Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 4:32am
Fly often? Play FarmVille at 30,000 feet much? As of today, seven major airlines will offer free Facebook access via their in-flight Wi-Fi, for a limited time.
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 1:29pm
With pretty much every smartphone platform set with its own robust Facebook app, one wonders just why the social network would want to release a dedicated Facebook phone. But that's just what's rumored to be coming.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 6:00am
Sure, most of us have Facebook — but just how pervasive is it? Click the infographic below for a look at 2011 Facebook stats....
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 6:00am
Facebook engineering intern Paul Butler put together this nifty map using social graph data. He took a ten million friend pair sample size and created a visual representation of human relationships....
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - 5:18am
Mark Zuckerberg finally took the wraps off of "Project Titan" at Facebook's special "email-killing" event yesterday in San Francisco. Is the 500-million users strong social network killing email? Not quite. Instead, Facebook wants its Messages to become an aggregator for all your digital messages — not just the ones sent on Facebook.
Friday, November 12, 2010 - 7:37am
You already use Facebook to stalk your ex-girlfriend, why not use it to email her, too? That's the idea behind Facebook's new email service, which they're expected to unveil on Monday.
Thursday, November 4, 2010 - 10:54am
Despite the growing popularity of services like Foursquare — and Facebook's freshly-launched Places — location-based "check-in" sites are still poised to explode. In fact, a new study pegs their usage at around 4% of online adults. So, here's one idea to get people interested: save them money.
Monday, October 25, 2010 - 12:34pm
With all the epic stuff and high adventure in Star Wars: A New Hope, it's hard to imagine the movie can be boiled down to a few dozen choice lines of text. Well, after seeing this I'm a believer, and the results are hilarious.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 7:34am
Ars Technica writer Jacqui Cheng deleted a photo of herself off Facebook in May 2009. She was hoping it would be gone for good — as in completely erased. With a little investigative checking, she discovered that the photo was still lingering on Facebook's content delivery network (CDN) servers nearly 16 months after she had hit the delete button.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 3:14am
It's no secret that Google has been planning a social network of its own, but now CEO Eric Schmidt is talking more frankly about it. What do we know right now? It could be called Google Me, appear as early as this fall, and Google is hoping Facebook well aid in its own destruction.
