Sure, you may have already liked Gizmodo on Facebook or followed us on Twitter (hint hint), but we’re individuals too! Lucky for you, we all have our own Facebook and Twitter accounts where we’re just waiting to be questioned, praised, and mercilessly harassed at your leisure. Plus, now’s a good time to get in on the action since most of us will be coming to you LIVE from CES all throughout next week. More »
In this new world of social media, plenty of your accounts are going to soldier on after you die. Get ready. But in the meantime, it’s easy—too easy—to convince Facebook just about anyone is dead, at which point the site will lock down the account as a memorial until the supposed corpse argues otherwise. More »
Jacob Cox-Brown had a pretty wild New Year’s Eve. So wild that he decided to drive home drunk. The problem came, though, when he decided to post about his journey on Facebook. The 18-year-old posted a message on the Big Blue explaining: More »
Whoever argues that drinking alcohol does not make you stupider in the long run might want to take a second look (although at the end of it, one could also conclude otherwise, that said teen is rather short on the smarts department in the first place) at an Oregon teen who boasted over his Facebook account that he was driving while under the influence of alcohol, apologizing to owners of the cars that he hit along the way. The men in blue were quick to their feet to make an arrest, and teen Cox-Brown’s Facebook page has also seen the boast removed, for obvious reasons.
Cox-Brown posted this to his Facebook page: “Drivin drunk… classsic 
but to whoever’s vehicle i hit i am sorry. 
.” Talk about sharing the wrong information, as the police subsequently issued a press release which read as follows: “Astoria Police have an active social media presence. It was a private Facebook message to one of our officers that got this case moving, though. When you post…on Facebook, you have to figure that it is not going to stay private long.”
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Welcome to Thursday evening everyone. Today Google settled its antitrust case with the FTC, avoiding fines in return for agreeing to license its standard-essential patents and removing advertising limits. The BlackBerry Z10 has leaked for Verizon and AT&T, while the ZTE P945 phablet has been revealed in leaked renders. Samsung has confirmed its oft-rumored Tizen handsets for 2013, with ASUS announcing a Leap Motion partnership today that will bring gesture controls to its PCs.
RIM and T-Mobile have announced the BlackBerry Curve 9315, and new rumors are saying that the LG Optimus G2 might get a reveal at CES 2013. Facebook has added free Voice Messaging and limited VoIP to its Messenger app, and GameStick reached its Kickstarter goal today, just one day after launching the campaign. The ASUS ME301T 10-inch tablet leaked today, complete with a Tegra-3 processor and Jelly Bean, while Corning announced that it will be debuting Gorilla Glass 3 at CES 2013.
It looks like Pebble will be hosting a CES event of its own, and Archos has announced TV Connect, which turns any HDTV into a smart Android TV. comScore’s market share results for November 2012 are here, with Samsung, Google, and Apple at the top, and we learned today that Angry Birds was downloaded 8 million times on Christmas Day. Chicago has agreed to a new deal with Microsoft for city-wide cloud service, and Samsung has announced the NX300 mirrorless camera.
We found out that Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition was downloaded 5 million times in 2012, while one analyst is saying that the Wii U underperformed at GameStop during the holiday season. Sony has a patent application on the books for technology that would allow it to block access to used games on its future consoles, and Samsung has delivered a patch for the Exynos security hole that is present in Galaxy S III handsets. Finally tonight, we have reviews of the HTC One VX and the EliteBook Folio 9470m ultrabook for you to check out, while Chris Davies tells us why he thought Apple would jump on Leap Motion first instead of ASUS. That does it for tonight’s Evening Wrap-Up, we hope you enjoy the rest of your night folks!
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: January 3, 2013 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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If you’re a fan of the Facebook Messenger app keep your eye out for an interesting update coming down the pipe today for both the iOS and Android versions. The social network is adding the ability to record and send voice messages, up to one minute in length, to your friends. The goal isn’t to create a voice mail system for Facebook, but to give users another option for interacting when typing is either impossible or inconvenient. It works much like the video feature in the company’s Poke app — press and hold the red record button, speak your message and it’ll appear in-line as part of your chat, represented by a clickable sound wave icon. Even more interesting though, is the VoIP capabilities that are being flipped on for Canadian users. It’s a little buried at the moment — hidden behind the “i” icon in the chat window — but everyone’s favorite social network is now offering a way to place free voice calls to friends. Interestingly, the platform is built on open source technology and not on its Skype partnership. If things go well in the land of maple trees and Mounties we imagine it wont be too long before America gets a taste of VoIP calling Facebook style.
Filed under: Software, Mobile, Facebook
Source: TechCrunch
Facebook has been implementing the ideas of popular applications to its suite of apps, even going as far as to create its own Facebook Poke app that is pretty much its own version of Snapchat. Today’s update to its Facebook Messenger app is no different as the update rolling out to its iOS and Android application will make it possible for Facebook users to leave short voice messages to one another, similar to what Voxer and HeyTell do.
In addition, Facebook is allowing its Canadian users to make VoIP calls to one another through its Messenger application for free as long as they’re connected to a Wi-Fi or cellular data connection, which means pretty much anywhere. The VoIP calls feature is currently only being tested in Canada, but could be rolled out to more countries if it proves to be successful.
There’s no doubt both features are steps in the right direction for allowing Facebook users communicate the way they want to, especially if they’re unable to write back wherever they are. We’re just hoping they prove more successful than Facebook Poke as we still can’t see a viable reason for anyone to want to send self-destructive messages that doesn’t involve extreme naughtiness.
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Both iOS and Android users will be seeing an update for their Facebook Messenger app starting today, one that will allow them to begin use Facebook’s own flavor of Voice Messaging. This feature is included in the download for all while Canada specifically gets a unique opportunity to work with VoIP in a sort of beta test of the service. The Canadian VoIP test will be working with iOS only (at the start) while Voice Messaging is set to hit Android and iOS all at once.
This release allows Voice Messaging – otherwise known as voicemail – to be integrated into the conversation rather than sitting beside it. This service is now not unlike the Walkie Talkie app Voxer what with its ability to record messages and push them to users in a chatroom. Facebook’s brand of this sort of functionality appears now to be a smaller part of the larger chat window while the Voxer app makes voice messages the primary function.
In Canada, Facebook app users are beginning to get VoIP functionality. This ability will allow you to call your friends using the internet, and is currently only going to to be available to users physically inside Canada calling other Facebook users inside Canada on iOS – on the iPhone, that is. This functionality uses data instead of phone “minutes”.
Facebook continues their ultimate mission to make sure any time you want to communicate with a friend, it’s through them – with everything from Skype calls via the browser (now defunct) and the newly updated Poke functionality in app form for mobile devices. Have a peek at the timeline below to see what else Facebook has been doing to keep you interested and stay tuned for the all-encompassing Facebook functionality wizard to command your communication from bottom to top.
Facebook adds free Voice Messaging and limited VoIP to Messenger app is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The Facebook Messenger application is getting an update for Android and iOS so that users can now send voice messages up to one-minute long to their friends. Just a few weeks after Facebook went after Snapchat with a clone app, it’s modified Messenger to be a clone for Apple’s iMessage. More »
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