Facebook began legal action against Guerbuez in August, claiming that he had managed to obtain the passwords of Facebook users and was bombarding them with millions of messages about sexual products and drugs.
Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites, whose content is mostly perceived as immoral and anti-social, a judiciary official was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
The college roommate who helped Mark Zuckerberg start Facebook is leaving the fast-growing social networking website in a matter of weeks to create a new Internet technology firm.
Gone are the days when British spies came from the universities of Oxford or Cambridge. The country's premier intelligence service is now advertising on social networking site Facebook for future recruits.
People with excess of self-love might choose networking sites like Facebook for unabashed self-promotion. They are more likely to choose glamorous pictures for their main profile photos, according to a Georgia University study.
Facebook has overtaken MySpace to become the world's most popular social networking site with 132 million unique visitors in June, according to new figures from web tracking firm ComScore.
Computer security researchers on Thursday warned that online social networking websites are playgrounds for hackers, who can easily take advantage of people's trust.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg painted a vision of an Internet future with the website in its soul to a faithful throng of software developers at the Internet firm's annual "F8" conference.- Students from low-income groups, who use MySpace and Facebook are as technologically proficient as their richer counterparts, according to a study.
- Now you don’t have to wait to catch rushes of forthcoming big screen releases on television. With movie marketing moguls fast latching on to popular social networking sites you could switch to the internet and view promos and teasers for the latest flicks.
Microsoft Corp will focus on growing its own advertising and Internet search business after it withdrew its takeover offer for Yahoo, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said on Friday.
Microsoft's bankers have approached Facebook about a purchase of the social networking site as an alternative for its failed takeover bid for Yahoo, an American business journal has reported.
If you belong to the generation of net savvy Indians, beware of browsing social networking sites for long as your PC or laptop could easily fall prey to cyber attacks from hackers.While millions continue to log into social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook to make friends and socialise, a small but growing number of individuals are also logging on to share not only their personal problems but also to find solutions for them.
