Archive for October, 2011

10 Bible Stories You Can Relate to Facebook

Bible Stories You Can Relate to FaceBook

Bible Stories You Can Relate to FaceBook

Facebook is an amazing gathering place. People easily become addicted to its social atmosphere in a time when everyone is busy running in many different directions. It enables us to remain connected with many people at the same time. If you are familiar with the stories of the Bible, you may find some ways that the stories relate to Facebook. Here are ten that came to my mind.

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Google to Shut Down Its Buzz Service

Google Buzz

Google plans to shut down its Buzz service within the next few weeks.

In a few weeks we’ll shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+,Bradley Horowitz, Google’s vice president of product, wrote on The Official Google Blog. “We learned a lot from products like Buzz, and are putting that learning to work every day in our vision for products like Google+.”

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Microsoft Completes $8.5 Billion Acquisition Of Skype

Internet video chat service Skype is now officially a part of Microsoft.

The two companies joined forces late Thursday when Microsoft Corp. completed its $8.5 billion purchase of Skype. The closing came five months after Microsoft announced the deal.

Microsoft is counting on Skype to help it catch up in some the hottest markets in technology and media. Those areas include online socializing, mobile phones and digital video.

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Apple Users are More Generous than PC and Android Users

Online Social Fundraising Visualized

Online Social Fundraising Visualized

Apple devices users are far more generous than Android, Blackberry and Windows mobile device users with the iPad taking the number one spot for charitable donations. Average donation value by mobile device: iPad £107.23; iPhone £65.35; Android £58.12; Blackberry £15.25.

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Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak in Line at Apple Store

Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak is settling in for a long night ahead waiting in line outside the Apple store in Los Gatos for the iPhone 4S.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (@stevewoz) is apparently in a hurry to get ahold of a new iPhone 4S.

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