Facebook Sponsored Story Ads To Appear In The Web News Feed In 2012

Starting in January 2012, Facebook will gradually begin showing Sponsored Stories social ads in the main news feed of the web version of the site, a representative of the company tells us.

This is crap! I don't want my news feed to be filled with ads.

The ads will be marked “Sponsored” and a rate limit will ensure users see no more than 1 Sponsored Story in the news feed per day.

Yeah right! Still crap!

And there will be no way to opt out of those ads.

Here's a thought Facebook, let us, the users, pay for a version of facebook without any ads. Just our infos and friends. I will gladly pay a yearly amount to have a nice, clean facebook. And I don't think I will be the only one.

I think this is the first time since I first started using facebook that I really think of closing my account.

Ice Cream Sandwich – from source code release to software upgrade

A couple of weeks ago, the source code for Ice Cream Sandwich (Android™ 4.0) was released. This meant the start of an intensive period for the engineers at Sony Ericsson, in order to create a working, stable and certified software release of Ice Cream Sandwich for our 2011 Xperia™ phones.

In our pursuit for greater openness in the Android community, we would like to share some exclusive information of the different phases and activities of Sony Ericsson’s Android development, starting with the release of the Ice Cream Sandwich source code, and leading up to the release of a software upgrade for you to download on your phone. Find out more after the jump!

Great article on the whole process that takes place after a new version of Android is released by Google and phone manufacturers can begin the work of porting the version to their devices.

Over 40% of cancers due to lifestyle, says review

We all know that around 23,000 cases of lung cancer could be stopped each year in England if people didn’t smoke.

I've said it before, I am saying it again. I am glad I quit smoking over a year ago.

webOS being open sourced, says HP

HP has finally decided the fate of webOS today, and it's an open one: the platform will be contributed to the open source community. The company says that it will be an "active participant and investor in the project," and that its ultimate goal here is to accelerate development.

Again ... great news for webOS. Interesting to see how many hardware vendors will support webOS.

Meg Whitman and Marc Andreessen on webOS: 'We will use webOS in new hardware... in tablets'

Will HP be creating any new webOS hardware?

Meg: The answer to that is yes but what I can't tell you is whether that will be in 2012 or not. But we will use webOS in new hardware, but it's just going to take us a little longer to reorganize the team in a quite different direction than we've been taking it in the past.

Great news for webOS.

Apple still making millions of iPhone 3GS devices as demand remains high

Apple is continuing to produce millions of its iPhone 3GS device in spite of releasing the iPhone 4S just two months ago. According to sources cited by Digitimes, the Cupertino-based firm is on course to have manufactured 2 million iPhone 3GS units this quarter, with a reported 1.4-1.6 million planned for the first quarter of 2012.

This is a two years old device. A device that was still the second best selled smartphone in US before the iPhone 4S came out.