Eight hundred million users are not enough. Facebook, the world's biggest social network, is now building profiles of non-users who haven't even signed up, an international privacy watchdog charges. According to Max Schrems, a 24-year old Austrian law student that raised his concerns with Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC), profiles for non-users are created by storing information such as email a ...

The success of Dr. Dre's Beats alerted the rest of the celebdom to the fact that there’s money in them cans. Now everyone from Justin Bieber to Quincy Jones to the estates of Miles Davis and Bob Marley have put their names on hardware. But are any of these headphones any good? Home audio and video magazine Sound & Vision recently conducted a review of the best and worst celebrity branded headphones. [ca ...

MC Hammer has launched a new search engine in a bid to take on Google and Bing. The 80s rapper, whose hits include 2 Legit 2 Quit and You Can't Touch This, has spent the last two years developing his WireDoo search engine. MC Hammer made a presentation at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco earlier this week that showed an early glance into his WireDoo project. Still in development, it is a "deep search" se ...

Black boys are one of England's worst-performing ethnic groups in schools. Only traveller children do worse at GCSEs. Although improvements have been made, last year just 40% of African-Caribbean boys achieved five good GCSEs including English and maths compared with the national average of 58.5%. Adolph Cameron, the head of the Jamaican Teachers' Association has said that black schoolboys can choose to per ...

During the three-day outage last week that affected data services for millions of BlackBerry users, Research in Motion (RIM) executives were focused on getting services up and running before talking about compensation. RIM Founder and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis issued an apology via YouTube on Thursday (13 October). RIM has so far made no announcement on any direct financial compensation. [youtube]http://www.you ...

When riots broke out in London on August 6, Charmaine Scott watched as a diverse group of people took hold of her hometown, smashing glass windows and setting buildings and automobiles ablaze. Amid the chaos, she noticed that talk about a racial backlash surged. The widespread discontent was being painted black by the media, even though it involved people of various races and ethnicities. "The depiction of ...

This month a new documentary called Dark Girls will make its debut at film festivals.  Made by Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry, two black American males, the film is about the shadism in the black community and how it affects black women in particular. By now you should know how Shades of Black feels about shadism, we’ve ranted about it enough. But Dark Girls takes a different angle. Rather than belittling ...

In celebration of Black History Month the British Library has released a new 2-CD set, Caribbean Roots, featuring some of the most significant Caribbean and black British poets of the past several decades reading their own work. The 2-CD anthology features recordings first issued by the British Library on cassette over twenty years ago, together with previously unissued live performances. Poets include Lint ...

Do African symbols in music videos have a connection to the illuminati? African symbols are misunderstood especially by conspiracy theorists. They are continually linked with the illuminati. Historian Robin Walker puts us straight on what some of the symbols mean and why people started to get things twisted. Did you know that right wing Christians in the united states are behind the phrase new world order? ...

Black History Studies is a social enterprise company which operates in the interest of the community by offering courses and events in Adult Education. They aim to empower the African and Caribbean community and enable them to develop self knowledge and identity through Black History and Culture. Black History Studies aim to provide a wide range of courses and activities which will provide people with the o ...