A 23 year old California man admitted he used personal information from Facebook to hack into women's email accounts to download nude and seminude photos and videos sent from those accounts. He would then forward these to all of the women's contacts. Dozens of women in the US and England …
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Facebook revenues $1.2 billion across nine months
Facebook growth is staggering in recent months. Latest reports from Goldman Sachs show that they raked in $1.2 billion across the first nine months of 2010. Facebooks net income in the first nine months of 2010 peaked at $355 million and Goldman values the company now at $50 billion and …
Read More »Facebook to trademark ‘Face’
It may seem incredible, but it appears that Facebook have been given the go-ahead to trademark the word ‘Face'. The U.S. Patient and Trademark Office have issued an allowance that says that the company is entitled to a trademark on ‘Face' as it applies to the name FaceBook. To get …
Read More »Facebook to release a ‘gmail killer’
Facebook are reportedly going to release a messaging system which will rival Google's Gmail. The social networking giant who already have over 500 million users are going to host a special event in San Francisco on Monday. Facebook will apparently announce their own email address system @facebook.com and perhaps even …
Read More »Queen Elizabeth II to launch Facebook page
Queen Elizabeth II is to launch her own Facebook page, according to Royal Household reports. The 84 British monarch is apparently going to be making her own videos, as well as uploading photos and posting news updates on the site, her office said yesterday. Users can send messages to Buckingham …
Read More »Twitter target Facebook with projected 1 billion userbase
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams said during a conference in San Francisco that the Twitter platform will soon have one billion users. Williams said “Twitter will get to a billion members”. It could however take quite some time before this becomes a reality, as there are only 165 million registered users …
Read More »Skype and Facebook exploring possibilities of partnership
Social networking giant Facebook are exploring the possibilities of a partnership with Skype which is aimed at integrating their communication services. Wall Street Journal have said that under the proposed partnership that Facebook users would be able to sign into Skype through their Facebook Connect accounts. Once signed in then …
Read More »Google say Bing is a threat, not Facebook
Outspoken Google CEO Eric Schmidt has dismissed the potential threat from social networking giant Facebook and has instead pointed to Bing as being Google's main competitor. Schmidt has said that Bing is ‘doing well' and is owned by a company who has more cash and resources than Google and has …
Read More »Facebook facing worst downtime in four years
Facebook has not been having a good week, facing the second wave of downtime, the most it has faced in four years. This time it has been throwing out continuous error messages which was due to an internal system error. With a blog post they have explained the outage was …
Read More »Google arming to challenge Facebook
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google are holding talks with gaming companies with the aim to create a new competiting social networking service to go head to head with the ever popular Facebook. Google have been in discussions with the makers of online gaming which include Electronic Arts …
Read More »Facebook hit a milestone – 500 million users
Facebook are due to announce that they have managed to achieve a user base of 500 million users. This prediction was originally set earlier in the year when analysts judged that in 2010 they would hit half a billion users. Interestingly they have launched Facebook Stories – a ‘visual memorial' …
Read More »Facebook to protect children with new app
The all encompassing social networking site Facebook has agreed to use an application which should help protect the online safety of the younger userbase, according to a Reuters report. This application will appear on a user profile page when they add/bookmark it and it will allow children to report suspicious …
Read More »Facebook rake in $800 million during 2009
Looking back it is hard to believe that Facebook was a social networking concept dreamed up by a couple of friends in a Harvard dorm back in 2004. Latest 2009 reports released show that the platform generated $800 revenue which is well beyond expected results.More importantly profits were also reasonably …
Read More »Facebook enhance privacy settings – after pressure
Facebook have been under pressure lately to protect their users privacy and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has blamed the issues on ‘growing pains'. Mark was keen to point out that engineers and designers have been working hard in the last three weeks to improve privacy settings. “We don't pretend that we …
Read More »Activision is opening up a new studio with veterans from CD Projekt, Naughty Dog and Bungie
In a surprise move today, Microsoft has announced that it has actually opened a new games studio. Following on from last year's Activision Blizzard acquisition, Xbox allowed Toys for Bob to go independent. Now, a new Activision Blizzard studio is opening up to fill the gap. Elsewhere Entertainment is a …
Read More »Ghost of Tsushima PC DLSS 3 performance revealed
Nvidia has dropped its latest batch of DLSS titles. The big headliner this week is obviously Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, which gets an impressive performance boost with DLSS 3 on RTX 40 series graphics cards. There are a couple other games also getting DLSS worth noting. According to Nvidia's …
Read More »Ubisoft confirms Assassin’s Creed Shadows won’t require an online connection to play
Assassin's Creed Shadows was officially unveiled this week and players quickly learned that physical copies of the game will require an online internet connection to install. This led to concerns that the entire game would require an online connection but Ubisoft has now confirmed that this is not the case. …
Read More »Sapphire unveils special edition Frostpunk-themed RX 7700 XT graphics card
Sapphire is teaming up with the team behind Frostpunk to launch a special edition graphics card. The new Sapphire PURE AMD RX 7700 XT Frostpunk 2 Edition promises a unique look, including a custom backplate featuring the Frostpunk logo. Better yet, the graphics card comes with some exclusive extras alongside …
Read More »GeForce Now adds Palworld and more this week
Nvidia is back this week with another round of games for GeForce Now users. The cloud gaming service adds new games each week throughout the year. Today's update includes five new titles, including hit indie game ‘Palworld'. If you are using a Steam Deck, you'll also want to grab Nvidia's …
Read More »Rockstar co-founder’s ‘Absurd Ventures’ working on an ‘open-world action-adventure’ game
Rockstar co-founder, Dan Houser, officially unveiled his new media company, Absurd Ventures, in 2023. Shortly afterwards, the first two projects were announced, but neither were gaming-focused. Now, it appears that Absurd Ventures is beginning to work on its first game project, and some early details have been uncovered through job …
Read More »AMD will reportedly no longer distinguish branding between U, H and HS chips starting with Ryzen AI 100
AMD is apparently planning a major rebrand that will discontinue its HS, H, and U naming scheme for Ryzen Mobile CPUs. Instead, the company will introduce the “Ryzen AI” naming system for all next-generation SKUs, starting with the upcoming Strix Point series. That's according to a Lenovo China product manager …
Read More »AOC launches budget-friendly high refresh rate monitors for gamers
AOC has added two entry-level gaming monitors to its G4 line, replacing the previous G2 models. The 24G4XE and 27G4XE are designed with FHD resolution and a 180Hz refresh rate, catering to cost-conscious gamers or as an ideal secondary monitor. Available in 24-inch and 27-inch sizes, both models feature 1080p …
Read More »Ubisoft cancels The Division Heartland after three years of development
The Division Heartland was first announced in 2021, serving as a free to play spin-off to grow the franchise. While the game has had several playtests and even an extensive rework, it missed several potential launch windows. Now, Ubisoft has officially cancelled the project. Ubisoft has confirmed that The Division …
Read More »Nvidia and MediaTek are also reportedly working on a gaming handheld SoC
It seems Nvidia and Mediatek's reported collaboration is bigger than we initially thought. Following reports of a new AI processor in Q3 2024, it is now claimed that the pair are also working on a new SoC for gaming handhelds. The leaker XpeaGPU has added fuel to the fire by suggesting …
Read More »KitGuru Games: Why GoT Hits Different – Sounds, Sensations and Subtleties
With Ghost of Tsushima arriving on PC today, I have been looking back at Sucker Punch’s 2020 PS4 swan song and analysing exactly why I think the game managed to stand out from the crowd of open world titles, with this analysis discussing the purposeful and creatively-dense sounds, sensations and subtleties of Ghost of Tsushima...
Read More »Red Dead Redemption 2 returns to PS+ this month
Sony has revealed the next batch of games for PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium subscribers. This time around, we're getting a bit of a smaller drop, featuring ten games, most of which are older PS4 titles, but there are a few current-gen games in the mix too. Red Dead Redemption …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Shadows set for November launch, new trailer now live
Just as promised, today Ubisoft officially revealed Assassin's Creed Shadows with a lengthy cinematic trailer. As expected, the game is indeed set in Feudal Japan, and players will have a choice between two protagonist characters, one of which is Yasuke, the legendary African samurai. At the very end of the …
Read More »Intel Thunderbolt Share will make it easier to share data and more between two PCs
Intel is preparing to unveil Thunderbolt Share, a new technology that enables users to seamlessly share displays, keyboards, mice, and data between computers using Thunderbolt technology. This technology prioritises speed, security, and simplicity, hoping to set a new standard for connectivity. This solution facilitates quick and efficient PC-to-PC connections, allowing …
Read More »Microsoft is working on bringing more Xbox titles to PlayStation
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced plans to bring four previously exclusive games to rival consoles for the first time. So far, this has led to Hi-Fi Rush, Sea of Thieves, Pentiment and Grounded all going to PlayStation or Switch (or both in some cases). Now, it appears Microsoft is planning …
Read More »MSI and Patriot team up for high-speed Viper Gaming Xtreme 5 RGB DDR5 MPower RAM
Patriot Memory has collaborated with MSI to launch the Viper Xtreme 5 RGB DDR5 MPower series for gamers, overclockers, and power users. The partnership between the two companies resulted in the creation of memory modules with data speeds of up to 8000 MT/s in up to 48GB kits. The Viper …
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