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If you were wondering how Facebook was going to take their Groups platform to the next level, look no further – they’ve tied the knot with Dropbox for massive amounts of storage space for all. What you’ll be able to do with this storage space is share your larger files with your buddies, make it simple for your Group surrounding your business or club to share files – perhaps a PDF guide for your next big showing! You’ll be able to upload large files of all kinds – videos, packs of notes, your new photo collection, whatever you need!

What the actual service provides is not a new way to upload files to the cloud, but a connection between Dropbox and Facebook. You’ll still need to upload your files through Dropbox, but the path from your Facebook Group to the files you seek will be much, much easier. And better integrated – you wont have to post a link each time, you’ll have a big ol’ box there ready for you – easy to see, easy to click.

If you make edits to your Dropbox folders, an update will appear in your Group. If you make edits to your files in the cloud, an update will reflect this as well. This service will make Dropbox an extension of your already diverse group on Facebook. Here Facebook expands to a level beyond that which their current server space will allow – or that they want it to allow, given the wild and sometimes dangerous world of web storage.

Working with Dropbox will allow Facebook to continue to be as safe – legally – as they are now, while still making it possible for people to share files of all types. No longer will you be limited – in groups – to single photos and relatively small videos. Now the storage world is yours to command!

[via Dropbox]

Facebook integrates Dropbox for group sharing of large files is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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BlackBerry 10 devices look set to come with a native Facebook app, as revealed at the BlackBerry Jam Americas conference earlier this morning. Needless to say, in order to maintain a sense of uniformity across various platforms, the native Facebook app resembles those found on Android and iOS platforms, albeit being 100% integrated with the operating system while promising to make full use of its spanking new Flow interface. Not only that, there will also be native LinkedIn, Twitter and Foursquare apps just for BlackBerry 10 alone at launch.

On a side note, is it just me, or did the entire RIM team on stage earlier this morning sound rather defeated even when they were making introductions and presentations of new and upcoming features of BlackBerry 10? All the doom and gloom clouds did not seem to lift just yet, but perhaps things might look up for RIM in the days and months ahead although I would not bet on that fully, how about you?

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Images of Facebook app for BlackBerry 10 leaked, Facebook for BlackBerry PlayBook updated,

RIM has had to deal with a few big names leaving their BlackBerry apps behind, but it’s managed to keep four of the biggest on board for its forthcoming BlackBerry 10 devices. That includes Facebook, which will have a native app that RIM revealed for the first time at today’s BlackBerry Jam Americas conference. Not surprisingly, the app itself doesn’t look a whole lot different than the Facebook apps for Android or iOS, but it is fully integrated with the OS and promises to take advantage of the new Flow interface and features like the BlackBerry Hub. What’s more, while it didn’t demo them today, RIM also confirmed that BB10-specific LinkedIn, Twitter and Foursquare apps will also be available at launch.

Update: RIM did later give a quick demo of the Foursquare app (pictured after the break), which it says was able to be ported to BB10 in a week by just two developers.

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We’ve entered the last full week of September, which means that autumn, pumpkins, and little children asking for free candy are all in the near future (for some of us anyway). Today we found out that the iPhone 5 managed to sell 5 million units in its first weekend of availability, and that iOS 6 has been downloaded by 100 million users since it was released last week. Some enthusiastic analysts were left explaining their generous iPhone 5 sales predictions today, while others were saying that the iPhone 5 could top 50 million sales by the end of Q4.

Apple TV was upgraded to iOS 5.1 today, while the company reminded iCloud users that former MobileMe accounts will be downgraded to 5GB of free storage on September 30. Verizon says that its version of the iPhone 5 will remain unlocked, while iOS developers were sending out updates for their apps left and right. One of these developers was Google, which launched an iOS 6/iPhone 5 update for Google Chrome, with Sparrow promising that iPhone 5 support will be coming soon.

Samsung released a list of devices that will soon be updated to Jelly Bean, and T-Mobile was seen trying to pull attention to its 4G network, which is due for some upgrades soon. The Aakash Android 2 tablet was revealed today with a super low price tag, and Facebook did its best to dispel rumors that private messages are popping up on public timelines. Google’s stock hit an all-time high today, breaking company records set back in 2007, and Sony announced some new super-slim external batteries for mobile devices.

Toshiba had some skinny offerings of its own to show off, unveiling the new Canvio Slim 500GB hard drive, and camera samples for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus 2 leaked out today as well. Experts warned that BlackBerry growth has become stagnant and that BlackBerry 10 may not do much to help, while YouTube enhanced its caption translation tools for content creators. In one of the most surprising stories of the day, Myspace began showing off its incoming redesign, and it actually looks really good. Meanwhile, we heard about a particularly nasty Borderlands 2 bug, and Sony reiterated plans to support the PS3 through at least 2015.

Finally tonight, we have a new column by Chris Davies that examines why iPhone 5 users may eventually save the poorly-received Apple Maps app in iOS 6. That does it for tonight’s Evening Wrap-Up, so go out and enjoy the rest of your night!

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: September 24, 2012 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Facebook is doing what it can to combat a particularly nasty rumor today, telling the BBC that private messages never appeared on public timelines like some users have claimed. Most of these users were from France, and say that private messages sent between 2007 and 2009 started appearing on their timelines. Your Facebook timeline, as you’re hopefully already aware, is open for your friends to see (and everyone else using the service if your privacy settings allow it), so we can see why this would cause some controversy.

After all, having messages that were intended to be private suddenly appear on a very public part of your profile could potentially result in a hairy situation for some users, so it would be cause for concern if stuff like this was actually happening. Facebook says it isn’t though, telling BBC that it is “satisfied that there has been no breach of user privacy.” Engineers working at Facebook claim there is “no way” that private messages could accidentally show up on a user’s timeline, according to a source close to the company.

Facebook users who claim to be affected by this glitch in the system aren’t convinced that everything is all hunky-dory though. The BBC quotes a number of users who are claiming that this is a very real problem, with one of them – What I Wore Today owner Poppy Dinsey – saying that messages spanning the six-year period between 2006 and 2012 have appeared on her wall. That definitely is not a good thing, and if these users are telling the truth, then it will only be the latest in a long line of privacy concerns for Facebook.

Of course, it’s hard to tell which side is telling the truth when both sides are giving very different versions of the story. We’re tempted to believe the users before believing Facebook, merely because the users don’t have to worry about public relations or running damage control, but it is possible that these users are simply mistaken in this case. Has this rumored glitch affected any of you, or are your private messages staying off your timeline?

Facebook: private messages never appeared on timelines is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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