Unlike Twitter, which focuses on real-time content, Facebook is the place where people go to keep in touch with family and friends, regardless of when the news happens.

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But at least they are learning it pays to keep in touch with customers as things go awry.

FORBES: Connect

She said she was having to use pay-as-you-go sim cards in old handsets in order to stay in touch with her ex-husband to arrange access for her children.

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But, given the recent defensive fragility that has undermined his side's title bid, City boss Roberto Mancini will no doubt be satisfied to have a clean sheet to go with the three points that keep the Blues in touch at the top of the table.

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"All expressed their wish for the grand prix to go ahead in 2012, and since then, the FIA has kept in close touch with all these stakeholders, " the FIA said.

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Then, four days later, flying touch-and-go landings in a Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star with Chuck Yeager, the wheels became stuck in a lake bed made wet by recent rain where they had to await rescue.

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The Microsoft Surface, a horizontal touch-screen computer with neither keyboard nor mouse, will go on sale in November.

ECONOMIST: Computer interfaces