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Facebook Launches New App For Certain Feature Phones

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On Wednesday, January 19, Facebook launched a new mobile application. The new app is designed to facilitate data-free access with more than 12 phone carriers for 3 months. The application is called Facebook for Feature Phones. According to Facebook’s blog press release, the app is compatible with over 2,500 mobile devices from major companies like [...]

More Privacy Troubles Ahead For Facebook

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It seems like Zuckerberg is at it again, allowing Facebook to access even more of your personal information. Last Friday, Facebook announced it has modified its platform, making members’ home address and telephone number fully available to developers. It seems as though this information will be used for some useful programs, but if members aren’t [...]

Wife Sues Husband For Reading Her Emails

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The first case of domestic unauthorized email login is being due to be tried in February 2011. The case is being brought before the court by Michigan woman, Clara Walker. She claims that her third husband, Leon Walker, accessed her email without her consent. She further alleges through her lawyer that he used the emails [...]

Facebook Getting Ready To Enter China?

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Robin Li – owner of China’s largest search engine Baidu – were seen having an informal meeting last week. The meeting has led to rumors of the companies bridging the gap between Facebook and China. Facebook’s site has been blocked in China since 2008 by the Great Firewall, but Zuckerman has [...]

Google Continues Shopping Spree And Looks For Video Producers

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Next New Networks, an independent Web Video production company, is considering YouTube, a popular video site currently owned by Google, as a future investment.  Two potential investors were informed of the recent discussions stating that this business venture would be YouTube’s first major attempt at producing original content, proving its diligent goal to provide professional videos [...]

Auto-Tagging: Face Recognition Is Coming To Facebook

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Facebook is once again revolutionizing social media protocol by introducing face recognition tag suggestions. The tool will trawl through the billions of photos on Facebook to help identify friends of friends on the site. On average 100 million photos are uploaded every day to Facebook. The face recognition software will significantly reduce tag times for [...]

Facebook Briefly Unveils New Features By Accident

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On December 17, 2010 Facebook revealed several beta-phase features by mistake. One of the new features revealed was a renovation of Facebook Pages. The accidental update only lasted about 45 minutes, after which Facebook shut the site down and apologized on Twitter for the interruption of their services. Shortly after the site was reopened in [...]

Bing Reinvents Itself And Launches Many New Features

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The change that many have been waiting for has finally come to Micosoft’s search engine, Bing. The service has just undergone a major facelift. During a San Francisco conference Microsoft announced that they had implemented upgrades on Bing that will now put Bing up on the same playing field as Google’s Search Engine. Microsoft has [...]

Mark Zuckerberg Is Person Of The Year

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Time Magazine has announced its Person of the Year is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg’s main competition for the coveted title came from WikiLeaks front man, Julian Assange. Time awarded the honor to Zuckerberg in recognition of his achievement of connecting over half a billion people worldwide on his social networking platform. At 26, Zuckerman’s [...]

Is Anybody Actually Using Twitter?

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Recent survey has showed that the number of people actually tweeting has declined. Even though the number of avid internet users has been maintained, response to tweets has decreased. On a closer observation, twitters seem to have lost interest in tweets mainly because of the content. They do not spark the interest to be responded [...]