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BMW launches its 1-Series Facebook special edition
Social media has made the world a smaller place, brought people together and opened new markets for many companies. In a bid to reach out to their customers, German car-maker BMW is using Facebook to create a special edition 1-Series car. The 1-Series special edition will be designed by young BMW designers and then a…
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HTC Salsa and Cha Cha for social-networkers rolls out at MWC
Mobile World Congress 2011 has given us enough HTC dope to last the rest of the year. Up now, is the duo of social network-centric phones, the Salsa and the Cha Cha. Their USP? Dedicated Facebook buttons, to show the rest of the world what an addict you are to Zuckerberg’s muse. However, both the…
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INQ roll out Facebook-centric Cloud Touch and Cloud Q phones
INQ are on a roll with the announcement of their two phones that are specially crafted for social networking addicts. The Cloud Touch adds a 3.5-inch touchscreen and adds robust typing into this one with Fluency, SwiftKey and Spotify Premium. It runs Android Froyo, a prominent Facebook icon that caters to regular updates and good…
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Facebook Phone rumors trashed
Until yesterday there was a glimmer of hope that the Facebook Phone, that was allegedly heading from HTC’s house was a near reality. However, today it’s proven to not be so. It seems that the phone makers were planning to tie up with the world’s favorite social network giant, and have managed to the Facebook’s…
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1.78 million Facebook users are expected to die in 2011
Not that Mark Zuckerberg cares to know, but Facebook’s 500 million users are not all “active”, by reasonable measure! Digital-legacy planning firm Entrustet, compared Facebook usership data with average death rates from the Center for Disease Control, and discovered that this year, around 480,000 Facebook users in the U.S., and 1.78 million worldwide, are expected…
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New facial recognition for Facebook photo tags
Remember the last time you got a tag notification on Facebook, only to discover your name on someone’s foot? Well, that little glitch will soon be a thing of the past. Continuing its ongoing process of upgrading its photo-sharing service, Facebook has announced that it will soon enable facial-recognition technology–meaning that when members upload photographs…
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Mark Zuckerberg is the ‘Person of the Year’
If you’re among the youngest billionaire in the world and if you have as much as a movie and the world’s favorite website to your credit then well, aren’t you the perfect ‘Person of the Year’ candidate for Time Magazine? Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t 26 before he managed to create Facebook and all the amazing stories…
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Give up the Farm and head on over to the big City with Zynga CityVille
So Facebook is out with a new game, yawn…and I can’t really say it’s a totally new concept either. You’ve heard of Farmville… of course you have so welcome to CityVille. Zynga is the company is brining the game to the web and while Sim lovers will find the similarities appealing, FarmVille lovers will be…
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Western Digital’s WD Live HUB TV will provide pleasure at 1080p
For mediaholics, here’s a media center solution that can truly pay off. What happens to actually be a media player, packs a 1 TB network hard drive that splurges out 1080p HD video. It’s called the WD Live HUB TV. What’s cool is that you can order a HD movie directly home, on the same…
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Facebook in 1984
We would have loved Facebook back then too. Personal project imagining a how Facebook would have looked on an old fashioned computer in 1984, using a pixelated DOS-style font and a heavy use of texture, lighting and reflection. The ‘Home’ screen displays various updates from users which relate to the time period. For example, note…
