Do you remember a time when Blackberry owners would flaunt messenger in the faces of other phone owners. How times of changed with services such Apple’s iMessages and Samsung’s ChatON paving the way for other smartphone owners to chat and interact with their buddies over the air. This week we’ve gotten word from Samsung about their ChatON service and how innovations...
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Social networking site Facebook will be rolling out its Timeline feature to all users in the next few weeks. This means that those who don’t want to change the look of their profile pages to the new feature will have to settle for it as it will become mandatory. Facebook said on a blog post on Tuesday that it will launch the new feature to all users “over the...
A new study shows that micro blogging site Twitter is as influential as the judges of X Factor when it comes to how the audience vote on the show. According to a study conducted by media agency Carat, Twitter is more than 42 percent more influential than other news sources in the behavior of deciding voters. The study, which had 13,000 total respondents, is believed to...
In an effort to enhance its social network, Internet search giant Google has integrated its own Chrome web browser and video sharing website YouTube more deeply into Google+. Vic Gundotra, the company’s senior vice president for engineering, said that Chrome and YouTube can be accessed more easily from the network of Google+. “It’s no secret that YouTube...
Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site was downed yesterday after an ‘accidental’ leak exposed some upcoming features on the site. The site, which accounts for 25% of the world’s internet traffic closed down for nearly 30 minutes after a technician uploaded and made live a list of new features and pages on the public facing site, this included re-jigged...
Today Facebook has produced a story of happiness which is very welcome when you consider all the horrible things going on in the world at the moment. Two pensioners who met on Facebook and fell in love have tied the knot just in time for the festive season. Laurence Brocklesby (82) and Barbara Moore (77) are said to be looking forward to spending their first Christmas...
A study by the Future Laboratory and the coffee giant Nescafe discovered that social network and internet users are not happy with the amount of ‘face time’ they have with close friends and loved ones. The exciting yet relentless advancements in technology is the main cause with innovations in email, texting and of course social networking sites such as Facebook replacing...
Social networking sites are great when you want to share something with the world, however they can also cause problems when sharing something you probably have kept secret, why would you do that? Well if you’re drunk probably. Thankfully there is now an precautionary barrier users can install as an add on to internet explorer or Firefox that requires users to take a...