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Vodafone Compass Squares up to be Next 360 Phone

by Jay Garrett on February 8, 2010

Mobile-Review seems to have a bit of a scoop – this, they say, is the new Vodafone 360 phone.

Dubbed the Vodafone Compass (which may confuse people as Vodafone Compass is also the name of a GPS app), it could well be the third Vodafone 360 social networking phone.

What makes this interesting, apart from the shape, is that the previous phones have been Samsung touchscreen numbers but here we have a square thing rocking a QWERTY board a-la Nokia 7705 Twist.

Vodafone 360 gives you a bunch of social networking niceness such as the geographic coordinates of friends, the address book yanks in Facebook updates and all sorts of contact options like IM and email.

Apparently some of the functions on the Compass 2010 will be gesture controlled using that centralised button on the back.

It should be able to cope with music playing and internet browsing.

So – is it hip to be square?

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The Dead to get Special Memorialised Facebook Pages

by Jay Garrett on October 27, 2009

facebook-deathFacebook has just announced that it’s bringing in a new feature that will allow friends and family to ‘memorialise’ the profiles of their loved ones who have sadly shuffled loose this mortal coil.

As well as being able to memorialise the deceased Facebook will also ensure that the friends and family are not needlessly reminded of their loss. There has been incidents where users were sent updates of their recently deceased friends whilst on the social networking site and even cases of dead members being suggested as friends to those they might know!

These ‘memorialised’ accounts will be given new privacy settings which will only allow previously confirmed friends to access the profile and will ensure that the deceased person’s profile will not appear in any search results.

Contact information and status updates will also be removed from memorialised pages which will no longer appear in any friend suggestion areas of the site.

Before any wouldbe prankster decides to get busy – Facebook is demanding “proof” of the death in the form of an obituary or news article before they will memorialise any pages.

Writing in the official Facebook blog, head of security for Facebook, Max Kelly, said: “When someone leaves us, they don’t leave our memories or our social network.” He added: “To reflect that reality, we created the idea of “memorialised” profiles as a place where people can save and share the memories of those who’ve passed.”

What do you think?

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Microsoft Allows Browsing InPrivate

August 28, 2008 Click to read more →

There are moments (apparently) that more private viewing of the interweb is required.
Microsoft has confirmed IE 8 would get its own “porn mode” (there’s such things on the internet??? ) albeit they’re calling it a “private browsing mode”.
They have gone and named it “InPrivate” which still sounds a bit ‘dirty raincoat’ to me, but perhaps that’s [...]