Spotify’s grand scheme to gain more users by tying its service in with Facebook is apparently paying off. According to MusicAlly, Spotify has seen a huge increase in users since offering new users six months of service. Approximately 1 million active users have signed up since f8, which is around 250,000 new users per day.

According to sources, Mashable is reporting the long-awaited official Facebook app for the Apple iPad will launch alongside the reveal of iPhone 5. Word is even the iPhone will get a revamped version of the popular application. Last week’s Facebook F8 event saw no iPad app shown at all, dashing the hopes of many. Separetely, more »

At f8, as part of the Open Graph announcement Mark Zuckerberg brought Spotify CEO Daniel Ek on stage to talk about the music service’s integration into Facebook. Starting today you’ll be able to listen to music with your friends using Spotify through Facebook. You’ll start seeing what your friends are listening to with Spotify today more »

Among Facebook’s big announcements today are improvements to the social network’s Open Graph. The new Open Graph focuses on filling out the recently revealed Timeline and discovering new things through friends. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said Open Graph accomplishes frictionless experiences, realtime serendipity, and finds patterns in friend activity.

Today Facebook announced the new version of the Facebook profile: the Timeline. If you’ve logged into Facebook since the announcement you’ll know it isn’t available to everyone just yet. There is a way to sign up to get it early, though. The easiest way to get Timeline before it’s rolled out over the next few more »

The changes to Facebook aren’t done yet, today Mark Zuckerberg announced a new look for your profile, called Timeline. Timeline is a new way to not just show your profile, but to show your full life story. Now, instead of just showing your photo, latest updates and maybe some other activity, Timeline will show just more »

The F8 Facebook conference is getting ready to kick off and while we have been hearing quite a bit of rumors suggesting music service integration — it also looks like they may be unveiling something with Hulu and maybe even Netflix. Though, that being said, the chatter seems to be more on the focus of more »

According to a tip, Facebook will unveil new location services in late April at f8, the companies developer conference. Based on other tips, there is expected to be two branches of location: one Facebook will use to allow users to share location with friends and the other branch would be an API for developers to more »

Those who have been looking for tough and ruggedized notebooks will be glad to know that Panasonic is coming out with three Toughbook 8 notebook models – the F8, W8 and T8.

All three notebooks with their Intel Core 2 Duo Processors are lightweight, ranging from 1.3 to 1.7 kgs courtesy of their magnesium alloy casing and chassis. Panasonic put in flexible internal connectors so the Toughbook can withstand lots of abuse. The hard drives and LCDs are shock mounted to keep them protected. Also, don’t worry about dumping liquids onto the keyboard because it is spill-resistant.