Facebook may be a major player in the social networking boom that is helping to drive California’s economy, but the State Legislature is becoming wary of how the website operates with respect to minors. A new bill in the California Senate, SB242, would require Facebook and websites like it to enable users to establish privacy settings before they post any data online. It would also allow parents of children under the age of eighteen to demand that the site remove personally identifying information about their children, and force the site to comply within 48 hours.
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The prolific Cuban jazz trumpeter and pianist performs at the Heritage Theatre in Campbell on Friday, May 20.
Twitter, just as much as Facebook, is widely said to be behind the uprisings across the Middle East. Newt Gingrich used Twitter to launch his presidential campaign. And then there is Sarah Palin, who tweets about the President every time he changes his underwear. People are made famous just because of their Twitter-appeal. So who’s the biggest Twitterati of them all? As of late Saturday night, it was Lady Gaga.
Facebook is, undisputedly, the reigning champ of social media, but could some other company pull the rug out from under it and replace it at the top of the heap?
Yahoo owns 39 percent of Chinese-based internet group Alibaba, so its announcement that it knew nothing about Alibaba’s transfer of its Alipay third-party online payment platform left investors feeling uneasy.
Five reasons to look forward to the work week: Buddha and the Quantum, Songwriters Competition, Benjamin Henderson and Hurricane Roses, Prince, Arturo Sandoval.
Hurricane Roses are a polished throwback to the days when country music still resonated of down-home living, crying and dying.
A San Jose man suspected of fatally stabbing another man before fleeing the area is currently in a Santa Barbara County hospital. Police said the suspect either fell or jumped off a highway overpass.
The victim of a stabbing in San Jose earlier this week succumbed to his injuries Thursday night, and a man who is in a hospital after falling or jumping from a highway overpass in Santa Barbara County on Wednesday is a suspect in the murder, police said today.
After a rocky start, the Food Forward Road Trip is finally underway. Finances aren’t fully in place, there are repairs still needed on our Airstream, one of the beds keeps collapsing and the trailer needs new tires, but my family and I are officially out of our house and living in the trailer full time.
Facebook recently owned up to security flaw, but now there is word that the company hired a PR firm to launch a whisper campaign claiming that Google leaked information too.
