Facebook denies losing users

Facebook has denied it is losing customers, saying it is “pleased” with growth, writes the BBC.

Figures from Facebook monitoring site Inside Facebook suggested that during May, the social networking giant lost six million users in the US and 100 000 in the UK.

But the social network, which does not usually comment on third-party statistics, questioned how it arrived at this figure. Other Internet measurement firms said they had seen growth over the same period.

Microsoft saw a sharp drop in malware infections that exploit a widely abused Windows Autorun feature almost immediately after it was automatically disabled in earlier versions of the operating system, reports The Register.

As measured by Microsoft's various anti-malware programs, Windows XP and Vista suffered 1.3 million fewer infections in the three months following February's retirement of Autorun, compared with the three months preceding the change.

By last month, attacks hitting Vista machines plummeted 74% and fell by 59% for those running XP.

Telecom regulators have been advised that allowing unused radio wave spectrum to be used for mobile broadband would benefit European economies by EUR54 billion over the coming decade, notes Computing.co.uk.

Harmonisation of the rules governing the 1.4GHz, or L-band, frequencies, enabling them to be used for mobile broadband, would improve the services on offer to business users and lower mobile costs across the board, according to a new report from telecoms analyst Plum Consulting.

Many European countries have restricted the use of 1.4GHz frequencies to broadcast, often for local digital radio services. However, the frequencies are often left unused.

Argentine football icon Diego Maradona is suing popular Chinese Web portal Sina and an Internet company for using his name and image to promote an online game, state media said, writes AFP.

Maradona is seeking 20 million yuan in compensation from Sina and The9 Limited, which designed the game “Winning Goal”, the Global Times quoted an official from the Beijing No 1 Intermediate Court as saying.

“The case was accepted yesterday [Monday],” said Chen Shi, a spokesman for the court.