New Java trojan attacks Mac OS X via social networking sites - Ars Technica
A new trojan horse has cropped up that affects Mac OS X (and Windows as well), primarily disguised as a video flitting around social networking sites. When users click an infected link, a Java applet is launched that downloads multiple files, including an

Major Silicon Valley Players Invest $250 Million in Social Networking - msnbc.com
Love social media? Need money? If so, some serious backers are offering some serious cash for your ideas. Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers announced a new $250 million fund to push entrepreneurs to develop business ideas

John Doerr's quarter-billion dollar bet on the future of social - Fortune Tech
Kleiner Perkins thinks we're in a third wave of technology. Doerr, Zuckerberg, Bezos and Pyncus are throwing a "party" with a the new $250 million sFund, in order to ride it. The last time venture capitalist John Doerr opined that a technology wave was

Facebook Lobbied to Kill Social Networking Privacy Act - YAHOO!
Between April and June of this year, Facebook reportedly spent more than $6,600 lobbying California state officials to kill the Social Networking Privacy Act. The bill in question aimed to impose civil penalties on social networks displaying home addresses

Yahoo revises Web mail: social networking, content-based ads, still no free downloading - Washington Post
At midnight, Yahoo introduced a redesigned version of its Web-mail site, Yahoo Mail . And then a funny thing happened: Nothing. No Twitter chatter, no Facebook comments by friends, no late-night posts on the usual tech blogs. The Internet can be so cruel

"The Social Network" Doesn't Get Social Networking - AlterNet
Everything that's wrong about The Social Network is summed up by its title. And it's a movie that, at its core, stands on one glaring false premise: Zuckerberg as a flat-eyed, borderline autistic, humorless guy, a consummate outsider who wanted badly to

Social Networking More Popular Than Email on Mobile Devices - Mobiledia
Mobile device users spend 1.4 times as many hours using social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter than reading and responding to e-mail, according to a recent study. A recent survey conducted by research company TNS found that, on average, users

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