Category: Social Networking
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Twitter launches Image Uploading to all users
Twitter has finally opened up its much tested Twitter Images options to the whole of the Twittersphere which will enable users to uploads images directly to their Twitter feeds with accompanying hash tags to add to a huge public gallery of images. The simple update has added a new camera icon in the Tweet box…
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Facebook launches Facebook Messenger for your iOS or Android device
Facebook has launched a group messenger app for Android and iPhone called “Messenger”. Messenger will let you chat with your Facebook friends, create group chats and share photos, videos and locations. The app isn’t in any way tied in with Facebook chat though, as we initially thought. Facebook Messenger is based on a messaging client…
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Anonymous hacking group set to bring down Facebook?
Date has been set for an apparent social networking Guy Fawkes Night
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Windows Phone 7 Mango: Twitter integration seen hands-on in new video
Having been released to manufacturers just over a week ago, today we got a peak of the Windows Phone 7 update – Mango – in action, on an unidentified handset, showing off the Twitter integration feature. Granted we have seen an official promo clip from Microsoft itself, but that was impersonal and straight down to…
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Google+ now available on Apple iPad & iPod Touch
Life over at Google+ has been pretty slow since the hugely overblown launch about a month ago. We were excited to hear about the plan to bring together the best elements of Facebook, with a pinch of Skype, incorporating Google’s existing services and some intriguing new personalised features, such as +Circles and +Huddle, into one…
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Google+ now available on Apple iPad & iPod Touch
Life over at Google+ has been pretty slow since the hugely overblown launch about a month ago. We were excited to hear about the plan to bring together the best elements of Facebook, with a pinch of Skype, incorporating Google’s existing services and some intriguing new personalised features, such as +Circles and +Huddle, into one…
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How Has Social Networking Influenced the London Riots?
Over the past day or so, the UK has been captivated by the rioting that has taken place in London and now Bristol, Liverpool, Birmingham and Nottingham. News has been coming in thick and fast on the TV, Radio and the Web of the disgraceful acts carried out by groups of rioters in London, though…
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BBC to reboot the iPlayer look with “TV-friendly” User Interface
The Beeb have announced plans to reboot its iPlayer interface making the user experience more fluid on its native television set platform. BBC’s on-demand television service iPlayer was launched on Christmas Day 2007, and has only had one redesign to its appearance and function in June of the following year. All this time the interface…
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Update: Google’s blog tirade on Apple/Microsoft alliance – Round 2
Yesterday the Gadget Helpline covered the war of words which spilt out onto blog and Twitter after Google’s Legal Chief David Drummond launch a bitter tirade on the company’s press page accusing Apple and Microsoft of uniting to buy 6000 patents from defunct co. Nortel in a “hostile, organized campaign” to damage business where it…
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Meet Spykee – The Skype compatible spy robot!
Meet Spykee! This ultra-cool little ‘droid is Skype 3.0 compatible (notice how his name is an anagram of sorts?) and he’s controllable wirelessly, as long as you’ve got access to a Wi-Fi connection. He’ll follow your instructions, even if you’re not even in the room – or in another country! You can build Spykee from…
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Google’s blog tirade on Apple/Microsoft alliance (and Microsoft’s tweet response)
“Apple vs The World” takes an interesting turn today as Google has kicked-off massively after Apple formed a tech-tag-team with Microsoft over the recent spate of on-going patent rows. Using the press front of the Google brand – the company’s blog – Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond describes the rival duo…
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Skype for Android 2.1 update now brings video calling to “most” phones
Little over a month ago Skype for Android got its update to version 2.0 – sure it had a few new bearly noticeable features such as the “mood” / status updater, a snazzy new interface, and a few bugs were squashed but the key feature of the Skype software – the video chat – was…