Byte size news: Big party blooper not acceptable

Kids, this is why you don't put party details on Facebook.
One naive German teenager planning her 16th birthday ended up with 1600 guests after she accidentally invited them all using Facebook.
More than 15,000 people accepted the invitation to her evening party so the teen fled her home before they arrived. Just a fraction of those invited showed up - 1600 - to find 100 police patrolling the house.
Why the mass invite? The teen had forgotten to mark her party as private.
Eleven were arrested after some acts of violence which police said were because of the large amounts of alcohol being consumed outside the house.
Vita-lity for gamers
So the big announcement has been made.
Sony is to bring out its Vita - the portable gaming platform to take over from where the PSP will leave off.
Its New Zealand price tag and date of release haven't been revealed yet but the 3G Wi-Fi model will be £299 ($592) when it's released in Europe at the end of the year.
The official release says the Vita will have a "beautiful 5-inch multi-touch organic light-emitting diode (OLED) as the front display and a unique multi-touch pad on the rear".
Shooters, action games and fighting games are catered for with two analogue sticks.
Rather revolutionary, however , is its Party mode, which will allow users to either voice chat or text chat while gaming online.
Tag, you're on
The heat is on Facebook after it launched its "Tag Selections" feature.
Tag Suggestions uses facial recognition software to match newly uploaded photos to photos that have been tagged elsewhere and suggests the name of the friend in the photo for tagging.
An American blogger got the uproar going because the feature pushes your friends into tagging you.
"Facebook does not give you any right to pre-approve tags," the blogger said.
"Instead, the onus is on you to untag yourself in any photo a friend has tagged you in.
"Many people feel distinctly uncomfortable about a site like Facebook learning what they look like, and using that information without their permission."
The company said the feature was intended to make it easier to tag friends.
"We launched Tag Suggestions to help people add tags of their friends in photos; something that's currently done more than 100 million times a day," a spokesman was quoted as saying.
The feature can be disabled by going through the social networking site's privacy settings.
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