The social giant has announced that Page administrators are about see their numbers take a big hit. Any metric that is based on Facebook check-ins will significantly decrease in the next few weeks. The major reason behind it is because Facebook is changing the way it takes a note of Page mentions on the social network, limiting every Facebook user to one check-in...
A prominent lawmaker and gay rights activist, Sunilbabu Pant, in Nepal, has asked Facebook to include a third gender option for people who identify themselves as neither male nor female. He is looking to protect the rights of individuals who consider themselves lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI). He has written to Facebook co-founder and CEO...
Sprint speaking at the Competitive Carriers Global Expo in Orlando, the company confirmed that it doesn’t plan to release any further phones running on WiMax as it prepares to light up LTE-based 4G network later this year. Sprint’s Bob Azzi said that the carrier is in the final stages of testing that LTE network. “We are wrapping up final field integration tests,” Azzi said, according to Fierce Wireless. “The technology works and delivers more benefits than we expected.” ...
Zynga’s VP of Engineering, Neil Roseman has resigned after 15 months at the social games company. Roseman currently work with Clearwater Analytics as a Board Member. As VP of Engineering, he delivered on Zynga’s Platform mission, culminating in the launch of Zynga.Com as a destination social game website in March of 2012. Built Zynga’s in-game ad platform,...
With yesterday news that surfaced on mobile world, HTC had announced that all three of its new Android handsets – One X, One V and One S will launch in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on Monday, April 2nd – adding further to this – rumors are that HTC One S to join T-Mobile’s lineup this April 22nd, TmoNews reports. (Image Source: HTC logo, Featured Image) ...
What next coming up with the world’s largest social networking site? – a report from Business Week reveals that Facebook is working on a makeover of its search product, and that is why it has tapped former Google engineer Lars Rasmussen with leading a team of some two dozen engineers trying to make it easier to sift through the volume of content users create on the site. Currently, the social giant used by members only to search for other members and friends as well as Facebook groups and event but once this comes into existence,...
Thinking of using Windows Server 8 to fulfil your hosting requirements? Well, have a push, get ready to use Azure, if you intended to. Microsoft Online Backup Service is a new feature in Windows Server 8 that aims to provide a low cost choice to deliver business backup benefits to Windows Server customers. With no upfront infrastructure costs (other than an adequate internet connection), customers can now get ‘peace of mind’ that their business is protected against disasters. Microsoft calls the product the ‘Microsoft Online Backup...
With earlier news we reported that Apple this week rejecting apps that access a device’s unique identifier (UDID), according to some iOS app developers. UDIDs are used by some app developer in order to track user behaviour, but their use has been limited since they result in permanent and users are unable to block sending UDIDs to third parties. As confirmed by...
Earlier this month, Google introduced Google Play, a digital entertainment destination where you can find and share your favorite apps on your Android phone or tablet in France. Today the search giant added more movies for rent to Google Play for people in France, including hundreds of full-length feature films from major Hollywood and French studios. These movies...
In a post titled “How Facebook Changed our Mobile Traffic”, Digg’s team discussed how mobile traffic to the site has risen since it launched its Timeline app in December – Unique visitors to m.digg.com are up 29 percent, Mobile accounts for about 35 percent of our traffic from Digg Social Reader and of the people coming from Facebook to Digg, 27 percent...
