The U.S. House of Representatives was introduced to a new bill on Friday, called the Social Networking Online Protection Act 2012, or SNOPA, which would ban employers from requiring job candidates to provide their username or password to Facebook, or any other social networking account for that matter.
India has overtaken the US to become the world's top source of junk or unsolicited emails, accounting for one in ten spam messages in the inbox, research by a security firm has found.
There?s been a lot of buzz about next-generation gaming consoles, with Sony?s upcoming PlayStation 4 known internally as ?Orbis,? Microsoft?s Xbox 720 code named ?Durango? and Nintendo?s double-screen experienced Wii U. Despite the generated hype, market analysts say that this next breed of gaming devices will not reach the same audience its predecessors did.
Adobe unveiled Creative Suite 6 along with Adobe Creative Cloud on Monday at an event in San Francisco. The new Suite includes improved Photoshop and Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Muse, Acrobat X Pro, Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Edge Preview.
Stock index futures crept higher on Tuesday after sharp market losses in the previous session but continued concerns about Europe's debt crisis could mean gains will be slight.
Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.37 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.35 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.48 percent at 4:35 a.m. EDT.
At the MWC 2012, Nokia managed to steal the show with their PureView 808 and its behemoth 41 megapixel camera. For those who want to get their hands on the powerful camera-phone, it should be arriving in Britain sometime in mid-May for upwards of £500.
Despite efforts to place a ban on pro-anorexia motivational photos on social media websites like Pinterest and Tumblr, the debate continues on as more thinspiration pictures emerge online at Instagram under the hash tag thinspo.
Facebook’s $1 billion deal to acquire Instagram may have resulted in pushing the initial public offering price for the No. 1 social media network even higher.
Draw Something wouldn't be a proper Zynga property if it didn't optimize the viral nature of the game through social network sharing features. Thanks to a recent update, Draw Something has added that sharing feature in addition to chat and photo-capturing capabilities.
Postano -- a social media content aggregation and organzation tool -- has taken a step further in providing the an all-inclusive social networking suite for businesses and individuals: Postano now works with Pinterest.
Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. For those who don't want to use Instagram anymore, we've found the 5 best alternatives to Instagram that will allow you to edit and share your photos while maintaining your privacy.
Twitter may be known as one of the most prominent social media tools to hit the web. However, the social networking service may be useful for more than keeping in touch with friends and sharing information.
Although they may not be the most dominant social media networks, Pinterest and Google Plus can drive a significant amount of traffic to websites. But which of the two drives more referral traffic?
Google introduced its futuristic eyeglasses on Wednesday, called Project Glass. Google's wearable solution mixes communication technology with real world elements, but these high-tech glasses don't come without a fair share of flaws.
On Monday, the Bhutanese government led a session in the UN called Wellbeing and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm, that highlighted the world's happiest countries and discussed how to put happiness on the global agenda.
The developers of a controversial app have pulled their creation, Girls Around Me designed to find and peruse information about women nearby based on their location, from the Apple App Store after a heated privacy debate.
As the digital age reaches the dormant stage of social adaptation, having left its mark on the daily process of culture at large, can we add viralism or another digitally referential marker to our collective art discourse? Moreover, is viral a relevant -- let alone acceptable -- aesthetic stance?
Companies looking for new employees continually look to social networks like Facebook to learn more about their job candidates. But since many users have made their profiles private, some employers now require applicants to submit their login information. But is this an invasion of privacy?
Whether it's choosing the right present, selecting the proper size or style, or digging up a current mailing address, gift giving can be difficult.
Two US senators have called on the federal agencies to investigate whether employers are violating federal law by requesting Facebook passwords from interviewees. Senators Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York, and Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, have asked the Department of Justice and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to commence investigations.
International Business Machines launched on Tuesday three services to help companies sift and understand so-called big data, hoping to get some of the $120 billion or more that businesses are expected to invest in data analytics by 2015.
