A research team from North Carolina State University headed by professor Xuxian Jiang discovered early this month a trojanised app called Fast Racing, hiding malware which it called 'Golddream'.
Carlo Fernandez
Jul 08, 2011
The Winklevoss Twins are set to continue their endless legal fight with Facebook. Why do you think they persist with court action after court action?
Because Facebook has only just got started and they know that.
Christine Gaylican
Jul 08, 2011
Five interesting social media sites to check out
ranina sanglap
Jul 07, 2011
Google Inc. is facing more patent litigation as it has increased its dominance in the industry, and could spend billions to buy patents or defend itself against litigation. The Palo Alto, California-based company owner of the world's most popular search engine, the most used operating system platform (Android) for smartphones, and potentially a social network (Google+) that could rival Facebook.
Carlo Fernandez
Jul 07, 2011
Mark Zuckerberg divulged his "awesome" news at a press conference in Facebook's Palo Alto, California headquarters: Skype would be bringing video-chat capabilities to Facebook, which, he says, now has 750 million users.
Carlo Fernandez
Jul 07, 2011
The 36-day trial of Casey Anthony, accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee in 2008, brought minute-to-minute updates to people's smartphones and computers. For many people following Twitter and the massive media coverage, Casey should have been given the death penalty. The seven-woman, five-man jury in Orange County, Florida, after deliberating for just a day, gave her a "not guilty" verdict, sparking outrage from across the globe.
Carlo Fernandez
Jul 07, 2011
Internet subscribers in Australia grew by 17 percent in 2010 while the average amount of data downloaded rose by a further 29 per cent over the same period, according to research released today by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
Sharon Olalia
Jul 06, 2011
Hackers hit FoxNews.com's Twitter account to send fake messages that U.S. President Barack Obama had been shot dead at a restaurant in Iowa. Nokia Oyj has cut its smartphone prices in Europe by as much as 15 percent to boost sales. Zynga, maker of "FarmVille," "CityVille" and other games played on Facebook, is aiming to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering.
Carlo Fernandez
Jul 06, 2011
The Social Network, a film about Mark Zuckerberg's founding of Facebook and the resulting lawsuits, was a worldwide box-office hit last year. With Facebook's 700 million active users and other and the coming of its most serious rival yet, Google+, social networking sites are generating massive traffic. Another movie about a social network would certainly generate interest from audiences around the globe.
Carlo Fernandez
Jul 05, 2011
Users who want Google's Realtime Search will have to look elsewhere for the feature because the search engine has apparently disabled it for good. On July 2nd Google's access to Twitter's special firehose expired and it will no longer be available on the search engine.
ranina sanglap
Jul 05, 2011
Hackers took over a Twitter account belonging to US broadcaster Fox News and posted a series of tweets declaring that President Obama had been assassinated.
ranina sanglap
Jul 05, 2011
"Going on a diet? Have a Pascal Swirl" is just among the many random pages in forums and Facebook that have sprung up like mushrooms.
Carlo Fernandez
Jul 05, 2011
Google's popular e-mail service is getting an upgrade. According to the official Gmail blog Google is now going to make Gmail as "beautiful as it is powerful". This is part of Google's effort to bring users a more focused and effortless experience on its products.
ranina sanglap
Jul 04, 2011
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO promised the press last week that Facebook would be a launching an "awesome" new product on July 6 that the company's Seattle team developed. Facebook sent out the press invitations on Friday with just a vague message "Please join us for an event at Facebook" on the invite.
ranina sanglap
Jul 04, 2011
Attorney-General Robert McClelland today released new research which shows nearly one in six Australians have been a victim or known somebody who has been a victim of identity theft or misuse in the past six months.
Christine Gaylican
Jul 04, 2011
Australian model Sophie Monk manned up and faced her online stalker without the help of the Los Angeles authorities.
Camille Banzon
Jul 01, 2011
For more than 700 million people, the only constant in life are taxes, death and Facebook. Google, already earning billions with its search and e-mail service, has tried - but failed - several times to take Facebook's place in social networking.
Carlo Fernandez
Jun 30, 2011
From the more than half-a-billion money it poured in 2005 to snatch the then hotshot social networking site MySpace, Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp. has decided to jettison the website from its portfolio and sell the company to advertising firm Specific Media for a measly $35 million.
Erik Pineda
Jun 30, 2011
Google's new service called What Do You Love lets users discover all the services the search giant is capable of.
ranina sanglap
Jun 29, 2011
Gadget tinkering can easily land you a high-profile job like in the case of the iPhone and Sony PlayStation 3 hacker, who was reportedly hired by social media giant Facebook to re-focus his energy in developing the company’s upcoming application for iPad.
Erik Pineda
Jun 29, 2011
As world-wide fans give much regard to their virtual farms, pets, mafia gangs, game creator Zynga has deemed it necessary to cast $1 billion international public offering (IPO) tomorrow, 30 June.
Christine Gaylican
Jun 29, 2011
The International Olympic Committee has encouraged athletes and other participants at the 2012 London Games to post comments on social media platforms or websites and tweet during the Olympics, but noted that athletes may be sanctioned or barred from competing if guidelines are not followed.
Carlo Fernandez
Jun 29, 2011
MasterCard Inc., operator of the second-largest electronic payments network, with card brands MasterCard MasterCard, Maestro and Cirrus, temporarily lost service on its website due to a cyber attack from hackers backing whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks.
Carlo Fernandez
Jun 29, 2011
Diesel, the maker of jeans for hot girls, has released an app that allows you to slack off at work without having your boss catch you on Facebook. Diesel's new "Be Stupid at Work app" makes Facebook appear to be an Excel spreadsheet, which means you can update your status and read updates all you want without the guy who shares your cubicle or your boss noticing. Download the app at http://www.bestupidatwork.com/
Carlo Fernandez
Jun 27, 2011
The United States and North Korea are never in agreement with each other. They are in a dispute about South Korea, Pyongyang's nuclearization and arms proliferation, and many more. There have been tensions between them in the land, sea, and air, and they might as well take their dispute to the Internet.
Carlo Fernandez
Jun 27, 2011
After headline-grabbing hacking exploits against the likes of Sony Corp., the CIA, the U.S. Senate, and FBI partner Infragard, hacking group LulzSec said it won't stop its cyber exploits unless U.S. President Obama does one thing."If President Obama wears a shoe on his head throughout the entirety of his next big speech, we will cease fire on all targets forever," LulzSec said in its Twitter account on Saturday.But apparently, LulzSec is calling it quits, according to a farewell...
Carlo Fernandez
Jun 26, 2011
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) seems to be the latest victim of a hacking attack.
ranina sanglap
Jun 24, 2011
We already have our top five most embarrassing tweets for the first half of the year.
Carlo Fernandez
Jun 24, 2011
The Australian government reached a deal yesterday with the nation's two largest telecommunications companies, Telstra and Optus, bringing the government's rollout of the National Broadband Network closer.
Carlo Fernandez
Jun 24, 2011
Research firm Gartner, Inc., said that by 2016, 50 percent of all major marketing automation vendors will develop applications specifically for Apple's iPad.
Carlo Fernandez
Jun 24, 2011
