Category: Facebook
Google launches 'Personal Profiles' – stand against Facebook?
Google's new 'Personal Profiles' features lets all Gmail users set up a page with pictures and personal information. This will likely be the first entry that comes up when someone searches for your name, Google's Greg Marra wrote on…
Facebook goes for mobile, buys group messaging service Beluga
Facebook has taken another step towards becoming our first point of internet contact by buying messaging group Beluga. Beluga is a developer of mobile applications and web systems, enabling users to send instant group messages via SMS. Founded less…
First newspaper moves to publish exclusively on Facebook
As of today, The Rockville Central will move all its content onto Facebook. The American community newssite has chosen to use the social network as its only portal to reach readers, illustrating just how central Facebook is becoming in…
Facebook turns 'like' button into sharing tool
Now where's that 'unlike' button when you need it. Before you had to click the 'share' button to publish someone else's posts, pictures or links on your own Facebook page. Now that's all set to change, as Facebook alters…
Google keeps options open as new Nexus handsets won't allow Facebook contact syncing
The two "Google phones", Nexus One and Nexus S, won't allow users to sync phone numbers from their Facebook contacts like other Android handsets can. Google has for some reason chosen to disable this feature for the Gingerbread update…
Will social media market listings trigger a new dot-com bubble?
The Chinese Facebook-equivalent, Renren, will test appetites for social media listings with plans to float on the stockmarket. The most popular social network in China, Renren.com could be valued at up to $500 million, should plans to list in…
Cupid's little helper: Break-up notice now available for Facebook crushes
They say timing is everything – and now there's an app for that too. The new Break-up Notifier app will let you know when your Facebook crushes are single again, giving you a head-start in the fast-paced game of…
Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerburg and Eric Schmidt set to party with the President: Obama To Meet tech giants
Here's hopefully an encouraging sign that Steve Jobs is winning his health battle. The ailing Apple chief is apparently feeling well enough to meet President Obama at a private dinner in San Francisco tonight, along with Facebook figurehead Mark…
MWC 2011: Google's chief Eric Schmidt slams Nokia over Microsoft deal, fails to rule out Twitter buyout
Google's outgoing chief executive Eric Schmidt used his keynote speech in Barcelona to have a dig at Nokia after being snubbed by the Finnish mobile giant in favour of a partnership with Microsoft. During the talk, Schmidt revealed that…
MWC 2011: HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa Facebook phones video preview
The rumours surrounding a link-up between HTC and Facebook ahve proven true with the release of the HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa handsets. Relatively low spec Android models (the QWERTY packing ChaCha has a 600MHz processor and 2.6" touchscreen,…