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A year’s worth of Facebook updates add up to 11.5 billion pages of paper [infographic]

January 31st, 2012 2:10pm No comments

A year's worth of Facebook updates add up to 1.5 billion pages of paper [infographic]

Keen to drum up a bit of support for their business, UK online cartridge retailer Cartridge Save  thought it would be a whizzo idea to calculate how much paper would be needed to print a year’s worth of Facebook statuses.

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Google shows off its Google Maps 3D maze challenge [video]

January 15th, 2012 1:44pm No comments

Google shows off its Google Maps maze challenge

Google has  slipped out a promotional video showing off a Google Maps-driven game for the Google+ Games platform.

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It’s D.I.V.O.R.C.E. on Facebook, with the site cited in one third of UK divorce cases

December 30th, 2011 3:54pm No comments

It's D.I.V.O.R.C.E. on Facebook, with the site cited in one third of UK divorce cases

According to a recent study, Facebook is becoming a major factor in divorce cases in the UK, with the social networking site being cited in 33 per cent of behaviour petitions in 2011 – a hefty jump from the 13 per cent of cases in 2009.

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Android’s Facebook app usage overtakes the iPhone for the first time

December 19th, 2011 4:00pm No comments

Android's Facebook app usage overtakes the iPhone for the first time

A new study shows the Android Facebook app now ratcheting up an astonishing 58.8 million daily active users, making it more popular than the iPhone Facebook app for the first time.

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Facebook rolls out Android update, speedier experience promised for all

December 8th, 2011 9:15am No comments

Facebook rolls out Android update, speedier experience promised for all

Facebook has just announced a shiny new version of its Android application, and it should be landing in an  Android Market near you any minute now.

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Official Facebook app finally promenades on to the Apple iPad

October 11th, 2011 9:15am No comments

Official Facebook app finally comes to the Apple iPad

It’s taken so long to saunter into the App Store that we suspect some iPad users were starting to take it personally, but the official Facebook app is now finally ready for downloading.

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Facebook unveils Timeline and shows off its features in a schmaltzy video

September 22nd, 2011 7:41pm No comments

Facebook unveils Timeline and shows off its features in a schmaltzy video

Facebook has unveiled Timeline, described as a “major re-imagining of user profiles,” which allows users to build a visual scrapbook of their activities on the site over the years.

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Swiftly shunt your Facebook photos into your Google+ account with Move2Picasa

July 11th, 2011 10:51am No comments

Swiftly shunt your Facebook photos into your Google+ account with Move2Picasa

If – like us – you’re preparing to jump ship from Facebook and break free from its auto photo-taggin’ and auto group joinin’ ways, a new Chrome extension makes the job of moving to rival service Google+ a lot easier.

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Facebook adds self-proclaimed ‘awesome’ Skype video chatting feature

July 6th, 2011 7:28pm No comments

Facebook adds 'awesome' Skype video chatting feature

Enthusiastically pre-hyped by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last week, the new “awesome” add-on to the social networking site has been revealed as video chat tool created in partnership with Skype.

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Facebook annoys more users by blocking contact-exporting tool

July 5th, 2011 10:53am No comments

Facebook annoys more users by blocking contact-exporting tool

Facebook’s penchant for hanging on to your data is well documented, so we expect many users were pleased when a developer created a Chrome extension tool that made it easy to export all their information out of the social networking service.

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The world turns blue as Facebook embraces the globe

June 13th, 2011 10:45am No comments

The world turns blue as Facebook dominates the globe

Analytics boffin Vincenzo Cosenza has released the latest of his bi-annual ‘world map of social networks’ graphics, displaying the rise and fall of the big social networks by country.

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Facebook takes over the world, with over 700m users signed up

June 1st, 2011 12:12pm No comments

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Facebook’s quest to take over the planet continues, with new figures putting its total user base at a staggering 700,000,000 users worldwide – an astonishing rise from January’s figures of 500m users.

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The relentless greed of the Winklevoss twins over their Facebook claim

May 17th, 2011 12:29pm No comments

The relentless greed of the Winklevoss twins over their Facebook claim

Already stinking rich before they began, Harvard-educated twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss famously claimed that the idea for Facebook was stolen from them by Mark Zuckerberg.

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Freaking Facebook infuriates further with more flipping flaky errors

April 20th, 2011 9:20am No comments

Freaking Facebook infuriates further with more flipping flaky errors

Man oh man, are we getting more and more fed up with freaking Facebook, which is throwing up so many random errors these days that it’s beginning to rival MySpace for hair-tearing unreliability.

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Facebook for Android updated to v1.5.3 with friend tagging

April 19th, 2011 9:00am No comments

Facebook for Android updated to v1.5.3 with friend tagging

Facebook has just slammed down an an update to its official application for Android devices, with the shiny new version 1.5.3 serving up a rather small side salad of newness, with just a couple of new features and bug fixes.

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