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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg announced a major change to the social media site on Thursday. The text-based application appears to be jumping into the news business. Facebook is preparing to unveil a new version of News Feed — the flow of status updates, photos and advertisements its users see on the Facebook web page. Facebook [...]

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Mount Prospect police responded about 3:45 PM Friday to a report of a battery in the block of 200 Forest Avenue.. Ryan P. Hanley, 18, of the 200 block of North Emerson Street, Mount Prospect, and Matthew Kevin Guth, 20, of the 100 block of South Louis Street, Mount Prospect, were arrested after it was [...]

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Facebook has announced that it is unveiling and tool to find content and data on Facebook, known as Graph Search, but it is only in beta, and requires that users sign up for a waiting list. Graph search is immediately available to a limited number of Facebook users — in the “thousands, and will gradually [...]

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The new Myspace from Myspace on Vimeo. Video from Myspace.com. This is Myspace. This is the new Myspace. The social media website Myspace that dwindled after the skyrocketing popularity of Facebook, is hoping to make a comeback. Myspace was founded in 2003 and was acquired by News Corporation in July 2005 for $580 million. Myspace [...]

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Over the weekend, there was a rumor that a second taser attack occurred in Schaumburg. As of this morning and since the first attack that occurred on January 4, 2012, there is NO KNOWN SECOND ATTACK. The Village of Schaumburg has issued the following statement regarding the circulated false reports of a second attack:

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Facebook loves to wow users with features and usefulness and gather demographics, but it doesn’t take care to offer users quality for the entire Facebook experience. Facebook has a history of changing things … and aggravating users. Among the most common complaints are changes to the user interface. Links to features are sometimes rearranged, or [...]

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Steve Jobs was a master of managing industrial design and human interface design. Apple products are easy to use because Apple mastered the science of how people make errors, and made “thoughtful” machines that help people take the correct course of action when using those machines.

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What happens when you cross the world’s largest social network with one of the hottest business models in e-commerce? Facebook wants to find out. Facebook plans to test the market to cash in on the deals it can offer similar to the group coupon sites like Groupon and Living Social. Facebook has enlisted 11 companies, [...]

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A Georgia college student saved his family’s home and their lives from masked intruders when he updated his Facebook profile with a message asking for help. Nitesh Bhakta was studying in his room when his grandmother screamed as three robbers entered his home to commit an armed robbery/home invasion. With no phone nearby, Bhakta grabbed [...]

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Dearborn attorney Majed Moughni is suing Facebook because he says he lost his bid to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. John Dingell in 2010, in part, because he lost his Facebook account. A Facebook spokesman says Moughni’s Facebook page was flagged for “suspicious or anomalous behaviors,” and that the Facebook system automatically sent out warnings before [...]

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Arlington Heights snowfall the day after the BIG SNOW of 1967 of January 26-27. Twenty-three inches fell in 29 hours. The Cardinal is looking for volunteers to become fans of our Weather Facebook fan page. If you have some cool weather pictures, you would like to share, please join The Cardinal Weather page. Do you [...]

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The Reverend Cedric Miller made headlines last week for ordering 50 married officials at his Living Word Christian Fellowship Church to delete their Facebook accounts or resign because Facebook is a ‘portal to infidelity’. Then comes a revelation about an interesting twist. According to testimony in a criminal case in April 2003, the reverend had [...]

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