New tools from Facebook

In the middle of January,Facebook had introduced its new tool: Graph Search. Mark Zuckerberg said it will be one of the critical component for Facebook's future plan. They will invest quite a lot effort on it. They hope Graph Search will become its 3rd main function on the web (News feed, Time line, Graph Search). Graph Search provides probably everything user find on the web including LinkedIn, Yelp, Foursquare, Match or similar search engine like Google does. Let's see what they can do on it !

RIM's future plan

BlackBerry 10  is coming to be released. Unexpected changes may occur after BlackBerry 10 is released. The CEO of RIM Thorsten Heins said recently, they are evaluating company's future developing plan. It 's possible that they sell their hardware department and the authorization of software.The main task now is prepare for releasing BlackBerry 10.  RIM hopes they can earn part of customers from iPhone and Google.

1st show next week for

Jobs, an coming biographical firm based on the true story of Steve Jobs, one of the greatest entrepreneur in the 20th century, the co-founder ,president, and CEO of Apple Inc. This films shows the transformation from an enthusiastic college guy to a life thinker, ultimately he changed the way people see this world. Now,Apple Inc one of the most successful electronics producer and seller is leading our world to a brand new stage.

Facebook Phones

Facebook will be holding a pres conference on Wednesday next week at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California. People expect Facebook will public their new product called "Facebook Phone" which is more likely a Facebook operation systems working on the smart phones rather than a brand new phone.Although, Facebook said they don't want to build their own phones ,  no one knows exactly what it is since the company keep it under the ground. Either it is a phone or an operation system , people will consider it puts into competition with Google and Apple.

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Here is my plan for this  blog during the semester : I would like to post weekly IT news I read most recently and what I think of it. Topics include:  New Tech knowledge, computers, smart phones, IT business, games etc. My main source of news are Internet, newspapers,magazine or academic papers.  You are welcomed to have any discussion with me if any one of my post interests you.