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No more virtual troll dolls from distant relatives on Facebook? OH, NO!

Jul 9, 2010
This is sad news for my second-cousin-once-removed, and awesome news for all the rest of us sick of fending off virtual plants, teddy bears, and...

Are we reaching "Peak Facebook"?

Jul 9, 2010
You know the concept of "peak oil," yeah? That we will at some point reach the highest level we'll be able to draw from the ground, and it's all...

YouTube brings Leanback forward

Jul 8, 2010
Google introduced a new option on YouTube that's kind of a mashup of YouTube, Facebook, and Pandora. It's called Leanback and it provides a full...

Facebook takes on search. A way bigger story than you might realize.

Jun 25, 2010
The seemingly innocuous Like button recently spread from Facebook to sites all over the web as part of Facebook's Open Graph program. You read...

Mark Zuckerberg faces the death penalty

Jun 18, 2010
No, not for his privacy policies. Pakistan's deputy attorney general is pursuing charges against the Facebook CEO because someone on Facebook...

Email going away, says person who would profit by email going away

Jun 17, 2010
Grab several grains of salt, a whole shaker even, when you hear it but Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says that email is going the way of the...

Chatroulette declines. But aren't we supposed to share ourselves online?

Jun 14, 2010
I probably find this story more interesting than I should but so it goes. Chatroulette, in case you don't remember the craze of a few months ago,...

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If you can't beat 'em, integrate 'em, says Yahoo

Jun 7, 2010
Yahoo is rolling out new features that embed Facebook in the Yahoo user experience. Yahoo and Yahoo mail users will soon be able to see their...

Tech News In Brief - 6/2/10

Jun 3, 2010
The Skype 3G app for iPhone is hugely popular. Free calls! Free calls! Until next year!Umpire's blown call ruins pitcher's perfect game. Call out...

Tech News In Brief - 6/1/10

Jun 1, 2010
2 Million iPads sold in less than 2 months. If I read this correctly, there can only be one conclusion: PEOPLE LOVE IPADS.Google HQ won't run...