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It is a bit awe-inspiring to sit back and look at the five year Facebook trajectory. From a few colleges, to now more than 350 million users. Facebook is a global force in an of itself.
Mark Zuckerberg has just annouced , via an open letter, that Facebook will be rolling out a number of new ...
Online
Redmond is claiming that “[Microsoft] the company has found those reports to be inaccurate and our comprehensive investigation has shown that none of the recently released updates are related to the behavior described in the reports.” So said Christopher Budd, Microsoft’s ...
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Microsoft
In October of this year URL shortening service, Cligs , announced it would be shutting down. Today, it begins a new life with news of its acquisition by social bookmarking service Mister Wong .
Cligs, launched in 2008 and has gradually transformed itself into a URL shortening service, real ...
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New York has just fired 3,500 of its convicted sex offenders from MySpace and Facebook, highlighting both the prevalence of convicted sexual deviants online, and New York’s desire to clean the internet.
Of course, this will both terrify and provide solace to the parents who have ...
Online
MySpace
In his tirade against free news, Ruport Murdoch recently threatened to remove his portfolio of his sites from Google’s search index.
While it created a stir online, few, myself included, thought he may actually go ahead with it. Today it appears he may have done.
According to Trend ...
Online
Rupert Murdoch
MySpace
IGN
After 80 years of ownership of the business magazine, McGraw-Hill Cos has officially sold Business Week to Bloomberg, and the acquisition completed today.
The purchase price wasn’t disclosed, but people familiar with the matter say Bloomberg agreed to pay nearly $5 million and take ...
Other
Just a few weeks into Microsoft’s biggest product launch cycle in years, Windows seems to be having a bit of a problem following a security update.
The excellent TechFlash has reported that there is widespread, but not endemic, reports of screens going mostly black after completing ...
Software
Microsoft
Windows 7
In support of World Aids Day, Twitter has done a Google and transformed its homepage to reflect its support for the campaign.
AIDS has killed more than 25 million people between 1981 and 2007,and an estimated 33.2 million people worldwide live with HIV as of 2007, making it one of the most ...
Online
A teacher has become the first person in the UK to be appointed as a “tweeter in residence” for a town.
Mike McTimoney, or @TheDarloBird , will use Twitter to keep the town on top of news and events in Darlington.
McTimoney, of the town’s Queen Elizabeth sixth form ...
Online
Twitter 360 is an iPhone app that lets you visually see the flow of tweets from locations nearby, layered on top of your natural “real” environment.
Thanks to to the iPhone’s video camera and Twitter’s new Geotagging feature, you’ll see live Tweets pop up based on your ...
Online
iPhone
A spammer who was responsible for 1/3 of the world’s spam at one point in time, has been fined $16 Million by the US Federal Trade Commission.
The fine is in relation to his role in the generation of over 10 Billion spam emails a day spruiking prescription drugs.
Lance Atkinson, a New ...
Hardware
Let’s start with a disclaimer: The company behind the app discussed in this article is owned by our own Ralf Rottmann.
Though we honestly believe it’s a cool new service for the iPhone, we thought we should let you know! With that out of the way, here we go:
GrandCentrix , the ...
iPhone
iPhone
Dustin Moskovitz, a Facebook co-founder has landed a nine million dollar round of financing for his startup Asana , which focuses on enhancing workplace productivity.
The round was led by Benchmark, with participation from the quite active Andreessen-Horowitz group. Asana is currently still ...
Online
Dustin Moskovitz
Marc Andreessen
Well, at least Google knows when they are beaten. Google is setting the sun on the Gears project , citing the coming HTML5 standard as incorporating much of what they had hoped to accomplish with Gears.
For now, Gears is still baked right into Chrome. But as Chrome moves on to the Mac ...
Online
Chrome
Microsoft
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Echofon, the suite of Twitter applications for the iPhone and Mac has released an unexpected new application for the iPhone, a dedicated Facebook app.
Described as a way to “make common Facebook tasks simple and fast”, Echofon for Facebook focuses primarily on your news feed, ...
Online
iPhone
Mac
It seems in the past few minutes, Twitter Lists have been disabled. Only implemented a few weeks ago, the lists feature is the prime suspect in causing the influx of ‘fail whales’ appearing on Twitter. After taking a quick look at the Status Blog, it seems they are aware of the ...
Online
The much hyped Crunchpad, cheaper alternative to the Apple’s rumored MacTablet, has imploded. Michael Arrington, the project’s founder and founder of Techcrunch has announced the news on a blog post titled “ The End Of The CrunchPad “. In it he describes how close the ...
Hardware
Michael Dell
A few days ago (November 28) we reported on sightings of a new iPhone with version number 3.1. The current hardware version, for the 3GS, is 2.1 which was announced in June 2009 so we can expect another upgrade around the same time next year in June. Although nobody knows what the new iPhone ...
