Facebook investigates a series of spam on the social networking account that has spread since the last 24 hours.
The spam pornography and violent images. Facebook knows, spam, pornography and violence on the characteristics of news feeds.
Not yet known what triggers the proliferation of spam. Whether you have a virus or hacker passwords, take control over a number of stolen Facebook accounts.
A spokesman for Facebook said the company tries to protect users of social networking services from malicious spam content. "It is our priority," he said, as the Telegraph quoted, Wednesday 16 November, 2011.
According to him, to prevent the spread of spam, Facebook increases the system to isolate and remove suspicious material.
According to some users, pornographic material, which will include Bieber in the spam, vulgar pictures of celebrities Miley Cyrus and Justin. There are also pictures of mutilated animals.
Seroang security experts at Sophos, Graham Cluley, speed, spreading via Facebook spam that very offensive. "Looks like the spam trying to encourage Facebook users no longer see their accounts," he said.
In the demands made on the services of Mark Zuckerberg clearly prohibit pornographic content on the user account. The proof, some time ago, Facebook deletes pictures mothers breastfeed their babies.

Communications Manager Nokia Indonesia Jodie O'tania mentioned product with 2.6-inch touch screen has one-touch access to messaging, e-mail and social networks like Facebook chat and WhatsApp, directly from the main screen.
"Our marketing is aimed at young people, social media such as Facebook and Twitter. We call it a social game players. Chatingg also able to all users," he told Business Today.
Head of Marketing at Nokia Indonesia Susetio Lukman said the presence of Asha Nokia Nokia 303 into evidence a commitment for the next billion subscribers to connect to the Internet to their closer.
"With the launch of the first in Indonesia, Nokia confirmed its commitment to innovation and continued investment continues to devices and services that provide more intelligent and versatile. Designed for mobile phone users in Indonesia," he said.
Not only connected to the Internet, users can also have a free service of downloading music for six months since Nokia is in the hands of users. According to Jodie, users can download what he likes music in Nokia Music.
Asha Nokia 303 mobile phone Nokia's first S40 with the popular game Angry Birds Lite is equipped. Users can download thousands of applications, games, applications, and local information. For example, to Shazam identifies songs leawt Nokia Store.
Currently, there are already some local applications, which can be accessed by Mizan Publishing ebooks on the Nokia 303, like Bouncity, games and more Hundreds of Sexy Witch.
Phone with 3G connectivity and Wi-Fi is also available with Nokia Browser application, the time makes surfing the web faster equipped.
Asha 303 Nokia touch screen QWERTY is also full range of Nokia. Smartphones with the ability and the 1 GHz processor, Nokia Browser, Nokia Maps, Nokia Music and Nokia Life Tools is equipped.
Nokia Maps users to navigate with a local map, and can be used offline, so it does not require data connections.
Nokia Music also appeared for the first time in the Nokia S40 platform from Nokia Asha 303rd With the Nokia Music Nokia Asha 303 users can download unlimited songs for 6 months.
External memory support up to 32 GB, it enables consumers to carry your music collection. Not to forget Asha Nokia 303 has a 3.2-megapixel camera.
Besides Nokia Asha 303, had been pushed Dakota BlackBerry Bold 9900 features a touch-screen QWERTY keyboard for the promotion of upper middle class consumers.
Touch screen of 2.8 with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. BlackBerry Bold 9900 reinforced with 1.2 GHz processor, 768 MB RAM and 8 GB of internal memory memorri.

Rumors are related to the website, stating applications IOS mashable.com Facebook on the phone in circulation.
The site, on Thursday (24/11), indicating the model that reveals the early design, called Facebook phone Buffy and assembled by HTC. Facebook Twitter reports were addressed to characteristics that can develop to integrate a variety of mobile software interface.
Unfortunately, the new Facebook for the accuracy of the news confirmed in 2013. Buffy rated as the test results. Facebook effects on project competition in the market.
Facebook partners, namely Apple and Microsoft will see how they try to compete with integrated applications.

The Thai government asked the social networking site Facebook, contain more than 10,000 pages of pictures and writings are offensive to remove the kingdom in the country.
Insult of the Kingdom of Thailand is a serious offense in the country. Not long ago a court in Thailand to 20-year sentence for a man, four short messages (SMS) will be sending insulting the kingdom.
"We have announced Facebook and ask them for help, for offensive content that our monarchy is. There are more than 10,000 URLs that appear on the kingdom to remove insult," said Information Minister Anudith Nakornthap Thailand, Thursday (24/11/2011).
He says, should not Facebook users in Thailand prohibits the "Like" on page on the website. Facebook users are also asked to not comment is abusive kingdom.
In Thailand, who insulted the king, queen, heir, or the official royal surroundings can be sentenced to 15 years in prison for each offense.

Music fans disappointed that can last Wednesday the launch of Google Music only for the United States should take place in the heart: The service can be extended to other parts of the world.
And Singapore has said a Google spokesman me last week.
The new service for computers and phones rival Apple iTunes Music Store - is not officially open here - offered by 13 million copy-free MP3s for sale.
It also allows users to upload to 20,000 of their tracks online, for free, so they can hear their music on multiple devices.
But that's not all. Even more legal digital music services are on the horizon, what a happy problem for music lovers: Too many services to choose from.
A Nokia spokesman said last week that the Finnish mobile phone maker wants to bring his MixRadio music-streaming service - introduced on Tuesday - to Singapore in the future.
The service, which can create customized online radio stations based on your favorite songs and music genres, it is expected that Windows Mobile 7 on Nokia's mobile phones.
If the Windows Phone devices shutters come here until the end of the year Nokia Music app is in them, users can choose from one of "millions" of buying digital tracks for $ 1.29 each.
Late last month, SingTel also updated its Amped unlimited music download app.
It now adds unlimited music streaming for its more than 500,000 users.
StarHub and M1 are pay-per-download digital music stores for its clients.
By the end of French music site Deezer is expected that a paid music streaming service, start here for Facebook.
Back in May I reported that could RDIO and streaming services Spotify coming to Asia within a year, thanks to Universal.
What would all this augurs for consumers like you and me?
For one thing, brands such as Spotify, Deezer and RDIO already known by the consumers here, especially among the youth, said Ms. Nikki Chee, marketing manager of music marketing, events and licensing company Swat Enterprises.
"Move (So) a plan from these companies in Singapore will undoubtedly be met with enthusiasm," she said.
And if past price wars, judging from the competition in the technology sector after, you could see, digital music services offer better value at the time.
This could mean lower prices, more attractive bundled offers and promotions, or both.
Other services can also be driven to offer discounts or other improvements, such as exclusive tracks and bump up user-friendliness (some suffer from clunky user interfaces) are.
Ye Olde brick and mortar music stores is likely to develop in order to survive.
Ms Chee said physical music stores, new technology and lifestyle experiences continue to include "will grow in stature."
But she said that businesses can not ignore the increasing demand for music on vinyl format and value-added services such as collectors of memorabilia and access to singers.
Some stores like HMV continues to give customers the chance to meet their idols.
Since opening its new store at Marina Square 11th November, has organized a meet-the HMV-fans session with American singer Greyson chance.
But some digital music services like SingTel Amped already intervene in this area with access exclusive artist.
It will certainly be more difficult to compete for the physical business, as more and more digital services to make their way here with its various offerings.
Nevertheless, nothing can quite beat browsing CD racks, complicated opening music packaging and take in the brilliant album cover.
The question is: How can this experience be made more exciting and still not married to the convenience that digital tracks to bring?

Connecticut divorce judge ordered the couple to share their Facebook and other passwords for online accounts, which underlines the importance of social media are the media in cases the Family Court.

The judge issued an order in response to revelations of her husband, his wife wrote the incriminating message on Facebook about their feelings towards their children, and her ability to care for them on a public computer pair. My wife Courtney Gallion was also ordered to give passwords for eHarmony and Match.com her bills.
In March, the American Academy of matrimonial lawyers found 80 percent of divorce cases include social media reports, mostly from Facebook, as evidence in the past five years. And the evidence may go beyond the written opinion on the photos that users include in their profiles.

"I saw a picture of a baby in front of a coffee table with bags of marijuana, whiskey bottles, and a big pile of money," said Janice Davidson, director of the Marion County Domestic Relations Office consultation on the station. "We have called Child Protective Services and got them involved so they can make sure that the child was protected."

Administrative Law Judge Ellen Bass ruled today comments Paterson, New Jersey-based teachers, addressing the students of the school as "future criminals" in the message disappointment, "demonstrated a complete lack of sensitivity to the world in which her students live." Bass Master recommended to be removed from her full-time position.

Lawyers are not the only ones spying on the Internet. Police, prosecutors and health insurers are increasingly mining social media for evidence to prosecute crimes and investigate fraud. Lawyers more sifting through messages, and postings on social networking sites to even determine the selection of jurors.

Some might see the order the judge in the case as Gallion court sanctioned compromise, but others see it as reasonable request for relevant piece of the puzzle court family. Despite this, the court next craze of the population with the technologies and the decision as it sees fit, and the increasing prevalence of Facebook and social media will ensure that the subject is likely to be a court fight will be in the future.

Facebook has reached an agreement with the FTC, which can be ratified in the next few weeks. The settlement comes in response to concerns about the management of Facebook privacy, and will mandate and the new practices and regular inspections of confidentiality.
When it comes to complaints of Facebook, privacy is often at the top of the bill. This was especially true since December 2009, when Facebook released a basic user information - including name, photo, location, and gender of users - all users without permission. In response to this choice, the interested Facebook users joined with an electronic data center security, to lodge a complaint with the FTC.
Although Facebook has made some changes to its privacy policy, these changes alone are not sufficient. In terms of currently proposed settlement, Facebook will have to get your permission before they expand the visibility of any user posted content - including images, information about the users and posts. Facebook would also provide for privacy audit by a third party, within the next 20 years.
Although Facebook has been in discussions with the FTC for quite some time, Facebook was trying to minimize the claim. The party who is familiar with the situation in particular, noted that Facebook insisted that only five years of audits, not 20. Facebook has since given in. As the Wall Street Journal, a powerful incentive to compromise, an initial public offering is expected next year; Facebook may be trying to clear an open question FTC, so that it does not hang on this IPO.
The proposed settlement will be voted on in the coming weeks. Although it is likely (in view of historical precedent), it simply is ratified, it is likely that settlement will be sent back for revision.FTC cracks down on digital privacy
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, commented on the confidentiality of the site. "It is becoming increasingly important to be more obvious, and to give people the controls," he said. "I do not think we're at the end."
This is certainly true that privacy is becoming a higher priority for digital companies, at least in part, due to FTC to crack down on digital privacy. Social networks seem to be major sites of concern. Google and Twitter, and settled with the FTC for complaints regarding social functions, Google admitted to its mistakes with the privacy of Buzz and presented to 20 years of inspections, and safety lapses found twitter to make profiles more vulnerable and presented to the 10-year audits.

On this, he noticed a giant scroll. Hundreds of sheets of paper were glued together and rolled up. "What is it?" He asked. "This is a profile page, Sam Lessin, the" said Mr. Zuckerberg. "He printed it."
Sam Lessin, the designer, the latest recruit Facebook. He wanted to make a remark about his new employer. He printed page after page of his profile is Facebook, enough to stretch the length of the office.
He claimed that the sea of ​​information on changes in the status of the feasts to the happy birthday messages, was actually hidden - all headings of a button on the website under the title "old messages".
His profile was impossible to sift through.
It was a turning point. The leaders decided that even though Facebook was great at helping people communicate with each other, it was awful on the priority that the data for allocating vital (your wedding photos) from the frivolous (thoughts on TV last night).
To solve this problem, Facebook began work on the most radical restructuring in the seven-year history. The changes were announced in September, but in the next few weeks, they will be considered for 800 million Facebook users worldwide.
The company claims that the changes were aimed at improving their experience for users. But the influential financial analysts say it will also give Facebook treasure the personal information that it can be used to make billions in profits.
And the move has forced the leading privacy groups are concerned about the direction that Facebook is taking, to tell The Times, that they would take the company to court.
When a radical change in Facebook was announced at the company's F8 developer conference, Mr. Zuckerberg, the company co-founder and CEO, said: "We believe that this is an important step to help tell the story of his life."
They include the "Timeline", a feature that reconstruction of a profile page that allows people to reveal information about his past, when there was no Facebook, for example, children or the end of the snaps.
There will also be the introduction of "ticker" stream of updates, which tells your friends what you are doing at this very moment.
The ticker is working through a process called "friction of exchange." It is here, if the users consent, they will automatically communicate with your friends. Friends know that you're listening to a track Coldplay, or reading an article about Factor X, or purchase a pair of trainers.
Facebook stresses that the automatic exchange of data will occur only if the users "opt in". They can turn off the system at any time. But experts agree that the changes will lead to people who share more about themselves on Facebook, than ever before.
"If I can tell all your friends what music I listen, I get to see what my friends listen to," said Dan Rose, Facebook, vice president of partnerships and marketing platform. "I get to discover new music. It's a win for me."
Facebook also explains that the changes reflect the next stage in its development, it is the concept of "open graph" - the relationship between people and objects. Originally Facebook was trying to express these relationships with "Like" button, something you clicked if you happy that you have read, hearing or eyesight while surfing the Internet and would like to tell your friends.
"This year we added a verb," ​​said Ethan Beard, director of Facebook developer in a recent speech in London. "I just do not" like "The Godfather, I can actually" watch "The Godfather, or" speed "Godfather".
Facebook says that the head of its mission to make the Web more social and useful to users. But leading analysts have argued that financial considerations may also help explain the metamorphosis.
"The new development will enhance their ability to target audiences," said Nate Elliott, senior research analyst Forrester. "They have this huge amount of data on which marketing can target your advertising."
The company claims that it never sells stocks or personal information to advertisers. Instead, he helps companies focus their goods to the right people.
For example, an advertiser on Facebook can reach people based on their age, sex, residence, hobbies, favorite movies - a huge list of variables. Nevertheless, the system needs of the users voluntarily put information about yourself first.
Facebook insists, however, that none of the recently announced changes to the "open graph" will be used as part of its advertising system. Spokesman added: "We never ruled this out, but our focus is on getting out of Timeline".
The company also explained that she wants people to see relevant advertising - messages that may be useful, but not "billboards on the roadside."
But Mr. Elliott warns: "I think that Facebook users would be reasonable to assume that any information they share on or through Facebook, will eventually be used by the company in some way."
Industry sources say that Facebook is under pressure from investors to improve its advertising system. Revenues facebook, largely by advertising, were $ US1.6 billion ($ A1.57 billion) in the first half of this year.
This compared with $ US800 million a year earlier, but much less than expected by some investors, who value the company at $ 70 billion.
And, despite the amount of time users spend on Facebook, the company is expected to capture only 6.4 percent of total spending on Internet advertising this year, according to eMarketer, a research company.
Facebook said that commercial considerations do not matter, when the company is planning new developments on the site. But Mr. Rose said: "Consumers are increasingly on the Internet and they are on Facebook Of course, we think this is a huge opportunity.".
When it comes to trust Facebook with this repository of our preferences and tastes, not everyone is convinced. In the past few days, reports suggest that the company reached an agreement with U.S. regulators over charges that Facebook mislead its users to use their personal information, the company was forced to submit to an independent audit of privacy for 20 years as a result.
Facebook said that he is well aware of privacy considerations. When managers advertise Timeline, they emphasize the features that allow people the priest his page in fine detail - as part of their profile accessible for a small group of loyal friends, while other parts are made fully public.
These policies are not enough for some. In the UK, caused by the recent moves by Facebook, Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, said it would take legal action against Facebook, in light of alleged breaches of confidentiality.
"It's not what we want to take legal action against them, it's just that we were forced into this situation in the company and ineffective regulators," Mr. Davis said. "Facebook continues to see privacy as a burden that can endanger the profit potential."
He added that he spoke to privacy groups in 30 countries, covering USA, Canada and Europe, hoping to take joint action.
Meanwhile, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner - who was asked to look into the company, Facebook, European headquarters in Dublin - began the audit practice of the company.
EU rules provide for the right for people to remove the personal data, held on the Internet. But now all of the information posted on the website is stored on servers Facebook, forever.
In response, Facebook said in a statement: "Facebook is not only fully complies with EU data protection laws, but we also believe that every Facebook user owns their own data, and should have easy access to it."

Ilya Zhitomirsky, one of the founders of Facebook-alternative Diaspora, died Saturday night at the age of 22.
Press Secretary Office of the San Francisco medical examiner has confirmed the death of Zhitomir on FoxNews.com, initially reported Sunday popular technology news blog TechCrunch. He could not confirm reports that a young man committed suicide.
Confirmation of the final cause of death could take weeks, he said.
Peter Schurman, a representative of the Diaspora, declined to comment on specific details, but acknowledged the death of Zhitomir. "We are very sad that Elijah died," Schurman said FoxNews.com.
New York University graduate struggled to run their own social network Diaspora - an open source social networking Zhitomirsky began to build with classmates Dan Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg and Raphael Sofaer early last year. Their goal was to provide alternative idealist Facebook with an emphasis on user control and privacy.
The team struggled with money, as he worked to make its website, despite rapidly raised $ 200,000 in funding through venture capital and microfinance Kickstarter run after the shows in New York Times.
But a blog post on the company's October 12 followers requested more money, the company claims that PayPal was "mysteriously and illegally" freeze donations to the site. PayPal reportedly released funds.
The founders of the site described the diaspora as a "distributed network, where a completely different computers connected to each other directly, will allow us to connect without surrendering our privacy." Last year they released the first version of the site for a limited audience.
Team effort even attracted the attention of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who donated money for the project. "I think it's cool people are trying to do it," he told Wired. "I see a little bit about yourself in them. It's just their attitude that the world could be better, and say:" We should try to do it. "
Friends and fans gathered at Twitter to mourn the death of a young entrepreneur.
"It's very sad #, I would also like to team @ joindiaspora force," said one fan.
"Shocked and deeply sad for the whole world that my friend @ zhitomirskiyi, co-founder of the Diaspora, is dead ... The world needs his voice," said Mozilla interface guru Aza Raskin

I was so in an important report for the office that I forgot responsible deepened on my laptop at the time. So if the battery is drained, I can only exclaim frustrated because I not able to save a portion of this report.
I just got a movie in my phone and did not notice that the battery was almost empty. When I remembered I had a call to make my daughter, it was the mind only when I needed it!
In my pilgrimage to the Holy Land two years ago, my digital camera ran out of battery when I said in the dungeon-like area in Caiaphas' house where Jesus stayed alone for the night before they razed to Pontius Pilate for Judgement was wanted to document. Bummer! It was an emotional place for me and I could my own photo, while it has!
In this fast paced world it is almost everyone concerned to keep the batteries are always charged to their electronic devices. We even have an extra battery in tow, because if the batteries run out, it's how our day is incomplete.
But we also know with the same degree of importance in terms of charging and recharging our spiritual batteries? Frankly, it should be even higher than the mundane devices that we have.
We want to always stay connected via mobile phones, instant messages, Facebook, Twitter, etc., but you know the best life possible, is to be lived on earth, still connected to the word of God.
Knowing God through His Word in the Bible, and come before him to pray, talk, meditate, reflect or simply remain silent are ways to fully charge our spiritual batteries.
We are always in danger of running out on our batteries when we come up with many problems and difficulties to contend. Our spirits are crushed. We are frustrated, disappointed and worried. To some people, not their burden can not, suicide is the answer.
Too bad. If our spiritual batteries were running low, because we have to deal with our problems, we put them back! Time to recharge!
If our lives are recharged, our minds are renewed, and our souls are fed, we will work sometime during each day is not correct, as a dead cell phone, a digital camera or a laptop useless powerless.
In Romans 12:2 (New Living Translation), we are reminded: "You no longer correspond to the pattern of this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind then you will be able to consider and approve what God's will. is his good, pleasing and perfect will. "
I went one night to pick up my daughter. Suddenly I realized I had not my driver's license with me. And night of nights, it was a police checkpoint in front of us. A policeman asked me to stop, and before he can ask for my license, I asked him to pass me, because I had to rush my daughter to the hospital. He let me go.
I should be happy because I escape the punishment, but I felt so bad that I called my daughter and told her I could not pick up more. I went back home.
I told my daughter the whole story, though it shames me as a mother, because I recognize it, that a lie will lie. I even told her I would go to confession to this. And I really knew the next day.
Tsk ... tsk. I know I have a lot of work to do to win God's favor. I am far from perfect, but still a work in progress. "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).
As long as there is breath in us still weaknesses that need to be circumcised. Therefore we have to have to recharge our spiritual batteries fully and renew our minds to think of heaven over the world.
As sorry for our sins, and humbly come before God to ask for forgiveness are some ways to recharge our spiritual batteries. I know that when I collect my misbehavior continues, one day I'll fall flat on my face just like a battery drain phone useless and empty.
The one you call us and wants to use us, is God. It is our Lord, who with an "out of power" or "unusable" signal will be confronted by us.
We can not miss all the benefits of His Word in our lives every day. It is the best shop our minds need. Did not Jesus say that in Matthew 4:4 - "Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God's"?
Today I am less judgmental, less proud and less egocentric. I'm more patient, loving, considerate, careful and give more. But all this was not by my merits, but by the grace of God. And I know what God wants me, because I read his words and try to do my darn best to follow them. This is spiritual charge.

Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission is reportedly close to a settlement on a complaint regarding the company privacy policies.
In December 2009, the Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a complaint with the supervisory authority to the social network to "simplified" privacy policies that were changed was "unfair and misleading."
The center found that some specific settings "private by default" to be restored, including name, current city and friends.It wanted to Facebook, the privacy settings that users can not follow the disclosure of personal data to third parties to restore.
In the two years since the original complaint EPIC has continued to Facebook's privacy policy practices in question, claiming that the company does not change in accordance with the agreements that many of its users when they create their signed statements.
Facebook is in her heart, a tool for the exchange. But it has some changes to how messages over the network to introduce levels of sharing of individual contributions, the user more control over who can read what it means to share, but they also have more menus and options on a regular working basis. The changes are many who use the site confusing.
EPIC Executive Director, Mark Rotenberg, said the group does not agree with how tweaking Facebook's privacy settings - particularly in relation to what information it shares, by default - created and pointed to the chart below, from Matt McKeon to how much information to show the public is by default.
The settlement, according to the Wall Street Journal would, it is obligatory for Facebook to get an okay from its users, before they were "material retroactive changes" to comply with the Privacy Policy. The company would also have the third annual audits of its privacy policies, which would report it in the 20 years further communicated.
The company has already been efforts to allow users to know about their privacy options and controls.
In an interview with Charlie Rose, said Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, "the most important privacy do what we do." The
In this interview granted to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, that have the privacy settings to develop, as Facebook has appeal to a wider audience. When the company was started, he said, technically savvy users an intuitive understanding of how sharing worked on the site. But now, he said, "it is becoming more and more important, more clearly, and give the people control. And that's what we're trying to do. And I do not think that we in the end."

The New Car Dealers Association of BC has welcomed the provincial government of $ 17 million green-gold mine, announced last weekend.
The programs include point-of-sale incentives for the training of new clean energy vehicles, discounts for home charging stations, infrastructure funding for public charging stations and new funds for the successful BC SCRAP-IT program.
From 1 December will get eco-car buyers up to $ 5,000 from the beforetax price when buying or leasing a qualifying new battery-electric, fuel cell, plug-in hybrid-electric or compressed natural gas vehicle.
The $ 7.5-million Clean Energy Vehicle (CEV) Point of Sale Incentive Program is an initiative of the BC Ministry of Environment, LiveSmart BC and the New Car Dealers.
"BC new car dealers have to win closely with car manufacturers a new Clean Energy Vehicles to the BC market," said Blair Qualey, president and CEO of the New Car Dealers Association of BC
"The CEV rebate program is an important step in this process."
Vehicles currently covered by the CEV Incentive Program, the Chevrolet Volt, Mitsubishi iMiev include, Nissan Leaf, smart fortwo and Toyota Prius. Also included are the fuel cell technology models like the Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-Cell and compressed natural gas cars like the Honda GX.
Expect vehicles to qualifying for the discount are as little as $ 300 per year in hydro costs compared to costs upwards of $ 1,500 per year to fuel a gas-powered car.
Not surprisingly, Nissan was the first manufacturer to praise the initiative. Its all-electric sheet starts at $ 38,395, so that the full discount would make a big difference in sales.
"British Columbia was the first province to fight in an agreement with Nissan Canada to electric vehicles as the best way to vehicle-related CO2 emissions give support. We are so glad that accessible zero-emission cars like the Nissan leaft, to even more people through this program, "said Ian Forsyth, Director or Corporate Planning and Business Strategy, Nissan Canada Inc.
(This sheet is reviewed at the next Friday in motion.) More than $ 6 million in provincial funding was also used for charging stations and upgrades to hydrogen filling stations to existing facilities, as well as a discount of up to $ 500 per qualifying station announced for homeowners who want to install charging stations at home
And another $ 2.5 million in new funding from the BC SCRAP-IT Program, an initiative that placed a high polluting vehicles off the road available.
SMART DRIVING CROSS-CANADA
Intelligent Canada put its cross-country tour concluded in Quebec this week with its pure electric car.
The pan-Canadian journey began in Victoria in mid-June, and asked the travel available to more than 2,000 Canadians with the opportunity to test drive its zero local emissions-free smart fortwo electric drive.

Nearly two-thirds of Britons do not want to be bothered by big name brands on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, according to a survey.
The survey of more than 72,000 Internet users indicates that the Britons less susceptible to online marketing news and blog posts as corporate web users in different countries.
In Great Britain, 61% of Internet users do not want to engage with brands in social networks, according to market research company TNS, compared with 57% of other developed countries and a low of 45% in Latin America.
However, the research highlighted a wide digital divide in attitudes towards the cost of Internet access. Almost half the people in rapidly growing markets - including Egypt, Nigeria and India - said they would use the Internet more if it was less expensive. In Africa, 81% of respondents agreed and 71% in Ghana to Nigeria with that.
One fifth of the British in the 2093 survey agreed that social networks are a good place to buy products are compared with the global average of 40%. A further 60% do not agree that social networks are a good place to learn about brands were. The Digital Life study was conducted between June and September this year by TNS.
The study comes as brands such as Pepsi, Tesco, Burberry and give millions of pounds in an attempt to promote dialogue with the business people on-line drive.
Facebook is expected to generate $ 2.8 billion in advertising revenue in 2012, according to a study by eMarketer, while Twitter assumes, to pull in $ 234m. Google, the most money from the advertising, the search results, is expected to generate $ 16.5 in advertising revenue next year, according to eMarketer.
Web users in fast growing markets are open for dialogue with brands in social networks, according to the survey.
Only a third of Colombians and 37% of Mexicans said they would prefer to not be harassed by Brand - compared with 61% of Britons - and 59% of users in fast growing markets, said social networks were a good place to start over to inform companies and products.

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission are nearing a settlement over fraudulent practices in connection with multiple Facebook features, including their privacy settings informed by two people on the settlement, who spoke anonymously because FTC have commissioners have not approved the comparison .
Under the agreement, Facebook would agree to privacy audits for 20 years, said one of the people. It would make for a ban on Facebook in public a piece of information that a user had originally privately shared on the Site without the express permission, the person said.
But Facebook would not be necessary to ask users whether they want to participate in all the sharing features on the site, including future tools that it builds.
A Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes, and FTC Spokeswoman Claudia Farrell, declined to comment.
The settlement is part of a broader push the FTC to protect consumer privacy online.
In March, Google and the F.T.C. agreed, 20 years of data protection audits and other measures after an investigation into deceptive privacy practices in connection with Buzz, his ill-fated social networking tool. It was the first time the F.T.C. Had charged a company with such violations and imposed such regulations. Last year, after a F.T.C. Investigation into two vulnerabilities, agreed Twitter, a privacy program.
For Facebook, which said it voluntarily made its privacy settings easier to have in the past 18 months, the settlement comes as it tries to smooth the way for an IPO.
"This is part of the balancing act has Facebook done," said Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy. "It must also satisfy the privacy complaints in the United States and Europe prior to the IPO"
But Mr. Chester expressed doubt that the settlement would appease critics of the Facebook data-collection practices.
"The real test of the FTC's Facebook deal will be whether the user does not have control over their own information, or if this is a tiny digital bump on the road, which is nothing to derail Mark Zuckerberg insatiable appetite to devour our data effectively," he said.
Facebook is under fire from its users, privacy experts and politicians for the signature block for people new features on the site, instead of asking, they come first.
For a year and a half, the F.T.C. Facebook has been pushing to provide granular privacy controls, so that people can choose to share or to certain parts of the private information they publish on the site, according to a person in the talks would only speak anonymously involved.
Facebook has since added new tools, such as one for sharing with small groups of friends on Facebook and one to change the privacy settings for specific information on the website, the most important pages, rather than on a separate page settings.
The settlement addresses several complaints that the FTC has received from organizations like the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
It focuses on privacy changes that Facebook made in December 2009. Although the company said then that the new settings, the settings would simplify that Facebook users found confusing, they are automatically a host of information that had previously been private, exposed, including profile photos, sex, friends lists, and current city. Facebook also removed the ability to opt out of some features.
After a public outcry, Facebook May 2010, the amount of information that users are required to stock companies, and restored the ability to opt out of certain tools.
The settlement also deals with other Facebook features, the FTC said were deceptive, including a program for the grant applications from outside the Facebook programmers label, which ended in December 2009, one of the people said.
Several people informed on the settlement, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, said it would not be completed in the next few days.
Facebook also the privacy investigations in Europe, including one introduced in Hamburg on its photo recognition tool, in the last year, which identifies and proposes tag friends in photos.
In a statement Thursday, said Johannes Caspar, the Hamburg data protection officer, that the negotiations with Facebook had in vain, and that he intended to take legal action.

Facebook Inc. is close to a settlement with the U.S. government on charges that it misled the people about its use of their personal data, the latest sign of expansion of public concern about privacy in the digital age.
According to people familiar with the talks would have to be fulfilled to Facebook users' consent before they are "material retroactive changes" in order to obtain its privacy policy. This means that Facebook needs to get the consent to data in a way which could be used as the user data is originally agreed to share.
The pact, the only final approval from the Federal Trade Commission has the potential to far echoes expected. Myriad online services and companies are developing sophisticated tools for monitoring the behavior of people online and benefit from the personal information they provide. In recent months, the FTC has already signaled that privacy is at the top of its enforcement agenda.
The social network with 800 million users worldwide has repeated complaints from users that they faced changed policy to disclose more of their personal data without adequate notice of the company.
The settlement stems from changes Facebook made its privacy settings in December 2009 to aspects of the user profile such as name, image, city, gender, and buddy-list by default to make it public. At the time, described Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, the changes as "simpler model to control for data protection."
Users complained and several privacy advocates, led by the Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a complaint with the FTC, alleging the changes were unfair and misleading.
Under the conditions discussed, the agreement would provide Facebook to independent privacy audits for 20 years, said people familiar with the matter.
Facebook Moving to dispel privacy comes as speculation about a possible IPO next year, the company with up to $ 100 billion value could grow.
Facebook executives have said nothing publicly about the timing of an IPO. But the company is rapidly approaching an April 2012 deadline for the applicable securities laws, it would require public financial results file. In recent months, Facebook has its own policy team that privacy and other government spending handles redesigned.
A person familiar with the matter said the settlement does not require Facebook users explicitly agree to any changes on the website.
This person said that the agreement prohibits Facebook from the provision of information already available on the website for a wider audience than previously thought, without the express written consent. In general, the settlement does not dictate how Facebook user consent is obtained for new functions.
The Facebook settlement is part of a wider government push to keep companies to store more personal responsibility for the data they collect and trade. The FTC last year called for the development of a "do not track" system that would make it easier for Internet users to protect their Internet activities from outside snooping. The Obama administration has a "Privacy Bill of Rights" that would regulate the commercial collection of user data online called. And the legislature more than a dozen privacy introduced in Congress this year.
The scheme would probably put Facebook on the same level as rival Google Inc., which agreed a similar agreement with the FTC earlier this year.
In March, Google agreed to a "comprehensive privacy program" to develop and submit them to outside inspection every two years for 20 years if it is due to FTC false, as it were located using personal information. The FTC accused of telling Google Gmail users that the information would only be used for e-mail, but he also a social networking service called Buzz.
Twitter Inc. also agreed external audit, after the FTC, the microblogging service accused of "serious misconduct" in their data security practices after hackers broke into accounts, including one belonging to U.S. President Barack Obama. Twitter agreed to carry out safety checks every other year for 10 years.
People familiar with the matter said FTC commissioners are likely to vote on the proposed settlement in the coming weeks. They could approve, or take it back to the FTC staff and Facebook for changes that would be unusual. An FTC spokeswoman declined to comment.
"The FTC has made it clear that it strengthens the enforcement of" the protection of privacy, said Lisa Sotto, Partner and Head of Global Privacy and Information Management Practice at the law firm Hunton & Williams. "Companies would be well advised to pay attention to this trend and to implement programs include privacy, the general evaluation of their privacy practices."
Facebook has changed its privacy settings several times, including reverse some of the changes is made in late 2009.
In response to the initial uproar, Facebook made other changes as well. In May 2010, makes Facebook's privacy settings for users. In October 2010, it offered a tool to allow users to leave information with just a group of others.
And in August 2011, Facebook began more prominently displayed privacy controls on a user's profile page. In addition, users can now control who can see each post.
It is not clear how many of Facebook's privacy changes included in the FTC complaint against the company.
Include an example of new approach of Facebook is the new timeline feature, the events in a user's life before he or she is on Facebook. Mr. Zuckerberg said last month that the users have seven days, introduced after the function to manually edit or delete them to share their entries before the timeline with their Facebook friends.
A point of negotiations between Facebook and the FTC was required over the length of time a third party to the company's privacy settings would revision, said one person. Facebook wanted was just five years, the FTC and a 20-year commitment.
Facebook eventually agreed, 20 years, said the person.
In an interview with Charlie Rose, said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the company is working to make it easier for people to control their privacy on Facebook.
"There is more and more important, more clearly, and give the people control," he told the Web site's privacy settings. "I do not think that we in the end. I think we need to go, that they be kept simple and easy, but that is our mission."