Neowin News Feed for: Places

Google launches free websites for US small businesses

Andy Weir — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:09:35 +0000

With so much headline space being devoted to Google+ in recent weeks - and Google itself admitting that its new social networking product isn’t ready for businesses just yet - business users may have been... Read more...

Facebook Deals comes to the UK

Mike Brown — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:34:24 +0000

Facebook Deals, the check-in service that allows you to claim special offers in places that you've "checked-in" to, is making its way across the Atlantic today as the social network officially announced the launch of... Read more...

Why you should rethink your Facebook privacy this year

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:16:41 +0000

Facebook is one of the largest social networking websites in the world, so it isn't a wonder that privacy concerns constantly hover over the website like a heavy cloud. Being one of the 550 million... Read more...

Facebook's Project Titan to take on Gmail; coming Monday? [Update]

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:50:48 +0000

Facebook sent out invites to many websites, asking them to be part of an unveiling on Monday, November 15. The invite doesn't explain much, but it does use the inbox icon used on the Facebook... Read more...

Facebook receives patent for location-based social networks

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:02:36 +0000

Facebook has just received a patent for location-based social networks, also known as checkins, which could potentially spell disaster for similar services like Foursquare and Gowalla. The patent was filed on February 28, 2007, and... Read more...

Facebook Places now live in Canada

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:41:52 +0000

Facebook Places launched a little over a month ago in the United States, but now the expanding service has finally made it's way to the great white north. Canada is the fourth country to have... Read more...

Foursquare survives round one of Facebook Places

Tzvi Friedman — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:39:15 +0000

Facebook is making waves once again with the launch of its location-based service Facebook Places. Along with the requisite privacy concerns that accompanies every Facebook announcement these days (the service is enabled by default), the... Read more...

Facebook enables location services called "Places" [Update]

Owen Williams — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:58:00 +0000

Techcrunch is reporting that Facebook has annouced that it's brand new location service goes live tonight, dubbed "Facebook Places." The new service is similar to that of Foursquare, and allows users to check in, as... Read more...

Let Google photograph your business with Google Places

Tzvi Friedman — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:54:01 +0000

After yesterday's introduction of Google Places, a revamp and streamlining of the already successful Local Business Center, Google is taking the business search engine one step further. In a few select trial cities, Google will... Read more...

OneCare places 16th in antivirus test, 13th in spyware.

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:56:41 +0000

Virus Bulletin this month released the results of a major comparative of the latest security products, covering a range of metrics. These include detection rates over various types of malware, false positive rates, scanning speed,... Read more...

Mozilla Shows Mock-up of Firefox 3.0's Places

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:00:22 +0000

Mozilla Corp. has posted mock-ups of Places, one of the most-awaited new features in the upcoming Firefox 3.0., on its Web site. As part of the weekly Firefox 3.0 status update that Mozilla posts to... Read more...

Bookmarks on Places now enabled for Firefox 3 alpha 5

Thu, 24 May 2007 21:53:07 +0000

Firefox 3 Alpha 5, slated for a release next week, will include some form of the much awaited bookmarks revamp known as Places: "we are excited to let you all know that last week we... Read more...

Places dropped from Firefox 2

Steven Parker — Tue, 02 May 2006 08:41:57 +0000

Betanews reported a couple of days ago that Places have been dropped from the Firefox 2.0 release, originally it was included in the first public alpha release of Firefox 2.0, codenamed "Bon Echo," it had... Read more...