Tech Report: Baby Boomers Drive Social Networking's Popularity
Among Baby Boomers aged 50 to 64, 32 percent say they use a social networking site on a typical day. That's up from 20 percent a year ago.
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Among Baby Boomers aged 50 to 64, 32 percent say they use a social networking site on a typical day. That's up from 20 percent a year ago.
Facebook is increasing the size of photos that people post to its website and making them load twice as fast as before.
Tuesday's magnitude 5.8 quake was felt across office buildings and sidewalks along the Eastern Seaboard. Their West Coast peers, more used to such rumblings, promptly started making fun of them.
Facebook has announced a number of changes to the social networking website that has privacy advocates thrilled.
Zynga Inc., the maker of popular online games such as "FarmVille" and "CityVille," is being sued for patent infringement by a Texas gaming startup.
Facebook has stopped letting pharmaceutical companies disable the comment section on its site.
Social networking site Facebook has launched a messenger application for iPhone and Android smartphones to help users stay in touch.
The texts sent via BlackBerry Messenger that have that helped rioters organize on the streets of London and other cities across England since the weekend pose a challenge for law enforcement.
Facebook officials will work with California prison officials to shut down accounts set up by inmates who use smuggled cell phones to access the social network, and even stalk their victims from inside prison.
Facebook seems to be experimenting with some changes to the News Feed at the same time the site's longstanding "You Know You're From ..." groups...
One of Facebook's leaders is urging parents to let their daughters play video games because it is one way to close the gender gap in computer science.
A Northern California man who trolled women's Facebook pages searching for clues that allowed him to take over their email accounts was sentenced Friday to more than four years in state prison.
Silicon Valley tech firms are looking to entice and keep workers on the job with some freebies.
Quick on the heels of Google's launch of its latest social-networking venture, Facebook is rolling out video calls. It's powered by Internet phone company Skype.
Facebook has scheduled what it's calling an awesome announcement at its Palo Alto headquarters Wednesday morning. CNET Editor at Large Brian Cooley speculates on what this could be.
You may have seen it all over. Everyone is doing it. Why? "Just Because". It's called "planking". It seems to have started with Australian high school students and then blew up...
Police in Menlo Park are investigating three separate thefts of copper wiring this month from the future headquarters of Facebook.
Online search leader Google Inc. is taking yet another stab at social networking, as it tries to go up against Facebook in this wildly popular and lucrative segment of the Internet.
Dozens of small business owners flocked to San Jose city hall Thursday to learn how to grow their businesses using social media.
The Harvard University classmates of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg are ending the legal battle made famous by the Hollywood movie "The Social Network."
A new report claims that for the first time, people are spending more time using mobile apps than browsing the web.
It's the news Facebook fans have longed to hear. The wait for an official iPad app appears to finally be over.
Facebook, it turns out, isn't just a waste of time. People who use it have more close friends, get more social support and report being more politically engaged than those who don't, according to a new national study on Americans and social networks.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center has announced plans to file a complaint with federal regulators over a Facebook feature that scans photographs and identifies users' faces without their consent.
California lawmakers on Thursday rejected an Internet privacy bill for a second time after heavy lobbying from Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites that objected to more state regulation.
