A recent military intelligence report draft from the U.S. Army’s 304 Military Intelligence Battalion Open Source Intelligence Team warns that the Twitter social network could be used as a communication tool for terrorists planning an attack. The report outlines three possible scenarios where terrorists could use the Twitter social networking tool, citing the use of […]
Category: Social Networks
IBM Social Network Bluehouse To Compete With Facebook and LinkedIn
Today IBM launched it’s business social network service called Bluehouse. Bluehouse will offer business professionals the best of both social networking services and business-collaboration tools. Bluehouse is a software-as-a-service site. Bluehouse will be free during its public beta release. Once the beta testing is over, in a few months, subscription prices will start. Bluehouse will […]
25 Percent of Companies Restrict Access To Facebook.com
Almost 25 percent of companies restrict employee access to Facebook.com, MySpace.com and other social network sites. The statistic comes from a survey of 200 HR professionals. The number of Americans using social networks has tripled in the past few years and the use of these sites has grown during business hours. People 35 and older […]
Fake Facebook Profile Leads To Lawsuit Between Old Classmates
A man whose personal information was posted on a fake Facebook profile has filed a landmark lawsuit for damages in the UK. A fake personal profile for Mathew Firsht was created on the Facebook social network using his name, date of birth and falsely showing him as a memember or some gay groups. The fake […]
Judge Orders Teens To Post A YouTube Apology
A judge in Viera, Florida has ordered two teenage boys to post an apology on video-sharing site YouTube.com as punishment for a drive-through window prank that led to battery and criminal mischief charges. The prank, called “fire in the hole”, occurred last July and involved fast-food employee Jessica Ceponis at a Taco Bell drive-through window. […]