Facebook is possibly developing its own Smartphone (social, networking, communication, android, iPhone, GSM, voip, Auckland, "David Lim"

Believe it or not, two high level Facebook employees by the names Matthew Papakipos and Joe Hewitt are rumoured to be working on developing a smartphone for Social network giant. Former lead project manager of the Android OS, Eric Tseng is also said to be in the loop after leaving Google in May and signing on with Facebook. According to TechCrunch.com the project is such a secret, that most, if not all Facebook staff are unaware of it.
Correction, the project they are working on is not actually a phone, but the software used to power it, alongside a third party who will be building the hardware. The smartphone in question is expected to allow deep integration with Facebook contacts. It also appears that Facebook will be making use of Google’s open-source Android operating system to do its damage, which will surely anger a lot of people off at Google.
 
The question is why would Facebook be working on a smartphone? Apparently, Facebook has been concerned that Apple and Google are turning into some kind of threat as competitors, there is a rather deep Facebook integration in the Android platform, and there is an iPhone app which allows for contact merging.
Both Hewitt and Papakipos have extensive knowledge and experience with operating system experience. Papakipos was leading the Google Chrome OS project until June, when he quit and went to Facebook. As for Hewitt, he helped create the Firefox browser and created all of Facebook’s iPhone web apps.
When, where and how much is still unknown, but TechCrunch is betting the Facebook phone will be a lower end model (under $50.00), something very affordable that they can get into as many hands as possible, in other words, not much more than just a fully integrated Facebook device.
On the other side of the fence is Engadget, they expect a higher end product, if Facebook is truly concerned about the major players, it would not be targeting a lower end product.
All I can say is that Facebook is on top of its game for what it is, a social networking space. They may have the funds and the talent to run with this, but just remember who their completion is, Apple, Google, Nokia, RIM, Microsoft. I just cant see them beating those kind of odds.
What do you think it will be called, perhaps the Facepalm?

Update:

Facebook has denied making a phone of its own. It agreed that it was working on deeper integration of the social network with phones, but through its traditional approach of talking to other companies and not with its own devices.
Things are starting to get juicy…Mashable says “no Facebook phone”, while TechCrunch is still adamant that there will be a Facebook phone in the near future.
I going with TechCrunch on this one, remember last year when Google said they weren’t working on their own brand of a smartphone? What about two years back when Microsoft adamantly denied it wasn’t working on a Zune phone?

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Saving that parting email from your first love in your inbox? Well, chances are, after you pass away, your spouse and the entire family will know about the long-held secret. (http://tiny.cc/2inbox)
 
This is because web email services like hotmail and Gmail do not let users specify what should happen to their massages when they die.

In fact, email services owned by internet giants like Google and Microsoft have a policy of keeping your data after you die and letting your next of kin or the executor of your estate access it. These services can hold tens of thousands of messages.
 
Accounts with Gmail can hold up to 7GB-or roughly 70,000 emails with a small to medium picture attached to each and they archive the messages you’ve written as well as received.
 
When it comes to deleting the data, Microsoft’s Hotmail will remove an account if it is inactive for 270 days, while Gmail leaves the responsibility to the next of kin.
 
Of the top three providers, only yahoo refuses to supply emails to anyone after the users has died. The user’s next of kin can ask for the account to be closed, but cannot gain access to it.
 
A yahoo spokesperson said the only exception to this rule would be if the users specified otherwise in their will.
 
Mean while, social-networking site Facebook has recently publicized a feature called memorialisation that lets the family of deceased users keep their profile page online as a virtual tribute.  

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Associate Press, Cleveland--August 6, 2010 @ 12:00 a.m.


Dread of the unknown hung in the air as Lynn France typed two words into the search box on Facebook: the name of the woman with whom she believed her husband was having an affair.


Click. And there it was, the stuff of nightmares for any spouse. Wedding photos. At Walt Disney World, no less, featuring her husband literally dressed as Prince Charming. His new wife, a pretty blonde, was a glowing Sleeping Beauty, surrounded by footmen.


“I was numb with shock, to tell you the truth,” says France, an occupational therapist from Westlake, a Cleveland suburb. “There was like an album of 200 pictures on there. Their whole wedding.”


The husband claimed Thursday that his marriage to Lynn France was never valid. He said she knew earlier about the other marriage and was making the Facebook claim as a publicity ploy.


“All of these things are just a trail of cyber breadcrumbs that are easily tracked by good divorce lawyers,” says Parry Aftab, an expert on Internet safety and privacy laws.


France, 41, was not completely blindsided by her Facebook discovery, which happened in January 2009. That fall, she had grown suspicious when her husband began taking frequent business trips, even leaving the day the couple’s newborn son came home from the hospital. Once, she found his passport at home when he was supposed to be in China for business.


In October, before leaving for another trip, her husband left a hotel website up on the couple’s computer screen.


“So I actually went there with a girlfriend, just to see for myself for sure,” France says. “He was there with this girlfriend. I said, ‘Hey, I’m his wife. We’ve got a baby.’”


The woman told France that she was engaged to France’s husband.


“Sure enough, they were registered for a wedding at Target,” France says.


A girlfriend recommended checking the woman’s Facebook page, which was then open to the public, France says, but has since become private. There, France found evidence of an unfolding relationship that she still couldn’t wrap her head around. Overwhelmed with two young children, she confronted her husband. She says he told her he wouldn’t actually go through with the wedding.


It wasn’t until she saw the wedding photos that she finally began divorce proceedings.


“People who engage in these sorts of behaviors now have the option of trying to keep things private or turning it into a spectacle and becoming their own reality show,” says lawyer Andrew Zashin, a child-custody expert who is representing Lynn France.


Lynn’s husband, John France, does not deny that he has remarried. Rather, he simply is insisting that he was never married to Lynn in the first place.


“I don’t think I was cheating,” France said in an interview aired Thursday on NBC’s “Today” show. “If you have a marriage that’s not right from the beginning, it’s not right at the end.”


France said Lynn France’s claim of finding out about the second wedding on Facebook was “absurd” and said she knew long before. He claimed she was “losing the court battle” for custody of their two sons and was using the Facebook story for attention.


His attorney, Gary Williams, issued a statement Tuesday saying his client is asking a family-law court to declare that his marriage to Lynn was “void since its inception.”


“While it appears that John and Lynn France were both under the impression, once upon a time, that they were married, the fact of the matter is that their marriage was never legally proper,” Williams wrote, “and, therefore, it does not actually exist.”


Lynn and John France were married in July 2005 in a seaside wedding on Italy’s Amalfi Coast, having organized the event through Regency San Marino, which coordinates weddings for couples looking to get hitched in Italy. On the company’s website, Lynn is still the first radiant bride whose portrait appears in a gauzy veil, the brilliant blue sea behind her.


If that wedding was a fraud, it was news to Lynn.


“If that were true, then he’s lied to the IRS,” Zashin says. “He’s lied to insurance companies. Banks.”


In June 2009, against the advice of her attorneys, Lynn France dropped divorce proceedings when her husband came home and persuaded her to reconcile.


“I just wanted to believe the good when he came to me and said, ‘Let’s reconcile, I love you,’” she says. “You want to give somebody a second chance.”


But three months ago, Lynn says she was cleaning the sink when her husband took the couple’s 2-year-old son out of her arms and said he was going to give him some milk. Minutes later, she heard the car running.


“He threw them in, no car seats, no nothing, and took off,” she says.


She hasn’t seen her sons since. John France had taken them to Tampa, Fla., where he currently lives with his new wife and, according to his attorney, is seeking custody of their children.


Lynn France called 911, but as in most parental custody disputes, little could be done. She is in contact with the Center for Missing and Exploited Children and has a team of attorneys preparing for a court fight. Authorities have told her not to attempt to take back the children forcibly.

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Dread of the unknown hung in the air as Lynn France typed two words into the search box on Facebook: the name of the woman with whom she believed her husband was having an affair.

Click. And there it was, the stuff of nightmares for any spouse, cuckolded or not. Wedding photos.


At Walt Disney World, no less, featuring her husband literally dressed as Prince Charming.


His new wife, a pretty blonde, was a glowing Sleeping Beauty, surrounded by footmen.


"I was numb with shock, to tell you the truth," says France, an occupational therapist from USA.


"There was like an album of 200 pictures on there. Their whole wedding."


France, 41, was not completely blindsided by her Facebook discovery, which happened in January 2009.


That fall, she had grown suspicious when her husband began taking frequent business trips, even leaving the day the couple's newborn son came home from the hospital.


Once, she found his passport at home when he was supposed to be in China for business.


In October, before leaving for another trip, her husband left a hotel website up on the couple's computer screen.


"So I actually went there with a girlfriend, just to see for myself for sure," France says.


"He was there with this girlfriend. I said, 'Hey, I'm his wife. We've got a baby."'


The woman told France that she was engaged to France's husband.


"Sure enough, they were registered for a wedding at Target," France says.


A girlfriend recommended checking the woman's Facebook page, France says.


There, France found evidence of an unfolding relationship that she still couldn't wrap her head around. Overwhelmed with two young children, she confronted her husband.


She says he told her he wouldn't actually go through with the wedding.


It wasn't until she saw the wedding photos that she finally began divorce proceedings.


Lynn's husband, John France, does not deny that he has remarried. Rather, he simply is insisting that he was never married to Lynn in the first place.


Lynn and John France were married in July 2005 in a seaside wedding on Italy's Amalfi Coast, having organized the event through Regency San Marino, which coordinates weddings for couples looking to get hitched in Italy.


On the company's website, Lynn is still the first radiant bride whose portrait appears in a gauzy veil, the brilliant blue sea behind her.


If that wedding was a fraud, it was news to Lynn. "If that were true, then he's lied to the IRS," Zashin says. "He's lied to insurance companies. Banks."