In the same week social media network, Facebook, helps to diagnose a young boy with a rare autoimmune disease, actor John Travolta, 57, and his wife Kelly Preston, who both falsely claimed their son, Jett Travolta, had Kawasaki disease, a rare condition which causes inflammation of blood vessels, chose not to donate to charities supporting the illness.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 15, 2011
On Friday, technology blogs picked up on a possible Microsoft social media application called Tulalip. The app said on its front page With Tulalip you can find what you need and share what you know easier than ever, before Microsoft developers quickly took it down.
John Talty
Jul 15, 2011
An unknown number of dogs, cats, birds and other creatures also likely have their own pages on the social network giant.
Palash Ghosh
Jul 15, 2011
Deborah Copkaken Kogan's former neighbor, her pediatrician friend and her pediatric oncologist cousin all suggested a strange diagnosis of Kawasaki Disease in her son, Leo, after photos were shared with more than 1,400 friends friends and family on social network, Facebook, which has more than 750 million members.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 15, 2011
A true story about how Facebook saved a four year old boy's life.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 15, 2011
Aron harbored dreams of appearing on the “American Idol” TV show and sang covers of popular songs on the SingSnap.com Web site.
Palash Ghosh
Jul 15, 2011
Anyone trying to gauge the outrage over the Casey Anthony verdict need look no further than Sammay Blackwell, an Oklahoma woman who was violently attacked for bearing a resemblance to Caylee Anthony's mother.
Jeremy White
Jul 15, 2011
Spotify launched in the U.S.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 15, 2011
Google+, Google's newly launched social network, has strong momentum, but could result in higher marketing spending and limit margin improvement.
Manikandan Raman
Jul 15, 2011
Though just a few days old the social network Google+ already connects more than 10 million people as Larry Page of Google announced together with the company results of Q2 2011.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 15, 2011
Spotify, the Swedish DRM-based popular music online service in Europe, is coming to U.S. shores.
Elias Samuel
Jul 15, 2011
Google launches a new photo sharing app called Photovine for Apple iOS.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 15, 2011
Microsoft might be working on a social project called Tulalip, according to details from a splash page that was accidentally published to Socl.com recently. Currently a message which reads, Thanks for stopping by. Socl.com is an internal design project from a team in Microsoft Research which was mistakenly published to the web. We didn't mean to, honest, is on the display as the unintentionally published page has been taken down.
Amrutha Gayathri
Jul 15, 2011
You got a body, you got a Plank, is the universal slogan for planking, an activity that involves a person lying face down, body stiff and often on dangerous or unusual places. Termed by many as an Internet craze, planking is promoted mostly through planking photos uploaded on Facebook and dedicated sites. Planking, also known as lying down game or face downs, often see players compete to find the most unusual and original location in which to plank.
Amrutha Gayathri
Jul 15, 2011
Within two weeks from its launch, Google+ had reached over 10 million users and according to a latest estimate, the profiles will double by Sunday.
Sanskrity Sinha
Jul 15, 2011
Spotify's mega launch in the US has probably alarmed Apple, whose pioneering iTunes service cut a new path in digital music business.
Jijo Jacob
Jul 15, 2011
Face.com, a face detection and recognition service that equipped Facebook with the facial recognition technology, has announced an API release of a new set of facial analysis attributes, namely, mood estimation and facial expressions.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 14, 2011
The dust is yet to settle following Facebook's teaming up with Skype to launch the video chat, a feature Facebook's founder CEO Mark Zuckerberg termed as something awesome. Far from being awesome Facebook's feature, hosted at facebook.com/videocalling, acquired the URL through extremely undignified means, alleges a company called Samuday Web Technologies.
Amrutha Gayathri
Jul 14, 2011
Casey Anthony, the young woman accused of murdering her young child using duct tape and chloroform. Anthony was acquitted July 5 on homicide charges and will be released July 17.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 14, 2011
The video-rental store Blockbuster is attempting to benefit from the backlash that has engulfed its digital competitor, Netflix, after the latter raised prices this week.
Johnathan Davis
Jul 14, 2011
The company plans on using established American brands to integrate itself into the culture.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 14, 2011
Netflix's price increase for DVD and streaming rentals was greeted with a massive disapproval from members who were outraged with the 60 percent increase.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 14, 2011