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Facebook to fork out £5.9m in privacy settlement
News Facebook has settled a year-old class-action lawsuit that targeted the social network's alleged failure to provide adequate information and privacy controls to users with regard to Beacon, which shared information about users' information on third...
[September 21, 2009, 14:44]
facebook.com Search Widget
Downloads Facebook Search is a lightweight widget that makes it easy to look up student information on the facebook.com community.
[December 27, 2005, 6:00]
Facebook locks out Plaxo
News Social-networking site Facebook has fought off a major-league blogger's bid to extract his own contact list from the service, using a utility from rival site Plaxo, highlighting the unanswered question of who owns data associated with people's...
[January 4, 2008, 13:03]
Facebook rolls out status comments
Blog I've just noticed Facebook has suddenly made it possible to run a comment thread off status updates, or anything else that appears in a user's mini-feed - a very useful feature, if you ask me. Ah, jolly good!
[June 26, 2008, 14:41]
Facebook modifies its privacy controls again
News On Thursday, in conjunction with the Canadian Privacy Commissioner, Facebook announced a new set of modifications to its user privacy controls, as well as to its developer API. The targets of these changes are the thousands of third-party...
[August 28, 2009, 11:12]
Facebook: A boon to business security?
News While some employers are banning staff from accessing Facebook, fearing security risks and lowered productivity, GE Commercial Finance is encouraging use of the social networking site to improve staff security practices.
[October 29, 2007, 9:25]
Facebook Chat is about to land
Blog As a keen FBer, I'm quite excited about the prospect of the native Facebook chat application. I've tried out several third-party chat apps within Facebook, and none were exactly what I'd call seamless.
[April 7, 2008, 16:23]
Facebook disables rogue apps, but more appear
News Facebook on Thursday said it had disabled six rogue apps that were stealing Facebook users' log-in credentials and spamming people, and within hours more appeared. Facebook "will continue to ensure that all applications on Facebook Platform comply...
[August 21, 2009, 9:12]
Facebook Bans Firefox 3
Blog Comment FaceBook works just fine for me in Firefox 3. I'm guessing something to screwed up with MacCrapee's site advisor. You shouldn't be using the site advisor anyway, since it's slow and cruddy, and Firefox has one built in.
[July 20, 2008, 2:33]
Facebook hit by user-privacy lawsuit
News A group of Facebook users filed a civil lawsuit on Monday that alleges the social-networking site is violating California consumer privacy laws. The five plaintiffs are described as two children younger than 13, a user of the original Facebook, a...
[August 18, 2009, 8:23]
Facebook Mobile Security Threat
Blog Facebook Mobile Security Threat Yes I will admit it, I am addicted to social networking with the likes of sites such as MySpace and Facebook too. As a staff writer of ITWeb recently put it, “…Trojans will continue to be present and there will be a...
[April 9, 2008, 0:28]
Blogger targeted in Twitter, Facebook DoS
News A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial-of-service attack that led to a site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a...
[August 7, 2009, 10:18]
UPDATE: Facebook closes privacy hole
Blog Comment Man you got a bat up your ass about facebook or what! As much as i cant stand facebook i have to applaud them for reacting to the complaints and opinions of their users time and time again.and lighting fast!
[January 12, 2008, 22:05]
UPDATE: Facebook closes privacy hole
Blog Comment I have no particular issue with Facebook. I actually quite like Facebook. The point is that Facebook had to have known about the implications when the feature was designed. I use it regularly. And yes, they do respond quickly when an issue is...
[January 12, 2008, 22:36]
Facebook wins lawsuit against 'spam king'
News Facebook was awarded $711m (£429m) in a judgement on Thursday against self-described 'spam king' Sanford Wallace. Judge Jeremy Fogel of the US District Court of the Northern District of California granted Facebook's application for a default...
[October 30, 2009, 8:06]
Facebook has concluded. Please disperse and go about your lives.
Blog It's also capable, by itself, with no further fuss, of making everyone who clicks it unwilling ever to bother with Facebook again. If you are a megacompany planning to buy Facebook, someone considering employment with Facebook, or someone who in...
[October 4, 2007, 21:14]
UPDATE: Facebook closes privacy hole
Blog Comment So, bravo Facebook. And true to form, the "contacts" function has now been reinstated, but without showing email addresses (it's now a bit like the "all friends" function). Privacy is restored.
[January 12, 2008, 23:31]
Facebook users targeted by Zeus banking Trojan
News Hot on the heels of one fake Facebook email scam, a researcher warned on Wednesday of another such campaign in which users of the popular social network are being tricked into revealing their passwords and downloading a Trojan that steals...
[October 29, 2009, 9:58]
Facebook gets open-source enterprise app
News The open-source enterprise content management firm Alfresco has announced what it claims is the first enterprise application to use the Facebook platform. The London-based enterprise content management (ECM) company has integrated its system with...
[November 16, 2007, 10:33]
Facebook calls for payment apps testers
News Facebook posted a set of announcements on its developer blog on Wednesday, most notably a call for alpha testers for the Facebook Credits virtual currency platform it is launching after much speculation.
[July 16, 2009, 11:00]
