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‘Places’ feature
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(AP) - Facebook's 500 million-
plus users will soon be able to track
friends' whereabouts across the
United States, as the world's largest
Internet social network adds tech
nology to increasingly tie its virtual
world to everyday life.
The new " Places" feature — which
begins rolling out out last week to
some users and goes nationwide
within weeks — is touted as a tool to
help users share where they are,
figure out who is in the vicinity, and
check out happenings and services
within the same locale.
The addition of so-called loca
tion services to Facebook -- a move
that industry observers have specu
lated about for months — opens new
revenue opportunities for the com
pany, but also presents it with deli
cate privacy challenges.
"Places" will be accessible via an
Apple iPhone app that Facebook
designed from Thursday, or from
the social network's own mobile
v ersio n
on
to u ch screen
Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg unveils the
company’s new location services feature called places.
smartphones.
"This is not about broadcasting
your location to the world, it's about
sharing where you are with your
friends," said Michael Sharon, prod
uct manager for "Places."
Users will be able to declare their
whereabouts whenever they want,
thereby opening them selves up
potentially to offers, suggestions
or advertisem ents about nearby
businesses. Facebook on Wednes
day said it had no immediate plans
however to pursue such money
making opportunities.
Users can "check in" from their
sm artphones, broadcasting their
location - anywhere from a restau
rant to a park - to their own Facebook
friends. Their whereabouts are then
flashed through the network's popu
lar status updates.
Users can look up the locations
of friends who are similarly "checked
in" — either via updates or on a
separate Web page - or tag friends
who happen to physically be with
them, thus declaring where they are.
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Utilizing
computers,
smart phones,
and iPads
(AP) - The company behind the
magicJack, the Internet phone gad
get heavily advertised on television,
has another trick up its sleeve: free
phone calls from computers, smart
phones and iPads.
The cost of phone calls routed
over the Internet has been on a long
slide. There are already a multitude of
programs that allow free calling be
tween computers, and some that al
low free, but short, calls to regular
phone numbers.
Another alternative, Google Voice,
provides "free" calls to the U.S. and
Canada, but you need a phone to use
it, and if you're using a cell phone, it
uses up minutes.
MagicTalk goes one better by
eliminating fees for calling landline
and cell phones in the U.S. and
Canada, with no time limits on the
calls.
The software is available for Win
dows and Mac computers. Versions
for the iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry and
Android phones will follow in Sep-
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MagicJack CEO and founder Dan Borislow holds up a new and
improved magicJack at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas. The Internet phone gadget allows free phone calls from
computers, smart phones and iPads. (AP photo)
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temberorOctober, said Dan Borislow,
the C EO of VocalTec Communica-
tions Ltd.
Each magicTalk user gets a phone
number thats associated with the
software. Users will also be able to
move their existing phone numbers
to the service, for a lee, a feature that
will be extended to magicJack users
soon as well.
The reason the calls can be free is
that VocalTec operates as a phone
company, so it can charge other phone
com panies for calls placed to
magicTalk and magicJack numbers. It
also charges its users who dial phone
numbers abroad.
StUf magicTalkwilllikelyhaveslim-
mer profit margins than magicJack,
which costs $40 and comes with a
year of free calling in the U.S. and
Canada (an extra year costs $20).
Although magicTalk calls won't
be limited in duration, Borislow said
it-s not ¡„tended for nonstop calls
around the clock. The company hasn't
quite decided if the smart-phone ver-
sions will run over "3G"cellularbroad-
band orifitwill be restricted to Wi-Fi
for better sound quality,
January, Borislow showed off
another prospective second act for
the company: a device that connects
wirelessly to cell phones in the home
to route their calls via Internet, with-
out costing the user any minutes.
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