Web‘Find Friends Nearby’: Facebook’s New Mobile Feature For Finding People Around YouFor now, the app works like this. Users have to be logged into Facebook and also into the Friendshake URL, and then others who are near can pick each other up. You can see both your own friends, as well as those you may not know.  Nokia Still Beats Apple Easily in the Mobile Browsing MarketSure, the iPhone and iPad are generally viewed as the most obvious mobile web browsing devices today, but a chart from StatCounter suggests that Apple is not dominating this space. Verizon launches 4G in 5 more citiesThe lucky denizens of Glens Falls and Utica, N.Y.; Lawton, Okla.; and Brownsville and McAllen, Texas, will now start getting Verizon’s LTE speeds. Facebook Android app updateThe tweaks make photos and albums “up to two times faster,” according to Facebook’s product manager Keith Peiris in blog post. It also simplifies the way users share pics, edit captions and read comments. Skype Happy Birthday Facebook PostsThe company is launching a Facebook app on Tuesday that allows its fans to instead post a birthday song performed by a favorite band — and sing along, if they so choose. Microsoft: how to become fired because of a single tweetA Microsoft employee who tweeted about an unreleased Nokia Windows phone has left the company after being told that he violated Microsoft’s social-media policy. How to surf T-Mobile without a data planThe mother of all ingenious hacks has emerged: if you have an Android smartphone and a T-Mobile (US) unlimited messaging plan, you can now use an app called Smozzy to surf the web… for free. Mobile internet use nearing 50%Almost half of UK internet users are going online via mobile phone data connections, according to the Office for National Statistics. Rumor: Facebook to launch Skype video chat this Wednesdayirst, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters that the company was planning to “launch something awesome” next week. Next, Facebook e-mailed journalists (including myself) with an invitation to a Facebook Event at 10:00 AM PDT on Wednesday July 6, 2011. Skype to bring video chat to Comcast subscribersCable giant Comcast is teaming up with Skype to offer its subscribers video calling on their TVs, in a move that could bring more affordable video conferencing to the home.
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