The new messaging app Yo has turned out to be an unexpected runaway success. Let’s face it; all it lets you do is send a message with the word “Yo”. Despite the limited nature of the app, Yo has shot to the top of the app download charts and raised £600,000 in investment funds. However, it has now been found to have a serious security flaw in it. The creator of...
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You may have heard rumours of the Facebook Phone before now but finally we know what it is about. It is actually called Facebook Home and it isn’t a real phone or even an operating system. Facebook Home is a social network dedicated home screen for Android phones which will change the way you interact with your phone. When you switch on your phone you will see a Coverfeed,...
Those of you thinking you’ve found the holy grail of offers, £500 in free Asda and/or Argos vouchers for Christmas by visiting a Facebook page, we’re sad to say it’s a scam. Facebook scammers have started to exploit Christmas shoppers early this year, with posts on users walls inviting their friends to claim free vouchers. The one which is most common...
Twitter has once again gone into battle with third party service providers, last week they announced a new photo sharing application which rivals Twitpic and other providers. Today they have launched their own URL shortening service, which unlike other providers is built directly into Twitter. This means users can paste url’s into their Tweets and have them automatically...
It seems as though the bosses at Twitter have splashed out lots of cash to pick up the TweetDeck platform. No official word has been released yet but the industry buzz has it that it cost a cool $40 million to snap up. In fact some estimates go up to $50 million and state a mixture of cash and shares as being used. It seems as though the papers were signed on Monday,...
Want to buy a drink for someone who isn’t there? Soon you will be able to. Social vending is the name of the game, and the latest idea from Pepsi is a revolution in the way we buy drinks / a complete waste of time (delete as appropriate). So how does social vending work? Well, it seems that you buy a drink from the special Pepsi vending machine and enter the name and...
David Cameron wants a ‘big society’, a country where communities look after each other and put in effort to solve their own problems. Although his idea sounds like a good one the government has found it neigh on impossible to make happen. Then all of a sudden two people come along with an idea that could help regenerate community pride and cohesion with a web-based...
A couple of months ago we revealed that Facebook has become a nightly routine for most Brits; therefore it will come as no surprise that a recent study has shown that the world’s largest social networking site is now more popular than television. A study by consumer electronics retailer EXPANSYS has revealed some rather interesting statistics. It has been revealed that...
Tech channels and blogs are buzzing this morning after a post by the Next Web speculated that not only is Google preparing a Facebook competitor but have also named and planned its date of birth! Some channels have suggested that the big G could make the announcement over the next few days during SXSW. Sadly the guys over at Google have been quick to pour water over the...