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• Facebook hit by new iPhone spam attack

  Facebook users are being warned about a new spam scam that tries to tempt users into visiting a website with the promise of a free Apple iPhone.

• Top reason for Facebook unfriending: Too many useless posts

  The No. 1 reason why friends dump friends on Facebook is when they get fed up seeing too many useless posts, according to new research out of the University of Colorado Denver Business School.

• Facebook improves photo uploader, image quality

  Facebook is revamping its photo album functionality, letting members store images with a much higher resolution, simplifying the tagging process and improving the performance of the upload tool.

• How to keep your kids safe on Facebook

  Boasting 500 million users worldwide and still growing, Facebook is now ubiquitous. Because of its popularity, minors have jumped onto the social media bandwagon, too, and they use networking the same way adults do -- to share pictures, connect with friends, organize events, and play social games. And that can be a problem.

• Facebook clone for the enterprise created by Yammer

  Yammer, which launched two years ago as a Twitter clone for the enterprise, is now revamping itself with a new platform that looks almost exactly like Facebook.

• California bans malicious online impersonation

  A new law makes it illegal in California to maliciously impersonate someone online.

• Facebook may be considering IPO after 2012

  Reports are circulating on the Internet that Facebook executives are a few years away from taking the company public.

• News quiz: The week in tech

  Got a Facebook phone? If so, either you've got a lot of company or none at all, depending on which Internet rumors you believed this week. In other news: Twitter got hacked, the RIAA and MPAA were attacked, HP and Oracle buried the hatchet, and Mark Zuckerberg just joined the big kids' table. Are you ready to dazzle us with your geeky brilliance? Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer. Now let's get started.

• Facebook rolls out new page Browser

  We can browse in bookstores. We can browse the web. And now we can browser Facebook.

• 6 Facebook, Twitter mistakes that can get you fired

  Travis Megale is happily employed. A regular Facebook user, he knows how to use the site appropriately and what NOT to say or post. Unfortunately, many Facebook members do not. Job termination due to behavior on Facebook seems to increasingly be in the headlines. A recent survey from email security firm Proofpoint finds seven per cent of organizations have fired an employee because of activity on social media sites. Another 20 per cent said employees have been disciplined over social media activity. It's statistics like this that inspired Megale to launch his Facebook group "Fired because of Facebook."

• Facebook phone rumors persist but Zuckerberg denies device

  The so-called Facebook Phone is again a hot topic on the rumor mill, courtesy of a Bloomberg report, but Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg continued to deny the speculation, saying there are no plans to build an iPhone competitor.

• Facebook outage caused by database glitch

  Facebook went offline for the second time in two days yesterday. The Thursday outage -- which lasted more than two hours for some users -- is a tale of a database control gone awry and illustrates the need for effective testing and change control procedures.

• Facebook outage spotlights social media addiction

  After Facebook went down on Thursday, one thing was certain: People don't like to go without their favorite social networking site.

• Facebook CEO unveils foundation, $100M donation

  Following a day of frenzied reports about an upcoming $100 million donation to a struggling school system, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday the creation of a new foundation called Startup: Education.
  

• Facebook apologizes for worst outage in four years

  Many Facebook users were unable to access the social networking site for up to two and a half hours on Thursday, the worst outage the website has had in over four years, Facebook said in a posting.