Report: Facebook is making a phone
A week after Facebook's bungled IPO comes fresh news to tantalize, or torment, the company's investors. The social-networking behemoth may be making a phone.
View ArticleHow to connect with your kids online (without shaming them)
It's one of the pivotal scenes in "The Social Network," a eureka moment that implied a parting of the clouds, a spotlight-like beam of sun and a soft chord of angel voices: "Eduardo, I'm not talking...
View ArticleHey, you two, dial it back just a little
On Monday, we paid homage to our fallen troops with bratwursts and kielbasa, and that means it's officially the season of picnics, boat shoes and strolls along the boardwalk, hand in hand.
View ArticleOpinion: Facebook threatens to 'Zuck up' the human race
The news last week was all about Facebook's dodgy IPO. Investors are filing suit against Facebook about withholding "negative" assessment on its business prospects. This IPO not only "Zucked up"...
View ArticleWhat Tim Cook's comments reveal about Apple's future
When Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage at the All Things Digital Conference Tuesday night, he wasn't just answering questions from Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher ? he was also dropping hints about the...
View ArticleIs Twitter slowing down?
With all the Facebook news lately -- the flat IPO, the regulatory interest, the Chan-Zuckerberg wedding -- it's highly possibly you've forgotten all about Twitter.
View ArticleWoman puts gas can in car seat -- but not toddler
It must have been a valuable gas can.
View ArticleFeel the relief of a Facebook purge
Last week, we clued you in to all the annoying things that couples must cease doing on Facebook.
View ArticleWhy not let kids have Facebook pages?
Will elementary and middle school students soon be able to put up their own Facebook pages? It looks like it.
View ArticleFacebook rolling out App Center
Make room, Apple, Google and Amazon. One more major Internet player now has an app store.
View ArticleSeven tech-behavior faults that aren't so bad
Please read the following in the voice of the movie preview guy:
View ArticleHands-on first impressions of Apple's iOS 6
At WWDC 2012, Apple unveiled the next generation of iOS, its mobile operating system. iOS 6 sports more than 200 new features and upgrades ? including the new Apple Maps, deep Facebook integration and...
View ArticleAdidas cancels 'shackle' shoes after outcry
German sports apparel maker Adidas has withdrawn its plans to sell a controversial sneaker featuring affixed rubber shackles after the company generated significant criticism when advertising the shoe...
View ArticleFacebook to show you ads based on your Web browsing
Facebook will soon be using your Web browsing to help decide which advertisements you see.
View ArticleFitness and social media: Don't overdo it
It's summer, and months after you made that vow to finally get fit, healthy and bikini-ready, you're actually going at it, sweating it up at the gym or jogging around your 'hood before work.
View ArticleWith new mobile apps, no one's a stranger
If keeping track of friends was the first wave of social media, the next may be all about hooking up with strangers.
View ArticleFacebook now lets you edit comments
We've all done it. Your friend uploads a picture of their new puppy to Facebook, and you somehow manage to leave a comment congratulating them instead on their "new pappy."
View ArticleFacebook quietly unveils 'stalking app'
Facebook on Monday appeared to have quietly unveiled a new feature designed to let people see which Facebook users are nearby at any given time.
View ArticleFacebook pulls location-tracking feature
Following a period of freak-out on the Internet on Monday, Facebook appears to have pulled a controversial feature that let the social network's users get a digital list of other Facebookers nearby.
View ArticleWhat's really, truly going on with Facebook?
Every week, there's a new Facebook thing to gripe about.
View ArticleFacebook just switched your default e-mail address
Whether you've noticed or not, you have a new primary e-mail address listed as your Facebook contact, and most likely it's an address you've never used.
View ArticleSite shows Facebook updates your boss shouldn't see
Anastasia R. hates her boss, Jay, and wishes he would die. Matt B. is "carrying a bucket round in my car cause im so hungover." Charlie S. wants everyone to have his new personal phone number.
View ArticleDueling online over 'Call Me Maybe'
You have burning questions, and we have burning answers (we really need to stop writing these columns by candlelight). That's why, this week, we decided to take a passel of queries from our friends,...
View ArticleWhy Google Plus isn't dead -- well, yet
Google Plus, Google's much-chided version of Facebook, celebrated its first birthday last week.
View ArticleTech is getting more gay-friendly
James Lazar is married to a man. He won't buy anniversary cards that picture a man and a woman. He didn't want his Facebook page to show those symbols, either.
View ArticleAnd the iReport Awards go to ...
Eyewitness footage of the Indiana State Fair stage collapse, a collection of powerful images from a blind photographer and a dispatch by 14-year-old twins at Occupy Wall Street were among the...
View ArticleWeb wails as DirecTV channels go dark
It's a first-world problem of epic proportions, and the couch potatoes of the Web aren't pleased.
View ArticleAre social media making the resume obsolete?
Could the days of trying to cram all your professional accomplishments onto a single sheet of paper be a thing of the past?
View ArticleFacebook fuses emotion to its anti-bullying efforts
Communication on Facebook started with the simple, emotionally vague "poke."
View ArticleCan a name change help a website?
Conventional webmaster wisdom holds that changing the name of a website leads to a drop in its popularity.
View ArticleGoogle+ trumps Facebook in customer satisfaction
Facebook may be more populous, but Google+ is better-liked.
View ArticleArgentinian court to Facebook: Delete profile that offended local business
An Argentinian judge has ordered Facebook to remove a profile from its site that allegedly was defaming a local business.
View ArticleWhy did Colorado shooting suspect avoid social media?
It's a truth of the digital age. When a person is plucked from obscurity, for good reasons or bad, the first thing curiosity-seekers do is turn to the Web.
View ArticleFacebook: Fan page for Colorado shooter doesn't violate terms
The stock photo, posted on a Facebook fan page for the accused Colorado shooter, shows two young men in a movie theater turning around to tell the people behind them to be quiet.
View ArticleZynga shares plummet 37%. Is company a fad?
Zynga shares tumbled nearly 40% Thursday, a day after the company reported earnings that missed analysts' expectations.
View ArticleDigg gets a fresh start with new site and app
Six weeks after Digg was acquired by incubator Betaworks, a revamped Digg website and iPhone app have been released, one day ahead of schedule.
View ArticleFace it, Facebook: Sometimes you suck
I was blissed out on vacation when Facebook gave me a one-two punch to the gut.
View ArticleFacebook inspires status envy
Has your Facebook feed become a gauzy parade of white gowns and veils? You're not alone.
View ArticleFacebook needs to earn your trust
A shrewd Wall Street friend once advised me: "There's all the difference in the world between a great business and a great investment."
View ArticleVirginia deputy fights his firing over a Facebook 'like'
A Virginia sheriff's deputy has been fired for liking his boss's political opponent -- on Facebook.
View ArticleWould you pay for an ad-free Twitter (or Facebook)?
Sure, lots of folks might be excited about a Twitter-like social network with no ads or annoying "promoted tweets."
View ArticleCreepy hit 'Take This Lollipop' getting a sequel
For actor Bill Oberst Jr., it was an unpaid gig starring in a Web-only video that's just two minutes long.
View ArticleIs Zuckerberg to blame for Facebook's slumping stock?
Mark Zuckerberg is not in danger of losing his job, but that doesn't mean he can brush off recent criticism of his leadership.
View ArticleFacebook's wounds are self-inflicted
Facebook seems to be taking a beating these days. But guess what? That's actually good news.
View ArticleAt 101, Facebook's oldest user visits campus
She may be nearly four times as old as its founder, but Florence Detlor likes Facebook.
View ArticlePolice embrace social media as crime-fighting tool
We leave small clues about our lives all over the Internet like fingerprints.
View ArticleAnalyze your Facebook data with new Wolfram Alpha tool
The scattered bits of information you upload to Facebook might not seem interesting on their own -- a photo of a baby here, a happy birthday greeting there. But taken as a whole, your Facebook profile...
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