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  • Facebook: The go-to place for public arguments

    Chances are we’ve all witnessed it a few times before: people who take private arguments onto Facebook, making them public arguments.  It seems as if the website facilitates making even the pettiest of arguments into public arguments for all your friends to see.  It looks as if the phenomenon is becoming even more commonplace. A recent New York Times article highlights a couple who take many of their arguments onto the social networking site, and…

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Research finds Facebook is where the news is at

by Natesh Sood on Mar 18, 2010 at 10:38 AM

If you’re bored online and want to find some interesting news happening around the world, would you check out Twitter, Facebook, or Google News?  If you have accounts and are accustomed to all three services, chances are you would probably pick Twitter.  Twitter allows users to post anything they want,… Continue Reading »

New rouge app hitting Facebook

by Sue Walsh on Mar 17, 2010 at 10:08 PM

A new rogue app is making the rounds on Facebook and has at least 25 different variations. The app, with names like peeppeep-pro, profile-check-online and stalk-my-profile, claims to allow users to see who has been viewing their profiles. Instead, it leads the user through a set of “configuration” screens that… Continue Reading »

Internet Explorer 9 embraces HTML5, ditches Windows XP

by Cheng Hung on Mar 17, 2010 at 08:58 PM

Microsoft has recently made the developer preview of the all-new Internet Explorer 9 available at http://www.ietestdrive.com/. Internet Explorer 9 will be supporting HTML5 video, and it sports a multi-core capable JavaScript engine codenamed “Chakra” (hear that engine roar!), and supporting new web technologies that gives it the edge like CSS3… Continue Reading »

Fandango Mobile tickets go paperless

by Hunter Clarke on Mar 17, 2010 at 10:29 AM

Fandango was one of the first companies to take movie ticket purchasing online. But now that the rest of the world has caught up with them, Fandango needed to take another step to get ahead of the game. So they came out with mobile tickets. Mobile phones have now become… Continue Reading »

Nexus One now available for AT&T and Rogers; full 3G support included

by Robert Nelson on Mar 16, 2010 at 12:57 PM

The post title and above image pretty much sums it up, so in short, Google has just made a Nexus One available for AT&T as well as Rogers. And it is a Nexus One that will be compatible with those respective 3G networks. The handset is not being offered subsidized… Continue Reading »

Windows Phone 7 Series developer partners to include the AP, Pandora, Sling, Foursquare and more

by Robert Nelson on Mar 15, 2010 at 05:47 PM

MIX 10 has kicked off, and as you would have expected the press releases have begun to roll out. The first of which gives us some details about what we can expect in terms of the Windows Phone Marketplace. Unfortunately the announcement did not give any launch date for the… Continue Reading »

New version of Digg is “five years in the making”

by Hunter Clarke on Mar 14, 2010 at 02:09 PM

With the majority of the technology community in Austin this week for SXSW, Digg felt it was a good time to release a new version of their social bookmarking site. In, fact they decided to release the alpha version of the new site so you can get a sneak peak… Continue Reading »

Verizon’s Nexus One to be sold only at online store

by Hunter Clarke on Mar 14, 2010 at 11:41 AM

Smartphone users on Verizon’s network have been patiently awaiting the release of the Nexus One for several months now. Well apparently the release date is coming up fast according to the leaked pictures floating around the web. According to the picture above, Google has decided to stay stubborn about retail… Continue Reading »

Google’s time in China is coming to an end

by Hunter Clarke on Mar 13, 2010 at 03:02 PM

Everyone was shocked when Google took a stand against China’s censorship laws in early January for various reasons spanning from cyber attacks to stricter censorship laws. Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, has gone on record saying that Google will conclude talks with China soon over the search issue. If a compromise… Continue Reading »

United Airlines cites onboard video chats as possible terrorism

by Natesh Sood on Mar 12, 2010 at 10:47 PM

I understand heightened security measures in airports and on air planes, but at some point the rules and regulations by some airlines deserve a facepalm.  Take, for instance, John Battelle, who flew on a United Airlines flight enabled with Wi-Fi recently.  Since it was late at night, he wanted to… Continue Reading »

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