It sought to answer questions about how and who Facebook chooses to display on your news feed page.
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You set up BlinkFeed to display content from news sources of your choice like the Associated Press, Huffington Post, ESPN and others.
In the Media Lab's implementation, an iPad is used to display a static news page with flashing colored bands at the top, representing just a few vertical pixels on the LCD.
Others might find value in the phone's ability to display Adobe (nasdaq: ADBE - news - people ) PDF attachments or its compatibility with Bluetooth headsets.
Internet users cheered the fleet for posting a New Year calligraphy couplet before setting sail that read: "Golden dragon soars and sweeps away Japanese devils", followed by "Silver snake dances vigorously to display might of China", Oriental Daily News and Haixia Dushi Bao report.
Already available are mobile phones and pocket computers that can display stock quotes and news, specially tailored to fit miniature screens, from the Web.
If you don't touch the screen, your news feed, called the Cover Feed, starts to display, automatically scrolling from one post to the next.
So why is Apple touting the introduction of new software that allows the iPod to display address databases from Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people) and Mac?
The Live Tile display brings friend and family groups to life and delivers the latest updates and news from popular social networks directly to the home screen.
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This kind of Cold War thinking was on display again last week with the news that Moscow had bribed Kyrygyzstan to close a key U.S. air base for supplying Afghanistan.
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Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) had been rumored to be close to announcing new display products.
The new service allows companies to maintain a verified ticker-based page on StockTwits, where the company can display customized news, information and links.
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Apple is reported to have halved its orders for the display panel featured on the phone for the January to March quarter, according to the Nikkei Japanese news service.
It will choose that one to display (and maybe one or two more) from that cluster when you do a search in Google news.
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Equally interesting is a separate, though related, piece of news, but which has gained far less attention: the league is directing its 32 clubs to display real-time fantasy football statistics at all games during 2011 season.
By buying the New York-based firm, Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) is branching out into display advertising, a business it had previously ceded to such competitors as Yahoo!
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