Women's rights activists to fight against explicit content on Facebook

25 May, 2013, 2:08 pm IST Naveen Peter General

A few prominent gender groups across the globe who have come forward and filed an official petition against the social networking website Facebook. More

Facebook Pages Insight not available since May 13

25 May, 2013, 12:32 pm IST Nishtha Kanal Social Networking

If you own a Facebook Page for your business or otherwise, you may have noticed that the social networking website has not updated Insights for your Page since More

Google, like Facebook, in talks to buy Waze for about $1 billion: Report

24 May, 2013, 8:04 am IST Social Networking

Google Inc is considering buying Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze Inc, which may lead to a bidding war with Facebook Inc , Bloomberg news reported, citing people familiar with the matter... More

Court query on shielding kids from online exploitation

23 May, 2013, 8:51 am IST Social Networking

The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked Facebook and other social networking sites how Indian children could be prevented from knowingly or unknowingly... More

Twitter adds login verification as security measure

23 May, 2013, 8:47 am IST Social Networking

Twitter is adding an extra security measure to users' accounts in an effort to prevent unauthorised logins.... More

Restaurant learns that online reviews can make or break

23 May, 2013, 8:36 am IST Social Networking

An Arizona restaurateur, fed up after years of negative online reviews and an embarrassing appearance on a reality television show, posted a social media rant.... More

iOS 7 could see deeper Flickr, Vimeo integration

22 May, 2013, 12:59 pm IST Nishtha Kanal iOS

Post integration with Facebook and Twitter in the recent past, Apple is looking to integrate – surprise, surprise – Flickr and Vimeo within iOS. More

HTC may be facing troubled times with staff departure and production problems

22 May, 2013, 12:19 pm IST Anujeet Majumdar iOS

HTC's Chief Product Officer Kouji Kodera left the company last week according to sources which spoke to The Verge. With the company’s flagship HTC More

'Desi' Facebook and Twitter may be coming

21 May, 2013, 2:39 pm IST tech2 News Staff iOS

In light of the US-based social networking sites Facebook and Twitter refusing to share data on users involved in suspicious net activity... More

Yahoo's rise in Asia could offset risk from Tumblr bet

21 May, 2013, 11:11 am IST iOS

With sources saying that Wall Street is focusing on the rising value of Yahoo's Asian assets, Yahoo CEO Marrissa Mayer might face less immediate pressure to prove that Yahoo's biggest acquisition in years is a profitable one... More

Facebook booked over group exhorting cow slaughter

21 May, 2013, 9:28 am IST iOS

An FIR was Monday registered in Lucknow against social networking site Facebook on a complaint that claimed a group on the site exhorts people to slaughter cows, police said... More

Guantanamo hack threat prompts WiFi shutdown

21 May, 2013, 9:15 am IST iOS

The U.S. military has shut down wireless internet service at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba because of online hacking threats... More

Tumblr users not happy with Yahoo takeover

20 May, 2013, 11:32 am IST Anujeet Majumdar iOS

While Yahoo has approved a $1.1 billion dollar deal for Tumblr, many users who populate the popular blogging platform have expressed their unhappiness about the deal... More

Instagram's "Photos of You" section now open to all

17 May, 2013, 12:40 pm IST Nishtha Kanal Apps

Instagram has reminded its users that the newly introduced “Photos of You" section has now been thrown open to everyone. Everyone who is able to see More

EBay developers working on possible apps for Google Glass

17 May, 2013, 8:17 am IST Apps

Developers at eBay are working on potential applications for Google's Glass project, opening up the possibility that shopping and broader commercial activities might be conducted through the wearable technology... More

Free Facebook on mobile and messaging top priority for the social network

15 May, 2013, 1:40 pm IST Nishtha Kanal Apps

Ever since the launch of the site back in 2004, Facebook has changed the way we perceive and connect with the social network. Nearly ten years later, Facebook More

Single-column Timeline rollout complete, FB helps devs use "Sections" for apps

15 May, 2013, 9:48 am IST Nishtha Kanal Apps

Facebook has announced that the rollout of the cleaned up version of the Timeline is now complete. The design that was first revealed back in March is now More

Facebook kills Social Roulette app

14 May, 2013, 2:28 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Web services

Facebook has managed to kill the app that deleted your Facebook account if you won... More

Windows Phone Store is now home to 145,000 apps

13 May, 2013, 1:54 pm IST Nishtha Kanal Windows Mobile 1 Comments

Even as Nokia released an announcement about the newest Lumia 928 for Verizon, it mentioned within its blog that Windows Phone store now has 145,000 apps. The More

Bing social sidebar now allows users to comment and like Facebook posts

11 May, 2013, 12:07 pm IST Nishtha Kanal Web apps

You can now use Bing to not just see relevant posts by your Facebook friends, but you can also like and comment on them... More