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A prisoner serving a seven-year sentence robbing a cash transit van has posted photos onto Facebook of him posing with fellow inmates.

Mobile phones and social networking sites are banned from prisons, but this didn't stop dad-of-six Adam Ali posting updates from his cell at Featherstone prison in Wolverhampton, the Birmingham Mail reported.

Some of his 384 friends complimented his lifestyle, with one saying: "Looks like a nice flat you got there.

"Is it one or two bedroom, make sure you lock the front door of a night.

"I've heard it's a bit rough in that area, full of criminals."

That is where he is serving a seven-year sentence for his part in robbing a cash transit van carrying 465,000 to Staffordshire's V Festival in August 2013.

Investigation: The prison will investigate the findings on Adam Ali's Facebook page

Jail bosses are now investigating the Facebook uploads, which were removed within hours of the Birmingham Mail contacting them.

Ali, from Cotman Close, Great Barr, was jailed last June for the robbery in which a van driver was taken hostage at Hopwood Service Station on the M42 by gang members wearing hoods and ski masks.

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Students facing their board exams have a new burden to tackle: social media.

The popularity of Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram and the smartphone revolution has seen more teenagers take to social networking. What was meant for communication is now an addiction, feels Prince Gajendrababu, general secretary of the State platform for the Common School System.

Many students are all too willing to give up social networking for now. WhatsApp is the worst because youre always checking messages, adds Pavithra Yamurugan of Good Shepherd.

However, others believe that apps can help in preparation. On Facebook chats, we compare notes about difficult chapters, says Mithila Iyer, a student at Lady Andal. My friend sent me important notes for an exam on WhatsApp which was of immense help, says Anirudh Bhaskanan of D.A.V.

Striking a balance is what is essential, according to Nirica Srinivasan of Sishya, Its possible to get distracted even without social media, she says, Ultimately, it comes down to how much self control you have.

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TruVu, a social networking app by TruVu Inc., launched an infographic this week that reveals the creation, uses and growth in GPS technology over time. TruVu uses GPS technology to locate and track friends and/or family, meet new people and communicate immediately. TruVu boasts that locating and communicating with friends, family and new acquaintances is now easier than ever.

We created this infographic to show how GPS technology has evolved over time. It started as a military tool for flying planes and now, almost forty years later, is used in TruVu as an innovative way to be social and safe, Said Beau Miller, Chief Operating Officer of TruVu.

The infographic is titled The Evolution of GPS Technology. It effectively outlines the origin of the GPS, as well as demonstrates the ways the Global Positioning System has been utilized over the years. It explains the different stages of the technologyfrom military use in the U.S. to civilian use around the world.

Leveraging GPS technology at the personal and social level has many benefits, said Miller. TruVu offers a new and exciting change to typical social networking. GPS technology is what makes it transpire.

The Evolution of GPS Technology is available for viewing at Appspire.me, a premier mobile app marketing agency, and at various locations online.

TruVu is available free for download on iOS and Android systems. For more information visit http://www.truvuapp.com.

ABOUT: TruVu is founded by Beau Miller and an enthusiastic team with the mission of providing ability for users to find each other and interact whether they are nearby or on a global basis.

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NEW DELHI: Social networking giant Facebook has paid over $3 million since 2011 to security researchers who report bugs on its website, with India topping the tally with the largest number of valid threats reported.

India, which has over 112 million Facebook users, cornered an average reward of $ 1,343 in the US-based firm's Bug Bounty programme.

"India contributed the largest number of valid bugs again this year at 196, with an average reward of $ 1,343," Facebook said in a post.

Egypt and the US followed at the second and third spots by volume, with 81 bugs and 61 bugs, respectively, and an average reward size of $ 1,220 and $ 2,470, it added.

The UK, which took the fourth spot in reporting bugs, earned the highest amount per report in 2014, receiving an average of $ 2,768 for 28 bugs.

The Philippines was at fifth, earning a total of $ 29,500 for 27 bugs, it said.

A bug is an error or defect in software or hardware that causes a programme to malfunction. It often occurs due to conflicts in software when applications try to run in tandem.

While bugs can cause software to crash or produce unexpected results, certain defects can be used to gain unauthorised access to systems.

"We've paid out more than $ 3 million since we got started in 2011, and in 2014 we paid $ 1.3 million to 321 researchers across the globe. The average reward in 2014 was $ 1,788," Facebook Security Engineer Collin Greene said in the post.

Sixty-five countries received rewards this year, representing a 12 per cent increase from 2013 and the social networking platform, which has a user base of over 1.39 billion, now has 123 countries reporting bugs, he added.

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Call it Goldman Apps.

A Goldman Sachs-backed messaging and social networking service is planning to roll out broadly to Wall Street by July, complete with its own app store for add-ons, The Post has learned.

The service, called Symphony, will allow workers across Wall Street to communicate with one another, and incorporates instant messaging, chat forums, Twitter and internal feeds.

While most of the chat rooms are focused on financial topics like Bitcoin or interest rates, theres at least one devoted to soccer.

A consortium of 15 banks invested $66 million in Symphony a standalone company and not a part of Goldman. The new service is widely seen as a way to reduce the banks reliance on Bloombergs expensive messaging and data terminals, which cost $24,000 per year apiece.

Symphony has more than 19,000 users at Goldman alone about two-thirds of the companys workforce, said spokeswoman Tiffany Galvin.

Symphonys other bank backers are also using the service, along with a few outside clients that are testing it, according to Mike Elanjian, a vice president in securities.

The program was the main focus of a weekend hackathon event at the bank behemoths lower Manhattan headquarters, where about 90 college students wrote code for programs used for everything from trading to company operations.

Symphony has attracted interest from banks in part because it allows internal compliance officers to police any talk among traders that could end up in embarrassing court documents, among other reasons, according to Wall Street insiders.

If you say the wrong thing in financial services, you can commit a crime, Paul Walker, global co-head of Goldmans technology division, told the students.

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