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 According to a new report from market research firm Nielsen Online, which tracks time spent online visiting different websites, social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter is now the most popular web activity, surpassing even email. Nielsen's global study of social networking, released this week, found that 67...
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 A privacy glitch causing files on Google Docs to be made accessible to people other than those they were shared with, has been fixed, the search engine giant revealed in a blog post. In their defense, Google said the bug, which they claim has already been identified and fixed during the weekend, affected only a very small number of...
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 On Thursday, a sheriff in Illinois, Tom Dart, Sheriff of Cook County in Chicago, filed a lawsuit against popular online advertising portal Craigslist accusing its owners of knowingly promoting prostitution in the US.According to legal papers filed in U.S. District Court, the internet-classified website, which runs all manner of ads...
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 Among the new changes suffered by Facebook, users will finally get to see constant updates from their contacts similarly to Twitter, it was announced on Wednesday. In a move aimed to secure users from switching to the increasingly popular Twitter, the social networking site introduced a new homepage to allow streaming of "posts from...
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 As Firefox continues to become more popular and Google
Chrome is struggling to get more attention, Apple did not waste its time and
rolled out a new version of its web browser. Safari 4 is now available for
download, even though it is still in its development phase. However, reviewers
put Apple’s new browser to the test and overall,...
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 Carol Bartz is the new chief executive at Yahoo and she let everybody know that a new reorganization will be taking place on Thursday under her stamp. The management structure will suffer some more to-downs and is thought to streamline the company.Over the last two years, Yahoo has suffered many management modifications, but this might...
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 The social networking site Facebook is now putting its site regulations and privacy policies in the hands of its users. The members will have the option to vote on future policies governing the service, as Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said users will have the ability to provide extensive feedback on the social networking...
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 The scandal about Facebook changing its privacy terms ended up in mystery. The social network attempted to modify the contract it had with its millions of users, but none of them seemed to have truly been affected by the decision. In spite of all the protests and threatening toward Facebook, no user closed his accounts.Facebook announced...
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 Google’s Gmail crashed for two hours this week while many officials of the search engine company apologized for the downtime, but there were never the only ones to have suffered such an experience. There are hundreds of mistakes alike, of which some found the responsible and others didn’t.Google’s latest crash occurred on February 24....
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 Google seemed to have wanted to offer its clients something good enough so their mistake this week could be forgiven. After the connection to Gmail was on downtime for four hours, Google, which has worked for a year in trying to develop an offline mail client, has finally started to release it too.Google succeeded last month, when it...
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