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By Ewan on May 28, 2012 in Opinion

Ive been reading all about The Facebook Phone. Im sure you have too. I thought Id pen a viewpoint. If youre in the mood for a cup of coffee, grab one now. Otherwise a TLDR will suffice. 

In about 48 hours the original report of Facebook hiring a few Apple engineers has now snowballed into what feels like an imminent announcement of shipping hardware!

Hiring a few engineers doesnt build you a phone.

Creating a phone from scratch is a serious, serious affair and todays consumer is incredibly unforgiving of anything but almost perfect.

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An employee stands next to a giant screen for “Chrome Experiments” in the Google France offices in 2011 in Paris before its inauguration. Google stepped up its effort earlier this year by releasing a full version of its Chrome browser for mobile devices, which will over time replace the unnamed browser on devices powered by Google’s open Android platform.

Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo! are all in the struggle, along with the Norwegian-made Opera browser and the open source Firefox software from Mozilla.

The motive behind the wars is not just bragging rights.

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The folks over at Hasselblad have just made their high-end cameras significantly more affordable by dropping prices on both the entry-level H4D-31 and high-end H4D-60 by as much as 23%.That may not sound like a massive discount, but considering the original prices of both cameras, it’s a whopper. The H4D-31 dropped around $4,500 to a price of just over $15,000. The H4D-60, meanwhile, went down in price almost $8,000 to around $30,500.”This price reduction campaign is part of an innovative and dynamic marketing strategy for the company, ahead of the world’s biggest photographic trade fair,” says Hasselblad sales manager Chris Russell-Fish, referring to Photokina in Cologne this September. Find more…

Using actual Internet usage data collected from the university’s network, the researchers identified nine fine-grained patterns of Internet usage that may indicate depression. For example, students showing signs of depression tend to use file-sharing services more than their counterparts, and also use the Internet in a more random manner, frequently switching among several applications.

The researchers’ findings provide new insights on the association between Internet use and depression compared to existing studies, says Dr. Sriram Chellappan, an assistant professor of computer science at Missouri S&T and the lead researcher in the study.

“The study is believed to be the first that uses actual Internet data, collected unobtrusively and anonymously, to associate Internet usage with signs of depression,” Chellappan says.

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Would you still purchase the Galaxy S III for Verizon if it loses the quad-core processor? Well, you might start thinking about it now if the handset featured in a benchmark turns out to be Big Red’s version of the Samsung Galaxy S III.

An intriguing Verizon-bound handset recently surfaced in a Nenmark benchmark. The smartphone features the model number SCH-I535, which previous rumors have claimed to be a variant of Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S III for Verizon Wireless. Ho

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A recently launched Kickstarter-funded project aims to bring $50 thin clients to schools and small businesses, allowing them to turn almost any computer into a multi-user hub.

Thanks to ongoing advances in multi-seat Linux development, manufacturer Plugable was able to base its machines on Fedora, rather than proprietary software, though it also works with Windows Multipoint Server. By doing away with licensing costs, Plugable founder Bernie Thompson says the company can ensure an attractive price. The Kickstarter effort is in place to help the company realize “economies of scale” necessary to drive the cost down.

“Every other solution out there has a software license cost per seat.

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Nothing seems to be going right for Research In Motion at the moment. This week they got the tech world talking when they declared they would be focusing on business phones rather than trying to take on Apple at their own game. But as soon as the tech world had begun to digest this apparent change in direction RIM CEO did a bit of a u-turn and declared his comments were taken out of context.

RIM MD Patrick Spence set the record straight: “Whilst we announced plans to re-focus our efforts on our core strengths, and on our enterprise customer base, we were very explicit that we will continue to build on our strengths to go after targeted consumer segments.”

With the launch of their new BB10 operating system soon, RIM is hoping to reignite some of that magic that saw them scale the world of mobile phones and become the number 1 handset maker. Fro

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