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Experts have come across a couple of fake Facebook dating apps that apparently don’t cause any damage to users who install them, but they can clearly be used in malicious operations.
The apps are not made up by the cybercrooks. Instead, they took the Romanian and Spanish versions of an app called “Girlfr... |
21 May 2012
10:44 GMT |
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Facebook is debuting an app store, it was inevitable, but now it's official, in the coming weeks the App Center will be introduced and will be available via the site and the mobile apps.
The App Center will be able to house any app that leverages Facebook in some way, canvas apps, aka native Facebook apps, mobi... |
10 May 2012
03:43 GMT |
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Social readers, apps that leverage the Open Graph, have been going very strong in recent months. Publishers that used them were guaranteed millions of viewers thanks to Facebook's inherent virality. Someone read a story via the app, the story then got auto-shared to their Timeline, without them even knowing most... |
8 May 2012
11:20 GMT |
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The latest update to the Aviary Facebook app comes with a small but very interesting addition, the ability to crop photos to be a perfect fit for the Facebook Timeline cover. For any moderately advanced user, this seems like a trivial update.
But it's just the kind of thing that regular users look for and find ... |
23 February 2012
15:31 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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Facebook has taken the Open Graph to the next level. At last year's f8 conference, Facebook introduced a new type of apps and a new platform to support them, the Open Graph. These apps would integrate tightly with Facebook and share activity, mostly automatically, via the Facebook Ticker or in the Timeline.
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19 January 2012
07:58 GMT |
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Facebook announced that it was enabling developers to expand their monetization options with in-app currency offers. Facebook app developers have been able to integrate offers into their apps, but they've only been able to convert them to Facebook Credits rather than the virtual currency of their apps.
It may n... |
9 January 2012
07:20 GMT |
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Facebook has released an enhanced version of its iOS application targeting iPhone owners looking to access the Mobile Timeline on their smartphone. Other enhancements are included as well.According to the people behind the most popular social networking platform, users who download and install Facebook 4.1 will gain ... |
19 December 2011
04:40 GMT |
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Since no smart TV can be complete without social media integration, Sony has now rolled out a new update for its Internet connected Bravia HDTV that brings a series of new features to the party.At the top of the list stands the new found support for Facebook and Twitter that brings Facebook galleries, messages, statu... |
30 November 2011
10:08 GMT |
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PayPal has been looking at ways it can expand to new areas, mobile seems like an obvious choice, but social networking is too. Which explains the Send Money PayPal app for Facebook.
The new app is rather interesting, as the name implies, it enables users to send money to their friends.
The social aspects of it, as ... |
18 November 2011
06:13 GMT |
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Facebook has a habit, just like Twitter, to announce features and actually roll them out months later. The f8 conference was a great place to unveil several new features, yet many of them haven't been rolled out to everyone yet.In fact, some of them are only now actually starting to be seen by anyone, like the "... |
10 November 2011
16:31 GMT |
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A new rogue application called ChatSend has been seen luring Facebook users into installing a piece of software that abusively advertises itself.
GFI Labs researchers noticed the app, at the time of its discovery more than 100,000 members sharing with the world that they “Like” it.
The ads on Facebook l... |
1 November 2011
06:37 GMT |
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Facebook and Apple look like two completely opposite companies. One does hardware, the other social software. But the two companies are competing with each other, for users, quite bitterly. There's one thing though that unites them, their desire to bring down Google. If you're an iPad user, you're wel... |
27 September 2011
06:11 GMT |
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With the economy looking the way it does, there's no surprise that people will cling on to any sign of hope. And when studies show up saying that Facebook is doing a better job at creating new jobs than the US government and that the site, specifically its platform, alone is responsible for creating perhaps more... |
20 September 2011
07:30 GMT |
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ShareSafe is an application designed to keep your Facebook account safe from spam and other malicious elements which affect online profiles. Social networks are experiencing an all time high, this being a great chance for spammers and hackers to launch their ill-intended operations. According to the creators of the a... |
5 September 2011
09:58 GMT |
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Perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not, Facebook is making some big announcements for games on the platform, at the very same time Google revealed Google+ Games. Facebook has unveiled a number of features that should make games more engaging and make it easier for developers to reach new users.One big new feature is the... |
12 August 2011
05:40 GMT |
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The official Facebook application for Windows Phone 7 devices has just been updated to version 2.1 and promises to fix one of the major bugs found in the previous releases.
It appears that WP7 smartphone users who downloaded and installed one of the previous versions of Facebook prevented them from seeing the pict... |
25 July 2011
03:59 GMT |
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Facebook is making a couple of changes to the way developers can get their apps in front of users. The first is dropping the current App Directory, which sees little use. The second is to make it easier and more direct to submit an app to the Facebook search engine.
"Many developers have been confused about what i... |
13 July 2011
09:42 GMT |
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Facebook is planning to roll out an iPad-optimized application in the coming weeks, with tablet-specific UI elements, and the ability to upload photos directly from the iPad’s built-in cameras.
An iOS Facebook app is available for users of an iPhone or iPod touch, and while the software is compatible with th... |
17 June 2011
05:39 GMT |
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Popular social network service Facebook has just announced that it has launched a Facebook app for non-smartphones. The application will be available starting this week for 9 network operators and can be used without paying any data charges. Facebook for feature-phones is the result of the collaboration between Face... |
20 January 2011
03:02 GMT |
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In a rare move, Facebook is backing off and has announced that it will be disabling a new API feature which enabled developers to ask for access to users' private data. Facebook will be redesigning the feature in order to make it clearer for users what they are sharing, due to the sensitive nature of the informa... |
18 January 2011
04:00 GMT |
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Facebook doesn't really have a record of worrying about privacy issues. It's right to take this approach some times, users don't always know 'what's best' for them. Other times, it seems it's taking it one step too far, though it hasn't really affected the site so far. The late... |
17 January 2011
10:28 GMT |
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A quick check with the iTunes App Store has turned up the availability of Facebook version 3.3.3 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The new release promises to improve reliability with chat, messages, and notifications, as well as to restore the ability to post a page that users administer, to name a few noteworthy cha... |
19 December 2010
13:46 GMT |
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Erik G. Productions, a California-based company, has announced Funny Status Updates for Facebook 2.1, an update to the popular Facebook companion app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Featuring over 3,000 hand-picked and categorized status updates, Funny Status Updates for Facebook also offers over 800 unique symbols... |
29 November 2010
10:51 GMT |
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The owners of a Palm webOS smartphone have now a new version of the Facebook client for their devices available for download from the App Catalog. The Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker promised a new flavor of the application a few days ago, and it seems that users can already try it out and enjoy the newly added f... |
21 April 2010
10:25 GMT |
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Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm announced last week the release of a new version of its Facebook application for handsets powered by the webOS platform, and now it has made a new Facebook Beta application for the OS available for download. Even if released only a few days after the 1.1 version of the software... |
13 March 2010
06:07 GMT |
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Social mobile app directory Appolicious is expanding the range of applications it has released on the market with the addition of a Facebook App, a Twicker ad model, and an Appo.me URL Shortener. The company has just released an iPhone app, after raising $1.5 million in funding, and offers new applications for those... |
5 March 2010
10:56 GMT |
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Facebook is about to become a much quieter place and, despite it being a social service, designed to connect people, that's actually a good thing. Because it's not idle chit-chat that's getting silenced, thankfully, it's the amount of app spam clogging up your notifications inbox. Starting March ... |
27 February 2010
05:08 GMT |
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Facebook may be huge, but it's still feeling its way when it comes to revenue. It's bringing in a significant amount of money at this point, though the company doesn't say how much, but nothing in the range of what its huge user base would provide. One area that looks rather promising is virtual curren... |
26 February 2010
06:19 GMT |
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Ever since it was launched, in 2007, ChaCha has stirred the attention of audiences worldwide for being an innovative human-operated search engine. After having shown that the platform is easily adaptable, with the launch of an iPhone App and the support of Twitter integration via @chacha, the release of a ChaCha Fac... |
16 February 2010
01:43 GMT |
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Facebook is clearly an increasing part of many people's lives, but as your friends list grows along with the number of Facebook apps you may use, the built-in notifications system is getting swamped with messages many of which aren't that relevant to the user. One of the biggest issues is with app notifica... |
21 January 2010
06:26 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has just released into the wild a new software version for one of its most popular handset available on the market, the Nokia E71. The new version of device's firmware is 400.21.013, and it is said to come around with a wide range of fixes, as well as with improved support for N... |
28 November 2009
07:19 GMT |
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The Internet has affected a lot of services and businesses but for the most part financial services have remained unchanged. Sure, many have expanded to the web and make very nice sums of money from it but their business model is the same it has been for decades in some cases. One sector that has seen almost no impac... |
19 October 2009
07:03 GMT |
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Facebook apps can be fun and sometimes useful. But sometimes they can become extremely annoying especially when they go viral and you start getting flooded with the same one from all of your friends. Of course, you can easily choose to hide all instances of an app never to be bothered by it again, but recently quiz a... |
14 October 2009
05:06 GMT |
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Worried that spending too much time on Facebook is affecting other aspects of your life? Now, you can turn this time sink into revenue while also ensuring that your friends spend more on the social network as well. AppBank, a new startup in the crowded world of Facebook app makers, has an interesting plan, one that i... |
29 September 2009
11:31 GMT |
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Social networks may not be doing so well financially, with MySpace dragging down parent company News Corp Q2's earnings and Facebook's revenue growing at a rather slow pace, but some social apps designed to run inside them are doing much better. Berlin-based Wooga, a social gaming company founded this year,... |
10 August 2009
06:34 GMT |
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Zynga, a company that makes game apps for Facebook, is seeing user numbers skyrocket despite already being the largest app developer, by a safe margin, on the social network. In just two weeks the company added 12 million users, reaching a total current number of 72 million monthly active users, as All Facebook found... |
7 August 2009
04:13 GMT |
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PopCap Games, one of the biggest names in the 'casual games' market, has announced that the final Facebook version of its hit franchise Bejeweled has been released and has managed to attract more than five million users after six months in public beta. "One-minute Bejeweled was initially an in-house joke,... |
22 June 2009
11:02 GMT |
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