readwriteweb.com - 12/5/2008
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Forget losing your job, apparently your MySpace or Facebook profile and photos can now cause you to lose your degree. In what may be one of the most frightening rulings regarding social networks and privacy to date, a federal judge has ruled against a former student of Millersville University ...
kaspersky.com - 12/5/2008
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kaspersky.com —
New worms target both MySpace and Facebook users
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management...
systems, has detected two variants of a new worm, Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.a. and Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b, which attack MySpace and ...
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Kaspersky Lab Detects New Worms Attacking MySpace and ...
techcrunch.com - 12/9/2008
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techcrunch.com —
MySpace, in an all out war with Facebook
over this year’s prize (socializing the web), is relaunching...
their Data Availability product today under a new name and announcing some snazzy new partners. Goodbye, Data Availability. Hello MySpaceID ...
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MySpace Data Availability Now Has A Catchier Name And ...
reuters.com - 12/3/2008
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reuters.com —
NEW YORK (Reuters) - MySpace users with mobile
phones are about to find out if they can...
walk and watch TV at the same time. On Wednesday, News Corp's online social network will make video clips from its members' pages available for viewing on mobile ...
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MySpace delivers video to mobile phones
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Drunken Smack Talk on SocNets Can Get You Fired
SocialTimes.com —
... But because of a photo of her holding a cocktail with a caption that read “drunken pirate” along with a negative remark regarding her student teacher supervisor, Snyder was denied her bachelors degree in the field of education, reports ReadWriteWeb. ...
As ye socialize, so shall ye reap
GMSV —
... that wind up on their employer’s computers or reveal information that compromises their employer’s business secrets. * You could lose your job and more. Just ask Stacy Snyder, dismissed from her student-teacher assignment (and ultimately denied her teaching degree) in part as a result of a picture on her MySpace page captioned ...
Hand over all your Facebook photos to Obama, please
VentureBeat —
... team vetting document specifically asks about photos on social networks, as well as any other identity/name a candidate has used online. Now something as seemingly innocuous as posting as a fan to a band’s website or a blog rant written during one’s angsty teenage years could bring an application into question. Oversharing on social networks has been a major issue for employers and universities, with a MySpace profile costing a woman her college degree among other stories. Even the seemingly ...
Drunken Pirate or college degree - which do you pick?
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... Sarah Perez has a post over on ReadWriteWeb that has been kind of bothering me for most of the day. The way the story goes is this ...
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