Stephanie Painter’s death was swift and painless. At 9.10pm on February 11 she bid her 121 Facebook friends goodbye with one last “poke” (mood: sorrowful), then left the virtual world peacefully with a quick click of the mouse.
“It was hard to kill the profile I’d spent so long creating, but I felt it was the […]
BOSTON (Reuters) - Monster.com waited five days to tell its users about a security breach that resulted in the theft of confidential information from some 1.3 million job seekers, a company executive told Reuters on Thursday.
Hackers broke into the U.S. online recruitment site’s password-protected resume library using credentials that Monster Worldwide Inc said were stolen […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said on Sunday it was giving its e-mail users more ways to reach friends and online contacts by allowing them to trade messages with mobile phone users.
The new e-mail-to-phone connection is one of the features the Internet media giant plans to add as it makes available to the more […]
Technocrati today launched a new look and feel and under the hood improvements that are designed to help searchers find what they’re looking for across the live web, not just blogs. David Sifry sums up the changes over on their corporate blog. TechCrunch has more.
The improvements are nice, but I have to admit that I […]
LONDON (Reuters) - The creators of the online phenomenon “Lonelygirl15″ have joined forces with social networking site Bebo to create a British spin-off story that will use brands to help define the characters.
The organizers say the project will give advertisers the chance to pitch their products such as clothing or mobile phones at a younger […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Web auction leader eBay Inc. said on Monday it has agreed with Sanook, a Thai online portal, to launch a Web site in the country that will enable cross-border trade through eBay’s global Web sites.
The Thai-language local site is expected to launch in about five to seven months and will be […]
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese campaign to clean up online pornography has reached college campuses with the Education Ministry lashing out at some school Web sites for making money from porn.
“We strongly condemn Web site hosts for making ‘unlawful’ money by distributing pornographic information,” Vice-Minister of Education Li Weihong was quoted as saying.
“Students are easily […]
Numerous AdSense publishers have been receiving emails from Google the past couple of days stating that their use of their AdSense account is an unsuitable business model and that accounts would be disabled as of June 1st, giving publishers about two weeks notice to prepare for the loss of the AdSense accounts… and since it […]
(CBS/AP) The Pentagon has opened up a new line of demarcation in an Information War, and U.S. troops and their families may be caught in the digital crossfire.
The Defense Department has announced it will begin blocking access on its computers and networks “worldwide” to YouTube, MySpace and 11 other popular Web sites, according to a […]
LAS VEGAS/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - MySpace, part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., has reached a preliminary deal to acquire Photobucket, the world’s top photo-sharing site, for around $250 million in cash, a source familiar with the deal said on Monday.
Photobucket functions like a kind of Swiss bank for depositing and transmitting photos, helping Web users […]
