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Many of us will have heard about the latest offering from Facebook being graph search. It may not be the snappiest of titles for a revolutionary change to the way Facebook can be used, but it is an interesting idea. It was made clear at the launch of the beta that this is a very [...]

Last Friday saw a major shot fired at overly-abstract tech patents as Google, Facebook, Zynga, and several other companies filed an amicus brief with the US Court of Appeals on the case CLS v Alice. One of the traditional problems plaguing the tech sector has been the ease with which patents can be acquired for fairly basic [...]

Would you replace your phone’s native text messaging service for something a little more Facebook-powered? That’s what the social media giant is banking on, with the announcement that a new Messenger app is in the works – one that wouldn’t require an account. It’s all part of Facebook’s hopes to expand into developing markets, namely [...]

Hurricane Sandy, the Category 1 storm currently threatening $20 billion dollars in economic damage, has been terrorizing the East Coast of the US just in time for Halloween. Sure, the US coast has faced down a number of storms in its past; after all, the Gulf Coast in particular is well known for having a [...]

The US fall television season is upon us and with it comes a flurry of extravagant, elaborate and epic ad campaigns, vying for our undivided attentions and addictions until the sun pokes its elusive head over the horizon of spring 2013. Of course, any TV network worth its salt knows that the internet is the [...]

It has emerged today that Facebook IS going to make a smartphone which may be launched next year. According to a report by The New York Times, smartphone experts have been employed to work on a phone for Facebook. The report goes on to say that this will be the third attempt they have made to [...]

Car insurance comparison website Confused.com is launching a new service, Quick Quote, which allows users to text your number plate to Confused and in within seconds, the user will receive the lowest car insurance rate for them. Confused is so confident in the speed of their service for finding you the best car insurance rates, [...]

This month, Google will be introducing a number of different products and services attached to their social network, Google+.  According to Google themselves, the network which was launched in June last year already has over 80 million worldwide users, with 60 percent using the network on a daily basis. Obviously this isn’t a speck of [...]

Zeebox is claiming to be the new Facebook but I feel like we’ve heard it all before with previous contenders to the social media platform – most of which, might I add, have never managed to overshadow the major social networking site and many have had to shut down – Google Buzz anyone? So what [...]

Sean Parker – Facebook shareholder, co-founder of Napster, played by  Justin Timberlake in The Social Network – has gone on record at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco to, somewhat controversially, say that “The strategic threat to Facebook is that power users have gone to Twitter or to Google+.” He defined these power users [...]