San Francisco - Facebook has overtaken MySpace to become the world's most popular social networking site with 132 million unique visitors in June, according to new figures from web tracking firm ComScore.
The study also found that Facebook's visitor growth far outpaced that of MySpace, with Facebook visits up 153 per cent on an annual basis, compared to just 3 per cent growth for MySpace. Other social networks showing strong global growth include Hi5 (100 per cent) Friendster (50 per cent), Orkut (41 per cent) and Bebo (32 per cent).
San Francisco - Eight people paid 1,000 dollars for an 'I Am Rich' iPhone screensaver application, which Apple removed Friday.
The 'I Am Rich' programme was one of thousands of applications made available to users of the iPhone 3G, since the new communications device was launched last month.
Apple allows outside developers to create programmes for the device, but they can only be distributed through an online Apple store after the company approves them.
San Francisco - A probe was launched Thursday into the deadly helicopter crash that killed eight firefighters and a pilot Tuesday night, as a survivor said a rotor hit a tree branch as the aircraft was taking off from a small forest clearing.
The crash of the Sikorsky S-61 was the deadliest firefighting incident in the US since 1994 when 14 firefighters were killed in a Colorado wildfire.
San Francisco - Nine firefighters died when a helicopter carrying them to help battle a wildfire in northern California crashed and burned in a remote forest area, the Federal Aviation Authority said Wednesday.
Four other people on board the Sikorsky S-61 military-style helicopter suffered burns in the crash and were hospitalized in serious to critical condition.
San Francisco - Networking giant Cisco reported a 4.4-per- cent rise in quarterly profits Tuesday as the company recorded its first-ever quarter in which sales topped
10 billion dollars.
The Silicon Valley company, the world's largest maker of the routers and switches that run the internet, posted a fiscal fourth- quarter profit of 2 billion dollars, or 33 cents a share. That's up from 1.9 billion dollars, or 31 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter as sales rose to 10.4 billion dollars from 9.4 billion dollars a year ago.
San Francisco - A forest fire that has blanketed Yosemite National Park in smoke threatens around 4,000 buildings near the California natural attraction, local media reported Tuesday.
Four days after the blaze broke out about 20 kilometres from Yosemite, firefighters had contained about 10 per cent of the place, which has destroyed 40 buildings, including 12 homes.
Nearly 3,000 firefighters have been deployed and were supported by aircraft dropping water and fire retardant.
San Francisco - Facebook has overtaken MySpace to become the world's most popular social networking site with 132 million unique visitors in June, according to new figures from web tracking firm ComScore.
San Francisco - Eight people paid 1,000 dollars for an 'I Am Rich' iPhone screensaver application, which Apple removed Friday.
San Francisco - A probe was launched Thursday into the deadly helicopter crash that killed eight firefighters and a pilot Tuesday night, as a survivor said a rotor hit a tree branch as the aircraft was taking off from a small forest clearing.
San Francisco - Nine firefighters died when a helicopter carrying them to help battle a wildfire in northern California crashed and burned in a remote forest area, the Federal Aviation Authority said Wednesday.
San Francisco - Networking giant Cisco reported a 4.4-per- cent rise in quarterly profits Tuesday as the company recorded its first-ever quarter in which sales topped 
San Francisco - A forest fire that has blanketed Yosemite National Park in smoke threatens around 4,000 buildings near the California natural attraction, local media reported Tuesday.
