Young India hooked to gaming like never before
September 27th, 2011 - 12:51 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Sep 27 (IANS) Young India is gaming with a vengeance. An addictive combination of aggressive social networking and advanced mobile technology is taking card gaming in India to ... Read more...
Posted in Life Style |
Will rivals do to Google what Facebook did to MySpace?
July 19th, 2011 - 1:11 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, July 19 (IANS) Will rival research engines do to Google what Facebook did to MySpace?That's possible after US antitrust regulators last month started investigations against the search engine ... Read more...
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Justin Timberlake to promote MySpace
June 30th, 2011 - 12:10 pm ICT by IANS
Los Angeles, June 30 (IANS) Pop star Justin Timberlake will be the new face of MySpace which has been bought by online advertising network Specific Media from Rupert Murdoch's ... Read more...
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News Corp sells MySpace for $35 mn
June 30th, 2011 - 6:17 am ICT by IANS
Los Angeles, June 30 (IANS/EFE) Media conglomerate News Corporation has sold MySpace to online advertising network Specific Media in a deal valued at $35 million, the Los Angeles Times ... Read more...
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Facebook time ‘hurting kids’ face-to-face time’
March 30th, 2011 - 5:55 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, March 30 (ANI): A new study have found that more and more parents are concerned that increased amounts of time their children spend online, social networking, twittering and instant messaging ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Facebook six founders, investers in Forbes billionaire list
March 10th, 2011 - 3:01 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar.10 (ANI): Six of the founders and investors behind the popular social networking site Facebook have made it to the Forbes annual list of the world's top billionaires.It may not ... Read more...
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Report: UberMedia to acquire TweetDeck for $30 million
February 14th, 2011 - 4:44 pm ICT by BNO News
LONDON (BNO NEWS) -- TweetDeck, the company behind the popular application to monitor messages on the social networking website Twitter, is close to agreeing to a multi-million dollar takeover deal, according to ... Read more...
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Shooting At A Party In A Frat House In Ohio’s Youngstown Slays One Student; Two Male Suspects Arrested
February 7th, 2011 - 8:44 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
February 7, 2011 (Pen Men at Work): From the moment in which the 911 call arrived, the police officers associated with Youngstown as well as the personnel connected to the Violent Crimes ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
MySpace cut staff in half
January 12th, 2011 - 8:46 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Jan 12 (THAINDIAN NEWS) News Corp has confirmed that it will indeed be cutting half of the workforce at MySpace.The announcement was made on Tuesday in a statement. The company ... Read more...
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MySpace To Axe Half Of Its Staffs
January 12th, 2011 - 6:45 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
Jan 12, (THAINDIAN NEWS) MySpace has announced on Tuesday that it is cutting half of its worldwide staffs, around 500 people! Social networking sites are the perfect medium for the ... Read more...
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MySpace to close Oz ops in order to cut 500 jobs
January 12th, 2011 - 6:11 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Jan 12 (ANI): Social networking website MySpace has decided to close its Australian office as part of its move to cut 500 jobs - or nearly half its staff - potentially ... Read more...
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Arizona Shooter Jared Lee Loughner Mentally Unstable?
January 9th, 2011 - 8:51 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
Jan 9, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The mass shooting which took place on Saturday morning at a grocery store in Tuscan, killed six people out of the 18 victims. The main suspect ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
MySpace all set to have massive layoffs
January 5th, 2011 - 1:38 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Jan 4 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Social networking site MySpace has announced that it will be laying off about half of its workforce. The move has generated speculations that the executives of ... Read more...
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Facebook founder Zuckerberg is Time’s Person of Year (Lead)
December 15th, 2010 - 10:14 pm ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, Dec 15 (IANS) Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was Wednesday named Time magazine's "2010 Person of the Year" "for connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the ... Read more...
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Social networking could help ‘control HIV, other STDs’
December 7th, 2010 - 2:04 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 07 (ANI): A new research has indicated that online social networking sites could help control the rise in HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in homeless youth in Los ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Ludhiana plays host to two-day Chrysanthemum exhibition
December 4th, 2010 - 8:37 pm ICT by ANI
By Karan KapoorLudhiana, Dec.4 (ANI): A two-day flower exhibition was organized here, showcasing varieties of chrysanthemum.The Department of Floriculture and Landscaping and the Punjab Agricultural University jointly organised the event in memory ... Read more...
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Rihanna tops ‘Most Active Music Artists On Social Media Websites’ list
December 3rd, 2010 - 3:53 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, Dec 3 (ANI): Rihanna has landed the top spot on a new list of the most active music artists on social media websites.Justin Bieber and Eminem are ranked second and ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
Daring 41 female skydivers set new women’s free-fly world record
November 29th, 2010 - 12:10 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 29 (ANI): A team of 41 brave and adventurous ladies has created a new women's free-fly world record hurtling towards the ground at a speed of up to 200mph.Female ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Super Mamika: Photographer Makes Granny a Superhero
November 27th, 2010 - 1:48 am ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Nov 26 (THAINDIAN NEWS) When a French photographer’s ninety-one year old grandmother showed that she was feeling depressed and lonely, he decided to cheer her up by showing her that she was ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
Nokia launches X5 smartphone
November 22nd, 2010 - 6:38 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Mobile handset maker Nokia India Monday launched Nokia X5 smartphone in order to expand its smartphone line up in the country.The slide out QWERTY handset ... Read more...
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Facebook’s only got five years left, says digital expert
November 17th, 2010 - 1:41 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Nov 17 (ANI): Facebook has just five years before its audience begins to splinter, according to digital consumer expert Jeffrey Cole.Dr Cole, who addressed a digital marketing forum hosted by ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
‘The Social Network’ - of a super geek and Facebook (IANS Film Review; Rating:***)
November 13th, 2010 - 4:38 pm ICT by IANS
By Satyen K. Bordoloi
Film: "The Social Network"; Director: David Fincher; Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Rooney Mara, Bryan Barter, Dustin Fitzsimons; Rating:***It had to take geniuses to pull this impossibility. How else ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
Software to stop you writing e-mails when drunk
November 12th, 2010 - 12:45 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 12 (IANS) A new software can now stop you writing e-mails or posting messages when you are drunk.The Social Media Sobriety Test poses a series of simple problems that ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
New web app stops you from tweeting, Facebooking if you are too drunk!
November 12th, 2010 - 12:01 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 12 (ANI): Many of us have some or the other time, woken up to the horrible realization of having posted some terrible message on Twitter or a post on ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Florida teen burglar ‘netted after cops find MySpace account logged in’
November 9th, 2010 - 5:53 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Nov 9 (ANI): An 18-year-old Florida teenager thief left his MySpace account logged in the computer of the house he ransacked - resulting in his arrest.South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that a ... Read more...
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Myspace Put “On Notice” By News Corp
November 5th, 2010 - 10:17 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Nov 5 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In a report from the AFP, Myspace has been put on notice by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, after the losses at the shrinking social network became unsustainable. Myspace ... Read more...
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MySpace reveals that it has leaked some personal data to advertisers
October 25th, 2010 - 9:15 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Oct 25 (THAINDIAN NEWS) MySpace has revealed that some of its third party apps are violating the website’s privacy terms by sharing personal information of users with companies.When a ... Read more...
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MySpace To Take Actions Against Application Developers Sharing Data About Users
October 25th, 2010 - 8:31 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
San Francisco, Oct 25, (THAINDIAN NEWS) An investigation that was carried out by a reputed news source has found that the social-networking site MySpace with some of its popular applications ... Read more...
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MySpace Leaks User Data To Advertisers
October 25th, 2010 - 7:26 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
October 25, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): It has come to the public view that the popular social networking site MySpace is definitely not a safe haven for privacy seekers. There was ... Read more...
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Software to help overcome Facebook, Twitter obsession
October 10th, 2010 - 4:27 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 10 (IANS) Are you fed up of the virtual world taking over your real life? If yes, then help is at hand.A Dutch company has developed software which can ... Read more...
Posted in Life Style |
Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ named best music video on MySpace
October 9th, 2010 - 5:06 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Oct 9 (ANI): Late King of Pop Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' has been named as the best music video on MySpace.The video, which was released back in 1983, has remained a ... Read more...
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MySpace names Pink as best female artist
October 9th, 2010 - 5:05 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Oct 9 (ANI): Music and social networking site MySpace has named singer Pink as best female artist.The list, which ranked the best male artists, female artists, bands, music videos, saw ... Read more...
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MySpace names Oz rockers AC/DC as world’s best band
October 9th, 2010 - 5:04 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Oct 9 (ANI): Australian rock band AC/DC has been named as the best band in the world by MySpace.Second on the list, which was released on October 7, was American ... Read more...
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Brett Favre declines to comment on nude pictures & video posted at Deadspin
October 8th, 2010 - 11:42 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Brett Favre declined to comment on allegations that he sent naked pictures of himself to ex sideline reporter and TV host Jenn Sterger.The Hall-of-Fame Minnesota Vikings quarterback is married with ... Read more...
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Brett Favre’s Photos Are Released By Deadspin
October 8th, 2010 - 7:56 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
Yet another scandal surrounds the legendary quarterback Brett Favre. This time he had sent his naked photos to 26 year old model Jenn Sterger. Deadspin of Gawker Media has ... Read more...
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