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Former HTC Employee Encourages Other Staff to "Just Quit" the Company

Posted 05/22/2013 at 9:09am | by Paul Lilly

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Rough waters ahead for HTC.

My how the mighty have fallen. It seems hard to believe now, but HTC was once a top dog in mobile. Having led the Android revolution with the introduction of the HTC Dream (you may know it as the T-Mobile G1), HTC for a long while was reporting record revenues and profits. More recently, however, HTC's been struggling to remain relevant in a category (mobile) that's largely dominated by Apple and Samsung, and it's slumping sales bear that out. Equally troubling for HTC as it tries to right its ship is that its crew is turning against it and jumping overboard.

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Mark Zuckerberg Introduces Facebook "Home" for Android Phones

Posted 04/04/2013 at 11:44am | by Paul Lilly

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Facebook didn't announce its own brand phone, but did unveil it's own Home screen.

Rumors of an official Facebook phone have been swirling for a long time now, though Mark Zuckerberg has in the past tried to quiet such speculation by saying he's not interested in diving into hardware. If you thought he was lying, today's announcement is bound to be a disappointment. Instead of unveiling a Facebook phone, Zuckerberg introduced the world to "Home," which isn't a phone or an operating system. So, what the flip is it, then?

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Facebook Ditches DRAM, Flaunts Flash-based McDipper

Posted 03/06/2013 at 12:25pm | by Paul Lilly

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The solution to pricey DRAM is memcached for flash.

You can stuff your home system full of DRAM without putting a hurt on your bank account, but when you're talking about servers on the scale of what's needed to keep Facebook up and running, things tend to get expensive. It's for this reason that Facebook has decided to reduce its dependance on DRAM. In its place, the social networking site built a data cache that runs on flash memory.

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Instagram Shoots Past 100 Million Users

Posted 02/27/2013 at 8:57am | by Paul Lilly

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What user backlash? Instagram is more popular than ever these days.

Two months ago, Instagram made headlines for inserting curious language into its Terms of Service (ToS) agreement that seemed to give it the right to sell user uploaded photos without any compensation to said users. This didn't fly over so well with the Internet community at large, and though Instragram claimed it was a just a big misunderstanding, it didn't stop the company from being hit with a civil lawsuit. Ah, but that was two months ago, an eternity in this fickle age of the Internet, and now Instagram is bragging about having 100 million users.

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Twitter Owned Blogging Site Posterous Goes Dark April 30, 2013

Posted 02/18/2013 at 6:33am | by Paul Lilly

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Posterous founder Sachin Agarwal thanks its members for the pie and waves goodbye.

You could almost see this one coming from an Internet mile away, which won't come as much consolation to those invested in the service, but Twitter is pulling the plug on Posterous on April 30, 2013. First launched in 2008, the Posterous blogging service was acquired by Twitter in March of last year, and at the time, users were told it would stay up and running. And it did, for a little while, anyway.

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Boston Dad Bribes Teenage Daughter $200 to Suspend Facebook

Posted 02/07/2013 at 12:07pm | by Paul Lilly

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Teenage girl plans to buy "stuff" with the $200 she'll receive for quitting Facebook.

An interesting story about a 14-year-old daughter who convinced her dad to pay her to suspend Facebook for five months is making the rounds. Paul Baier, a research consultant in Boston, posted an image on his blog of the contract he and his daughter signed. Under terms of the agreement, little Baier will receive $50 upfront for deactivating her account, and another $150 at the end of June when the contract expires.

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Facebook Turns 9 Years Old Today

Posted 02/04/2013 at 9:41am | by Paul Lilly

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It took Facebook less than a decade to accumulate over 1 billion users.

Facebook, the world's largest social playground with over a billion participants and growing, celebrates its 9th birthday today. It was on February 4, 2004 that Mark Zuckerberg and his partners launched "Thefacebook," the original name of the Harvard-only service before Zuckerberg droped the "The" from the title at the recommendation of Justin Timberlake Sean Parker, or at least that's how it was portrayed in the docu-drama The Social Network.

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Surprise! Google+ Overtakes Twitter as Number 2 Social Network

Posted 01/28/2013 at 11:35am | by Paul Lilly

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A ghost town no more, Google+ is home to hundreds of millions of active users.

If you've been avoiding Google+ all this time because you heard it was a ghost town, perhaps it's time you give the social networking site a visit. Google+, while still not on the level of Facebook in terms of users and activity, has now surpassed Twitter in monthly active users, making it the planet's second busiest social networking site around, according to data collected by Global Web Index (GWI from here on out).

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Facebook's "Graph Search" Will Help You Stalk Your Friends

Posted 01/15/2013 at 1:13pm | by Paul Lilly

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Mark Zuckerberg sees Graph Search as being a better way to sift through your Facebook connections.

For the past week, Facebook's been teasing a January 15 (today!) press event inviting the media to "come and see what we're building." The teaser inevitably led some to speculate the unveiling of the long-rumored Facebook Phone, but apparently Zuckerberg's tucking that little nugget away for another day. So, what was the announcement for? A brand new search engine, though not one that's globally focused like Google or Bing.

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Redesigned MySpace Quietly Launches, Justin Timberlake Front and Center

Posted 01/15/2013 at 9:14am | by Paul Lilly

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Justin Timberlake's new single headlines MySpace's relaunch.

Have you been missing MySpace? Neither have we, but in case you're curious what the social networking site has been up to, just head over to the homepage and check out the redesign. With celebrity backing from Justin Timberlake, who's mug stares right at you on the homepage, MySpace is offering the artist's new single "Suit & Tie" featuring Jay-Z free to people who sign in to the new site.

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