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Facebook Takes Facebook ‘Like’ to the Next Level and Adds Reactions

February 25, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

Facebook has rolled out the much talked about and discussed Reactions globally. The feature basically replaces the iconic Like button and allows the users to more explicitly state their feelings on a story that has been shared on the Social…

Apps

In Disaster? Check in on Facebook via Safety Check

October 17, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

Facebook has launched a new tool called “Safety Check” which claims to help its users to notify their friends and family that they are safe during or after natural disasters. Facebook’s tool, will be available worldwide to its 1.32 billion…

Android

Images Of HTC’s Facebook Phone Emerge Before Launch

April 3, 2013 0 Rahul S

I am sure you might be well aware of the Facebook event scheduled for later this month. The popular perception is that Facebook would be launching a phone at this event. Now, folks from over at @evleaks have posted an…

App (Marketplace)

SmartAds: An Indiegogo Project that Proposes to Give you Money for watching Ads

March 7, 2013 0 Harshit

Mobile ads are a necessary evil. All of us want to get rid of them, but also realize that app developers wouldn’t make much money without them. To make watching ads on your phone a little more tolerable, SmartAds, an…

Google

Day of Outages: Google Talk and Twitter Go Down

July 26, 2012 0 Rahul S

Google’s Instant Messaging and chat service Google Talk suffered a major outage earlier today when it went down for over five hours. Users were unable to send or receive messages during this period – even though they were able to…

Rumors

Facebook Hires Apple Employees to Develop Smartphone?

May 28, 2012 0 Rahul S

Rumors of the Facebook phone have been doing the rounds of the Interweb for quite some time now. In fact, there has been quite a number of Facebook approved handsets including the HTC ChaCha, HTC Status and the likes which…

Android

Angry Birds Space Crosses 50 Million Downloads in 35 Days

April 30, 2012 0 Rahul S

After its announcement and subsequent launch on March 22, 2012, Game publisher Rovio has announced in a blog post that their latest version of Angry Birds – “Angry Birds Space” has crossed an astonishing 50 million downloads! It took just…

social media

Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringements

March 13, 2012 0 Rahul S

Just when you thought that patent infringement suits and litigations were a part of the smartphones and tablets industry only, here comes a real cracker of a patent infringement suit that involves two of the biggest Internet giants. Longtime allies…

Internet

Wikipedia goes black as 24 hour long Blackout Commences

January 18, 2012 0 Rahul S

The 24 hour long Wikipedia Blackout in protest against the SOPA anti piracy act that is being moved in the U.S House of representatives has commenced. As I type this, the Wikipedia home page looks like this:

Internet

Shammi Kapoor’s Twitter Account Hacked?

January 17, 2012 0 Rahul S

Shammi Kapoor’s, the Bollywood acting legend was quite an active Internet user. Being a fan, he was one of the few Bollywood people I used to follow on Twitter. While not frequent, he used to post from his Twitter account…

Internet

Wikipedia to go ahead with 24 hour blackout on January 18 against SOPA

January 16, 2012 0 Rahul S

It was late last year that the anti-piracy act SOPA, which is currently under consideration in the U.S House of Representatives, evoked strong response from Internet crusaders and free speech activists. The act would give the US lawmakers enhanced powers…

Internet

Delhi High Court to Hear Google, Facebook Petition

January 16, 2012 0 Rahul S

The Delhi High Court is set to hear a petition filed by Google, Facebook and as many as 21 other social networking websites against warning by a trial court that ruled that these websites could face a ban if they did…

Internet

Facebook expected to hit 1 Billion users by August 2012

January 13, 2012 0 Rahul S

As the world’s biggest social network, Facebook marches on – adding more and more people to its bandwagon, it keeps on hitting mind boggling numbers. We have been hearing about this ever since 2009 when the site really began to…

Internet

Facebook acquires Location Sharing Service Gowalla

December 6, 2011 0 Rahul S

While it was clear that Foursquare had already won the location sharing app wars long back, there is no doubt that another service known by the name “Gowalla” was fairly popular. But then, it could never match the popularity of…

Featured

Rendezvous with Antti Öhrling of Blyk Media

December 4, 2011 0 Tassavur

Till date the mobile advertising space has been the most underutilized if one considers the potential reach and intimacy the medium can share with its audience. Understanding of this channel has also proven to be a challenge, with most of…

HTC

Facebook, HTC working on yet another Facebook Phone?

November 23, 2011 0 Rahul S

There was a time earlier this year when the term Facebook Phone evicted only a handful of responses. There were specific “Facebook phone” launches this year as well. The “official” Facebook phone – meaning the one backed by Facebook too…

Internet

More Photos Uploaded to Twitter’s own Photo sharing service than Twitpic, YFrog

November 10, 2011 0 Rahul S

This is not a happy news for you if you happen to be someone in photo sharing business on Twitter. Until very recently, services like Twitpic and Yfrog were the preferred means of sharing images on Twitter. In fact, just…

Opinion

How I Got My DTH Connection Without Making A Single Phonecall

September 29, 2011 0 Rahul S

To start with, let me confirm that this is not a sponsored post by anyone. I am just penning down my experience with a leading DTH company in India I had earlier this week. Usually, the blogosphere is filled with…

Reviews

OG Review: Vodafone Blue 555 Facebook Phone

September 19, 2011 0 Rahul S

It’s been well over a week since I got my hands on the Vodafone Blue 555 “Facebook” phone, and it’s time I thought I should pen down my views about this latest attempt by Vodafone to cash in on the…

Android

Daily App: Facebook for Android

September 14, 2011 0 Nimish

  A new version of Facebook is always reason to celebrate for its members. And this time, Zuckerberg’s company has finally gone and added some muscle to its Android avatar. The latest version of Facebook for Android, version 1.7, is…

Motorola

Motorola’s Facebook Phone EX 225 on The Cards

September 11, 2011 0 Rahul S

By the time you read this, you might have already seen how serious Vodafone is about its partnership with Facebook here in India. The company had launched its “Facebook Phone”, the Vodafone Blue 555 here just days ago and along…

Internet

Facebook Partners with Vodafone; Launches “Vodafone Blue” Facebook Phone in India

September 6, 2011 0 Rahul S

Vodafone and Facebook have jointly announced the release of a new Facebook phone called the Vodafone Blue here in India. The device, designed to offer a complete, all-encompassing Facebook experience also gets a decent array of features making it a…

Apple

Has Google+ Already Countered iOS 5’s iMessage & iCloud?

July 6, 2011 0 Annkur

Apple showed the iOS 5 along with all new iCloud last month at WWDC. Both iOS 5 and iCloud are expected to be out in September along with some new hardware. But while the common man on the street waits…

Apple

Official Facebook Application For iPad In Coming Weeks

June 17, 2011 0 Monis

You must have felt jealous when people on iPhone use the native application for Facebook while you being an iPad owner have to open the browser, enter the facebook url, and surf the website. While there are many applications available…

Apps

LinkedIn Comes To The Burning Platform: Symbian Version Launched!

May 12, 2011 0 Rahul S

Just when you thought nobody has any interest left in developing apps for the Symbian platform, here comes LinkedIn with an official app for devices running on the OS! The official app is now available for download from the Ovi…

Google

Google +1 FaceBook “Like” Competitor To Debut In Weeks

May 11, 2011 1 Rahul S

Amongst the many things that were talked about at Google’s I/O conference at San Francisco yesterday, was Google’s competitor to the now ubiquitous Facebook “Like” button. Called the Google +1, the product is scheduled to be deployed in the “coming…

Internet

Facebook Accidentally Leaked Personal Information To Third Parties: Symantec

May 11, 2011 0 Rahul S

After Sony’s PlayStation network was targeted by hackers who managed to steal a wealth of personal information from the system post the breach, we now have Symantec reporting that Facebook, the world’s biggest social networking platform might have accidentally leaked…

Security

Osama Worm Spreads On Facebook, Turns Your Account In To A SpamBot

May 3, 2011 0 Rahul S

Even after being killed, Osama Bin Laden is still a security threat it seems. This time though, the risk is for your PC and Facebook accounts. Apparently, some smart hackers out there, in an attempt to cash in on the…

Apple

FriendCaster: The Best FaceBook App For iPad? Free!

April 18, 2011 1 Annkur

While we all await Facebook to release an official app for Apple iPad, we have to rely on 3rd party developers doing some work on this front. One of the top apps (1st when we checked) on the App Store…

Security

Facebook “Shutdown” Scam Hits Millions Of Users

April 9, 2011 0 Rahul S

I am sure you have come across at least one of those forwarded messages that ask you to take care of your Facebook profile because the service is shutting down on some date in the future. In the latest iteration…

Internet

[How To] Get back To The Old Facebook Image Viewer

March 30, 2011 0 Ricky

Just recently Facebook had made a lot of changes in the UI and also had included a new Facebook image preview to view the images, this image viewer loads the preview in a new annoying box right where you were…

Internet

Social Activist Files FIR Against Facebook

March 27, 2011 1 Rahul S

A social activist from Meerut, UP has registered an FIR (First Information Report) against social networking giant Facebook and its members for hurting religious sentiments and “instigating communal passions”. The FIR also accuses Facebook of abusing Indian Gods and the…

social media

Facebook Takes Over Snaptu

March 21, 2011 0 Rahul S

The Ayatollah of Social Networking – Facebook is spreading its wing further by gobbling up smaller companies. It seems to be following Google’s path who has had a tradition eating up small, efficient companies and launching breakthrough products using these…

Android

Google Maps 5.2 out: now tweet Hotpot ratings, ping friends

March 4, 2011 0 Anupama

Google Maps has been updated to version 5.2 for Android.The update will allow the user to post their Google Hotpot rating of a place directly to Twitter from within the maps broadening the sharing element. Also along with the check-in…

Apps

Foursquare Arrives On Nokia Series 40

February 18, 2011 1 Rahul S

Until now, if you wanted to use location bases services like Foursquare, the basic requirement was to be in possession of a smartphone with an official app or a supporting client app installed. A vast majority of people who use…

Apps

Looking To Go Pro with SMS? Look at Txtweb

February 16, 2011 0 Annkur

Intuit’s new product Txtweb promises to redefine how we interact with sms apps. Be it cricket score or wikipedia, its a powerful way to get information and interact with smart apps. Yes I feel like a dinosaur to learn about…

Android

Twitter 2.0 For Android Arrives

February 11, 2011 0 Rahul S

Twitter has just released new version of the official Android Twitter client with a host of feature updates and bugfixes. The application, available for most Android devices running OS 2.1 and above is claimed to be much faster than the…

social media

We Are Trying The New Facebook Page!

February 10, 2011 0 Annkur

Facebook has just rolled out an upgrade for Facebook pages and it IMO fills a big gap. Finally Admins can post on a Facebook page by their name and at thats not all. You can interact with other pages and…

Apps

We have got a Facebook Mail ID! Are we switching to it? Umm…No!

January 18, 2011 5 Anupama

Facebook is one of the most popular social networking services around – it has even inspired a film. So when it was announced late last year that Facebook would be launching a mail service too (called Facebook Messaging), we applied…

Apps

Trill: Symbian Twitter Client Reviewed

December 16, 2010 0 Rahul S

If you are (still) a Symbian user like me, you sure know that there is a dearth of decent free Twitter clients for the platform. Yes there is Snaptu and TweetS60 but both leave a lot to be desired in terms…