Sep
2
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Want to access your Gmail without an Internet connection? There is now an app for that.
A Chrome app, to be precise.
Airplane passengers and wilderness hikers are rejoicing the world over, as Google has announced the imminent return of Offline Mode to Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar. First introduced in January 2009 for Gmail, offline mode was axed following Google’s elimination of Google Gears in March 2011.
Aug
31
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Facebook wall posts, photos, messages, events pages and more can be helpful tools for authorities tracking a suspect, serving as key evidence in criminal cases. Recently, it’s become more and more common for police to turn to the social network during investigations.
Check out 13 posts that got people arrested:
Aug
26
From the slew of sketchy Direct Messages we’ve received from our followers and the numerous apologies popping up in our Twitter timeline, it seems that a large number of Twitter users have been compromised by spammers who are hijacking their accounts to share links to malicious sites.
What can you do if your account has been hacked? Twitter’s Help Center has a helpful guide to four steps you should take (Visit Twitter’s Help Center for more detailed instructions).
First, change your password by selecting “Settings” from the dropdown menu next to your account name, which is listed on the top right on Twitter.com, then navigating to the “Password” tab.
Aug
20
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A German data protection authority is “unliking” Facebook‘s “Like” button.
The state of Schleswig-Holstein‘s data protection commissioner, Thilo Weichert, on Friday ordered state institutions to shut down the fan pages on the social networking site and remove the “Like” button from their websites, saying it leads to profiling that violates German and European law.
Facebook insisted Friday that is in full compliance with European data protection laws.
On Friday, Weichert issued a statement saying technical analysis by his office shows Facebook violated German and European data protection laws by passing content data to the social network’s servers in the U.S.
Aug
19
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The words “retweet”, “sexting“, and “cyberbullying” have been added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.
In celebrating its centenary anniversary, the twelfth edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary adds 400 new words, for a total of 240,000 total entries.
By including Internet slang and terminology in its latest edition, the Oxford University Press proves its commitment to “setting out new meanings for words“.
Here are a few of the new words added and their accompanying definitions:
Retweet
verb: (on the social networking service Twitter) repost or forward (a message posted by another user)
Sexting
noun: the sending of sexually explicit photographs or messages via mobile phone
Cyberbullying
noun: the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature.
Aug
4
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Randi Zuckerberg, who is director of marketing at Facebook and also the sister of CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg — is leaving the company after six years to start a new media firm to help companies become more social.
In her resignation letter, which is below in its entirety, Zuckerberg said:
“I have spent my years at Facebook pouring my heart and soul into innovating and pushing the media industry forward by introducing new concepts around live, social, participatory viewing that the media industry has since adopted. We have made incredible progress, but there is still much to be done and other ways I can affect change. Now is the perfect time for me to move outside of Facebook to build a company focused on the exciting trends underway in the media industry.”
