Category Archive: Facebook

Feb
20

Student who hacked into Facebook gets eight months in prison

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A British student who stole sensitive information from Facebook’s internal network was sentenced to eight months in prison Friday. Prosecutor Sandip Patel said that Glenn Mangham, 26, had hacked into the social networking giant’s computers from his bedroom …

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Aug
26

Facebook app finder AppFishing.com has launched

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Finding applications on Facebook has just got easier. AppFishing.com launched on Thursday, Aug 25 as a website for discovering interesting Facebook applications. Developed by Chennai-based startup gBoom, AppFishing is a category-driven application directory for users to find cool …

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Aug
09

India Wants Special Monitoring Access for Twitter, Facebook

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India’s communications ministry has been asked by the home ministry to monitor social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook amid fears that the services are being used by terrorists to plan attacks. The request suggests that the …

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Jul
21

Facebook adds Skype video chat

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Following Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s promise of an ‘awesome’ announcement, the company has revealed that it has added a new Skype video chat feature. Ar launch, the new feature will allow two users to connect face-to-face, but, unlike …

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