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Google Earth tapped to view Bay Bridge in 3-D — Google’s mapping software proves useful in visualizing what the remade San Francisco iconic bridge will look like. [photo credit | CNET]A bitter Twitter battle rattle — Sounds like Dr. Seuss. David Carr of the New York Times sings the praises of [...]
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Facebook rolled out a new redesign to 80 million users tonight at its 6th birthday party, and the company’s vice president of product just prepped employees for potential negative reactions by telling the story of the original news feed launch.
After the new features went live, the company [...]
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We’ve known for the longest time that Apple was planning something with mobile advertisements, particularly after they purchased mobile ad firm Quattro Wireless for $275 million, but the company has been mum on specifics. As the company behind the phone that built the mobile ad market, I would imagine that it [...]
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With its big redesign, Facebook is rolling out its Games Dashboard for millions of game players today.
“The Games Dashboard will give game applications greater prominence with placement on the home page,” the company said in a blog post today. “While making it even easier for users to [...]
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Facebook is rolling out a new redesign live to 80 million users tonight. We’re here at Facebook’s offices with Peter Deng, a product manager, who is explaining the changes.
The left-hand navigation bar of the social network site has been beefed up with a [...]
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On its sixth birthday, Facebook launched a host of new features as it crossed the 400-million user mark.
The most interesting of them may be its revamped search. When you type in names, it auto-completes for people who are the closest to you by [...]
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Samsung M100S is also the first Samsung device to run Android OS 2.1 similar to earlier released Google's Nexus One smartphone. Equipped with 3.7 inch AMOLED touchscreen (WVGA) display, Samsung M100S comes with a 5-megapixel camera. The device is further integrated with 800MHz processor, 720p video recording, WiFi (802.11n) and GPS. [...]
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Facebook is readying the launch of its Game Dashboard interface and other changes that will affect the way gamers experience and interact with games on the social network.
In FarmVille, Zynga has begun asking players if they will accept emails from the game, since, with the launch of [...]
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New data from Experian Hitwise suggests that Facebook users are treating it increasingly like a portal — they’re using it as a source of news. Just under a year ago, less than 0.5% of visits to news and media sites came from Facebook, according to Experian Hitwise. Last week, 3.5% of [...]
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Facebook is assuming its rightful place in the Internet ecosystem as a significant distribution channel for media properties.
Hitwise reported today that the social network now drives the fourth largest amount of traffic to media properties behind Google, Yahoo and MSN. Facebook’s public relations team also has started [...]
Google has acquired VoIP startup Gizmo – The deal for the Skype-alike startup was done for around $30 million in cash, says the rumor mill. eBay had come close to buying Gizmo as the company’s backup infrastructure, says TechCrunch, but walked away after the company’s founders settled with Skype.
Sun – Oracle deal meets stiff opposition from European antitrust regulators — The European Commission issued a list of objections t0 the deal. Â Unlike U.S. antitrust authorities, the EU feels that the open-source MySQL database is particularly threatened by an Oracle-Sun alliance, since Oracle would then 0wn Sun’s version 0f MySQL.
