The social network Facebook is releasing a new method for accessing your account when you lose your password: a little help from “trusted friends.”
The social network says it is testing a new tool in the coming weeks that will let you designate three to five friends you trust.
If you forget your password or can’t access [...]

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) yesterday  announced that the Uplinq™ 2012 mobile developers conference will be held June 27-28, 2012 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront hotel.
Geared to provide software developers writing for multiple operating systems a cross platform view of how to exploit.
The complete hardware software system in today’s leading mobile devices and to foster [...]

Facebook has begun building a data center in Lulea, Sweden, where it will benefit from cheap electricity and year-round free air cooling, the company announced Thursday.
Lulea is on the edge of the Arctic Circle, and has a mean annual temperature of around 1 C, with average summer highs of around 20 C, allowing Facebook to [...]

Flash based games are growing with advent of Facebook gaming and the massive success it has garnered over the past few years.
But the constraints it has on developers makes for not the best looking games.
That all changes now, because Epic, through their mysterious sorcery, has Unreal Engine 3 running on Flash Player 11.
Tim Sweeney, Epic’s [...]

According to Nielsen in the US, online gaming accounts for 10.2% of time spent on the Web,  says Sergey Golovanov, Malware Expert at Kaspersky Lab.
“Such a statistic certainly provides proof to the fact the online gaming is a growing industry that, in our experience, turns over impressive revenues each year.
The world of online gaming moves [...]

On Monday,  Facebook confirmed to The Hill that it had officially filed paperwork with the Federal Election Committee to establish FB Pac, which will allow it to legally funnel donations to candidates and political parties it favours.
The point of Facebook has always been to make friends. Now it wants to buy some more so long [...]

In other words, over two-thirds of the global user base of social networks will use smartphones and other mobile handsets to access the services.
Social networking will soon become a predominantly mobile activity. The number of people accessing social networks from mobile phones will exceed 550 million in 2011, and that figure will more than triple [...]

Adobe released the latest iteration of its consumer photo and video software, version 10 of Photoshop Elements (pictures) and Premiere Elements (movies).
Perhaps the most interesting addition to Elements photo editing is a “guided edit” for changing an image’s depth of field by blurring the background.
This isn’t completely new capability  you could do this in earlier versions [...]

Safety has always been a social experience as friends and family, we look out for each other and pass along advice to help each other stay safe.
Safety on Facebook works the same way. By keeping each other informed, people make Facebook a more trusted environment.
Until now, it hasn’t been easy to choose exactly what you [...]

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has accumulated more than 5 million subscribers, thanks to a simple trick.
Facebook rolled out a Subscribe button. It allows a user to follow anybody’s public updates, regardless of whether they’re Facebook friends. This one-way subscription model is like following somebody on Twitter or adding somebody to a Google+ Circle.
While some users [...]