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Potential partners on Facebook’s music service: Deezer, Soundcloud, Rhapsody and Vevo

Published on: 22nd September, 2011

The imminent music service announced on Facebook could include more actors than initially thought. The only partners previously identified as being part of the service were Rdio, MOG and Spotify, but others could also join the group: Rhapsody, Soundcloud, Vevo and Deezer. The newcomers are supposed to bring the same unified system with playback and [...]

BlackBerry PlayBook finally gets video chat and Facebook

Published on: 12th May, 2011

As a part of its BlackBerry World introduction, Research in Motion made public detailed plans of providing two major applications in order to improve the feature set of the BlackBerry PlayBook. RIM’s tablet will finally get an official Video Chat application, which will allow owners to make two way calls between other users of PlayBooks [...]

American Express unveils Serve mobile payments for Facebook, iOS and Android

Published on: 1st April, 2011

On March 28, 2011, American Express dipped into digital payments by revealing Serve. This new approach offers iOS and Android device, but also Facebook, a possibility to pay bills or friends with no need of having a conventional debit or credit card. This can be loaded up with debit or credit and works as well [...]

Facebook and Warner are trying movie rentals with The Dark Knight

Published on: 13th March, 2011

Facebook has recently tested its own direct media service through a team-up with Warner. Users from the USA who visit the Dark Knight fan page are able to rent the movie by simply using 30 Facebook Credits (which means almost $3) and watch it directly from the social network. Viewers benefit from the same rights [...]

Chevrolet Cruze to be able to read Facebook newsfeeds

Published on: 7th February, 2011

Chevrolet is presenting a sneak peek at the Superbowl TV ads on its page on Facebook. One of them, Status, outlines the ability of the car to read newsfeed content from Facebook to the driver. There is no information about how this is done exactly, although the fine print includes OnStar text so the data-aware [...]

Facebook application for Android brings push notifications and chat

Published on: 20th December, 2010

Facebook has updated its mobile client available for Android handsets. Several improvements are brought by version 1.5, including the support for the Facebook Chat functionality available in the iPhone application and desktop edition. Push notifications for arriving messages as well as other content are also added in this update. The chat feature makes available a [...]

Facebook founder invites Apple to join efforts and connect to the social network

Published on: 23rd November, 2010

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, at the Web 2.0 Summit asked Apple to make its approach easier in order to connect Ping with Facebook. Downplaying Steve Jobs’ assertions related to “onerous terms” asked by Facebook, he said this would be a matter of adaptation to modern realities. In his opinion, Apple had to accept that [...]

Google and Apple allied to get Paul Allen’s lawsuit tossed

Published on: 31st October, 2010

Google leading a union of companies and Apple on its own have registered motions to dismiss a patent lawsuit of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Interval Licensing. AOL, Facebook, Netflix, eBay, Office Max, Yahoo and Office Depot are participating in this alliance, which called Allen’s lawsuit “scattershot” because it is targeting many companies and cannot identify [...]

Joe Hewitt from Facebook says Android is not more open than iPhone

Published on: 26th October, 2010

Joe Hewitt, the well-known developer from Facebook, dismissed the claims that Android was a more open platform than iOS, made by the vice president of Google, Andy Rubin. He pointed out some limitations in Google’s philosophy, by saying that the source code of Android was closed until major releases and would not allow any outside [...]

Facebook answered the government letter questioning user privacy

Published on: 23rd October, 2010

Facebook has to respond to an inquiry by the US Government regarding the way third-party applications handle user data. The Wall Street Journal says that two members belonging to the House Bipartisan Privacy Caucus have required an explanation of the way personally identifiable information related to Facebook users and their friends is collected and transmitted [...]

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