January 8th, 2010
Photoas is a fast spreading malicious application on Facebook, if you receive any such app request from your friend, you should ignore it or block the application immediately.
On approval of the Photoas application, it will send out an massive app request / messages with links to all your friends within Facebook.
If you accidentally or knowingly approved the Photoas application, proceed immediately to Facebook Application Area at http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php and (more…)
Categories: Security |
Tags: Application, facebook, Photoas, Safety, Threat | No Comments
July 30th, 2009
Facebook is undoubtedly the only Social network to show such dedication to the mobile platform. After being a top app on the iTunes App Store for the iPhone / iPod Touch, Facebook was also one of the first apps to be integrated inside the Palm Pre.
Not losing any time and momentum Facebook is now all set to go official on the Android Market. The official Facebook app for Android couldn’t come at a better timer with a plethora of Android devices expected to be released in the coming months.
Initially the Facebook app for the Android isn’t expected to offer as much as it does for the Apple iPhone, but it is expected to leverage the Android capabilities well!
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Categories: Android, Softwares |
Tags: Android, android apps, android market, facebook, facebook app | 1 Comment
May 21st, 2009
Deleting a photography from your Facebook, MySpace or Hi5 account? Beware! According to a study many popular sites fail to delete the photograph from even 30 days after you actually deleted it from your account. Though the photograph is taken off your profile / account immediately it remains accessible via the original URL of the image on the site.
“For our experiment, we uploaded a test image onto 16 chosen sites with default permissions, then noted the URL of the uploaded image. Every site served the test image given knowledge of its URL except for Windows Lives Spaces, whose photo servers required session cookies (a refreshing congratulations to Microsoft for beating the competition in security). We ran our initial study for 30 days, and posted the results below. A dismal 7 of the 16 sites failed to revoke photos after 30 days“
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Categories: Security, Tech Industry News |
Tags: facebook, online privacy, photos, privacy, research, Security, study, survey | 1 Comment
May 12th, 2009
After investing about $200 million on social networking platform Facebook, Microsoft has finally released a Facebook application for the Windows Mobile. The mobile users can now use the Application easily from their mobile.
Adding a Facebook application on the WM platform was one of the announcements that Microsoft made at the CTIA ‘09.
MobilityMinded has a detailed review of the Facebook application.
Categories: Softwares, windows mobile |
Tags: app, facebook, facebook on mobile, mobile app, windows app, windows mobile facebook, wm app | 1 Comment
March 12th, 2009
Facebook is the biggest hub for friends and colleagues to interact. With all your friends uploading event pictures in their albums, it becomes frustrating at times to downloading them one at a time (to save a personal copy on your HDD).
So here comes a really cool FireFox extension that lets you download an entire Facebook album with a single click!
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Categories: Tips n Tricks |
Tags: facebook, facebook album, how to, tool | No Comments
February 18th, 2009
Apple iPhone, Palm PRe, Blackberrry – No points for guessing that the smartphone market is hot. Nokia is certainly looking to catchup on the mobile internet and smartphone space. With its competitors getting the best of addons and services; Nokia doesn’t want to be left far behind. Recent news titles relating Nokia clearly shows that the company is focusing marjorly on the software front to counter the increasing competition (Read: Android, OSx iPhone, WinMo etc).
Nokia recently made public the OVI Store that would bring apps to Nokia smartphones just like the Apple Appstore does. This would really streamline the 100000’s symbian Apps all over the www. The first device to get an intergrated OVI Store would be the N97.
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Categories: Reviews, Tech Industry News, nokia |
Tags: facebook, nokia, nokia facebook, nokia n97, nokia skype, nokia strategy, nokia voip, skype, strategy | 5 Comments
