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The robust browser best suited to low-powered phones or slow connections gets a social networking and news reading boost through Opera's Smart Page.

Solid Facebook support and links to webapps like Gmail are the key features of Opera Mini's "smart" Home page.

A single new feature called Smart Page is the capstone to Opera Mini 7.5 for Android (download), finally bringing to Android Mini fans a feature that iOS Mini got back at Mobile World Congress in February.

Launching today, the Smart Page is a single-serving site from which people can check their social networking feeds, news sites, and recommended links based on their region. The social networking feature works with Twitter, Facebook, and the European social networking vKontakte.

Opera Mini is best known as a cross-platform browser that offers "Turbo," a compression option that can reduce bandwidth use by up to 90 percent. It's a good option for people on rate-limited mobile services.

Somewhat confusingly, the Smart Page is actually labeled as the Home tab, and it resides next to the Speed Dial tab.

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Posted on September 20, 2012, Thursday

KUALA LUMPUR: The emergence of social networking websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, has helped government agencies such as the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) to communicate and promote their services and activities to communities that they serve.

Bukit Aman public relations officer DSP Lai Lee Ching said, the new media had been used to educate young people and the general public in efforts to fight and prevent crime all over the world.

Therefore as an appreciation, PDRM will celebrate the second anniversary of using Facebook as well as the first anniversary using Twitter tomorrow via online, Lai told Bernama when contacted here.

She said, the police were using the social network as a platform to reach out to the younger Internet savvy generation, posting updates on high profile cases, tips for crime prevention, and updates on key community policing initiatives.

She also acknowledgeed the fact that social networks such as the Facebook and Twitter, were great tools for solving crimes and they also created space for police to share information about themselves with the public.

The police use these media connections to keep the public informed about unsolved crimes and post valuable information such as surveillance videos on the web, she added.

Moreover, the younger generation played a vital role in using social network such as Facebook and Twitter, she said.

The social media offers us (PDRM) an outlet to communicate with and educate the public, as well as form relationships with community members and to fight crime, she said.

The Facebook profile page is http://www.facebook.com/PolisDirajaMalaysia while the Twitter profile page is http://www.twitter.com/PDRMsia.

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Social network helps police to communicate with people

Though perceived by their supporters to have been unfairly shut out of Facebook, the Winklevoss twins -- who settled their dispute with Mark Zuckerberg for tens of millions -- are moving on, and the latest recipient of their money and talent is SumZero. "These two brothers were the vision behind Facebook," said investment analyst Trip Chowdhry. "That is the converged opinion about Facebook's origins."

Brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss -- famed for their dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over the formation of Facebook -- are trying their hand at the social media space again. They have invested US$1 million in SumZero, a social networking site founded in 2008 by fellow Harvard alum Divya Narendra, who also had a hand in bringing Facebook to life.

The Winklevoss twins sued Zuckerberg, alleging he stole the concept of Facebook from them. Narendra supported the twins in that legal battle, which was eventually settled out of court.

Now the three are collaborating again, although SumZero has little in common with Facebook beyond the fact that they are both social networking sites. SumZero is a professional network for hedge fund, mutual fund and private equity executives. It aims to facilitate contacts among its members, including the sharing of research and thought leadership papers.

The site boasts that nearly every well-known fund is a member, including Greenlight, Pershing Square, and Weiss Asset Management.

SumZero represents a variation on the social networking theme, said Trip Chowdhry, managing director of equity research at Global Equities Research.

While Facebook and other sites of its ilk aim to be all things to all people, vertical sites such as SumZero target select groups of people, he told the E-Commerce Times.

LinkedIn follows this model with its focus on solely on professional ties. Other sites focus on specific verticals or industries; a number of them have proliferated in the health information space, for example.

SumZero stands out in that it has been successful in maintaining itself via a subscription model. It charges $129 per month for the elite membership, a sum that buys two investment ideas each month, live discussions with SumZero hedge fund managers, coverage and analysis on certain issues, and other investment-related opportunities.

"We don't like to compare ourselves to traditional social media outlets," Narendra told the E-Commerce Times.

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Internet access is everywhere, mobile and frequent, and social media is attracting younger and younger demographics. According to a study by the Pew Research Center examining the behavior of teenagers online, 76 percent of teens are currently active on social networking sites. Additionally, Facebook has a reported 93 percent usage rate among teens. With this high usage rate demonstrated by the younger population, an enhanced and innovative content moderation system to ensure the safety of those users is needed now more than ever. In accordance with the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Acts rule that children must be older than 13 years old in order for online companies to gather personal information, social media networks are enforcing the strict age limit of 13 and older; however, results from a Consumer Reports study show that an estimated 5.6 million children under the required age limit are on social networks. The current solution for protection relies primarily on human supervision. ImageVision, however, amplifies this approach by offering technology capable of regulating more online material faster, in a cost-effective manner and without compromising accuracy or thoroughness.

Our technology scans for nudity and illicit content in videos and images as well as inappropriate text in real-time, which simply cant be done manually, said Steven W. White, president and CEO, ImageVision. We are able to give social media networks the ability to protect their advertisers and brand with a fast filtering process without breaking the bank, which can ultimately lead to a more enjoyable and safe experience for all subscribers.

ImageVisions advanced filtering solutions ensure the safety of young users joining social networks by discarding inappropriate material in accordance with community terms of service at a faster rate than the human moderation technique that many popular social networks deploy. ImageVisions technology allows social media networks to reduce the need to rely primarily on manual processes. This could help these companies cut their content security expenses by more than 70 percent.

By replacing human moderators, social media networks serve their users more efficiently and slash costs, said White. ImageVision is changing the game in terms of how social media companies moderate content. As the first company to provide automated, real-time filtering of images and video in addition to text, ImageVision sets the new standard for speed, accuracy and volume of content that can be moderated.

Recently securing Series B funding, ImageVision plans to continue enhancing the way content is kept safe and improving the social media experience for young users. Additionally, the funding will be used to increase technology development staff by 33 percent, as well as boost sales and marketing support in South America and the Asia-Pacific region over the next year.

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Influx of Younger Social Media Users Proves Need for Enhanced Protection from Illicit Visual Content

Posted on September 19, 2012, Wednesday

KUALA LUMPUR: The emergence of social networking websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, has helped government agencies such as the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) to communicate and promote their services and activities to communities that they serve.

Bukit Aman public relations officer DSP Lai Lee Ching said, the new media had been used to educate young people and the general public in efforts to fight and prevent crime all over the world.

Therefore as an appreciation, PDRM will celebrate the second anniversary of using Facebook as well as the first anniversary using Twitter on Friday via online, Lai told Bernama when contacted here.

She said, the police were using the social network as a platform to reach out to the younger Internet savvy generation, posting updates on high profile cases, tips for crime prevention, and updates on key community policing initiatives.

She also acknowledged the fact that social networks such as the Facebook and Twitter, were great tools for solving crimes and they also created space for police to share information about themselves with the public.

The police use these media connections to keep the public informed about unsolved crimes and post valuable information such as surveillance videos on the web, she added.

Moreover, the younger generation played a vital role in using social network such as Facebook and Twitter, she said.

The social media offers us (PDRM) an outlet to communicate with and educate the public, as well as form relationships with community members and to fight crime, she said.

The Facebook profile page iswww.facebook.com/PolisDirajaMalaysiawhile the Twitter profile page iswww.twitter.com/PDRMsia.

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