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Today, Microsoft and Facebook announced a series of enhancements brought to the mobile client that Windows Phone users take advantage of when accessing the social networking website.
The enhancements that have been included in the new mobile client are based on the feedback received from users, a recent post on Fa... |
14 February 2012
18:11 GMT |
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Publishers, like Electronic Arts, have already taken some of their biggest franchises, from Dragon Age and Mass Effect to The Sims, to the Facebook social platform but their main rival, Activision, is not yet ready to jump into the genre although it sees its potential.
Speaking to Gamasutra, Eric Hirshberg, the chie... |
14 February 2012
04:19 GMT |
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Angry Birds is now available on Facebook. It's got some unique social features, but it's mostly the same game you've played on your phone, tablet, in Chrome and so on. One remarkable thing about Rovio is that it managed to make the game look, sound and feel the same on every platform and device it'... |
13 February 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Expected to arrive on Valentine's Day, Angry Birds for Facebook has already landed and is available to anyone who uses the site. While the game is the same one you know and love, if you love it that is, there are some Facebook specific gimmicks, like the social aspects, meaning the ability to spam invite your fr... |
13 February 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Malware that’s designed mainly to steal banking information, such as ZeuS or SpyEye, collects other pieces of sensitive information it comes across on a computer, including social media account login credentials. To make sure this secondary loot doesn’t go to waste, cybercriminals opened what they call &l... |
10 February 2012
08:40 GMT |
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Zynga and Facebook have had a special deal for a few years now, that's not much of a secret. In fact, parts of the deal have leaked over time and some details were known, even if they weren't official. What was clear was that Zynga enjoyed preferential treatment on the Facebook platform, one that no other d... |
9 February 2012
09:31 GMT |
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In a statement issued this week, Greenpeace confirmed the exclusion of two major technology giants from its "Cool IT Leaderboard" for failing to demonstrate commitment to help reduce their carbon footprint.
The non-profit said in a press release issued Wednesday, “Apple & Facebook, two of the sector's mos... |
9 February 2012
07:49 GMT |
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PopCap Games is continuing its foray into the Facebook-powered gaming world and plans to launch a new game called Solitaire Blitz during March.
At the moment gamers who like the PopCap way of creating casual games can choose between Bejeweled Blitz and Zuma Blitz on Facebook.
The new version of Solitaire will be he... |
9 February 2012
04:01 GMT |
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Facebook is rolling out the brand new photo lightbox that has been in testing and was spotted by some users last week. The new photo viewer definitely borrows a page out of Google+, not that that's a bad thing. Comments have been moved to the right, the background now fades to black rather than to white and the... |
8 February 2012
07:25 GMT |
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Facebook's user stats, made official in the IPO filling, are certainly impressive. Though not exactly new or surprising, Facebooks' 845 million monthly active users, 483 million daily active users.But it turns out that Facebook's definition of an "active" user may not necessarily be your definition of ... |
7 February 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Google is pushing its Google Plus social networking site hard. In fact, it is pushing it so hard that users will have it linked to all of their search results.
Just head over to google.com and perform a search. This has been around for some time now, and those who have a Google+ account and use the search engine ev... |
6 February 2012
11:21 GMT |
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Researchers from the Vulnerability Lab found an SQL Injection vulnerability in Facebook Game Store that could allow an attacker to remotely inject and execute SQL commands.
The application that contains the security hole is managed by a third party and it’s sponsored by the Facebook Game Store Development Team... |
4 February 2012
06:01 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts and hardware maker Microsoft have announced the launch of a new Facebook application linked to the upcoming Mass Effect 3 video game, which seems to be designed to offer a number of in-game bonuses for those who will play the game on the Xbox 360 home console.The app can be access... |
4 February 2012
02:36 GMT |
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The success of social gaming developer and publisher Zynga has long been linked to the Facebook platform, but until now it was unclear how much the social network itself depended on gaming for its revenue streams. Official information delivered by Facebook shows that during 2011 Zynga alone was responsible for the c... |
3 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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With the Facebook IPO carnival underway, others are providing some of their own stats and numbers, if the official ones don't suffice. Hitwise has round up some impressive numbers about the social network. They're not overly impressive, but there's not much that a company that's been so closely fo... |
3 February 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Video game publisher Square Enix has launched a new update for Final Fantasy XIII-2, labeled 1.03, and the big change is that players are now able to press R3 on the PlayStation 3 version of the game while in the Historia Crux game mode in order to send an instant status update to the social network Facebook.
The Ja... |
3 February 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Facebook is currently testing a new photo lightbox. Photos has been one of its most popular product to date so any change to it is carefully weighed. Those that have spotted the new photo viewer in the wild noticed something interesting, it is very similar to the one on Google+.
The layout is the same, comments on t... |
3 February 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Marvel will make headlines when it comes to multiplayer gaming in the coming year with the high profile Gazillion MMO project set to arrive during 2013, but until then gamers are able to get their superhero fix on Facebook, where an Avengers social game will try to bridge the gap between hardcore and casual players.
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3 February 2012
09:21 GMT |
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The Facebook IPO is bound to create over 1,000 millionaires. It's not only the co-founders who are all billionaires now, or the early investors, which have made a killing on Facebook, or even early employees that were granted stock options, it's all sorts of people that managed to get even a small piece of ... |
3 February 2012
06:51 GMT |
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One of the most popular social networking apps for Android device, Facebook has just received an important update, which brings new features and enhancements.
The latest Facebook for Android improves on previous version and makes it easier for users to navigate the application’s menus such as, groups, ap... |
3 February 2012
05:59 GMT |
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Facebook's IPO filling was the first chance to get actual financial figures on the company. People have been speculating and estimating Facebook revenue for years now. It turns out, they weren't that much off. Facebook made $3.71 billion, €2.83 billion last year, a big jump over 2010, when it brought ... |
2 February 2012
12:41 GMT |
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The focus in the latest version for Skype is sharing, as the developer introduces a new feature, called Group Screen Sharing. The name says it all: everything that pops on your screen can be shared with a group of people at the other end. As such, you can share a presentation over a call or share photos without havi... |
2 February 2012
11:49 GMT |
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Along with its IPO filling, Facebook revealed some interesting numbers about it and not only financial stats. It provided a user growth chart going back a few years, revealing that it had 845 million monthly active users last December.
That's up from 800 million in September, the last official number. At the en... |
2 February 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Facebook completely dominates the social web. Google is throwing everything it's got at competing with it, and it's not going great. Everyone else has just given up. But, as always in the tech world, perhaps it's not time to pack up and call it a day just yet, new companies can and do manage to compete... |
2 February 2012
07:51 GMT |
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The inevitable has happened, Facebook has filed for an initial public offering (IPO). It wasn't much of a secret that the company was going to do it on the first day of February. In fact, nothing about the IPO has been much of a secret for a long time.
The company is looking to raise $5 billion, €3.81 bill... |
2 February 2012
05:30 GMT |
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After accusations the new Zynga Bingo has been copied from a template offered by that Buffalo Studio in its release, Bingo Blitz, the leader of the company, has stated that Zynga does not copy ideas from other developers but tries to take concepts that are already known and perfect them. Mark Pincus, the chief execu... |
1 February 2012
21:51 GMT |
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Facebook, the biggest social platform in the world, has introduced a new way for players to discover and engage with social games, creating a unified list for social titles in the news feed of each user.
The new mechanic combines updates from the titles that a player uses on a regular basis and avoids spamming of th... |
1 February 2012
10:30 GMT |
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University of Cincinnati investigators determined that the messages and images people post on online social networking sites could cost them their prospective jobs. Employers always look over job applicants' online accounts, and what they find there could be grounds for dismissal.
What is even more interesting... |
1 February 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Piracy is one of the biggest long-term problems for the video game industry but for Rovio, the company that created the hit Angry Birds concept, the phenomenon has a number of upsides that can, in the long term, help the popularity of its products. Mikael Hed, a leading executive working at Rovio, told the audience ... |
31 January 2012
17:51 GMT |
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Facebook has debuted a cool new feature for the Timeline, one that really highlights just what the feature is good at. Thanks to a third-party developer, Facebook has created a Timeline movie maker, and named it just that, to enable users to tell the story of their lives, as seen on Facebook, in less than a minute.
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31 January 2012
14:01 GMT |
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We already know that the very popular Angry Birds is coming to Facebook. Some more details are now beginning to trickle down, while the Facebook game will be much of the same Angry Birds that everyone knows and loves, it will have some peculiarities.There will be some collaboration, as expected, probably something li... |
28 January 2012
12:01 GMT |
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The wheels are in motion, and have been so for a long time now, but the latest rumor on the Facebook IPO says that the company may file it as early as next week. This means that we'll be seeing the first official financial details on the company very soon. The filing should also shed some light on the size of th... |
28 January 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Facebook is taking over the world. No, it isn't replacing governments just yet, but it is the largest social network in most places around the world. The last holdouts are falling one by one and in the few places where Facebook isn't number one, the site is completely blocked in the country.
Blogger Vincen... |
27 January 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Scams that circulate on social media networks, especially Facebook, are not uncommon, each day users stumbling upon fake ads that promise adult tapes, coupons, funny and outrageous footage, and fabulous prizes. Now, Zuckerberg’s company retaliates by suing a firm that’s suspected of using malicious tactic... |
27 January 2012
08:43 GMT |
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A movie’s popularity makes it an excellent topic that can be utilized by cybercriminals in their malicious campaigns. The fact that the Indian motion picture called Bodyguard was used in a recent phishing attack is a perfect example.
According to Symantec experts, the movie’s soundtrack was so popular th... |
27 January 2012
03:40 GMT |
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The most popular game in the world is coming to the most popular platform in the world. Yes, Angry Birds is coming to Facebook, on Valentine’s Day no less. Considering that Angry Birds pretty much runs on everything these days, including the oldest platform of them all, the 'real world,' thanks to all... |
26 January 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Since the number of lottery scams recorded a considerable increase and a high rate of success, security companies and their experts are launching awareness raising campaigns to make sure Internet users learn to identify and ignore the malicious claims.
Experts from Kaspersky’s Securelist compared a number of t... |
25 January 2012
07:00 GMT |
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Facebook has managed to get the attention it wanted with its "Don't be evil" tool which adds other social networks to new Google features that only use Google+ data.
The tool is certainly good for one thing, it highlights that Google, if it wanted, using only the data and tools already at its disposal, could ha... |
24 January 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Facebook has announced that the Timeline is finally being rolled out to everyone, for better or for worse. Yes, it announced something of the sort several times now, but this time it means it, the Timeline will be enabled for everyone, without exception within the next few weeks."Last year we introduced timeline, a n... |
24 January 2012
16:41 GMT |
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In 2011, just before the iPhone 4S was released to the public and everyone expected Apple to launch iPhone 5, scammers and cybercriminals unveiled a series of campaigns that promised the products in advance to a few lucky users. Now, the same type of scam is making rounds, but this time an iPad 3 is offered by Mark Z... |
24 January 2012
14:41 GMT |
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A video statement allegedly released by Anonymous on January 23 calls supporters to the continuation of Operation Blackout, appointing the next target as being the popular social media website Facebook. However, official Anonymous channels deny the claims, questioning the clip’s legitimacy. The video looks leg... |
24 January 2012
13:31 GMT |
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The "Don't be evil" bookmarklet, created by Facebook and other social networks to 'fix' Google search results, greatly demonstrates that Google is not telling the whole story when arguing that it can't include social data other than from Google+ in its enhanced Google Search Plus Your World. The ... |
24 January 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Facebook likes to maintain a certain atmosphere at its offices and it pretty much succeeds, they don't look like any corporate office you'd be used to. The wide open spaces contribute to that and so do the decorations.
Graffitied walls are a staple of Facebook and that's true for Facebook's new h... |
24 January 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Google is coming under continuing fire for the Search Plus Your World set of features that integrate Google+ into Google search, while leaving out other social networks. Google has been rightfully criticized about its move, though it has had some counter points. But its arguments didn't hold water, as perfectly... |
24 January 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Aviary has debuted its first Facebook app, aptly named Aviary for Facebook. In essence, it's the regular Aviary Embeddable editor, which has recently been updated. The big news though is that it's now integrated with Facebook, meaning that you can edit all of your Facebook photos without leaving the site.At... |
23 January 2012
14:21 GMT |
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An analysis firm has calculated that social gaming firm Zynga is spending no less than 150 dollars (116.4 Euro) in order to bring in one new player for its titles, even though the overall average contribution from one is smaller than that over time.Arvind Bhatia, who is an analyst watching the video game industry for... |
23 January 2012
10:31 GMT |
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VEVO is one of the few smart moves the major record labels have done in the last decade. The video site, created in partnership with YouTube, is now the second biggest video site in the US, where it is available. It recently launched in the UK too.At the same time, the VEVO YouTube channel is the most popular on Goog... |
20 January 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Along with a new auth dialog, which should make it easier for users to understand what the apps they're about to install actually do, Facebook has also introduced a change that is very, very welcomed, optional permissions.Up until now, it was all or nothing. Apps could ask for all sorts of data, users were left ... |
19 January 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Along with the 60 new Open Graph apps and the many more that are bound to land on Facebook, the social network is also updating the auth dialog that users see when they install a new app or enable an app to access their Facebook data and profile.
The new auth dialog is designed to be simpler, to make it easier for u... |
19 January 2012
11:51 GMT |
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The fact that he threatened to leak a number of 30 million email and Facebook account credentials that belong to users from Saudi Arabia and other countries attracted a lot of attention on Hannibal, the hacker that seeks revenge for the large number of Israeli credit card details published online by various hackers, ... |
19 January 2012
07:48 GMT |
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