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Microsoft’s So.cl (pronounced “social”) is a research project that became public back in December last year as a new means for students to connect to one another and collaborate on learning. Coming from Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, the project materialized in the launch of a website that provided ... |
21 May 2012
08:01 GMT |
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This week, Google introduced Schemer, a new social service for iPhone and iPod touch users that connects to Google+ and allows you to post your plans for future activities, and even suggests some from the people in your circles. The Mountain View search giant developed this tool to enable users to have “s... |
17 May 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Deploying one key feature after another into standalone applications, Facebook has just peeled off Pages Manager which can be downloaded free of charge in the Australian App Store right now.Helping Facebook account holders “connect with their audience and keep up with activity on multiple Pages, all in one plac... |
17 May 2012
04:41 GMT |
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Last week, Redmond-based software giant Microsoft announced the roll-out of a new, redesigned Bing search engine, meant to provide users with new ways of interacting with their friends online. As part of this redesign, Bing got a fresh new interface, structured on three columns, enabling people to stay connected wi... |
16 May 2012
09:33 GMT |
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Mountain View, California-based search giant Google has rolled out version 2.0.0.5888 of its iOS app Google+ (GooglePlus) delivering another step “toward a simpler, more beautiful Google,” the company has announced. The new Google+ should complement Apple’s Retina displays with clearer fonts, a bet... |
10 May 2012
11:31 GMT |
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MindTree Limited, a company with expertise in global IT and product engineering services, has developed a unified corporate intranet portal using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, PeopleHub. The new portal was meant to help it ease the management of the load of intranet applications and portals that were deployed u... |
7 May 2012
10:53 GMT |
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Facebook Inc. has rolled out an update to its Messenger application for iPhone and iPod touch users making it even easier to reach groups of friends on the go.Facebook Messenger version 1.7 lets you text friends for free, using your existing data plan, as well as to reach them wherever they are – on their phone... |
5 May 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Going from unheard of to global problem in a few weeks, the US Congress now wants to make it illegal to require employees to submit their Facebook passwords on demands. A new bill was introduced with this exact purpose and it applies to schools and universities as well.
The practice has been an issue for years, thou... |
30 April 2012
09:50 GMT |
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With its initial public offer (IPO) looming, Facebook has published more details of its operations. Apart from the financial aspects, Facebook also updated its user stats. The site now has 901 million monthly active users, people who visit the site or interact with the service in some way at least once a month. That... |
24 April 2012
07:40 GMT |
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A new flavor of Bing Bar is now available for Microsoft’s users, with some new and appealing features packed inside. Available as Bing Bar 7.1, the new release brings along enhanced access to social networking, and also brings more entertainment options than before. These changes, along with others included... |
18 April 2012
05:57 GMT |
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Facebook fans accessing their profiles on a new-generation iPad can now see everything crystal clear thanks to a recent update to the iOS client.
Facebook has released version 4.1.1 of its dedicated iPad and iPhone application, which includes a ton of new features and enhancements, such as the ability to go offline ... |
3 April 2012
03:22 GMT |
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For the longest of times, Facebook would bundle all of your contacts as "friends" and be done with it. Granted, it still does that now, but it is taking steps to better separate the different types of contacts in your friends list.
A few months ago, it introduced the Acquaintances list. The name is self-explanatory ... |
22 March 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Facebook has updated its dedicated Messenger application for Apple’s iOS devices to introduce faster and easier ways to start conversations, new languages, and bug fixes.
In addition to improving the single-conversation module, Facebook Messenger 1.6 also enhances the group conversations feature, making it eas... |
21 March 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Google+, the popular sharing online destination, can be accessed from mobile devices as well, both through dedicated apps and via the mobile web.
The owners of Android, iOS, and Blackberry 7 devices can easily head over to Google+ via their browsers to start sharing content with their friends and family, and to acc... |
14 March 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Google+ certainly manages to garner attention, even if it's not always for the best reasons. Google+ is a peculiar beast, it's got well over 100 million users in less than a year since launch.
If this was any other site, that would be huge. But this is Google which has about one billion people using it ea... |
7 March 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Some of the applications that Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has launched to keep users connected to their social lives while on the go will benefit from expanded availability, the latest reports on the matter suggest. We’re referring here to the Nokia Pulse, an application that relies on the phone’s GP... |
22 February 2012
15:51 GMT |
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The popular social networking service, foursquare, now features Explore on iPhone and iPad. Version 4.2.1 of the iOS app adds tons of new information for a slew of businesses.
The foursquare app is used to keep up with friends’ activities and discover nearby stuff that you’re interested in. The app also ... |
16 February 2012
08:44 GMT |
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The Google+ iPhone application has recently received an update that gives it functionality similar to that of iCloud’s Photo Stream - photos taken with the phone’s camera are automatically uploaded to the cloud.
Google markets the iOS app as a tool that “makes sharing the right things with the righ... |
16 February 2012
08:25 GMT |
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MySpace, for all intents and purposes, is dead and has been so for quite a while. But it may be seeing somewhat of a revival, or maybe just a bit of thawing. MySpace has managed to gain one million new users since December when it introduced a new music player.
The New York Times reports that MySpace is about to ann... |
13 February 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Owners of BlackBerry smartphones out there can now download and install a new application on their devices, the Music Store client.
The app will provide them with fast access to a variety of songs, regardless of their location. They will be able to find new music, purchase it, integrate it with playlists, and more.... |
3 February 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Along with its IPO filling, Facebook revealed some interesting numbers about it and not only financial stats. It provided a user growth chart going back a few years, revealing that it had 845 million monthly active users last December.
That's up from 800 million in September, the last official number. At the en... |
2 February 2012
08:31 GMT |
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The inevitable has happened, Facebook has filed for an initial public offering (IPO). It wasn't much of a secret that the company was going to do it on the first day of February. In fact, nothing about the IPO has been much of a secret for a long time.
The company is looking to raise $5 billion, €3.81 bill... |
2 February 2012
05:30 GMT |
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The wheels are in motion, and have been so for a long time now, but the latest rumor on the Facebook IPO says that the company may file it as early as next week. This means that we'll be seeing the first official financial details on the company very soon. The filing should also shed some light on the size of th... |
28 January 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Facebook is taking over the world. No, it isn't replacing governments just yet, but it is the largest social network in most places around the world. The last holdouts are falling one by one and in the few places where Facebook isn't number one, the site is completely blocked in the country.
Blogger Vincen... |
27 January 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Not exactly the most surprising of predictions or the hardest to calculate, but Facebook is expected to hit one billion active users, i.e. users that log in at least once a month, by this summer, if the growth rate continues as until now.
Given that the social network has been growing in a rather linear fashion for ... |
12 January 2012
16:01 GMT |
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By now, most Facebook users should have gotten the Timeline profile feature. As with any big changes on Facebook, the feature is not without its critics, but it's hard to underestimate the scope and scale of the project which is to help you highlight the important events of your life on a single page.
Being one... |
6 January 2012
08:24 GMT |
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There are still plenty of questions left about the fate and future of Google+. But, so far, the social network has done a good job at getting users to sign up, more so than any other similar attempt by Google, or by anyone else for that matter.
The latest unofficial user numbers peg Google+ at 62 million users, just... |
28 December 2011
05:37 GMT |
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Following our previous articles, Ubuntu Books Lens, Ubuntu Cities Scope, Ubuntu Grooveshark Scope, Ubuntu Calculator Scope and Pirate Bay Torrents Lens for Unity, today we are introducing the Ubuntu Gwibber Lens for Unity. Ubuntu Gwibber Lens is a Unity Launcher plugin that will allow users to quickly search for soci... |
27 December 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Saying that social networking has taken over the web will fail to surprise anyone at this point. Facebook and everyone in its tow are huge and they're getting bigger.
As social gets woven into more and more websites, it's getting harder to stay away and data released by comScore shows exactly that.
82 per... |
22 December 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Google has just unveiled a big batch of updates for Google+, probably the last ones of the year, as the engineers are taking a well earned vacation for the holidays. After the year Google+ has had, it's clearly deserved.The latest update brings one big new feature, two revamped ones and a greatly improved one."T... |
19 December 2011
08:48 GMT |
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Facebook has released an enhanced version of its iOS application targeting iPhone owners looking to access the Mobile Timeline on their smartphone. Other enhancements are included as well.According to the people behind the most popular social networking platform, users who download and install Facebook 4.1 will gain ... |
19 December 2011
04:40 GMT |
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Galaxy Nexus, the latest Google phone out there, does not arrive on shelves only with the new Ice Cream Sandwich operating system from Google, but it also sports integration with some of the most popular services from the Internet giant.
In the latest video ad for the handset, Google touts the social capabilities o... |
30 November 2011
13:21 GMT |
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Facebook scientists, yes there exists such a thing, teamed up with fellow scientists over at the Università degli Studi di Milano to find out just how close two random people on Facebook were, i.e. how many degrees of separation there are between them. It is an accepted fact, based on some older research, tha... |
22 November 2011
04:01 GMT |
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The Facebook Events feature has gotten an update that seems to have been rolled out to everyone by now. The events page has been revamped and there are big and small changes throughout.
The event's details take center stage, as they should, with all of the basic info such as, what the event is about, where it&#... |
17 November 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Mobile phone users who own a device running under the new Mango flavor of Microsoft's mobile platform can now download and install a new version of the Seesmic application.The new software iteration was made available with support for the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango operating system, and comes with a series of featu... |
12 November 2011
07:59 GMT |
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Today is the great day for Nokia fans waiting for the first Windows Phone devices from the company to become official, yet it seems that others might also get a treat.
The handset vendor is rumored to plan the unveiling of a new Series 40 device today, one that would also sport a QWERTY keyboard.
Nokia reps have ... |
26 October 2011
02:53 GMT |
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Zynga has made plenty of announcements at its Unleashed event, it had plenty of new games and made its first foray into mobile gaming, but the big strategic move is Project Z which is, in a way, a stand-alone social network tied to Zynga's games. But it's based on Facebook. Stick with up on this one, it mak... |
12 October 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, the new mobile platform flavor from Microsoft, comes with features that will keep users connected at all times with their friends and family.
Among them, there are also options to share content with contacts via Windows Live, and also the option to follow people that interest you, Microsof... |
8 October 2011
12:21 GMT |
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Facebook has learned quite a few lessons from Google+ and applied them already, not only when it comes to features but to the way they're announced, as more come from the engineers that work on them announcing the changes on Facebook itself.The latest example is a subtle change to the ability to tag any user on ... |
8 October 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Social networking holds a lot of promise for advertisers and, while many are warming up the idea of advertising in the highly personal sites, it will be quite some time before social networks command the kind of money that search sites do.
According to a report by eMarketer, ad revenue across all social networks w... |
6 October 2011
10:40 GMT |
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Facebook is moving to add full HTTPS support for its site and this means third-party app maker have to fall in line as well. The deadline for adding a secure URL option as well as OAuth 2.0 support for Facebook apps was October 1st.
With that gone, Facebook is now moving to clean up and enforce the new rule by mak... |
5 October 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Google+ has continued to grow since launch. It started out great and quickly gained 10 million users. But, despite not being available to all users, the hype around the project meant that growth was easy to achieve in the first weeks.
Things slowed down after a while, but then Google+ user numbers jumped 30 perce... |
26 September 2011
10:20 GMT |
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Google’s social networking application for iOS device owners has been updated to version 1.0.4.2326 with new abilities, like joining Hangouts directly from the app, and sending photos in Messenger, which is the replacement of Huddle.
Providing fans with everything they need to stay in touch with their friend... |
26 September 2011
02:04 GMT |
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It's easy to look at Facebook and its 750 million users and ponder about the greatness of social networking, Mark Zuckerberg's determination, the site's increasing influence over every day life and so on and so forth.
The fact that it's worth tens of billions of dollars and may go public at a $... |
20 September 2011
09:33 GMT |
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Facebook Messenger is no longer a U.S.-only application. iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users worldwide can now access their country’s version of the iTunes App Store and immediately download the free app.The relatively new, standalone instant-messaging application for subscribers to the popular social networking ... |
15 September 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Social networking is a major part of online life. That much is obvious, but now we have some more data to back this up. According to the latest report from Nielsen, about online audiences, four in five internet users, in the US, visit a social network or a blog at least once a month.Facebook is the top dog, of course... |
13 September 2011
07:44 GMT |
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The people at Facebook have given their iPhone application an overhaul adding new abilities, like tagging friends and places in posts, and several improvements and bug fixes.
“Facebook for iPhone makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends,” say the people behind the world’... |
7 September 2011
02:41 GMT |
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Google is working on its own version of Facebook Pages for Google+, it's actually moving faster than it initially planned, and some first signs are already showing up.For example, Google is now suggesting employers as well as universities for those wanting to fill out their profiles. Until now, users simply fill... |
31 August 2011
12:21 GMT |
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It's not something that can't be easily observed by anyone online, but more and more people use social networking sites. In the US, more than half the population has a social network profile. Two thirds of internet users in the US visit and use sites such as MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and so on.
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29 August 2011
09:27 GMT |
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Facebook unleashed a batch of updates, new features and tweaks to its site. While the features are being rolled out gradually, starting tomorrow, they'll make it easier to control your privacy settings and also give more control over who sees what. All the changes are a big improvement over how Facebook used to ... |
24 August 2011
11:41 GMT |
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