Facebook to reward people who find glitches on its security network

NEW YORK: Expose the chinks in security network of Facebook and get rewarded for it too, says the social networking site, which has already paid USD 40,000(over Rs 18 lakh) in the past three weeks to those who done it. Facebook has launched its 'bug bounty' programmer a few weeks ago, where it offered to pay for disclosure of security bugs to the company. "A couple of years ago, we decided to formalise a...

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Google, Facebook Both Looking To Team Up With Skype

Facebook and Google are both reportedly trying to strike a deal with popular VoIP service provider Skype. Sources have told Reuters that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is mulling an all-out acquisition of the company while another source revealed that the company might form a joint venture with Skype.Meanwhile, search engine giant Google is also in talks with Skype. Google already offers VoIP services via Google Talk and Google...

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Android Development Workshop

Greetings from MET's CSI Student Branch!! We are glad to inform you that MET's CSI Student Branch organizing "Workshop on Android" on 27th & 28th August, 2011. I take this opportunity to invite you and your friends to participate in this workshop. We look forward for your kind co-operation and support in organizing this workshop and making it successful. For more details please find the attachment. Last Date of Registration: 20th...

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Workshop On Ethical Hacking !

Greetings from MET's CSI Student Branch!! Wanna be a HACKING GEEK?? We are glad to inform you that MET's CSI Student Branch organizing "Ethical Hacking Workshop" on 3rd & 4th Sept, 2011. I take this opportunity to invite you and your friends to participate in this workshop. We look forward for your kind co-operation and support in organizing this workshop and making it successful. First time in Nashik we are organizing Ethical...

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Government wants to read your tweets, Facebook posts

New Delhi : Beware of what you put in your Facebook messages or your tweets. Your friends and followers may not be the only ones reading them. Chances are government sleuths would be vetting these private messages. This follows a home ministry directive to the department of telecom, asking it to "ensure effective monitoring of Twitter and Facebook". While "effective monitoring" has not been defined, sources said...

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Zuckerberg's sister leaves Facebook to start own social media consulting firm !

Facebook's director of marketing Randi Zuckerberg, sister of the social network's billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg, is leaving her brother's company to start her own social media consulting firm.  Randi, who has been with Facebook for the last six years, said she feels it is the "perfect time" to move outside of Facebook to build a company focused on the "exciting trends underway in the media industry." "I...

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Gmail for mobile, now sharper and smoother

On the mobile team, we strive to produce web apps which look and feel just like installed apps. In the past few weeks, we’ve released a number of features which make Gmail for mobile look sharper and feel smoother. Pull down to refresh You can now pull down to refresh your message list and conversation on all iOS and Playbook devices. To  refresh, simply touch the message list, drag downwards and release. High resolution...

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Google Launches New Photo Sharing Network

"Photovine is a community that's about creating fun and unique collections of photos that we call Vines," reads the company overview on the Photovine Facebook page.  Users can share content captured through Photovine on other social networking services and may also be able to pull in content from other social networking services into Photovine. At the core of Photo vine are vines, that is a like a constantly growing family of...

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