Facebook was down for some users

MSNBC - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

The message some Facebook users saw Tuesday when they went to Facebook.com. Facebook was down Tuesday night for some users, with an outage that seemed to peak at about 9 p.m. ET.The problem, a spokesman for the social network said, should be fully resolved."Earlier today, an internal issue in our Web infrastructure caused the site to be slow or unavailable for a brief period of time," ...

Google chief slams Gulf Twitter-related detentions

Arabian Business - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Jailing Arab Twitter users could lead to greater physical action such as violent protests, a Google executive has told Arabian Business in an exclusive ...

Detroit man’s pictures on Facebook leads to arrest www.privateofficer.com

Private Officer News - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

-- A Detroit man who posted pictures of himself holding guns on Facebook got more than a ';like'; out of his posts: He got arrested. Unbeknownst to Oliver Weddington, court records show, a federal agent who was investigating him for federal gun crimes was combing his Facebook page and came across several pictures that raised red flags. For law enforcement, social networking is proving ...

IMF says to extend reach with online economics training

General Sources - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Buildings from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters are seen during the 2013 Spring Meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, April 18, 2013. ...

Facebook apologises for outage

News.com.au - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

"Earlier today, an internal issue in our web infrastructure caused the site to be slow or unavailable for a brief period of time," a Facebook spokesman told AAP."We resolved the issue quickly, and should now be back to 100 per cent. We apologise for any inconvenience."The popular social networking site, which has about 12 million Australian users and claims about 1.1 billion ...

Dont panic Its just that Facebook has been down

Computerworld - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Computerworld - Facebook has been down on Tuesday night, giving users error messages or long response times. The crowd-sourced online monitoring ...

Facebook suffers global crash

TVNZ - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Facebook increasingly targeted by scammers Social networkers took to Twitter after a global Facebook outage this afternoon. Facebook went down for less than two hours from around 12.30pm. People in Australia, US, New Zealand, South America and Europe have all reported that they were unable to login to Facebook, or "a website that uses Facebook Connect" for a short period of time. ...

Netflix to bring video streaming service to The Netherlands

Reuters - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

June 18 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:00am EDT June 18 (Reuters) - Netflix Inc will launch its TV and movie streaming service in The Netherlands later this year, expanding its reach further into Europe, the company said on Tuesday. Netflix boasts 29.2 million streaming subscribers in the United States and 7.1 million in international markets, delivering movies and television shows to Canada, ...

Facebook outage sparks online mirth

News.com.au - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

FACEBOOK has gone down briefly, offering the world a brief and horrific glimpse of what life would look like without the social networking ...

Facebook goes down users flood Twitter

Deseret News - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Down Right Now, an Internet services monitoring site, noted that Facebook is experiencing a "likely service disruption" at 9:28 p.m. (EST) on Tuesday, June ...

Townsville soldiers cautioned over sexist Facebook posts

SBS - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

An entire Australian Army brigade has been warned over its use of social media as the Australian Defence Force continues its investigation into two Facebook pages that demean ...

Facebook goes down everyone freaks out

News.com.au - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

STAND down. Facebook appears to be back online after a few minutes of a server-wide outage. Everyone can stop losing their ...

Facebook celebrates one million active advertisers

B&T - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Facebook now has one million active advertisers globally, with small businesses leading the charge. The million mark is an important milestone for the social giant that wants to boost revenue with advertising targeting its 1.1 billion users. According to reports, the social giant’s global director of small business marketing solutions, Dan Levy, attributed a large chunk of the ...

Facebook is down for some users

MSNBC - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

DownForEveryoneOrJustMe also noted the disruption.NBC News has contacted Facebook and will update this post when we hear back.Last week, the social network ...

Julia Stiles YouTube Series Blue Coming to Hulu in TV-Length Episodes

General Sources - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Hulu in TV-length episodes, beginning with the popular Julia Stiles-starring "Blue," Wigs announced Tuesday. The first two seasons of "Blue" launched on the streaming service Monday. Earlier this year, Fox entered into a multi-year programming, marketing and distribution partnership with Wigs, after Fox decided to extend the reach to Hulu as part of its multi-platform ...

Facebook experiences apparent outage

CNet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Downforeveryoneorjustme.com was giving visitors intermittent "down" answers this evening when they checked on Facebook's status. While the mobile version of Facebook was available to smartphone ...

Microsoft says it freed millions of computers worldwide from criminal botnet

The Star - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than US$500 million from bank accounts worldwide. "We definitely have liberated at least 2 million PCs globally. That is a conservative estimate," Richard Domingues Boscovich, assistant ...

DuckDuckGo Search Engine Surges 33

MSNBC - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg says web traffic on his search engine, billed as an alternative to Google that doesn't store your private information, surged 33 percent after the NSA news broke. Weinberg discusses the model of his search engine, and ...

Soldiers face Facebook smackdown

News.com.au - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Australian Army soldiers cross the obstacle course. Authorities are investigating new claims of sexually demeaning behaviour towards women in ...

Facebook touts advertising milestone

The West Australian - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Facebook said Tuesday that more than a million businesses now advertise at the leading social network."I know business owners like these invest their hard-earned money and time into running their companies," Facebook's Dan Levy said in a blog post that referred to advertisers such as Singapore's Retail Ministry and retailer Springwools in ...

Snowden and hegemony of social media

China Daily - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

/enpproperty--> The whole Edward Snowden episode is intriguing for a number of reasons, but whether Beijing or the courts will have the final say on the future of the whistleblower if the US demands his extradition or whether he is a hero or not are not among the more important questions. Therefore, of course, we are having exactly these angles in the newspapers. It is revealing that ...

Facebook for iOS gets emoticons

CNet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

(Credit: Screenshot/Jennifer Van Grove/CNET) Facebook added a collection of emoticons to the latest version of its application for iOS devices. In version 6.2, released Tuesday, Facebook users on ...