In case you didn’t hear, Facebook will be holding a press event this week… and no it won’t be to discuss the fact that there is now hashtags within the social network. The event has been scheduled for June 20th, 2013 and the invitation reads “A small team has been working on a big idea. [...]
If you haven’t heard of Waze before it is a navigation app that relies on information collected from its userbase to offer not only turn-by-turn directions, but also notifications for things like road hazards, traffic jams, accidents and police traps. In essence Waze is a crowdsourced GPS application that even Apple has been rumored to [...]
Fortune magazine released their Fortune 500 list, which is an annual survey of the largest companies in the United States, ranked by revenues. If you remember correctly Apple was ranked 17 on last year’s list, but has moved all the way up to the 6th position this year, making it the highest-ranking technology company on [...]
Posted on April 26, 2013 by Jaden Ellett
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In the middle of April we told you that developer Adam Bell was working to bring system-wide Chat Heads to iOS and actually had a working version, which was demoed by The Verge. It was stated in the video that Bell would release this Chat Heads hack in the form of a Cydia tweak shortly. Although [...]
Posted on April 18, 2013 by Jaden Ellett
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We told you a couple days ago that the official Facebook for iOS app was updated with Chat Head functionality that allowed you to essentially message your friends without leaving the current page you were viewing through the Facebook app. This feature was already present in Facebook Home and was initially where it stemmed from. [...]
Earlier this month, Facebook announced their new Home on Android, a new UI that centers on everything Facebook. The interface known as Facebook Home was recently released on the Google Play Store for compatible Android devices. With Facebook Home, you get Chat Heads, which integrates SMS and Facebook messages and keeps them on top of [...]
Posted on April 12, 2013 by Jaden Ellett
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Facebook Home was announced on April 4th by Mark Zuckerberg and essentially what it is, is software that replaces the lockscreen and homescreen of your Android smartphone to always ensure you are in the loop of what’s going on with your friends. Facebook Home has really three key functionalities and this includes Cover Feed, Chat [...]
If you haven’t heard of Facebook Home yet then you must be living under a rock. Facebook Home was announced by the social networking giant on April 4th and it is essentially an Android overlay that make’s Facebook the centre of your smartphone’s universe. Facebook Home is a lockscreen and homescreen replacement that helps you [...]
Posted on April 8, 2013 by Jaden Ellett
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Facebook Home and the HTC First (the very first Android smartphone to pre-ship with Facebook Home) will be available on April 12th. For those that can’t wait that long to get their hands on Facebook’s new Android overlay, Modaco has actually discovered a way to install it on certain Android handsets ahead of time. Unfortunately [...]
Yesterday the HTC First was leaked into the wild and sure enough at today’s Facebook event, HTC’s CEO Peter Chou was present to talk about the new HTC First smartphone that would run Facebook Home out of the box. Chou described the HTC First as the “ultimate social phone” and it will be powered by Android [...]