Sunday, February 5th, 2012 3:22 pm

Facebook asks for articles of incorporation to verify sites

Palo Alto (ip-192.com): Facebook is now asking some users and corporations to submit articles of incorporation, business tax filings, business licenses, or copies of utility bills to confirm a page. The social networking service that has more than 800 million active users does not say how it will use and protect such sensitive information, who [...]

Facebook: German State bans “like” button

Kiel (ip-192.com): It’s not all love in Germany when it comes to Facebook. The Data Protection Commissioner’s Office (ULD) in the State of Schleswig Holstein warned companies to use the service and recommended that institutions shut down their fan pages on the social networking site and remove social plug-ins such as the “like” button from [...]

Virtual world: Digital replaces real content

Pittsburgh (ip-192.com): Digital imagery, Facebook updates, online music collections, email threads and other immaterial artifacts of today's online world may be as precious to teenagers as a favorite book that a parent once read to them or a T-shirt worn at a music festival, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers say. The very fact that virtual [...]

PUE: Measurers to make data centers green

San Francisco (ip-192.com): In a major breakthrough, government agencies in the U.S., Europe and Japan agreed earlier this year to recommend an industry measure called Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) as a worldwide standard. PUE was developed by the Green Grid Association, a Portland based group of IT vendors and users that promote resource efficiency in [...]