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How to give up Facebook for Lent and keep your fri

27 May 2010

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Lindsey Turrentine/CNET Networks) Consider changing your photo. What happens if your high school ex-best friend (the one who stole your girlfriend) tries to find you on Facebook during Lent? If you’re worried that he’ll think you’re an A-number-one jerk for not accepting his olive branch, consider replacing your profile photo with a text block that [...]

Twitter tweaks page titles, breaks out on Google

24 May 2010

On a side note: Facebook, MySpace, and Friendfeed profiles were rarely displayed in the first pages of search results.
Twitter has changed its HTML title tags on user profile pages to make the site more search engine friendly. Instead of displaying its previous title of Twitter/”username,” the site’s new title displays the person’s name, followed by [...]

Visual Studio 2010 to come with ‘black box’

20 May 2010

Visual Studio Team System 2010 will offer tools for managing test cases and execution, and will boost support for filing actionable bugs.

A Microsoft representative did say that “the two technologies are not related and that in Visual Studio Team System the ‘black box’ is only on testers machines and only turned on when the tester [...]

It’s a good thing Facebook’s not buying Twitter

18 May 2010

From the outside, it looks like Facebook and Twitter could be happy social stablemates. Facebook has its own Twitter-like function, but it’s not the core of the service. Twitter gets its users talking, but doesn’t have the robust social features of Facebook. Melding Twitter into Facebook would give the larger company, Facebook, access to [...]

Verizon’s info sharing opt-out mess

15 May 2010

“We are keeping all the data in question in the family–unless you tell us not to,” Verizon said in an October 15, 2007, statement that was re-posted on Monday.
Failing to opt out means a Verizon Wireless customer could receive marketing materials from Verizon Telecom, which is the landline business, or conceivably from Vodafone, [...]

Sony’s Webbie cam follows Pure Digital bid

03 May 2010

Without saying how much Pure Digital was asking, Glasgow said it was much more than Sony wanted to pay. The two companies discussed several possible business scenarios, but none worked out.

The Webbie does 1080p MPEG-4 video and shoots in 5 megapixels. The camera will be available in March for about $170.

LAS VEGAS–Before making the new inexpensive mini camcorder it unveiled at CES Wednesday, Sony tried to purchase the category leader, Pure Digital.

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