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Is Facebook Home worth getting excited about?
April 12, 2013 Simon Hill
There’s a good chance that you have a Facebook account and an Android smartphone. If you do then the new Facebook Home release is aimed at you. It is effectively an overlay, or launcher, for Android that focusses your smartphone [...]
Read more »Facebook Home and the HTC First are here, and they’re a match made in Facebook heaven
April 5, 2013 Andrew Boxall
We all knew Facebook has something big planned for its Android event held last night, and sure enough, we’ve been treated to Facebook Home – an app for your Android phone – and the HTC First, which is the first [...]
Read more »Facebook to hold special event on April 4, will it be the Facebook Phone?
April 2, 2013 Andrew Boxall
Just before the weekend, Facebook sent out invitations to a special event to be held at its California headquarters, and while it’s not exactly clear what the social network will be demonstrating, the tagline, “Come See Our New Home on [...]
Read more »Leaked details on the HTC Myst herald the return of the Facebook phone rumour
March 8, 2013 Andrew Boxall
Rumours of a true Facebook phone have been around for quite sometime, but never quite seem to die, just lay dormant for a little while until springing up again. It’s that time again, as the specification and codename of an [...]
Read more »Facebook launches Graph Search (not a phone) at special event
January 16, 2013 Andrew Boxall
Although deep down, we knew a phone wasn’t going to be the focus of Facebook’s special event yesterday, but we still held on to the slight hope one would appear at the last minute. Unfortunately, it never did and instead [...]
Read more »Facebook to launch new product later today, rumoured to be a search engine
January 15, 2013 Andrew Boxall
Facebook has announced it would be holding an event at its California headquarters later today, January 15, but hasn’t given even the slightest hint at what it will be revealing. The tagline used on the invitations says simply “Come and [...]
Read more »Instagram launches Web profiles, no surprise to find they’re influenced by Facebook
November 6, 2012 Andrew Boxall
Instagram, the hugely popular photo-sharing social network, has always been great on a mobile device. Browsing through pictures is easy and enjoyable using the Android or iOS app, but try it on the Web and you quickly discovered there wasn’t [...]
Read more »Facebook reaches 1 billion users
October 4, 2012 Andrew Boxall
It was definitely a question of when Facebook would reach the amazing figure of 1 billion users, rather than if; and the answer has arrived today, as the social network confirmed that the magic number was achieved on September 14. [...]
Read more »Facebook and HTC still working on a phone together, but does anyone want it?
July 27, 2012 Andrew Boxall
With the latest leak, the mythical Facebook phone has become the most-talked-about-phone-not-to-be-released in recent memory. Rumours of such as device stretch back to 2010, and it’s Bloomberg with the story this time, once again linking Facebook with HTC, who’re said [...]
Read more »Facebook and HTC still working on a phone together, but does anyone want it?
Andrew Boxall With the latest leak, the mythical Facebook phone has become the most-talked-about-phone-not-to-be-released in recent memory. Rumours of such as device stretch back to 2010, and it’s Bloomberg with the story this time, once again linking Facebook with HTC, who’re said [...]
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