Facebook CFO advises Menlo Park council not to push company away with …
When Menlo Park officials sit down with Facebook representatives in the coming weeks to negotiate an agreement that would allow the social networking company to expand, they’ll likely try hard to avoid making their requests for community benefits sound like a Mafia shakedown. Although the company is not threatening to…
York Facebook hacking student Glenn Mangham jailed
A software development student from York who hacked into Facebook has been jailed for eight months. Glenn Mangham, 26, had earlier admitted infiltrating the social networking website between April and May 2011. Mangham, of Cornlands Road, York, had shown search engine Yahoo how it could improve security and said he wanted to…
Eureka High Robotics Team Competes Saturday
Eureka High School students will join others from across Missouri on Saturday for the FIRST Robotics Competition at the Saint Louis Science Center. Morgan Freeman calls the tech challenges created by For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) the “super bowl of smarts.” Even President Barack Obama agrees,…
Asus EEE PC 1225C unboxing and first-look impressions Netbook Live
Even back in the days when netbooks where the next hot piece of technology, there was a lot of debate whether bigger than 10 inch mini laptops are actually called netbooks or not. Back them I decided to call 11.6+ inch devices budget ultra-portables, and with that in mind, today This is…
Samsung 2012 HDTV pricing leaks
Samsung didn’t hold back with new HDTVs at CES last month, and now pricing details for the bulk of the range though not the coveted 55-inch OLED set – have emerged. The company is pushing voice and gesture control across a number of its smart TVs, and there are some…
Police: Facebook photos of Mass. high school girls ‘hijacked’ and posted on a …
CHARLTON, Mass. The FBI and Massachusetts police are trying to figure out who “hijacked” Facebook photos of teenage girls from more than a dozen high schools in the state and posted them on a website police say features child pornography. Authorities on Thursday described the site as an anonymous bulletin…
Sarkozy Facebook Timeline takes flak as re-election campaign begins
Nicholas Sarkozy kicked off his long-expected re-election bid Wednesday with a new Web site, Facebook profile and Twitter account as well as a defiant televised address pledging an aggressive campaign against his main rival, Socialist candidate Francois Hollande. It’s the Facebook profile, though, that’s got people talking the most though…
Android 5.0 Jelly Bean targets Windows 8 with netbook strategy
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich has barely left a mark on the mobile OS scene, and there’s already word of Google’s next Android version. Android 5.0 Jelly Bean is rumored to be released this summer, taking on Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 OS rather than Apple’s strengthening mobile front. The news What will set…
Facebook rolls out ‘verified accounts,’ celeb nicknames
By Doug Gross, CNNupdated 1:23 PM EST, Thu February 16, 2012 | Filed under: Social Media A TV crew carries gear near a sign marking Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. STORY HIGHLIGHTSFacebook is rolling out “verified accounts” on ThursdaySystem will let people with lots of subscribers apply to be verifiedThose people also will…
Need To Continue With 1Malaysia Netbook Programme, Says Awang Tengah
KUCHING, Feb 16 (Bernama) — The federal government should continue with the 1Malaysia Netbook distribution to eligible groups in Sarawak as it has proven to be very popular among schoolchildren, state Public Utilities Minister Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan said today. He said the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC)…
