Facebook trials vanishing posts

In this edition of the Worldwide Wrap, Facebook tests a feature that allows users to schedule the automatic deletion of their posts, and Google has become the latest to suffer an embarrassing security breach.

Facebook is following in the footsteps of messaging app Snapchat by testing a feature that allows users to schedule the automatic deletion of their posts.

The social network said the option, which offers expiration settings ranging from one hour to seven days, was "a small pilot" for its iOS app.
Via: BBC

Google became the latest company to suffer an embarrassing security breach when Russian hackers released the user name and passwords of five million Gmail users.

According to Russian technology blog Habrahabr, the compromised information was most likely gleaned via a combination of phishing expeditions and the use of weak passwords by Gmail users, rather than a compromise of Google hardware.
Via: Computing.co.uk

T-Mobile unveiled a new plan to offer free WiFi calling and texting to every customer. CEO John Legere announced the plans during the company's Un-carrier 7.0 event in San Francisco on Wednesday.

This means customers can make HD voice calls whether they are connected to a WiFi network or one of T-Mobile's towers and go between the two connections without the call dropping or otherwise affecting the quality of the call.
Via: Mashable

China's top Internet regulator publicly challenged the president of Qualcomm, saying half the company's revenue comes from China and that "we should make money together".

The comments on Wednesday from Lu Wei, China's minister of cyberspace affairs, come amid an investigation into the US chipmaker by Chinese antimonopoly officials. Qualcomm has said it is co-operating.
Via: Business Spectator

Two Mexican companies have sued Yahoo and law firm Baker & McKenzie in New York federal court, accusing them of engineering a conspiracy to avoid a $2.7 billion judgment issued by a Mexican court in 2012.

In a lawsuit filed on Thursday, Worldwide Directories and Ideas Interactivas said Yahoo and Baker & McKenzie enlisted the help of a senior Mexican judge and other court personnel to "corrupt the appeals process and overturn the judgement."
Via NDTV

People who logged in to their favourite Web sites on Wednesday may have noticed that things seem a bit slow. It's not a service outage or a shoddy connection, but a coordinated protest in support of net neutrality provisions in the US.

A group called Battleforthenet organised the campaign in which participating sites plaster their pages with simulated "loading" images and spinning wheels designed to mimic content being slow to load on the site.
Via: The Register