Tag Archive 'Facebook'
Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages
Posted in Barack Obama, Computer, Government, Presidential on Jan 22nd, 2009
If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past.
Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Obama officials ran smack into the constraints of the federal bureaucracy yesterday, encountering a jumble of disconnected phone lines, [...]
Virus Attacks Facebook ‘Koobface’
Posted in Computer, Facebook, Security, Technology, Websites on Dec 6th, 2008
Koobface, which already made the rounds on MySpace, is now worming its way through Facebook. The Koobface virus uses Facebook’s private messaging system to infect computers via a shared video.
Unsuspecting users will see a video link (shared by an infected friend) with the message, “You look just awesome in this new movie.” Click the link [...]
Employers Use Social Networks in Hiring Process
Posted in Business, Computer, Facebook, MySpace, Social, Surveillance, Websites on Dec 5th, 2008
More than one in five employers search social networking sites to screen job candidates, according to a survey of more than 31,000 employers released by CareerBuilder.com this week.
Of the hiring managers who use social networks, one-third said they found information on such sites that caused them to toss the candidate out of consideration for a [...]