-using population like flu during 2006-2007, but like any epidemic, it shows signs of falling back once all the most vulnerable targets have been infected,” says Tim...

Facebook and Myspace have both suffered a slight dip in UK users with a drop of 5 percent between December and January, according to data released by Nielsen Online. Before everybody starts to panic, just bear in mind that it is...

The majority of employers permit employees to have reasonable personal use of the Internet during working hours. Employers have sought to minimise the risks that this personal use might present by introducing Acceptable Use...

The recent popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo are costing UK corporations close to £6.5 billion annually in lost productivity, according to a poll conducted by Information security...

Newswire reports from India suggest that police there are using increasingly sophisticated searches on social networking sites such as Facebook in order to track down `raves' and shut them down. Indian newswires quote the Cyber...

Alex Chitu of Google Operating System blog delved into the code of the new Gmail service to find out that Google may be planning a continuous information stream, not unlike Facebook's own newsfeed.The discovery indicates that...

A report released by watchdog Ofcom showed that UK has the greatest proportion of internet-enabled users in Europe who regularly visit social networking sites like Facebook or Myspace.Nearly forty percent of UK adults with...

The Official guidance issued today by the Information Commissioner whose office oversees how data is created, maintained and used across UK, is the latest sign of the growing uneasiness associated with social networking sites...

You can't ignore Wikipedia. According to Alexa, the web's open encyclopaedia is the 8th most popular website on the internet, ranking just below to Facebook although it has the lowest full time employee headcount of the top...

Global Secure Systems, a security consultancy firm claims to have saved thousands of pounds a year by practising what they preach by blocking access to Facebook and other social networking sites on its company network with...

Workers spending too much time on social networking websites such as Facebook are costing employers a staggering £130m a day according to the findings of one recent survey, and the problem looks set to become much worse if...

Yahoo has silently pulled the plug on its Myspace-killer/Blogging platform, Yahoo 360. The decision was announced two weeks ago on The Yahoo 360! product blog by the Community Manager, Matt Warburton. It came a few days before...