Facebook guided burglars

If you plan to log into your Facebook account and announce you’re heading to the beach for the weekend, you might want to append the update with a warning that your home is under 24-hour surveillance 140-pound Rottweiler who hasn’t eaten in a week.

If you don’t, your personal belongings could be fodder for tech-savvy burglars.

Cops take action on 29 out of 35 traffic complaints on webpage

Altough netizens have been uploading photos of law-breakers, the Mumbai traffic police's official webpage on Facebook has not been uploaded since Thursday. However, Hindustan Times has also created a webpage on Facebook in association with the traffic police 20 days ago so that commuters can post complaints against errant taxi and auto drivers.
The webpage is called HT Mumbai First.

Google damanging brain by giving instant info

Author Nicolas Carr says internet is depriving our mental faculties of regular workouts

London: An author has claimed that Google is damaging the brain of its users by providing information almost instantly, leading people to lose their intellectual capacity to store information. Nicolas Carr, the author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, claimed that the web was depriving our mental faculties of the regular workouts they need. He said that the internet meant people now found it harder to concentrate, for example when trying to read a book.

Facebook beats Google as top internet destination in America

US web surfers are spending more time socialising on Facebook than searching with Google, according to new data from researchers at comScore.

In August, people spent a total of 41.1 million minutes on Facebook, comSore said Thursday, about 9.9% of their web-surfing minutues for the month.

That just barely surpassed the 39.8 million minutes, or 9.6%, people spent on all of Google's sites combined, including YouTube, the free Gmail e-mail program, Google news and various other content sites.

Facebook addiction could lower students' grades

London: Students who are logged on to Facebook while studying get significantly lower grades than those who do not, according to psychologists.

A study has found that the exam results of that the exam results of those who used the social networking site while working, even if it was on in the background, were 20% lower than nonusers.

According to researchers, the findings put a dent in the theory that young people's brains are better at multitasking on digital gadgets.

Traffic cops; FB page filled with complaints

Not Net-Savvy? Social networking site visitors post 410 photos of offenders ask cops to reply to queries and take action on their complaints

Fifteen days after the launch of the Mumbai traffic police's officials page on the social networking site, Facebook, an overwhelming number of Netizens have expressed their unhappiness over the poor response to their comments.

The traffic cops, however, claim they have taken steps to address most of the complaints.

The Facebook page is flooded with photographs of policemen and citizens flouting traffic rules. Till Sunday, 410 photos of law offenders had been posted on the webpage.

You can tell cops how to ensure a smooth Ganpati

Mumbai: This year, you can tell the Mumbai traffic police how to manage traffic effectively during the Ganesh festival.

The have invited suggestions from citizens for better traffic management during the 10-day festival that starts on Sept 11. The department, on Tuesday, posted a message on its official web page on Facebook asking people for ideas on how to minimise commuters' woes. By Wednesday evening, at least 51 people had responded. most urged the responded. Most urged the plice to shut down pandals that encroached upon roadals and blocked traffic.

Ready for a 'Facebook in-law'?

...or a 'Facebook hickey? welcome to New age love

we live in strange times, where people invest more time and energy online than they do in real time. They chat with relatively unknown or completely random strangers tagged as 'friends'. fight, flirt, confess, bitch, even break-up and make up with them. With loneliness and isolation being two of the, it's not surprising to find people taking refuge in the virtual comfort of strangers - boasting of having 5,000 friends online while a reality check might prove otherwise.

No one's old for Facebook

Networking site now attracts older people with young hearts


Houston: Social networking groups are no more an exclusive domain of teenagers or youngsters as it was a few years back. It is now catering to all those who are older, but are young at heart.

The phenomenal growth of Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites in thee past year has come in part because of a surge in adoption by older members, with a national poll released on Friday providing a surprising new measure for how fast baby boomers and seniors are adopting online social networks to bridge generation gaps and geography.

Avatar has the biggest fan page on Facebook India, after 3 Idiots

James Cameron's Avatar that has done the third beggest business in the history of Indian cinema has manged quite a huge fan base in India too.

The movie's fan page in India on the social networking website Facebook, has touched around 1.25 lakh fans. In just two days, the page witnessed an immense surge from 50,000 to 1.25 lakh fans. The numbers seem to increase every day, as about 20,000 people join the page on a daily basis.

Facebook sues Teachbook for copyright breach

New York: Facebook has filled suit against Teachbook.com, an online community for teachers. The lawsuit accuses TeachBook of "misappropriating the distinctive BOOK portion of Facebook's trademark."

The lawsuit argues that Teach book's use of "book" deletes the Facebook brand name, impairs Facebook's ability to remain unique and creates the facade of a false relationship between the two social networking entities.

Facebook Fast helps you connect with real friends

Americans shun social networking sites for a day to sped time with their loved ones

Houston: Thousands of people in Houston took a 24-hour break from their digital lives on Wednesday as part of the National Facebook Fast. Pastor Kerry Shock of Fellowship of The woodlands led the charge with his wife Chris. He encouraged everyone to take a break from Facebook, Twitter, email and testing to focus on relationships that matter most.

IPO talk: Facebook's put shares soar

London: Facebook is being valued at more than $33 billion as investors try to secure a stake in the social networking site in anticipation of its flotation on the US stock market.

The latest data shows that shares in Facebook are changing hands for up to $76,more than double their value at the start of this value at the start of this year. While Facebook is still privately held, shareholders are able to sell the company's stock though "secondary market" trading. By buying at these prices, some investors are calculating that Facebook is worth more than eBay or Dell, or nearly twice as much as Yahoo!

Shut down unofficial web page: Traffic police

Facebook confusion Say citizens won''t know where to post complaints against traffic violations

Mumbai: Two web pages on Facebook, both sporting similar names, but one official, the other not, has apparently been creating confusion among the citizens it was meant to help.

The unofficial web page (forum) was created by Ajesh Shah and his colleagues in early August to allow Mumbaiites to voice traffic complaints. Weeks later, on Monday, the traffic police launched their own official web page with a similar motive.

Parents mull over being 'friends' with their kids on Facebook

New York: To friend or not to friend is the big question facing many parents dealing with teenagers on Facebook.

Three quarters of parents questioned in a Nielsen survey said they are friends with their children on the popular social networking website which boasts 500 million active users.

But a third admitted they are worried they are not seeing everything their children are doing on the web.

Facebook game teaches marketing

Want to learn marketing? Just play a game on Facebook and develop stills that could take you may also get shortlisted as a potential employee. Reckitt Benckiser (RB), a British company, which has a precence in India in household, health and personal care products launched this game.

You cannot block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook

San Francisco: With 500 million users and growing, it is the largest collection of people in 'one place' that the world has ever seen. Yet the one person immune to being blocked by a user appears to be the founder and chief executive.

If a user goes to Zuckerberg's Facebook profile page and hits the bottom of the left hand side, when attempting to block Zuckerberg the user will find that the action cannot be completed through a "general block failure error". This occurs on no other profile.

US teacher quits after abusing staff, pupils

Washington: A teacher in the US resigned after accidentally Publishing abusive comments against staff and pupils on Facebook. June Talvitie-Siple thought only her friends would see her comments.

Instead, the whole town of Cohasset in Massachusetts read her comments and Talvatie-Siple has resigned. "I'm so not looking forward to another year at cohasset schools. Now I remember why I stopped teaching! Kids... they are all germ bags," Sky News quoted her as writing on her Facebook page. But Talvatie-Siple is justifying herself.

Prune trees, societies told

BMC DIRECTIVE Xavier's girl's accident prompts urgent action against 'dangerous' trees

MUMBAI:

In a bid to avoid a repeat of the July 24 incident, which cost 19-year-old collegian Antara Telang her right foot, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is now targeting trees growing wild in private societies.

The civic body will be instructing societies to prune any tree that they believe is dangerous and could endanger life.

The move comes just days after Hindustan Times had reported how the civic body's dilly-dallying in pruning a tree inside the premises of a housing society caused Antara to lose her right foot. A loosely hanging branch of the tree came crashing down on her as she stood under the tree outside the premises.

Facebook to tell you where you are

SAN FRANCISCO:

Facebook on Wednesday threw the switch on a new feature that lets US members of the social networking service share their whereabouts with friends while on the move.

Facebook Places marks the firm's hotly anticipated first step into "location-based" services that have been catching on with people who own smartphones equipped with satellite position tracking capabilities.