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12 October 2011
News: Apple releases Find My Friends for iOS

Can you find me now? Apple on Wednesday released Find My Friends. The app, which requires iOS 5, lets you find your friends by geolocating their iOS devices—presuming your friends have granted you access to that data.
11 October 2011
News: Facebook Launches Mobile App Platform

Facebook games and apps -- love 'em or hate 'em, they make developers a lot of money thanks to the staggeringly huge potential audience they have. Now, mobile app developers can also take advantage of that huge 350 million-strong audience thanks to the social network's introduction of game notifications, news feed interaction and bookmarks for its mobile experience -- both in the iOS apps and via the mobile web version. This means the previously somewhat limited mobile experience just got a lot closer in functionality to the full desktop incarnation of Facebook.
News: Social media revenue to hit $10.3B in 2011

It's a good year to be a social networking site.
News: Facebook finally unveils Apple iPad app

After months of anticipation, Facebook finally released its first app for the iPad.
News: China's Tencent launches English version of Twitter-like service

Chinese Internet giant Tencent has launched an English language interface to its popular microblogging service, putting the company in closer competition with Twitter.
News: Study: After surge, Google+ traffic falls back

Google+ traffic has deflated after a temporary spike following Google's decision to open up the social networking site to everyone, according to data analytics company Chitika.
News: Hands-On With Facebook's New iPad App

Facebook has finally released its first official iPad app Monday. The free app is currently available for download in the iTunes store, and isn't so much an iPad app as it is a universal version of Facebook's original iPhone app.
10 October 2011
News: Facebook 4.0 update brings native iPad support

After months of rumors and speculation, Facebook launched an updated version of its iOS app on Monday with native iPad support.
07 October 2011
News: Ex-Sun boss McNealy launches social gaming startup

Scott McNealy has never been shy about sharing his opinions; now he wants everyone else to do the same.
News: Facebook's URL scanner is vulnerable to cloaking attacks

Members of a hacking think-tank called Blackhat Academy claim that Facebook's URL scanning systems can be tricked into thinking malicious pages are clean by using simple content cloaking techniques.
News: Delicious owner sets up user forum as problems persist

Users of Delicious now have another venue to report problems and seek information about the bug-ridden relaunch of the social bookmarking site.
News: Facebook API abuse can expose private user data, say hackers

Facebook is ignoring a serious shortcoming in the way it limits application developers' access to information about Facebook users, according to a pair of hackers.
06 October 2011
News: Facebook alliance with Websense not enough, experts say

Facebook just got safer, according to a press release last week from the social networking giant and the Internet security firm Websense.
05 October 2011
News: Google+ APIs get beefed up

After releasing an initial set of basic APIs for Google+, the company is exposing more functions that external developers can access for the tools and applications they build for the social networking site.
News: Just how boring was that Titans-Browns NFL game? Researchers say Twitter knows

Fans of the National Football League have plenty to be excited about so far in Houston this year, with the hometown Texans off to a 3-1 start. But just how excited are they and other NFL fans? New software from Houston’s Rice University and Motorola Mobility Applied Research Center can figure that all out using the millions of Tweets sent by fans during games.
News: Drive-by download attack on Facebook used malicious ads

Antivirus vendor Trend Micro has recently detected a drive-by download attack on Facebook that used malicious advertisements to infect users with malware.
04 October 2011
News: Enterprise social media use set to double by 2013: Report

Social media use for collaboration in the enterprise is set to double by 2013, with the education, financial and professional services sectors driving the uptake, a new report claims.
News: Facebook Privacy: 11 Settings to Revisit Now

With Facebook's constant stream of changes, keeping up with your privacy settings can be daunting. Here's a rundown of the newest features, what the changes mean to your privacy and how to update your settings
News: 'Well organized, sophisticated, fast' cybercriminals scare US banks

BITS, the U.S. financial industry's IT policy arm, has a new leader: Paul Smocer, an expert in email security and authentication.
03 October 2011
News: Facebook turns to Websense for malicious URL detection

Facebook has partnered with security vendor Websense to protect its users from third-party malicious URLs spammed on the social networking website, the companies said on Monday.

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