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Egypt president urged to free jailed Facebook user
AFP, Published on 29/12/2010
» Reporters Without Borders has issued a joint call with rights groups for Egypt's president to intervene after an Internet user was sentenced to jail for starting a Facebook group for army recruits.
Facebook in challenge to Google crown
AFP, Published on 29/12/2010
» Facebook is challenging Google's supremacy on the Internet with a radically different approach to how people live, work, play and search online.
Indonesians embrace new media for old debates
AFP, Published on 20/12/2010
» To most Indonesians, Ahmad Mustofa Bisri is an influential Muslim cleric and a respected figure from the country's biggest Islamic organisation, the moderate Nahdlatul Ulama.
S.Korea's Cyworld touts privacy in battle with Facebook
AFP, Published on 17/12/2010
» Bullying is a big problem in the digital playgrounds of the world's social networks. But South Korea's top social networking site Cyworld is touting several distinctive features -- including making people prove who they are in the real world before they can join their virtual one.
Bing search upgrades include Facebook 'likes'
AFP, Published on 16/12/2010
» Microsoft on began rolling out Bing upgrades that included showing which query results were "liked" by friends at online social networking hotspot Facebook.
Great Firewall no obstacle for China's Facebook game makers
AFP, Published on 16/12/2010
» China's Internet censors may have kept most of the nation's 420 million web users from accessing Facebook, but they have not stopped social game developers like Ellison Gao.
Pakistan bans players from Facebook and Twitter
AFP, Published on 16/12/2010
» Pakistan has banned its cricketers from social networking sites Facebook and Twitter in the latest effort to exert discipline following a series of damaging scandals, an official said Wednesday.
Facebook intern maps world via online 'friends'
AFP, Published on 14/12/2010
» A Facebook intern interested in seeing how political borders affect friendships around the globe has created a map of the world by sampling data from the social network's 500 million user base.
ThumbDrive inventor out to prove he is no one-hit wonder
AFP, Published on 14/12/2010
» Henn Tan could have ruled the global market in what became the ubiquitous USB flash drive that helped consign the floppy disk to the dustbin of technological history.