IT Professionals Database (ITPD)

angry tapir writes "Facebook users will soon have a new way of knocking spammers out of legitimate accounts.

oxide7 writes "Starting from August 1, internet users will have to register using their real names for playing online games, China Daily reported on Saturday.

ancientribe writes "A social networking experiment of a phony female military security professional known as 'Robin Sage' (named after a US Army Special Forces training exercise) worked way too well,

An anonymous reader writes "Flock, the social networking browser, has moved from Firefox open source code to Chromium in its latest beta.

Thanks to a new policy by the Department of Defense, members of the US Military will now have limited access to social media sites.

itwbennett writes "If antivirus protectors could collect data from machines and users, including geographic location, social networking information, type of operating system, installed programs and co

Thing Labs, San Francisco-based startup that makes social networking applications, released today an API called Let’s Be Trends that lets developers procure information about trending topics on Twit

James-NSC writes "My employer is changing its policy towards employee use of social networks.

The elusive Precision dropped a submission in my lap about a DDoS taking down Twitter running on CNet.

Hugh Pickens writes "Wired reports that as neural devices become more complicated — and go wireless — some scientists say the risks of 'brain hacking' should be taken seriously.

snydeq writes "Rather than view it as a game-changer, Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister sees Opera Unite as a Hail Mary bid for Opera to stay in the game.

This past Friday, Facebook started issuing vanity URLs to its 200 million plus community.