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Google co-founder donates $ 500,000 to Wikipedia

Moscow, Nov 20: World's most popular Internet serach engine Google Inc co-founder Sergi Brin has donated $500,000 to world’s biggest user-created encyclopaedia wikipedia. According to the RIA Novosti report Brin given $500,000 from The Brin Wojcicki Foundation, the charity fund run

Fibbing on Facebook to be a crime soon

Washington, Nov 19: The United States Department of Justice is planning to introduce a new law to prosecute those who use fake names on the world's most popular social networking site - Facebook or those lying to someone in online dating

Formula to find real friends from your Facebook friends list

Melbourne, Nov 19: A new formula may give you the number of real friends in your Facebook friends list and also help you to find out whether or not a person is actually popular in comparison to his Facebook friends list.

Fund manager arrested for $11 million Facebook scam

New York, Nov 18: John Mattera, a fund manager, who owns the Praetorian Global Fund registered in the British Virgin Islands has been accused of running a $11 million scam promoting phony access to coveted shares of Facebook and Groupon Inc

Skype offers Facebook-to-Facebook video calling

London, Nov 18: World's most popular video calling software, Skype on Friday (today) updated its Skype 5.4 Beta for Mac and 5.7 Beta for windows which allows one to have a Facebook-to-Facebook call within Skype.The latest development in the VoIP giant

Indian users are quite safe, says Facebook

Bangalore, Nov 18: Facebook, the hack-scarred networking site has declared that over 500 million users are quite safe and no need to worry about the hacking issue.The hacking news on the world's most popular social networking site had panicked millions of

Google celebrates 224th b'day of Louis Daguerre with doodle

Google Doodle is back and this time around it is celebrating the 224th birthday of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre. The person credited as the inventor of the daguerreotype, the first successful form of photography, is also a popular French painter and

Facebook, email or SMSes, a medium to dump love partners

London, Nov 17: Lovers are using latest technologies like social networking sites, email and SMSes to end their relationships, reported a recent survey.A market research which was done among 550 people above 18-years found that one third of them dumped their

Google, Facebook, Mozilla oppose censoring of websites

New York, Nov 17: Many Internet companies on Thursday (today) displayed "censored" stamps on their logos against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Mozilla Firefox, Reddit, Metafilter, and 4chan are among the sites opposing the bill.The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)

2 lakh Bangaloreans' FB accounts get porn facial

Bangalore, Nov 16: Over two lakh Bangaloreans' Facebook user accounts have been hacked and weblinks to their morphed pornographic pictures sent as feeds to friends and family. According to a report, more than sixty lakh Facebook accounts were hacked from Sunday

Google to offer online music download store

London, Nov 16: World's Internet search giant, Google Inc is all set to launch an online music download store offering songs from three major companies namely Sony Corp's Sony Music Entertainment, Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group and EMI Music, as reported

IIP scientists produce petrol from plastic

Dehradun, Nov 16: A team of scientists at the Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP) here has developed a new technology to convert environmentally-hazardous plastic into petroleum products. After nearly a decade-long experiments, the team of six scientists of IIP led by its

Facebook users hit by hardcore porn attack

San Francisco, Nov 16: Thousands of Facebook users have been complaining about explicit, pornographic and violent images flooding their news feeds in the last 24 hours. Reacting to the issue, Facebook Inc said that they are investigating and addressing the issue.

Google Inc offers a glance into Web searches

Washington, Nov 15: For the first time, Google Inc. is publishing a list of tweaks to its closely guarded search algorithm to show how it ranks internet websites.An antitrust regulators investigate claims that the company's search process might be biased towards

Salman Rushdie wages war against Facebook through Twitter

Washington, Nov 15: Looks like the famous British author is controversy's favourite child. After his popular book, the Satanic Verses raised a furore, his latest tiff with popular social networking site has now grabbed media headlines. The tussle occurred when Rushdie

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