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Facebook’s Advertiser Clients Increase by 400%

Facebook's Advertiser Clients Increase by 400%

According to recent reports Facebook has increased in number of advertisers over the past year by 400% A common misconception amongst users is that Facebook sells their users data to 3rd party companies. Facebook has never done this – all private data submitted to Facebook does not get sent to 3rd party companies. Another area […]

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Twitter Testing New ‘Follow’ Like Feature

Twitter Testing New 'Follow' Like Feature

Twitter has started testing a new simple feature that allows a user to view a list of avatars that he/she is currently following that are the same to another user. Yes, it is very similar to Facebook’s ‘friends in common’ feature but we think it is the right step forward for Twitter users to connect […]

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iPad 3G plan pricing, Optus, Telstra, Vodafone

iPad 3G plan pricing, Optus, Telstra, Vodafone

The 3 main telecommunication carriers in Australia – Optus, Telstra, and Vodafone have now released details on their 3G plan prices for the iPad. Optus 3G iPad plans / pricing If you like Optus will sell you a prepaid 3G starter SIM with 3GB of data with 30 day expiry for $30. Prepaid recharge values […]

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News Corp Exec: MySpace lost its way

on June 3, 2010 | MySpace | Comments (0)
News Corp Exec: MySpace lost its way

News Corp Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chairman Chase Carey fielded questions on MySpace at in New York late last month, admitting: ‘Clearly, MySpace lost its way a bit’. Carey went on to comment about the future of MySpace: ‘We’ve spent a lot of the time since last summer right-sizing, went through some layoffs, bringing […]

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Google Chrome Operating System coming out Q4

on June 3, 2010 | Google | Comments (0)
Google Chrome Operating System coming out Q4

The Google Chrome OS is set to be released in the fourth quarter of this year. Google announced nearly a year ago that they were building the Chrome OS. The Chrome OS is an open source operating system designed for netbooks and built for speed, startup times, and speedy access to the internet. The OS […]

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Google adds Bing like picture to search page

on June 3, 2010 | Bing Google | Comments (0)
Google adds Bing like picture to search page

We all know Google has the plain white search page and often changing Google logo. In a recent blog post Google is giving users the option to change their background logo on the search page which can be uploaded from the users computer or Picasa Web album. This allows the Google homepage to somewhat resemble […]

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Steve Jobs at D8 Conference, 1 iPad sold every 3 seconds

on June 2, 2010 | Apple iPad | Comments (0)
Steve Jobs at D8 Conference, 1 iPad sold every 3 seconds

Steve Jobs has spoken at the D8 conference in California recently to give some further insights into Apple Inc as it is today, and how the company is impacting users and business world-wide. Steve thinks that Apple passing Microsoft in share market evaluation is great for the industry but in real terms ‘doesn’t matter’. Steve […]

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Social Media campaign to reduce smoking rates

Social Media campaign to reduce smoking rates

The Cancer Council of South Australia has recently been using several social media channels to spread their messages about anti-smoking campaigns. Cancer Council SA CEO, Professor Brenda Wilson said social media has the potential to reduce South Australia’s smoking rate from 20% to 17%. Every year a little over 1100 people die from smoking. The […]

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Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook privacy: VIDEO

Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook privacy: VIDEO

Q&A session with Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the latest privacy changes by Facebook. Mark discusses how users will be able to edit their privacy settings in a much simpler format that previously available. Mark says it was never Facebook’s intention to make settings complicated for users. As a result the engineering team has been […]

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Google to stop using Windows OS

Google to stop using Windows OS

Google has reported that they are going to stop using the Windows OS for employees – mainly due to security concerns. Google will is looking to switch to other operations systems such as Mac OS, Linux, and Google’s upcoming Chrome OS in an effort to increase security. However certain Google employees will still be able […]

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