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Software

Friend Book App: Shake Two iPhones Together to Share Contact Information

7:33AM Sean Fallon | A company called Tapulous is planning on delivering an iPhone app called Friend Book for the Friday launch that promises to turn your boring old address book into a “super address book” with features like a “face dialer” that allows you to place a call through your contact images. But that functionality pales in comparison to their “Handshake” feature that allows two iPhone users running Friend Book to share their personal contact information by shaking their phones in close proximity to one another. More »
Entertainment

Watch Full Episodes of Friends, Scooby Doo and The Batman Online for Free

5:17AM Matt Buchanan | Warner Bros. is jumping into the online video arena next month with a pair of sites, thewb.com and kidswb.com, which will show full episodes of its biggest series, like Friends and Smallville on the former, and stuff like Bugs Bunny, Scooby Doo and Batman (hopefully Paul Dini’s brilliant and amazing original animated series, not The Mediocre Batman) on the latter. It’d probably have made more sense for them to join Hulu, but Warner’s probably not keen on splitting the ad dollars. If there’s enough content, it could become a real destination, but we’re guessing you’ll still have to go to YouTube for “Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves.” [Yahoo] More »
Online

Four Episodes of Friends Cost One Man $25,000

12:40PM Mark Wilson | Stories like this keep us up at night. One woman was using her husband’s Vodafone mobile phone to download four episodes of friends. The downloads were interrupted as the man left his home in the UK for business trip in Germany, but once his plane touched down, the downloads continued. More »