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Mariel Norton

Mariel Norton is a self-confessed girly geek with a penchant for technology, and joins ITProPortal with just over a year's experience under her online belt. A copywriter by day and a freelance writer by night/weekend, Mariel is an avid volunteer - lending her charitable services throughout the world. Specialising in social media, apps, and video games, Mariel hopes to intertwine her love of technology with the English language to produce amusing anecdotes of ambiguous algorithms and alliteration

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Facebook Tests Timeline Redesign

23 May 2012 News
Facebook Tests Timeline Redesign
In an effort to avert our attention from the negative news Facebook has been receiving recently (think Eduardo Saverin plus the embarrassing NASDAQ glitch), everyone's favourite...
Software & Apps

Google Launches Autocomplete Function Based On Gmail Content

22 May 2012 News
Google Launches Autocomplete Function Based On Gmail Content
Yesterday Google announced the arrival of its latest feature, the autocomplete ability on Gmail that predicts the results in your search box based purely on your email content....
Web

Spotify Released In Australia, New Zealand

22 May 2012 News
Spotify Released In Australia, New Zealand
Music streaming platform Spotify celebrated another of its global conquests this week, this time going Down Under to be launched in Australia and New Zealand.  This comes a...
Business & Government

NASDAQ To Earmark $13 Million For Bad Facebook Trades

22 May 2012 News
NASDAQ To Earmark $13 Million For Bad Facebook Trades
Facebook appeared to be on a roll - its founder celebrated his 28th birthday last Monday, and the company went public a few days later.  But it seems that the road to success...
Software

Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Bill Backed By John Boehner

21 May 2012 News
Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Bill Backed By John Boehner
Eduardo Saverin's decision to renounce his US citizenship in order to avoid paying taxes hasn't gone down well in the tech world, and now it seems that even the feds...
Home Office

Facebook Acquires Mobile Gifting App Karma

21 May 2012 News
Facebook Acquires Mobile Gifting App Karma
Facebook just keeps on giving and giving, and after going public on Friday, has decided to give something back to its mobile users - by acquiring mobile gifting app,...