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Google has announced that it has added a new content source to its real-time search feature: Facebook Pages.

(LinuxWorld.Com) Open-source collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange plans to open its e-mail inbox to messages from social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Open-Xchange wants to simplify dealing with multiple modes of communication by making them all accessible in its e-mail client, said Rafael Laguna, the company’s CEO. It plans to offer that functionality [...]

Facebook’s vision of becoming a utility that offers activities to keep people online for hours could set it on a collision course with the Web’s giants.

In recent days, the No.1 social networking company revamped its search engine and bought a start-up that some call a rival to hot micro-blogging service Twitter. It is also testing a stripped-down version of its service to boost growth overseas and is developing an electronic payments system.

For some reason users of social networks appear surprised by the rate at whichphishing attacks are appearing on social networks like Facebook. There is the belief among computer users that they can run from one platform, like e-mail, to the next platform, like social networking, to escape preexisting security problems.