Facebook users who want to access the social-networking service on the go, but don't have smartphones, now have an app of their own in some countries.
On Wednesday, Facebook introduced a mobile app for feature phones, the less-expensive, Internet-capable phones that far outnumber smartphones in many parts of the world.
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230,000 patient records exposed

A server storing sensitive patient information for more than 230,000 people was breached by unknown hackers so they could use its resources to host the wildly popular Call of Duty: Black Ops computer game.
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In a cautionary tale for users of social-networking sites, a California man has admitted using personal information he gleaned from Facebook to hack into women's e-mail accounts, then send nude pictures of them to everyone in their address book.
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A few months ago, Google announced that it would be speeding up release cycles for Google Chrome. Since the team was already churning out new versions at an unheard of pace for desktop software many wondered less whether Google could do it, but why would it want to in the first place.

In the mean time, the Chrome team has indeed been getting new releases out there every six weeks, like the accelerated schedule required. But, of course, six weeks is not enough to get much done, so each new version doesn't really bring major improvements, rather just a number of new features.
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It showed that one in eight of young people aged between nine and 16 have received messages of a sexual nature while surfing online or through their mobile phones.

In addition, more than half – 52 per cent – go online when they are in their bedrooms on in a room alone, making it hard for parents to monitor what they are doing.
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THE PRUDISH government of Indonesia has got Research in Motion (RIM) to bend over and filter pornographic websites as part of an agreement that will give it access to encrypted customer data.
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