Infamous spam king could get prison time for Facebook spamming, phishing
Notorious spam-monger Sanford Wallace has been brought up on federal fraud charges for allegedly using phished Facebook accounts to send 27 million spam messages in 2008 and 2009. If the charges hold, Wallace could serve more th...
Doing the math on News Corp.’s disastrous MySpace years
Once upon a time, MySpace was the king and pioneer of social networking. When Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. bought the company for $580 million, it looked like a steal. Surely MySpace must be worth billions...
Internet users now have more and closer friends than those offline
Have a computer, Internet connection, and no Facebook profile? Now you're the weirdo outcast. In a new study done by the Pew Research Center, collections of data from thousands of participants showed that people who...
iOS 5 contacts app has fields for Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn and Myspace info
One of the more interesting iOS 5 features revealed this week during the Monday keynote was seamless integration with Twitter. Now a report published by All Things D shows that fields for other social networking sites also appear in the iOS 5 contac...
Murdoch’s The Daily hits iPads today
The aging press baron makes one last bid to capture the eyeballs of the Internet generation [UPDATE: The free (for two weeks) app is available here. There's a video tour here. Click here for our live coverage of the event and first impressions of the product.] At 11 a.m. EST, a museum-full of reporters and...
Still Relevant? MySpace Updates Its iPhone App With New UI and Features
Just in case you were wondering, yes — MySpace appears to be alive. I know, you haven’t logged in the website in ages. But what was that? Two years ago? Man, that was fast. Facebook completely replaced MySpace in our daily digital sharing and wall-posting lives. Still, MySpace has an updated iPhone app available. Version...
Tech's 10 greatest blind spots
From Apple to Yahoo, Silicon Alley Insider spots the Achilles' heels Here's an interesting exercise. Rather than look at what America's leading tech companies do best, why not focus on what they do worst? That's what SAI's Jay Yarow has done in a gallery posted Wednesday. The headlines: Google (GOOG) doesn't get social Apple (AAPL)...
Death and social media: what happens to your life online?
Losing a friend or family member is painful enough, but imagine the extra, unnecessary jabs when that friend's social networking profile continues to pop up in searches. Or say your friend was...
Firms worry about social networks, but don’t block access
Despite widespread paranoia that social networks are putting businesses at risk, companies continue to give employees open access to them. The latest Security Threat Report (PDF) from security research firm Sophos...
