A federal judge called a Louisiana law, banning certain sex offenders from Facebook and other social networking sites a “constitutionally problematic” statute. However, he did not decide Wednesday whether to throw out the embargo, which took the result in August.
U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson, based in Baton Rouge, heard arguments from a lawyer, which represents two convicted sex offenders who seeks in overturning the law, and from the attorney general’s office that defends the statute.
Once again Wireless earpiece maker Jawbone combines fashion and technology in an effort to help people make healthier choices with a little help from their favorite Apple gadgets.
This week, the company revealed a smartly engineered wristband, synching with software for iPhones, iPads and iPod touch devices in steering users toward better habits when it comes to eating, sleeping, and being active.
Yahoo started distributing an Ipad magazine, which illuminates the Internet Company’s ambitions and the recurring hiccups that have thrown its fate into doubt.
The free magazine called Livestand has an intriguing potential since se its software can be customized in pulling a deep pool of content from Yahoo’s website and other participating publishers so that it could cater to the needs of its users according to their interests.
A result of an eight week study found that Facebook’s fake account detection mechanisms can be easily overcome by 80 percent of the time with the special help of automated tools. The study conducted by researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC).
Yazan Boshmaf together with some of the of programmers such as Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov, and Matei Ripeanu created a network of 102 bots designed to pose as real humans on social networks. The researchers then released the bots on Facebook with the intention of befriending as many users as possible so that it could collect private information about the unsuspecting users.
In the last Nokia World expo in England Microsoft has revealed their plan that Windows phones will be found working with the Xbox 360 gaming machine. They have also assured people that they will not have to wait long for the new offering. But the company did not revealed much information about the announced future Read more