Yahoo Sues Facebook With Patent Lawsuit

Yahoo has just begun a litigation lawsuit against giant social network Facebook, claiming that they have been infringing over 10 patents that belong to Yahoo.

Twitter Buys out Blogging Site Posterous

Twitter has bought itself a small blogging site named Posterous on Monday for an undisclosed sum.

Twitter Recieves $300 Million from Saudi Billionaire

Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal the Nephew of the Saudi king Abdullah, who is a Saudi billionaire with an estimated net worth of $19.6 billion, who has recently just been listed as one of the wealthiest Saudi Arabian at the same time as being the 26th richest individual in the world.

Facebook Hacker Admits In Court

A software development student from York has appeared in court charged with hacking into Facebook.

A New York software development student has appeared in a British court for hacking into Facebook. Mangham was charged in August with offences relating to the Computer Misue Act, including three counts of unauthorised access to computer material, unauthorised acts with intent to impair the operation of a computer and making supplying or obtaining articles for use in an offence.

Facebook CEO: Mark Zuckerberg Private Photos Leaked

A recently Facebook Flaw allowed user to view 14 photos that belonged to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The images were copied and placed on the Bodybuilding.com forum under the heading "It's time to fix those security flaws Facebook" along with instructions on how to replicate the photo gathering process.

Facebook Top Status Updates of 2011

Facebook Status updates can get on your nerves, make you happy, make you laugh, comfort you and make you sad. But whatever kind of status’s we all write, we do love a good status update. Facebook has released a new announcement  on the Facebook blog, and there is a list of what the world has been talking about in 2011.

Facebook buys Gowalla?

Apparently according to sources Facebook had been made an offer by a company that is a rival to the mobile company Foursquare.

New YouTube Homepage

YouTube has now released its biggest redesign since YouTube begun. It has a redesigned its homepage with a brand new easy, usable style.

On YouTube’s new blog which it officially recently announced, has said that the new YouTube homepage is split into three sections which, in many ways, feels familiar and mirrors the way Facebook operates.

Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1 ban lifted in Australia

Yes it seems that it’s now Samsung 1 – Apple 0, as Samsung now have the ability to sell its Galaxy tablet 10.1 in Australia. This is a big step for Samsung in the patent battle of 2011, as is might sway other countries where it is banned to start lifting the ban.

Facebook Smartphone Buffy In The Running?

Facebook may be soon be releasing their own branded smartphone with its own logo. The smartphone is rumoured to be made by HTC and will be codenamed Buffy, but the name could always change, as I don’t know about you but all I can think about when I hear the name Buffy, is Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and I don’t want to think of that when I think about my highly sophisticated smartphone.