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Facebook Home For Android

With one in three people across the globe connected to Facebook, it represents a huge market that every company is trying to hone in on in order to capitalize upon the popularity.  The Android smartphone OS is one of the most recent comers to this market, launching a Facebook Home app for Google smartphones that has been met with no small amount of criticism. 

The Facebook Home app is a reinvention of the standard layout of the website.  It completely fills up your phone screen, meaning that it is not possible to run concurrent apps at the same time unless you are constantly switching back and forth.  While there are ways to dial back the app on your operating system, it comes pre-loaded, meaning that users will either need to modify it or ignore it completely if it starts aggravating them. 

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Jeffrey Bezos Invests In Business Insider

Although he is not investing in Business Insider on his own, there is no doubt that Jeffrey Bezos is the driving force behind the new group that is funding the business blog. According to the site, Bezos - who built the Amazon.com empire - has been thinking about investing in the company for roughly a year. In fact, he met with executives from Business Insider at that time and expressed interest, though he did not actually make his contribution until a few days ago. When he did, though, it was a significant amount of money. All told, the investment from the group should be right around the five million dollar mark.

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Adults Texting And Driving More Than Teens

If teens endure a bad reputation for texting right into the wee hours of the night or from behind the wheels of their cars, then the public has not received the full picture. It is their parents who are most guilty. Instances of adult texting and driving have risen.

Alarming Figures

Figures appear to have doubled, although they are based on admissions, not solid facts about texting. The trouble is adults seem to be the most rushed; the most pushed and pressured. Teens rarely need to be somewhere in a hurry, except when they are late for work or school. Having recently passed their exams, are teenagers keener to obey the law? Are they more concerned about losing their new-driver status because of texting?

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Twitter Inventors Gain Patent Protection

Jack Dorsey (current CEO of Square and chairman at Twitter) and Biz Stone (aka Christopher Isaac Stone) have been granted a patent for Twitter, a patent petition that they filed some 6 years ago. The patent is for a device independent messaging system, a pretty accurate description of the social site long before it gained world-wide popularity. The company has the ability to file lawsuits against companies that offer similar services, although non have reached the popularity of Twitter and Twitter is not planning to sue anyone at this time.

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If you want to get the maximum return on your federal and state taxes, you need to use Turbo Tax 2013 to prepare and file your tax return. With Turbo Tax 2013, you can rest assured you are getting every possible credit and deduction available to you and your tax situation. The free TurboTax edition is easy to use and walks you through each step of the filing process. Additionally, free TurboTax has an audit checker that will check your return to make sure there are no red flags that the Internal Revenue Service looks for to determine which returns will be audited. If the audit checker finds something that will likely trigger an audit, it will alert you and walk you through the steps to fix it.

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Twitter Ends TweetDeck Apps for Mobile

TweetDeck will no longer be available on three mobile platforms including iOS, Android and Adobe Air. Twitter, which now owns TweetDeck, made a blog post that three apps would be removed from popular app stores and existing apps installed on thousands of phones would stop working in May. This is a new strategy for Twitter which wants more users to use the site directly instead of accessing data through its API. Third party apps like TweetDeck rely on the API to pull and post tweets to the popular social network.

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Yahoo Ends Work From Home Program

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently ended the companies work-from-home program requiring all employees to work in the office or leave the company. Hundreds of employees are to be affected when the program ends. The news has caused an uproar across the business world from plenty of work from home employees who don’t see their status as being less productive but more productive.

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Microsoft’s Outlook.com Replaces Hotmail

Overnight the software giant Microsoft began to convert all of its Hotmail online email clients to their new Outlook.com online email system. The new Outlook.com was being brought out of beta/preview and all current Hotmail users will now have access to the new system. Six months ago the product was offered on a limited basis. By the end of the summer all users should be converted and Hotmail will no longer exist. At the current time 60 million users are using the new Interface. A reported 360 million users have Hotmail accounts. Those users will be able to keep their current email addresses even after they begin using the new system.

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Roku And Apple TV

For decades, most consumers have only had a limited number of entertainment options - you could watch cable or satellite television, or you could watch movies on your VCR or DVD player.  However, with the rapid growth of streaming media options online, consumers have a nearly unlimited opportunity to get the movies and TV shows they want with out the bulky equipment or high prices of the past.

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Jailbreaking An IO6 Device

This article explains how to jailbreak io6 device, including the iPhone 5.

Finally, there is a jailbreak process released for iOS6 and above, making this the first jailbreak iPhone 5.

If you have waiting impatiently to jailbreak your device that runs iOS 6 or above, including your iPhone 5, this is your lucky day. Just today, a revolutionary new tool known as evasiOn was introduced.

This is very easy to use-much easier than the iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak I wrote about last year. This one is much quicker and only has a few steps to it. If you are at home with a computer, you can click a few buttons and tap an icon on your iOS phone, you are over qualified to operate evasiOn.