Category: Facebook
MWC 2011: HTC go on Facebook phone frenzy with Salsa and ChaCha handsets, get Mark Zuckerberg's blessing
In what's been a busy morning for HTC in Barcelona, the Taiwanese firm have taken the wraps off two new Android phones with dedicated Facebook buttons. The ChaCha come with a 2.6-inch capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of…
Twitter in $10 billion sales talks with Google and Facebook
Google and Facebook are said to have entered talks with Twitter in order to assimilate the micro-blogging site into their web-conquering services. Twitter are apparently asking for a whopping $10 billion for the company however, despite a December valuation of…
Facebook is prostitutes' advertising medium of choice, study finds
When the founders of Facebook talk about wanting to create an all-encompassing network servicing all our online needs, this might not have be exactly what they had in mind. According to a study from Columbia University, 83% of prostitutes…
Free Facebook initiative hopes to bring in-flight internet to the mainstream
'I'm cruising at 30,000 feet' – how's that for a status update? This month you can tell your Facebook friends about bad airplane food and poor legroom free of charge, following an initiative from seven US airlines. While in-flight…
VIDEO PREVIEW: How Facebook Deals will work
Facebook today lifted the lid on Facebook Deals, a new tie-in with their Places location service that will give users of their social network access to exclusive deals from retailers. You can click here for the full rundown of…
Facebook Deals launches in the UK
Using Facebook while on the go will no longer just keep you up to date with every banal detail of your friends lives, but will also save you a bit of cash now thanks to this morning's announcment of the…
Mark Zuckerberg gets "F'raped": Is no-one safe from Facebook privacy flaws?
Mark Zuckerberg, the multi-billionaire king of the Facebook empire, had his own personal fan page attacked last night, calling further into question the security of the world's largest social networking site. The hacker left the following status update whilst under…
Facebook-branded HTC phones for MWC 2011 reveal
Facebook and HTC are to enter into a mobile hardware partnership according to City AM. Bearing the Facebook "branding and colours", the HTC smartphones will be optimised for use with the world's largest social network. While it's a very-possible partnership,…
Facebook U-turn on mobile and address info app access
Remember the slightly troubling news that Facebook wold be offering up your mobile phone number and address details to third party app developers, should you choose to allow it? Well, the world's leading social network have now backtracked on the…
Facebook apps now have access to your phone number and address
Third-party Facebook apps will now be given access to a users phone number and address as part of the User Graph object, should a user choose to submit the info. As you'll have to explicitly allow access for the application…