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Nokia, Facebook partner on Lifecasting with Ovi

Today, at Nokia World, Nokia announced lifecasting with Ovi, a partnership with the world's largest social network, Facebook. Lifecasting with Ovi is the first application to let people publish their location and status updates directly to their Facebook account...

SA teens prefer MXit to Facebook, Google

According to a new study, South African teens use mobile instant messaging application MXit for social networking more than any other application, including Google and Facebook. These findings were made public in the Sunday Times Generation Next Survey research, conducted...

Worms attack Facebook, MySpace

Panda Security has detected Boface.G, a new worm that uses the Facebook and MySpace social networks to spread. “Worms are programmes that make copies of themselves in different places on a computer,” says Jeremy Matthews, head of Panda Security’s sub-Saharan...

Facebook spearheading internet on mobiles

Social networking is being credited as the driving force behind a steep increase in internet usage on mobiles. Operators claim to have seen a huge growth in mobile internet use (as opposed to mobile broadband). Analytics firm CCS Insight has...

419 Scammers target Facebook users

Facebook has been infiltrated by scammers who use compromised accounts to con users out of cash. Now that even non-tech savvy internet users know not to respond to, or click on links in, emails from strangers, online thieves have turned...

Facebook users, beware of the fake hubs

BitDefender researchers have detected an IM-based spam wave automatically sent to accounts which promises a "hot date" if the Facebook's users access the typosquatted link, as depicted below. The fake Web site, which reproduces the genuine Facebook site extremely...

Moskovitz ‘dumps’ Facebook for new passion

Dustin Moskovitz the co-founder of Facebook is leaving the social networking website to start a technology firm. Moskovitz with his college roommate Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook almost 5 years ago. According to AFP Moskovitz promises to remain at Facebook at least...

South African University probes racist group on Facebook

The North West University (NWU) has launched an investigation into the establishment of an openly racist group on  Facebook, allegedly by two of its students. The group contains a staged photo of an armed white man standing over the...

MySpace and Facebook fast becoming the leading mobile social networks

According to a recent online survey conducted by ABI Research, nearly half (46%) of those who use social networks have also visited a social network through a mobile phone. Of these, nearly 70% have visited MySpace and another 67%...

RIM enters the social networking space

RIM and MySpace announced a partnership to develop an integrated application for the smartphones. The application has MySpace’s main social networking components and provides instant, push based messaging to BlackBerry and MySpace users. Mobile Today said the Facebook’s social...
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