The Facebook Android App was updated yesterday to version 1.9.2 following a recent update to version 1.9. The previous version was heavily criticized by users because of the addition of Facebook Messenger and Camera shortcuts that were automatically added alongside. This caused confusion for users who already had the individual apps installed and the move [...]
Facebook has made it a routine to introduce annoying new features every now and then. Based on the face that the Facebook user count is approaching 1 billion, it is least bothered by the fact that a certain feature is not generally liked by the public. We have seen that in the past with the [...]
Almost 900 million users and counting, both the number of Facebook users and the collective time spent on the site are increasing day by day. Naturally, this makes the site a target by malicious users who spread malware, spam, and such things. Facebook has been taking security very seriously, but this is of no use [...]
Samsung being favored by Google for a second and now a third time too, apparently, might push HTC into making a Facebook phone, it has been rumored. Due to the sales and supply chain power that Samsung has, and following the success of the first two Nexus handsets, also the result of collaboration between Samsung [...]
Privacy concerns regarding Facebook continue to rise with time, and Facebook does not appear to do much to allay these. The giant social network says that it is working on improving privacy policies, but there are quite a few points of contention amongst Facebook and people who want to be able to choose exactly how [...]
Facebook for Android was updated to version 1.9 yesterday, bringing bug fixes and overall performance improvements as well as two new features. The official mobile app for Facebook has long been criticized and the mobile users out of the 800 million plus users of the popular social network have often found alternate third party apps [...]
Fierce opposition by a broad alliance of companies and civil liberties groups, backed by innumerable internet activists, led to the demise of the detested SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIP (Protect IP) act earlier this year. And now, a worrying, similar rendition of these earlier bills has come into the limelight- H.R. 3523 or [...]
OMGPOP’s ‘Draw Something’ is the number 1 paid app in the iTunes App Store currently. The game has had an impressive surge in popularity recently and in just 50 days has been downloaded over 50 million times. If there is any other game that has been this big a hit, it is the bird throwing [...]
BlackBerry brings an update for its Facebook and Twitter apps. The update is basically the integration of BlackBerry messenger (BBM) with the social networking apps, as part of Research In Motion’s (RIM’s) enhancement of BBM connectivity. The update is scheduled to roll out over the course of the next few weeks. New versions of BlackBerry [...]
Following Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram, there have been a great number of angry tweets on Twitter and rapidly increasing traffic on websites that allow users to save/download all their Instagram pictures as well as several online ‘threats’ that users are going to delete their Instagram accounts. Some users have expressed fears that Instagram will change, [...]
Just a few days back the long-awaited Instagram for Android was finally released. Following this, the social networking giant Facebook purchased Instagram- one of the most popular image-based social networks presently- for $1 billion.
A lot of people have, at some point, faced problems when they’ve wanted to download an entire album off of Facebook. Saving photos one by one soon gets tedious and there is no option to download complete albums on the popular social network. If you wish to do so regardless, a Chrome extension lets you [...]
Facebook Messenger app for Windows 7 has been officially released. The messenger integrates the Facebook news feed and friends with its chat service and for those who like to use desktop based clients like Skype, Windows Live Messenger or any other IM, it is good news indeed.
Facebook Timeline feature was rolled out back in December and now another similar feature for Facebook pages will be made available for everyone. This new feature basically reinvents Facebook pages in terms of design, similar to what Timeline did to the previous Facebook profiles. March 30, 2012 onwards, your page(s) will automatically be upgraded to [...]
Showing all fans some love this coming Valentines, Rovio is making world-popular Angry Birds available on Facebook! Having already conquered every available platform out there, iOS, WP7, Android and even Google Chrome, the popular social network was an obvious next stop.
According to Business Insider, renowned iOS hacker George ‘Geohot’ Hotz, is back in the world of hacking. For those who are new to the world of jailbreaking and hacking, Geohot is the hacker responsible for unlocking the first ever iPhone and hence allowing it to be used with other wireless carriers, contrary to what Apple [...]
