Feb

2012

Seesmic App Receives update, Includes Bug Fixes and Drops Google Buzz support

by Stacy Bruce
tagged Android Market, app, application, Facebook, social networking, Twitter, update

For those of you heavy Twitter and Faceboook users, I am pretty sure you have heard of Seesmic, the app that allows you to post to multiple social networks at one time. While Seesmic is a great outlet for your accomplishing your social networking needs, it’s been a really long time since it has seen [...]

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Feb

2012

Prepare for Facebook Ads on Your Smartphone and Tablet

by Ed Caggiani
tagged ads, advertising, Facebook, ipo, mobile

After filing for an initial public offering (IPO) earlier this month, Facebook is looking to generate more revenue from its mobile audience, which comprises nearly half of their traffic. According to the Financial Times, Facebook plans to start displaying ads in their mobile app and the mobile version of their web site by early March. [...]

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Jan

2012

Waze Social Navigation App Updated To 3.0, Brings Twitter And Facebook To Your Morning Commutes

by Roy Alugbue
tagged Facebook, foursquare, Navigation, social, Twitter, waze, waze 3.0

The popular social navigation and GPS app Waze has been updated to version 3.0. In case you’re not familiar, Waze gives you not only a free traffic & navigation app, but the app also encourages users to become part of the local driving community in your area, joining forces with other drivers nearby to outsmart traffic, save [...]

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Jan

2012

Google Consolidates Its Privacy Policies Into One Policy, Shares Information Amongst Services, Don’t Light Your Torches Yet

by Jack Holt
tagged Bing, calendar, Docs, Facebook, gmail, Google, Google Experience, google maps, microsoft, privacy, Unification, youtube

If you haven’t heard the news, Google came out today and announced that they have updated their privacy settings to reflect the same practice across all of their services. This change, was announced today on Google’s blog and won’t go into affect until March 1st. The way it works is that if you are logged [...]

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Dec

2011

Gameloft To Offer All Mobile Games For Just 99 Cents & A Chance To Win A Free LG Nitro HD

by Justin Routhier
tagged apps, AT&T, Facebook, Gameloft, games, LG Nitro HD, sweepstakes, Twitter

It seems that the elves over at Gameloft have a few post-Christmas surprises up their sleeves this year. According to a recent Twitter post, they will be offering ALL of their mobile games for just 99 cents in the Android Market (starting December 29th!) Not too shabby, right? Also, while you wait for Thursday’s offering, [...]

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Dec

2011

Latest Facebook For Android Update Provides Timelines And Improved Notifications

by Justin Routhier
tagged Android Market, app, Facebook, notifications, qr code, timeline, update

Facebook’s latest mobile app update has managed to drop a nice little bundle of improvements on us. Most notably is the new access to their timeline feature (if you have one), but it also provides some new photo enhancements too, like viewable tags on pictures and let us not forget the real time alerts – thanks [...]

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Dec

2011

Facebook refresh now available in the Android Market

by Robert Nazarian
tagged Facebook

Facebook for Android just updated and it’s available right now. They actually made the announcement earlier today, but it wasn’t available at the time. Facebook is promising that it’s now quicker and easier to view photos, get messages and navigate around the app. Improvements include: Photos get better Photos and albums are up to two [...]

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Dec

2011

Add friends to Facebook via NFC with Add Friend (Facebook)

by Robert Nazarian
tagged Facebook, NFC

Near Field Communications (NFC) isn’t all about payments these days. With Ice Cream Sandwich, we have the ability to transfer what game you’re playing to a friend’s phone, but now we can add Facebook friends while on the go. The theory is when two people meet, they no longer share phone numbers or emails. They [...]

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Nov

2011

Lg Confirms 4 Optimus Phones to Receive Android 4.0 Update

by Stacy Bruce
tagged android 4.0 update, Facebook, ice cream sandwich, LG, optimus

LG took to the social media platform this morning and announced which devices will officially receive the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. According to LG’s Facebook page, a few of their top tier Optimus phones will most definitely get a taste of Google’s latest treat: Optimus 2X Optimus Black Optimus 3D Optimus LTE Now, [...]

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Nov

2011

Buffy: The Real Facebook Phone

by Justin Routhier
tagged AllThingsDigital, apple, Bret Taylor, Buffy, Chacha, development, Facebook, Google, HTC, mobile, OS, Salsa, Samsung, social, status, Twitter

This year has been wrought with so-called “Facebook phones” popping up all along the way and ultimately, only giving its users a colorful designated button, a few easy sharing features… and not much more. Facebook itself has served as a mere collaborator in these unimpressive efforts that came with silly monikers like Cha Cha, [...]

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