94 Percent Users Say Facebook Redesign Sucks; Do You?

March 14th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Facebook has managed to gather mixed reviews after rolling out changes to its home and profile pages from March 11. The social-networking giant had previously announced the makeover on every member's homepage.

January 10th, 2009 LONDON - Nearly 30 pupils have been suspended from a London high school for posting 'deeply insulting' comments about a teacher on Facebook, the social networking website. The girls at the Grey Coat Hospital School signed up to a Facebook group named The Hate Society, which contained messages attacking the teacher.

June 29th, 2009 LONDON - Mafia mobsters are using social networking site Facebook to attract wannabe gangsters. Sicilian gangsters are targeting members who have joined online groups dedicated to Cosa-Nostra's godfathers.

April 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Facebook has become a breeding ground for racists and far-right extremists, according to immigrant leaders and anti-racism campaigners, who believe the site's owners are not doing enough to clamp down on cyber hate. More than 200 million people around the world belong to the social networking site, which attracts thousands of new members every day.

July 21st, 2009 Yahoo jazzes up home page with major makeoverSAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. is sprucing up its Web site's home page with a long-promised makeover that is supposed to make it easier to see what's happening at the Internet's other hot spots.

February 19th, 2005 I saw this strange Blog entry from someone mentioning an US company which is *not hiring* US citizens. The post sounded like it was keeping a list of such companies! Anyway that sounded bad.

April 24th, 2009 LONDON - Social networking site Facebook has agreed to change its terms of use to give users greater control over their personal data after 75 percent voted for a revision of the terms. The site's founder Mark Zuckerberg said the site aimed to adopt a more "transparent and democratic approach".

September 20th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Advertising agencies in Australia are keeping a close eye on the pages of the six million Facebook users to update advertisements of products they deem fit as soon as there is some change in the social networking site user's account status. Business houses seem to target potential customers on the social network site according to sex, age, location, relationship status, job title, workplace or university.

August 27th, 2009 Dell profit down 23 pct but surpasses estimateSAN FRANCISCO — Dell Inc.'s second-quarter profit was whacked 23 percent as the personal-computer industry's slump dragged on this summer. The results beat Wall Street's forecast, however, sending the shares up more than 6 percent.

August 27th, 2009 LONDON - People who use social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are more prone to getting robbed, as burglars might be stealing their personal details from such websites, says a research. The research said that these sites could face higher insurance premiums because burglars may be using them to find out their personal details.

March 26th, 2009 LONDON - A security expert has cautioned that an Internet worm, called Conficker C, can strike at infected computers around the world on April 1. Conficker C is a sophisticated piece of malicious computer software, or malware, that installs itself on a PC hard drive via specially written web pages and then conceals itself on a computer.

August 14th, 2009 LONDON - A woman lost her job after abusing her boss on Facebook - forgetting that they were friends on the networking website. The woman named "Lindsay" updated her Facebook status with "OMG [oh my God] I HATE MY JOB!!" and went on to accuse her boss of being "pervvy" (sic) and complained that she was forced to do "**** stuff".

August 28th, 2009 Dell's numbers show PC industry staggering backSAN FRANCISCO — Dell Inc.'s second-quarter results reinforce what other tech heavyweights have shown recently about the health of the personal-computer industry: it's still wounded by the recession, but is staggering back to its feet, thanks to consumers, bargain prices and little "netbook" laptops for surfing the Internet. The Round Rock, Texas-based company reported Thursday that profit fell 23 percent and sales fell 22 percent in the May-July period.

July 28th, 2009 IBM scoops up software maker SPSS in $1.2B dealSAN FRANCISCO — IBM Corp. is bulking up its most profitable division with a $1.2 billion acquisition of business software provider SPSS Inc., a deal that also reflects the power of wealthy technology companies to throw their money around despite the recession.

February 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Google's popular email service Gmail, which has over a 110 million users worldwide, went offline at around 2 p.m. Tuesday, affecting users throughout the world, especially in Europe and India.