GigaomSamsung’s Android homescreen app charts new terrain
There’s a new homescreen app available for all current Android phones. It’s called Terrain and it’s made by Samsung. Read more »
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Facebook (formerly [thefacebook]) is an online social networking service. Its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to students at some American universities. Facebook was founded in 2004. The founders had initially limited the website’s membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to their high-school students. Facebook now allows anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old worldwide to become a registered user of the website, although proof is not required.
Users create a personal profile, add other users as friends, exchange messages, post status updates and photos, and receive notifications when others update their profiles. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as “People From Work” or “Close Friends”. Facebook had over one billion active users as of September 2012 (of which approximately 9% were fake). Facebook held its initial public offering in 2012 and reached a peak market capitalization of $104 billion.
There’s a new homescreen app available for all current Android phones. It’s called Terrain and it’s made by Samsung. Read more »
Civil liberties activitists sued the British intelligence agencies over their surveillance programs, forcing the government to explain its legal rationale for intercepting certain online searches and communications. Read more »
Microsoft has been experimenting with its own custom chip effort in order to make its data centers more efficient, and these chips aren’t centered around ARM-based cores, but rather FPGAs from… Read more »
In an effort to further augment its Creative Labs experiment Paper, Facebook (s fb) announced Monday that the latest update to the mobile app includes new information-gathering and customization features for users. One of… Read more »
Facebook’s latest update for iPad introduces trending topics for news and video, as well as a new spot for games. Read more »
You already know where to watch the matches online, but here’s where you can go to learn how to pronounce the Croatian goalkeeper’s name or see a Vine of Dutch star… Read more »
CEOs are hoping for another boost in business productivity, but they can’t expect people to work much more, and their employees are already performing in less-structured and more cognitive ways that… Read more »
One of LinkedIn’s more annoying features — multiple requests to join its “professional network” — was slammed by a federal judge this week in a class action ruling. Read more »
Hadoop as a Service could make it much easier for you to build a big data capability inside your organization and run it at scale. Read more »
Facebook announced two new updates to its ads on Thursday, including a way for users to give feedback about the ads they see. Read more »