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Google to Facebook: unlock your user data

Google to Facebook: unlock your user data

Google gets in hot water over user privacy on a pretty regular basis, but it’s nothing to the kind of scrutiny that Facebook gets over its 900 million users. To their credit, Google has been fairly straightforward, even allowing those who are dissatisfied to pack up and leave after downloading all the relevant files. Facebook… …

Facebook purchases Karma – social gift service

Facebook purchases Karma – social gift service

21 May 2012 by Discuss (0)

It looks like Facebook has been getting some good Karma as of late because they’ve been rocking out. first with the purchase of Instagram, then they snatched up rival service Lightbox to get into the photography aspects even more. Now they’ve also acquired the social gifting service Karma — and you can’t forget about the …

Instagram rival Lightbox also purchased by Facebook

Instagram rival Lightbox also purchased by Facebook

15 May 2012 by Discuss (1)

Since Instagram took forever to arrive on Android many were using alternatives to do similar tasks to their “art” or photography. One of those rivals was Lightbox which was originally featured at Google I/O last year. The app has been around for about a year but today Lightbox has announced that they’ll also be joining …

Android Community Weekly: May 13th, 2012

Android Community Weekly: May 13th, 2012

It’s been a big week in the Android world, mostly due to the CTIA wireless show in New Orleans. Naturally Android Community was there to cover it, and you can see all of our CTIA stories here. For a lighter look at the more important bits, check out our CTIA wrapup. Oh, and don’t forget …

Facebook shows off App Center: its own social app gallery

Facebook shows off App Center: its own social app gallery

Facebook apps. Android apps. Web apps. Apparently there just aren’t enough apps to go around, so Facebook decided to cram as many as it could into its own app. (Que Xzibit meme photos now.) The social networking giant is planning a major update both its web platform and its Android and iOS apps to put …

Facebook for Android updated – takes over the app tray

Facebook for Android updated – takes over the app tray

25 April 2012 by Discuss (4)

Facebook for Android has seen a few updates this week in case you’ve missed them. While I wouldn’t go as far as to call them progress — they are making changes. Some for the better, and some for the worse. As if Facebook didn’t consume too much of peoples lives already, now they’ve updated the …

HTC and Facebook set to make another Android phone

HTC and Facebook set to make another Android phone

25 April 2012 by Discuss (1)

Remember the ChaCha and the Salsa? Me neither. But HTC does, and according to DigiTimes, they’re eager to make another phone partnered with Facebook for features and branding. Their supply chain sources say that HTC and Facebook are partnering for another phone with exclusive features that tie into the social network, now an unbelievable 900 …

Android Community Weekly: April 15th, 2012

Android Community Weekly: April 15th, 2012

15 April 2012 by Discuss (0)

Welcome once again to our weekly update on everything you need to know in the Android universe. If you’ve neglected your news for the last seven days, take a few minutes to consider the following – everything else is a sideshow. There’s a considerable amount of hardware, software, modding and business news to cover in …

Facebook buys TagTile – bringing coupon deals to mobile

Facebook buys TagTile – bringing coupon deals to mobile

13 April 2012 by Discuss (1)

Facebook is back in the news today for throwing around large sums of money. After buying Instagram for a whopping 1 billion dollars today we’ve learned they also snatched up a mobile app company called TagTile. In case you aren’t huge into Facebook, today they launched Facebook Offers — basically coupons and deals they’ll send …

BlingBoard: The ultimate all-in-one social widget [Hands-on]

BlingBoard: The ultimate all-in-one social widget [Hands-on]

11 April 2012 by Discuss (4)

One of my favorite parts of Android has always been the widgets. Developers come up with all types of awesome widgets for our phones but today I’ve ran across one that just might be my new favorite. It’s called BlingBoard: Social Widget and it is exactly that. The ultimate social widget for Android bringing everything …

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