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How Facebook aims to reinvent hardware

Posted May 7, 2013 - 2:39 pm

The company's Open Compute Project aims to provide an open source platform for building infrastructure of the future.
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A brief history of the White House on social media

Posted April 29, 2013 - 11:48 am

By joining Tumblr, the Obama White House is continuing its own tradition of participating in social media networks
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Wolfram Alpha nerd-crunches your Facebook activity, turns your social life into data

Posted April 29, 2013 - 11:10 am

All those likes and posts pics turned into raw data.
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Faking it on Foursquare: Beware of bogus beauties bearing spam

Posted April 29, 2013 - 10:20 am

Foursquare fakes are being used to promote travel apps, and the tools to fight them are virtually nonexistent. Get ready for a GPS spamdemic.
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The Weekly Hash - April 26, 2013

Posted April 26, 2013 - 11:19 am

Having a few laughs at the expense of this week’s top tech newsmakers, this week including Apple, Facebook and Pizza Hut
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How to set up two-factor authentication for Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and more

Posted April 25, 2013 - 12:23 pm

No more excuses! Microsoft, Google, and Facebook make it easy to improve your account security with two-factor authentication. Here's how.
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Facebook Likes are worth $174 to your brand

Posted April 23, 2013 - 9:04 pm

According to a new report, the value of a Facebook "like" has increased 28 percent over the last three years. Here's a look at other findings from the survey, plus tips for how you can continue to use Facebook to build brand loyalty and drive sales.
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Millennials do care about Internet privacy, they’re just smarter about it

Posted April 22, 2013 - 3:25 pm

An Annenberg Center survey reveals younger folks are more willing to share personal data -- but also more likely to demand something in return
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HTC First is the phone for Facebook junkies (and no one else)

Posted April 22, 2013 - 3:06 pm

The HTC First may not look that impressive on paper, but its close ties with Facebook make it the phone for fans of the social network.
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Visit famous tech sites via Google Street View Hyperlapse

Posted April 22, 2013 - 11:57 am

Using a fun new tool to take virtual trips to the headquarters and birthplaces of famous technology companies
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Auto-playing video ads: Coming soon to a Facebook feed near you?

Posted April 18, 2013 - 11:24 am

If you thought standard sponsored ads were annoying, wait until you hear about this.
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Facebook Home is creepy

Posted April 17, 2013 - 11:44 am

Disembodied heads of friends and family staring at me from my phone? No thanks
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Don't have enough sources for breaking news? Try Wikipedia

Posted April 16, 2013 - 12:12 pm

The Wikipedia Live Monitor can identify breaking news stories almost as quickly - and more reliably - than social networks
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EA's shuttered Facebook games a cautionary tale for online-only play

Posted April 16, 2013 - 11:24 am

With EA planning to retire three Facebook games this June, gamers should be wary about getting attached to anything that's online-only.
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Install Facebook Home on (nearly) any Android phone

Posted April 15, 2013 - 4:45 pm

Facebook Home is only officially on five phones right now. But Android is an OS full of unofficial possibilities.
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Twitter smartly builds anticipation for its music app

Posted April 15, 2013 - 11:43 am

By releasing its music app to a small but diverse group of music "influencers", Twitter has succeeded in generating excitement for its upcoming music discovery service
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How to Uninstall Facebook Home in case you install it accidentally

Posted April 12, 2013 - 3:40 pm

Always be prepared in case you suffer a moment of poor judgment when it comes to installing Facebook Home.
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The Weekly Hash - April 12, 2013

Posted April 12, 2013 - 10:56 am

Reviewing the week’s top tech stories, today featuring Austin getting hipper, NASA getting Armageddony and T-Mobile getting more desperate
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Further adventures in data mining, Or welcome to my Lear Jet lifestyle

Posted April 11, 2013 - 5:05 pm

Data miners like Acxiom know a lot about you -- or at least they think they do. We may soon find out exactly how much.
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Reddit co-founder calls out Google, Twitter, Facebook over CISPA

Posted April 11, 2013 - 2:57 pm

A co-founder of social news site Reddit has publicly urged the heads of Twitter, Google and Facebook to support efforts to defeat a controversial cyber security bill currently under consideration in Congress.
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San Diego: home of beaches, babes and web-savvy small businesses

Posted April 11, 2013 - 11:41 am

When it comes to small businesses using social media and the web, San Diego, Austin and Phoenix lead all other U.S. cities
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5 Facebook Home privacy facts

Posted April 10, 2013 - 9:30 am

Last week, Facebook released new software for Android phones called "Home." The software is a set of apps that you can download to put Facebook photos and messaging front and center on your mobile device.
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Your Facebook friends may be evil bots

Posted April 8, 2013 - 11:57 am

How safe is your online social network? Not very, as it turns out. Your friends may not even be human, but rather bots siphoning off your data and influencing your decisions with convincing yet programmed points of view.
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Republicans in Congress tweet more often than Democrats

Posted April 8, 2013 - 11:43 am

Almost all member of Congress now use social media, but Republicans use it more often than Democrats - and with more snark
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The Weekly Hash - April 5, 2013

Posted April 5, 2013 - 10:53 am

A goofy romp through this week’s top tech stories and, also, the only time today (or probably ever) that Justin Bieber and Harvard University will be mentioned in the same article
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