A Florida mother killed her 3-month-old son because he was crying while she was trying to play “FarmVille” on Facebook. In a statement to authorities 22-year-old Alexandra Tobias said she shook the infant to make him stop crying, and may have hit his head while shaking him. Alexandra Tobias pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, and Continue Reading →
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Facebook has launched ‘Friendship Pages,’ a new feature that highlights the interactions between two friends. A friendship page will display photos that both users are tagged in, wall posts between the two friends, as well as show events that both people are attending. The new feature launched Thursday and is currently only available to select Continue Reading →
Verizon Settles With The FCC An FCC investigation found that Verizon Wireless was unfairly charging customers, who didn’t have data plans, for accidently accessing the web on their phones. Verizon has agreed to pay $25 million to the federal government and $52 million to the 15 million customers who received the charges. This is the Continue Reading →
Myspace is hoping a website redesign will help make the site more relevant in the social-networking world. The new site features video sharing, music and games. News Corp purchased the site in 2005 for $580 million and has struggled ever since to compete with Facebook. Read the full story on wsj.com Continue Reading →
Myspace Gets Redesigned Myspace is hoping a website redesign will help make the site more relevant in the social-networking world. The new site features video sharing, music and games. News Corp purchased the site in 2005 for $580 million and has struggled ever since to compete with Facebook. Want An White iPhone 4? The release Continue Reading →
Orange mobile network took an extremely high-res photo of 70,000 people who attended the Glastonbury Festival in England. Since the resolution of the photo was so high, people were able to go online and tag themselves in the photo on Facebook. Over 7,000 people tagged themselves in the photo, which makes the photo the Guinness Continue Reading →
Share e-Books With Your Kindle, Finally! Amazon will finally let Kindle users swap e-books with other Kindle owners. Amazon announced that Kindle users could start lending e-books to friends for a 14-day period. However, during that time the lender does not have access to the book. Also, not every book will be available for sharing, Continue Reading →
Sex.com Sells The domain name sex.com, which is regarded as one of the most valuable domain names in the world, sold for $13 million. The domain name was sold by the bankrupt firm, Escom, who originally purchased the domain for $14 million in 2006. It is unknown what the domain’s new owner, Clover Holdings, has Continue Reading →
Want an easy way to print your Facebook photos? Target stores will start featuring Kodak kiosks that allow users to sign-in to Facebook and print high-resolution photos on the spot. Using the “Social Media Connectivity” feature on the kiosks, users can also make collages, books, calendars and greeting cards. The Kodak kiosks will be available Continue Reading →
Big media companies are interested in investing in social media startups. That’s why corporations like Amazon, Facebook and Comcast have gotten together to form the “sFund”, a $250 million fund for investing in social media startups. Both financing and counseling will be provided to social media entrepreneurs who show promise in the rapidly growing social Continue Reading →