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The Amber Alert-Facebook partnership in New Brunswick continues to grow. Since the association was announced last July - the first of its kind in the world - membership has jumped from an initial figure of 14,000 to more than 30,000. "I think that's awesome," Amber Alert co-ordinator Cpl. Todd Chadwick of the Miramichi Police Force said Friday. Amber, which stands for Atlantic Missing Broadcast Emergency Response, was developed in the United States following the abduction and murder of nine-year-old Amber Hagerman, near Dallas, Texas, in 1996. By using media outlets, police can quickly disseminate a victim's name, his or her description and information about the suspect and vehicle being used. With Facebook now part of the mix, that same alert information can now be sent to more than 30,000 Facebook members across the province, substantially increasing the chances of quickly ending an abduction, Chadwick said. There are 500,000 Facebook accounts in New Bru

An online fan page for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was vandalized with racist images and messages on Monday's national holiday. The Facebook page for the legendary civil rights leader contained photos that used the N-word and depicted African Americans as slaves and monkeys. "Sadly, hate groups have never gone away, and the Internet gives them another way to spread venom," said Steve Klein, the spokesman for the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta, which owns the page. Klein said the defacing of the fan page was not the first online racial incident to come to the attention of the King Center. "This happens a lot, but I don't think those hateful words or pictures represent a large group of people in the United States," Klein said. "I just wish more people spent Monday remembering Dr. King's dream, not spreading online hate." The racist imagery sent shock waves through the online community. "These devils won't even l

San Francisco: Facebook has backtracked over a new feature that would have shared users' addresses and mobile phone numbers with developers of applications on the popular social networking site. Facebook announced the change late Monday night just three days after the introduction of the new feature was met with howls of protest from privacy advocates. The new feature appeared whenever users installed a new application. In the past, such actions prompted a menu in which users were asked whether they wished to share personal details such as their name, picture, friends lists and other general information with the application provider. Under the new system, the same menu also asked users to share their contact information, without providing any extra warnings about the possible perils of doing so. Privacy advocates immediately blasted this omission, and to Facebook's credit, the company acted quickly to close the security loophole by disabling the new feature. &quo

Most major credit card issuers now offer their members a variety of different free insurance programs. It is highly recommended that you review the insurance terms of your credit card agreement as in certain circumstances the credit card insurance offered by your card issuer may cover situation beyond those you may originally have thought. The major credit card insurance programs offered include: Purchase protection If you purchase a product on your credit card that is later damaged, lost or stolen, you should be able to reclaim all or part of the purchase price cost from the insurance policy. Not only is this a useful protection to have if you purchase expensive or fragile products, but can also be a very good additional insurance to any home contents insurance policy you have. Fraud protection Policy covers you should you be the victim of fraudulent use of your card. With the rise of identity theft, and the ever increasing Internet fraud taking place, this policy not only c

The forex market involves the trading of currencies and is the largest financial market in the world with an estimated daily turnover of $1.5 trillon dollars. This is 30 times larger than all the US stock markets combined. The forex market is open 24 hours a day 5 days a week. Historically, the FX market was available mainly to major banks, multi-national corporations, and other wealthy participants who traded in large transaction sizes. Now, however, with the advent of the Internet and new technology, forex trading is becoming an increasingly popular investment alternative for the general public. More and more investors are moving away from the traditional markets and turning to forex trading for many reasons.: Earn a full time income from a part-time effort starting with as little as $300 in your account. Begin with a demo account until you feel comfortable opening a live account Lower margin requirements for trading forex, usually about 1% which equal $1000 for a $100,000 co

Nobody much likes bankers nowadays, and I'm no different. I also try to maintain a healthy skepticism about the surging value of social media companies, since the nascent social media market has many characteristics of a bubble. So it feels odd to be sticking up for Goldman Sachs following its Big Fat Facebook Flop. But this fiasco -- however satisfying it may be in terms of schadenfreude -- strikes me as another instance of pointless, counter-productive regulatory intervention. Or rather, non-intervention: it appears that Goldman backed off its plans to help Facebook sell stakes worth as much as $1.5 billion in a private offering following hints that it would run afoul of regulators at the Securities and Exchange Commission. No one knows exactly what the lawyers said to the lawyers, behind closed doors, but the gist was that Goldman may have violated SEC rules by vigorously promoting the planned sale earlier this month and attracting media attention. In any event, whatever was s