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Article | 6/03/2013 Facebook's new News Feed wish list includes mobile and highlighted friends
Facebook is set to unveil an updated News Feed on Thursday and analysts have a wish list of changes that users might welcome.
Article | 13/09/2011 Most will access Internet via mobile devices by 2015: IDC
More people in the US will access the Internet via mobile devices than through desktop computers or other wired devices by 2015, IDC predicted on Mond...
Article | 7/09/2011 Google+ causes stir with Suggested User list
Google+ is trying to help users expand their Circles by offering them a new Suggested User list. The only problem is that some users are taking except...
Article | 3/09/2011 Google investors sue Page, Schmidt over $500M settlement with DOJ
Google's board of directors and several of its executives, including CEO Larry Page and chairman Eric Schmidt, were sued this week in a pair of lawsui...
Article | 27/08/2011 Google+ lets users 'ignore' those annoying people
Want to ignore that one cousin or co-worker who's bugging you on Google+? Now the new social networking site is giving you an option to do just that.
Article | 11/08/2011 Amazon launches free Kindle Cloud Reader app for Web browsers
Amazon today introduced the free Kindle Cloud Reader application, which allows users to access Kindle books instantly from a Web browser without needi...
Article | 3/08/2011 EBay attacks server virtualization with 100TB of SSD storage
When online auction site eBay had problems meeting the I/O storage demands of business units starved for more virtual machine (VM) deployments, its qu...
Article | 29/07/2011 Twitter gets down to business with promoted tweets
Twitter is looking to place its promoted tweets right in front of users' eyeballs in an attempt to boost its advertising business.
Article | 27/05/2011 Wells Fargo, Chase, Bank of America jointly launch PayPal rival
Three top U.S. banks are collaborating on a service that will allow the transfer of funds by simply logging in to a personal online bank account and e...
Article | 27/05/2011 Amazon challenges Apple with Mac app download store
Amazon today launched a Mac-specific application download store that will compete with Apple's nearly five-month-old Mac App Store.
Article | 25/05/2011 Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' overwhelms Amazon
Amazon.com came up with a good marketing idea in its battle against Apple's iTunes, but it worked almost too well as execs vastly underestimated the s...
Article | 21/05/2011 Apple's deals with music labels hint at sub service
Apple has struck deals with three of the top four music labels that will let consumers access their digital music collections from mobile devices like...
Article | 21/05/2011 Microsoft offers free Xbox 360 to US students
Microsoft will kick off a back-to-school promotion in the U.S. on Sunday with an offer of a free Xbox 360 game console to eligible students who purcha...
Article | 16/05/2011 Mozilla details plans to kill Firefox 3.5
Mozilla plans to push 12 million users of the aged Firefox 3.5 to a newer version next month by taking the unprecedented step of automatically upgradi...
Article | 5/05/2011 Apple to snare 76% of year's mobile app revenues
Apple will reap more than three-fourths of all mobile app store revenues generated this year, but rival Google's growth is climbing faster, a research...