Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

Face­book Con­ver­sa­tions Used As Evi­dence In Exam Cheat­ing Case

August 25th, 2009

Two Bel­gian col­lege stu­dents have been flunked for cheat­ing on their writ­ten exams, get­ting zero points for two courses because they had report­edly been caught exchang­ing responses dur­ing the tests. Notably, the deter­min­ing evi­dence used in the case came straight from Face­book con­ver­sa­tions held by the two stu­dents and some of their friends […]
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The New MySpace Mail Qui­etly Emerges As A Big-Time Email Competitor

July 30th, 2009

We’ve been cov­er­ing the new web email project MySpace has been work­ing on in stealth mode for the past sev­eral month. Now it’s ready to begin a quiet roll­out today, in beta, for users around the globe.

Here’s why this mat­ters: Right off the bat, MySpace Mail with a sexy new inter­face is a major player in the e-mail space based on sheer size alone. With nearly 130 mil­lion global users, it will enter the field as the 4th largest email provider in the world, and 2nd largest in the U.S. (see chart). And it’s being built on top of the MySpace Mes­sag­ing ser­vice that plenty of peo­ple are already using a lot — it accounts for some 20% of MySpace’s site traf­fic, we’re told. [ ]

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