It seems that the lucrative online TV industry is pulling a lot of unconventional contestants to the arena. With more and more users seeking entertainment through internet, the concept of an online TV is gaining traction and nearly all TV service providers are planning to couple it with some sort of online access. It has now been learned that a very unlikely company, Intel, is also working on an online TV service.
Facebook has many apps which are successful especially the ones in games are much used. But this time, another major app from Facebook is emerging successfully and it is BandPage which is the number one app for artists to stream and promote music to their fans on the social network. It now has more than 500,000 musician Pages and it has doubled since the last six months according to TechCrunch. Previously, MySpace was more thoroughly used by the musicians to do this, but now the focus has shifted again to the social network of Facebook and the opportunities it presents to the musicians.
Who knew that Facebook could be used for intelligence or counter-intelligence purposes, but the Chinese have shown that it could not only be thought about but actually done as well. The Chinese spies made a Facebook profile pretending to a U.S. Navy Admiral named James Stavridis according to ZDNet. He is actually the current commander, U.S. European Command (USEUCOM), and NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR).
Youku Inc. is China’s leading video site. It is rivalled by a rather smaller video site, Tudou. It has now been learned that the two giants have reached an agreement so that both will merge to give birth to what is being cited as ‘one of the largest internet properties in China.’ Given the fact that the two companies have been rivals in the past, been accused by one another by copyrights infringement, it comes as a surprise that the two have decided to merge.
Recently, Facebook brought status update features to apps through which users can add friends, locations, and share photos directly from the apps. Now Facebook is revealing how it has been able to generate such a buzz through its app by getting into the details of broadening the Location API according to ZDNet. Facebook said that it was trying to make location tagging universal for the past year and a half so that check-ins can be seen on Timeline, which is something that Facebook is the proudest of despite a considerable number of users preferring the old version so to speak of their Facebook experience.
Social media and the whole plethora of apps that you get to have on a smartphone, have compromised the privacy of an individual to a great extent. The moment you take a picture or ‘check in’ to some place on, say, Facebook, this reveals your location. While for an average user, it may not be very important, it is crucial for a soldier and his unit. And that is why US Army has warned its soldiers about the use of locations services.
One does not have been creative for choosing and keeping passwords, but just different. Keeping a unique password is especially important for businesses and other professionals who have to protect their data. Interestingly, according to Ubergizmo, if you have a business then it is a bad idea to keep the password as ‘password1’. According to the online security firm Trustwave, most businesses choose to keep this as their password just so that it comes be fine with other complexity settings.
Someone had to come to FBI rescue for once as there are still some things left in the world where FBI also fails to reach and that is cyberspace. Especially when it comes to hacking, FBI needs to have a little department developed where it can hire hackers or anti-hackers to be appropriate, who would basically protect the FBI. But for this the FBI demands funds and the U.S. government is still to realize that it should get over threatening other states when it forms defence pacts including cyberspace as its jurisdiction, and instead get to do something about those who are hacking into its own system.
Google has been very vigilant in improving the security and efficiency of it’s browser, Google Chrome, which now stands as the second most used browser around the world and may exceed Microsoft’s Internet Explorer not too later. A hacker has now found a serious exploit in the browser, while participating in Google’s Pwnium contest, a contest Google launched to entice the hackers to find vulnerabilities in Chrome. The reward for the feat was $60,000 and this has now gone to a Russian hacker.
Facebook boasts about having 845 million monthly active users and further 425 million monthly active mobile users as of December 31, 2011. It revealed these figures while the social network filed for its $5 billion initial public offering (IPO). But it turns out that between 42.25 million and 50.70 million of these accounts on Facebook are actually fake according to ZDNet. This is the first time that Facebook has revealed this number admitting that the social network might really not enjoy all real people.
Facebook has come with another interesting feature for its users to make their user experience even more exciting and happening. For those Facebook users who have always wanted to keep track of all of their favourite celebrities, pages and their favourite companies, etc., can now do this as the social network has recently announced about “Interest Lists” according to The Verge. It is a new way to create customized news feeds where users can see stories from people and pages they have subscribed to.
Facebook recently revealed that in December 2011, it received 432 million visitors to its social network from mobile devices according to The Verge. This is a 76% increase from December 2010 and it is really significant. Not only does it show that Facebook has grown, but its access being through mobile devices shows that it has to pay serious attention to users in that section too. But Facebook humbly accepts that it did nothing on its own part to receive an increase in traffic from mobile devices, but it is due to its iPad app and purchase of Snaptu, which helped Facebook to be delievered as a mobile site to over 2,500 feature phones and other devices in April 2011, that has led to this influx.
On March 7, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Robert S. Mueller III, had warned about a possible terrorist hacking in the “FBI Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2013” according to ZDNet. The U.S. Congress was made aware by the FBI director himself that he believes since as of yet a terrorist attack on the U.S. government has not taken place yet, this is why they should start expecting it to come any time now.
BBC has taken News Feed on Facebook a bit to an advance level with users of the social network. On its Facebook page BBC has launched News Control Panel in beta phase. This gives more control over the news content they are interested to see in their News Feed from BBC according to ZDNet. This will make BBC News Feed more personalized and the biggest advantage it has is that a user does not has to scroll down his or her News Feed to see the content from BBC.
A day is a very small instant of time for most of us. Many of us pass it in routine and often consider it an insignificant amount of time. However, you would be stunned to know what happens on the internet in a single day. Business Insider did an infographic about this and it is a true eye-opener. Details about the infographic are posted below.
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