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"Welcome to this morning\u2019s edition of \u201CFirst To Know,\u201D a series in which we keep you in the know on what\u2019s happening in the digital world. We\u2019re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.\nHigh-Resolution Photos Come to Facebook\nFacebook began rolling out some significant upgrades to its Photos service late Thursday, including the ability to upload and download high-resolution images up to 2048x2048 pixels in dimension, as well as bulk tagging options and a new, elegant lightbox interface for viewing images on the site.\nThe changes put Facebook on a level with Flickr and other image and portfolio-sharing sites; artists, photographers, models and graphic designers will have every reason to display their work on Facebook now. The new image sizes should also allow users to make quality prints.\nGoogle Street View Now Available on All Seven Continents\nSince launching in major U.S. cities in 2007, Google has gradually expanded its Street View service, which allows users to get street-level views of locations they explore on Google Maps. Now, Street View has been made available in Brazil, Ireland and even parts of Antarctica.\nThe Social Network Arrives in Theaters Today\nThe Social Network, a feature film that dramatizes the founding and early years of social networking site Facebook, arrives in U.S. theaters today. Mashable's Christina Warren has posted her full review here.\nFurther News\n\nDevelopers can now sell their Android apps in 20 more countries, bringing the total to 29. Android users in 18 new countries can also now begin purchasing third-party apps, meaning that 32 nations currently support purchases in the Android Market.\nThe Galaxy Tab will become available to consumers on November 1 in the U.K., Samsung announced this morning.\nGoogle has released its goo.gl URL shortener to the public, and created a standalone website so that anyone can use the service to shorten and track the URLs they share via social media sites and e-mail.\nJust 10 days after Foursquare released the second-generation version of its iPhone app, Foursquare 2.0 for Android has arrived in the Android Market.\nPayPal has submitted its new check-depositing iPhone app to Apple for inclusion in the App Store.\nSamsung has informed developers it will discontinue its Symbian support service beginning December 31.\nThe Boston Globe announced Thursday that the online version of its newspaper will be moving from Boston.com to BostonGlobe.com, and that it will begin charging for full access to the latter beginning the second half of next year.\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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