Novelist Salman Rushdie, after having his Facebook account deactivated because Facebook didn’t believe it was really him. The account was reactivated after he’d sent the company a copy of his passport. The only problem? His given first name is Ahmed. Salman Rushdie wins name tiff with Facebook [Washington Post]
If Bank of America’s Google+ page is to be believed, the financial institution throws parties every time it forecloses on a home, and threatens Occupy Wall Street protesters with having their assets seized as part of the bank’s new “Counter-Financial-Terrorism policy.” Yes, fake parody accounts have come to Google+, the network previously hung up on ensuring that pseudonyms were never, ever to be used.
University of Louisville coach Charlie Strong blamed the Cardinals’ 21-14 loss to Pittsburgh on Saturday on the distraction caused by the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which took in a record $400 million on its opening day.
Amazon’s Kindle Lending Library–which allows Amazon Prime customers to “borrow” one free e-book at a time from a selection of more than 5,000–may have been warmly received by Kindle users when it was announced last week, but according to the Authors Guild, the move is nothing more than “an exercise of brute economic power.”
It’s not affecting everyone on Facebook, but some users are finding their feeds overrun with “explicit hardcore porn images, photoshopped photos of celebrities such as Justin Bieber in sexual situations, pictures of extreme violence and even a photograph of an abused dog,” according to security firm Sophos.
Social media has some distance to go in terms of convincing people of its trustworthiness, apparently. A new study has found that most people in the U.K. and U.S. prefer old media when it comes to news, with only 19% of Americans considering Twitter and Facebook trusted news sources.
As CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh believes a happy culture at work makes more than happy employees, it makes the brand better.
Advertisers aren’t the only ones exploiting social-networking sites — now scientists are tapping into Facebook’s trove of personal data to find lab rats online.
It’s Tuesday! Time for some hand-picked gadget deals…
BlackBerry fans may need a lot more patience waiting for Research in Motion to modernize its smartphones, as the first BBX phone is now rumored to launch in the third quarter of 2012.
Here we are, 10 years later, six games into a multimillions franchise and a seventh in sight. Make that eight games if we count this anniversary remake, out today, which slaps a little 2011 high-res lacquer on 2001′s low-res visual tech.
