In case you're not a sports a fan, or at least not a fan of the NBA, here's the prerequisite information you need before reading ahead. The NBA and the NBA Players Association failed to hammer out a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) last week to replace the one that expired, and the NBA decided to lock out its players, forcing a work stoppage. What's interesting about this, and relevant from a technology perspective, is that webmasters had to remove all images and videos of NBA players from team websites, almost as if the players no longer exist.
The ink hasn’t even dried on Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype, but the Redmond based software giant appears to be working diligently in the background to push the VOIP service to even more platforms. Facebook has scheduled an invitation only even for July 6th , and the rumor mill seems pretty certain
Does Facebook, as a company, make your blood boil? What about MySpace? And should we even bother asking about Comcast, one of the largest cable companies in the world, and also No. 4 on the list of companies customers hate most, as indicated in the American Customer Satisfaction Index? Those three scored 64, 63, and 59, respectively, on a 0-100 scale intended to represent company-level satisfaction.
Googlers are probably heartily patting each other on the backs up in Mountain View today. After a successful beta launch of Google+, demand for invites to the social networking service has been high. So high in fact, that the invite program had to be cut off late last night.
Google’s Facebook killer has arrived, and it is called Google+. The limited beta product is currently invite only, so don’t expect it to have the same massive social graph as Facebook does right now (if you can even get in). But Google has included some interesting features to help people share content. Google+ actually seems to be a few different products all rolled into one.
In case you’ve been wondering what hacker George Hotz, aka Geohot, has been up to, social networking site Facebook has confirmed that the until recently beleaguered hacker is now on its payroll. The official confirmation came after reports of him being hired by Facebook emerged over the weekend. But the question remains: what is he up to? Find out after the jump.
We've watched enough horror movies to know that the bad guy is never really dead. The body disappears, an arm pops up, or the eyes open with an ominous stare as the camera fades to black, hinting of a sequel. Whether or not you consider the Winklevoss twins the bad guys in their ongoing dispute with Facebook over a $65 million settlement is up to you to decide, we're just playing the part of spoiler and telling you this drawn out drama/horror flick isn't yet over.
Facebook on Thursday announced that Reed Hastings, chairman and chief executive officer of Netflix, has joined the world's most popular networking site's board of directors. Like a full-on double complete rainbow, this move has people wondering what it could mean, minus the 
Twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are finally resigned to the idea of scraping by with what amounts to a $65 million settlement with Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg. The twins said they will not be taking their appeal to the Supreme Court, the only venue left after lower courts failed to find reason to revise their original settlement agreement, thus ending a long legal dispute over whether or not they should receive a larger slice of the social networking site's pie.
In his latest stand-up special, Happy Thoughts, Daniel Tosh talks about tweeting a recent bout with diarrhea before pausing and asking the audience, "Am I using that website properly?" He's joking, but then again, there's no limit to the insanity of what people can use social networking tools for. A 36-year-old Utah man, for example, taunted police during a standoff by posting updates to his Facebook account.
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