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Facebook landed him in jail

Saturday, July 19th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

CNN reports the story of a college student, whose Facebook profile was used as evidence against him in court: Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the ...

Facebook finally releases message search tool

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 by Kyle Welter

5 days ago, on June 19th, Facebook began to release the heavily requested inbox search tool. This is one of the first steps that we see Facebook taking towards promoting private messaging to replace e-mails as younger generation begin to log onto Facebook. According to Facebook engineer Prashant Malik, Facebook delayed ...

3G iPhone a reality

Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Nick Bodmer

Everyone's favorite mobile blogging tool just got an upgrade. Steve Jobs annouced today a new verion of the Apple iPhone, that includes 3G (read, super fast internet), real GPS with tracking, and improved battery life. The big suprise? The new price: $199. Less than one year ago, it was $599 ...