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Facebook buys fb.com, to be used in upcoming email service?

By: |Nov 12th, 2010 at 02:09PM
Filed Under: Exclusive
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It’s no secret that Facebook will be holding another media event on Monday, November 15th. It is widely thought, and has been reported, that the social networking giant will be launching its own web-based email service; purportedly code-named “Project Titan.”  This got us thinking, how will Facebook differentiate its employees, who currently use facebook.com email addresses, from its 500 million users? How about this: fb.com.In doing a little digging we found that MarkMonitor, a company...

Apple’s rumored tablet to be named iSlate?

By: |Dec 25th, 2009 at 02:08PM
Filed Under: Rumor
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Some slick domain name and trademark sleuthing from MacRumors and TechCrunch uncovered information about several islate-containing domains and the companion trademark “ISLATE” that may point to Apple as the company behind this mark. It all began with MacRumors which uncovered information about the domain islate.com, a TLD that passed through several hands until 2007 where it landed with the registrar MarkMonitor, a well-known registrar that handles and hides domain registrations for large companie...