The globe spanning conglomerate that is Fox Interactive Media has today announced that it wants to get inside your phone with the launch of its ad-supported mobile Internet version of MySpace.
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Facebook Friends ‘Aren’t Real Chums’
You may well have screenfulls of grinning online buddies spanning a host of social networking sites, but new research shows that when it comes to the real world, you don’t have any more close friends than the rest of us.
Will Reader, an evolutionary psychologist at Sheffield Hallam University headed up a team studying Facebook and MySpace users and found that, “weak ties are (more common) but there is no difference in the number of close friends people have.”
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Eudora ‘Penelope’ Open Source Beta Released
Late last year, Qualcomm finally called time on its commercial email application, Eudora, announcing that it would be releasing it to the open source community.
The long serving program dates back to the late 80s when it first surfaced as a freeware program for Macs called UIUCMail.
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SplashID v4 Review: Mobile Password Manager (90%)
We positively overflowed with love for Splash ID when we reviewed the mobile password manager last year, and with both the mobile application and its desktop companion still enjoying daily use in the office, we were keen to give the latest version a once-over.
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Access FaceBook On Your Mobile
High octane socialites unable to wrench themselves away from their computers for fear of missing a ‘poke’ from an admirer or a last minute party invite should be delighted to learn that there’s now a ‘lite’ version of the social networking website.
Designed for accessing the site via mobile phones on slow connections, FaceBook users simply have to point their phone browser at http://m.facebook.com and log in as usual.
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Facebook Developers Garage London Review
The event took place at the T-Bar in the Tea Buildings in Shoreditch on Wednesday 15 Aug 2007. It was meant to start at 7pm but given the long queue at the door, the start was delayed.
Since Facebook made itself a development platform, people or companies can create applications to run on it. The Developers Garages events are organised by local folk with the assistance of Facebook (the company). They’re spring up around the world as developers try to suss out if there’s an opportunity.
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Smokin’: Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel Get Microsoft Fix
After some reports of problems with “smoking” when mains power units have been attached to Microsoft’s Xbox 360 wireless Racing Wheels, they decided to fix, or in their language “retrofit,” them.
Their use of language really is spectacular, beyond “retrofit,” they also say that the “AC-DC power supply is used to energize the Wheel.” Energize! What’s this? Star Trek?
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Xbox 360 UK Price Drop & Elite Too
After a pretty long period of speculation, Microsoft have confirmed that they’ll be dropping the price of the Xbox 360 in the UK and releasing the Elite version too.
As of this coming Friday (24 August) the entry model Xbox 360 Core will have a retail price of £180 – a £20 drop and the 20GB hard drive 360 will gain a retail price of £250 – a £30 drop.
Filling out the top of the line pricing will be the Xbox 360 Elite, which brings an HDMI video port, wireless controllers, a black finish and 120GB drive – all at £300.
HTML Editors: Freeloader options
Following coverage earlier in the week of the updates to BB Edit and Homesite 5.5, here we look at the freeloader options.
If you’re keen to work in a text based environment but the wallet is only home to a few flapping moths, there’s loads of freebie HTML text editors worthy of a look.
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TAKEphONE 7 Review (Part 2/2)
In part one of the review we looked at the basics, today we go further.
Working with contacts
Clicking on a search result takes you to the contact’s details and here the program really shows its worth: with one click you can call them, fire off a SMS, send an email from your preferred email client, schedule a meeting, edit their details or even see their address displayed on Google Maps.