From the second Norwegian men’s curling team hit the ice, they hit a chord on the people around the world and all eyes were set on the team’s funky, diamond-print, multi-colored argyle pants. Norwegian curlers, from left, Haavard Vad Petersson, Thomas Ulsrud, Torger Nergaard, and Christoffer Svae at the Vancouver 2010 OlympicsAppreciation for the team’s bold uniform is now going...

A Directive-Type Memorandum from the office of Deputy Secretary of Defense outlines the Pentagon’s new policies on use of social media like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. The decision applies only to the military’s non-classified network. This policy follows a seven-month review in which the Defense Department weighed the threats and benefits of allowing the wide use of emerging Internet...

Facebook account is a mess at times. Newsfeed and notifications sort of spam your homepage and in the mist of all these, important notifications goes unnoticed at times and leaves you fuming or embarrassed. Thankfully, Facebook is going to become a little more tidier and less annoying. Now your “notifications” on Facebook will be for things like comments left on your posts or Profile wall.Facebook...

Recently, we have come across various incidents of students being suspended because of many reasons relating to post on Facebook. Now, according to Pocono Records, a professor at a northeastern Pennsylvania university says she’s been suspended indefinitely for what she though was a humorous posting on Facebook about hiring a hit man. Gloria Gadsden, an East Stroudsburg University sociology professor,...

Facebook’s virtual currency, Facebook Credits, is almost on it way for a full launch. Facebook explains in their developers blog that the long-term goal of Facebook Credits is to provide a currency that makes purchasing virtual items across applications fast and simple. Facebook Credits supports various credit cards, fifteen currencies, mobile payments and now PayPal too. Source:Facebook According...

Making money from creating Facebook games is known to come from each miniscule sale of virtual items. However, earning from the sale of real goods is possible. In fact, Playfish has proven that this month of hearts. It was reported that in just two weeks before Valentine’s Day, thousands of real flowers were sold through a game advertisement in Playfish’s Facebook Pet Society. According to EA’s...

Playing games on Facebook is usually free. It is not a secret that Facebook game developers earn their profit from purchases of virtual goods and not through ads. But what if gamers do not wish to make any purchases? How can the developers get their income? Washington-based WildTangent answers that with BrandBoost.This new advertising platform, called BrandBoost, had been developed from the concept...

Facebook again went through a minor glitch on Wednesday. During a routine “code push,” or update, some Facebook users started receiving personal messages from other users that were not intended for them. Several Facebook users complained on Twitter, that they were receiving dozens of private Facebook messages from people they didn’t know. According to Facebook, it affected a small...

38-year old Paul Franco of New York allegedly hacked into his girlfriend’s Facebook account and demanded ransom to allow her to re-assume control of her profile. Account owner Jessica Zamora-Anderson, 30, alleged that apart from the many changes he made to her personal information in the account, he changed her sexual preference to gay and accepted various requests for relationship with women. According...

Facebook is lately on an expansion spree, with the latest expansion being Austin. Facebook is expected to open a 200-staff office in Austin, Texas. Facebook also opened an office in Hamburg, Germany, earlier this week. According to the San Jose Business Journal, Facebook Inc. is expected to create around 200 jobs and is said to be investing about $3.1 million for setting up the operations in Texas. “Facebook...

Students from two Brisbane schools have been suspended over separate highly offensive Facebook pages in the past week, with police investigating at least one of the students. Twenty students from Springwood State High School, Brisbane have been suspended for bullying a school staff on Facebook. Southeast regional director Glen Hoppner calls on parents to help schools crack down on inappropriate post...

News have been flying around a lot recently revolving Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, and Google with tie-ups, integrations, applications updates and launches, acquisitions and what not. From what i have read, Facebook has a trump card up its sleeves. Yes!! And that happens to be a new Facebook application reportedly code named as ‘myf’, according to NY Breaking News. “This is huge! A new...

Mohammad Wahyu Muharam, a university law student, was prosecuted over Facebook insult. He apparently insulted his marching band mentor by referring his mentor as a “scoundrel” and “very greedy” on his Facebook page in August, last year. “We ask for a suspended six-month jail for the defendant as he had insulted his marching band mentor on social networking website Facebook,”...

Facebook is said to be doing due diligence on the a potential deal with Loopt, a mobile social location service, according to Techcrunch. Both the parties have not confirmed on this. Loopt is said to have refused to comment on this subject, while Facebook spokesperson is reported to have said: “As a practical matter, we don’t comment on rumor and speculation.” It is evident that the...

Emma Jones, a 24-year-old British teacher working in the an international school in Abu Dhabi died after drinking corrosive cleaning fluid. Coroner Thomas Atherton said she might have accidentally drunk cleaning fluid from an unlabeled container, mistaking it for water. The victim, according to her mother Louise Rowlands, was apparently living in fear and distress because her ex-boyfriend had posted...