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Apple Begins Banning In Store Facebook Access?
All Facebook —
... Earlier today I was contacted by Jason Wilk from TinyComb who claimed that all stores had Facebook disabled, including three that he tested. I proceeded to call a number of stores here in the Washington, D.C. area and one out of three couldn’t access Facebook. One Apple store representative that I spoke to said that MySpace has been banned for a long time but Facebook has not. ...
QOTD: No Poking Allowed
Digital Daily —
Apple Stores have become a regular Internet Cafe, so placing the most popular time-killer of them all on the banned-list will certainly help everyone get a chance to test out the computers.
– Apple adds Facebook to the list of banned sites at its retail outlets ...
Apple Store: Yeah, You Can't Poke In Here (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... And now for a new measure of Facebook's popularity: Apple has blocked access to the social network from computers in the Apple Store, tinyComb reports. Says an Apple employee: ...
News Bits: Seinfeld Ads Were Worse Than We Thought
Contentinople: —
... on its computers in order to give everybody a fair chance to test out the computers. The decision seems to be long overdue, since in May 2007 the store banned ...
Apple blocks access to time-suck Facebook from retail stores
(Obsolete Feed) —
... from its retail stores a couple years ago, when customers accessing the site started taking away time from the other 2,248 customers per day (on average) that walk through the door. Now, the new popular social networking site Facebook has earned the dubious honor of becoming such a time-suck that Apple now blocks it from its display machines. ...
Facebook bans becoming more popular with businesses
Obsessable News Feed —
... , but for all the site's benefits there are some hidden costs. While surfing the site may start off as a modest distraction, by the time you add a few dozen friends, keeping track of them all and their status updates, wall writings, new photos, and any private messages can quickly become a full-time obsession. Some companies are starting to realize just what a time thief the site can be and are taking steps to ban the site, as the Apple Store just did. ...
Apple Bans Access to Facebook Website From Retail Stores
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... A report from tinycomb.com explains that this is primarily being done by Apple in an effort to thwart thieves and turn off loiterers from coming into the stores. ...
Around the Web 2.6.09: Digital TV in LA, marching band on Google Street View, prize-winners at TED
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... this year's TED prizes: Oceanographer Sylvia Earle, astronomer Jill Cornell Tarter and musician Jose Antonio Abreu. Wired
-- Google gives Gmail users the ability to see multiple inboxes on one screen. TechCrunch
-- Henry Blodget continues his campaign to make us all pay to read the New York Times online. Silicon Alley Insider
-- Apple bans Facebook from its retail stores. tinyComb
-- Is Apple planning to make its own TV set? iOnApple ...
Attention Apple Store Web Freeloaders: Facebook is Now Banned [Apple Store]
Gizmodo —
... But Apple, making sure your machines meet all of my liveblogging-my-life-via-Facebook needs is my single most important in-store test!! [Tinycomb, Photo: ...
Apple Store: No More Facebook For You
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... Apple has put the kibosh on Facebook usage in its U.S. retail stores, according to recently published online reports.
Apparently, Facebook surfing was eating up too much computer time in Apple Stores. It’s a similar situation to the MySpace ban imposed at Apple Stores back in 2007. At that time, Apple explained the decision with the following statement:
“Nearly 2 million people visit Apple stores every week. We want to provide everyone a chance to test-drive a Mac, so we are no longer offering access to MySpace in our stores.” ...
Apple Store Bans Facebook Squatters
iPhone Savior —
... “Apple Stores have become a regular Internet Cafe, so placing the most
popular time-killer [Facebook] of them all on the banned-list will
certainly help everyone get a chance to test out the computers”. An Apple store Genius told Tinycomb.com ...
Poke check: Facebook off in Apple stores, Maryland State House
GMSV —
What do Apple stores and the Maryland legislature have in common? Neither wants those within its walls messing around with social networking, though for different reasons. This week, reports the TinyComb blog , Apple quietly added Facebook to the sites that it blocks customers from checking while they’re playing around with the computers in the retail stores. Explained one store employee: “Apple Stores have become a regular Internet Cafe, so placing the most popular time-killer of them all on the banned-list will certainly help everyone get a chance to test out the computers.” ...
Are Apple Stores Battling Internet Cafe Vibe By Banning Facebook?
TechCrunch —
... We got a tip yesterday that Facebook has been has been banned at all Apple stores to prevent customers from loitering. We did a little investigation on our own and found that Facebook was able to be accessed at Apple stores in Washington D.C. and Palo Alto. However, one store in Richmond, Virginia confirmed that Facebook and MySpace have both been blocked from use on in-store computers. Perhaps this is being implemented on a store-by-store basis or regionally. ...
Facebook, MySpace Too Popular For Own Good
WebProNews Feed —
... General Assembly Social networks can be used to waste time, and members have also been known to encounter a virus or two. Now, decision makers at Apple and the Maryland General Assembly seem to feel these problems outweigh the positives, as new bans on the two most popular social networks have been reported. On the corporate front, Facebook essentially caught up with MySpace; display Macs at Apple stores have been unable to connect to the latter site since May of 2007. According to Jason Wilk , Apple explained at the time, "Nearly 2 million people visit Apple Stores every ...
Apple has NOT banned Facebook
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 —
... Late Thursday, a site called tinycomb (”Hand-Picked Tech News”) reported that Facebook had been banned “for life” from every Apple ( ...
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech — ... MySpace worldwide, would Apple go so far as to add a MySpace block? Yes, and no. While one website said that Apple Stores had banned Facebook nationwide, and a number of ...
Apple denies blocking Facebook
The Apple Core —
... http://mos.futurenet.com/classifications/computing/internet-and-broadband/images/facebook-logo-289-75.png On Thursday tinyComb reported that Apple had begun blocking access to Facebook at its Internet Cafes retail stores: In an effort to thwart off time-theft and loiterers, ...
Apple Store Facebook ‘ban’ proves exaggerated
TECH.BLORGE.com —
There’s been an intriguing story floating around that Apple has ordered a universal lifetime ban on customers accessing Facebook on in-store machines. However, it turns out to be untrue.
The story appears to have first appeared on the tech news site TinyComb which [...]
Apple Reseller: Facebook for All!
eWeek - RSS Feeds —
Whether or not some Apple stores are really blocking access to the social networking site Facebook, Apple reseller Tech Superpowers finds sites like MySpace, previously banned by Apple, and now Facebook are simply what people like to browse. Rumors and conflicting reports continue to spread around Apples alleged blocking of the popular social networking site Facebook from its in-store product displays. On Friday the technology news Web site tinyComb posted an article proclaiming Facebook had been banned for life from Apple stores. Over the weekend, various new outlets ...
