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Following weeks of speculation, it’s finally been confirmed that Facebook has another takeover in the works. They’re about to acquire the Israel-based startup Face.com, a company that specializes in the development of facial recognition technology for mobile devices. The acquisition of Face.com, …
Sorry Twitter, but Your Expanded Tweets Don’t Fool Us
Time and time again, Twitter protests that they’re not a media organization. But if that’s really the case, what’s up with all of these new, expanded tweets? Check your tweets, click on ‘expand’ and you may just notice something a little bit …
Will Microsoft’s Tablet Challenge the iPad or the Kindle Fire?
Following months of uncertainty, speculation is rife that Microsoft is about to unveil its own tablet as the company looks to take a chunk out of either Apple’s or Amazon’s pie with its own branded device. It’s been revealed that Microsoft has …
Amazon Steps Up Cloud Support as Rivals Play Catch Up
Amazon is rapidly embracing its new persona as a tech vendor following the initial success of its Amazon Web Services. Yesterday, the company offered up a whole new host of improved support offerings for its public cloud-based web services, including lower costs …
Humans Make Poor Spam Filters – LinkedIn Alert Ignored by Thousands
In yet another setback for LinkedIn, it’s been revealed thousands of email alerts sent out by the company in response to last week’s password scandal have been wrongly marked as spam. The news probably doesn’t come as that much of a surprise …
Bored with Apple, Samsung Declares War on Facebook Instead
Samsung getting fed up of copying making phones perhaps? Or do they genuinely believe they can do what the likes of Google and Apple have miserably failed to achieve? Either way, reports from Korea that the electronics and just-about-everything-else giant is planning …
Flame and Stuxnet Malware were “Parallel Projects”
Security experts have revealed that the creators of the Flame malware and the notorious Stuxnet worm, the two deadliest malicious programs ever discovered, likely collaborated with one another during their development, to the extent that they even used the same source code. …
TechEd 2012: Microsoft Showcases Windows Server 2012 as “Cloud OS”
While Apple is grabbing all the headlines with its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, there is another little get together taking place on the other side of the country. Microsoft’s TechEd North American conference kicked off yesterday with a wide ranging …
Twitter Shows Facebook How to Make It In Mobile
Facebook could learn a thing or two from Twitter, it would seem. One of the major concerns being voiced by Facebook chiefs in recent weeks is how its future advertising revenues might be negatively affected as more users embrace mobile devices – …
Global Spread of Facebook Continues, Even as Growth Rate Slows
Facebook’s quest for world dominance continues to gather pace, with the latest stats from the World Map of Social Networks showing that the platform has now become the number one choice for Brazilian netizens, beating down Orkut into second place. Vincenzo Cosenza’s …