You already know that Facebook and privacy don’t really get along, but many “improvements” to the service are making it easier and easier to share everything without even knowing. Avi Charkham rounded a bunch of these tricks up over at TechCrunch, and they’re as subtle as they are sketchy. More »
Sometimes the most fun games aren’t necessarily the ones with the best story or the best action, but the one that you constantly beat your friends in. It’s an amazing feeling and we’re sure that there are many gamers out there who would probably agree with us. That being said, if you and your friends are still trying to beat each other in Rock Band 3 or Rock Band Blitz, well, now your exploits can be shown off to everyone on your Facebook. This is thanks to Harmonix recently releasing a new social app for Facebook dubbed “Rock Band World”.
Basically what this does is it allows players to challenge each other and upload their scores for the world to see – bragging rights essentially. It also allows gamers to shop for music and accomplish social goals which in turn will give players in-game coins for Rock Band Blitz. The app is currently available on Facebook so if you’d like to check it out, head on over for the details.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Facebook reportedly “forcing” employees to use Android phones in order to improve the Android Facebook app, Facebook 5.0 for iOS hands-on,
This headline might sound like the subject line of a crass spam email—but wait! You actually can use Facebook and Twitter as tools to get a date. No, really—shut up, we’re serious here! Just play it cool. More »
Friday is here once again folks, and what a Friday it was. What started out as a relatively slow news day became very exciting later on, as the jury deciding the Apple and Samsung case delivered their verdict after only three days of deliberation. The verdict? Let’s just say that Apple’s lawyers will be having a celebration tonight. Samsung was found guilty of multiple patent infringements, and a lot of that patent infringement was found willful by the jury. To make matters worse for Samsung, the jury found that it wasn’t owed any damages by Apple. Needless to say, we think there will be an appeal.
This verdict comes on the same day that Tim Cook wraps up his first year as Apple CEO, and elsewhere in the world, a similar lawsuit between Apple and Samsung ended with both companies facing bans in South Korea. Ouch. After a bit of a shake up at the OnLive headquarters, things seem to have calmed down a bit, and Steve Perlman will be staying on as OnLive CEO. LG has teased an incoming smartphone with an S4 quad-core processor, and Google’s legendary I’m Feeling Lucky button has been given a pretty major update. It isn’t the same I’m Feeling Lucky button it once was, of course, but we think it’ll begin to grow on you after awhile.
The presidential campaigns will soon begin receiving donations through text messages, and the Nikon D600 full-frame DSLR camera may be getting a release in September. Speaking of cameras, beleaguered Kodak has come up with a new way to raise some quick cash after patent auctions left something to be desired. The much-rumored iPad Mini has apparently popped up in some photos for a pre-fab case, and it seems that Samsung has a new smartphone called the Galaxy Stellar coming to Verizon, which is all well and good, but Samsung actually has yet to announce the phone or release a list of specs.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 has beaten the iPad when it comes to profit margins, and for the third time this week, Rockstar has released a new batch of Grand Theft Auto V screenshots. Astronomers have discovered a pair of new spiral galaxies that have a lot in common with our own, and it would appear that Amazon has leaked its tablet plans through a new advertisement. Wrapping up the news tonight, Facebook is having its developers use the Facebook app for Android in order to get them motivated to fix it, or at least that’s what the rumors say.
As is usually the case here at SlashGear, we didn’t just have news for you today, as Chris Burns provides a review of SuperTooth DISCO 2 for you to check out. Have a good weekend everyone!
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: August 24, 2012 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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As we had reported a couple of days ago, Facebook for iOS was given a pretty big update which hopefully will sit well with iOS users. Unfortunately the Android version of the Facebook app has yet to receive the same treatment and while I personally find that the app isn’t too horrible, it could do some with tweaks and improvements and added functionality. Facebook seems to think so as well and according to reports, Facebook’s management has instituted a new “policy” that supposedly will make employees more proactive in making the Android Facebook app just as good, if not better than its recently updated iOS counterpart.
If the reports are true, Facebook is currently “forcing” its employees to use Android phones, which at the same time meant that they had to install the Android version of the Facebook app. They are hoping if employees are stuck using the “terrible” app, they will be forced to do something about it which will ultimately translate into a better experience for Android users. In any case what do Android users think of the current Facebook app? Do you think there are many things about it that could stand to be improved upon? Or do you think it’s fine the way it is?
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Facebook app for Android updated, Security flaw discovered in Facebook app for iOS and Android,
Frank Gehry, the genius architect who designed the Wall Disney Concert Hall or the curve perverted one-trick pony who litters beautiful cities with Toontown buildings because he can’t draw a straight line anymore (depending on your perspective), is going to be designing Facebook’s new engineering office building. You don’t even need to know architecture to know Gehry, he’s an icon. This is a good thing because it proves Facebook has taste. But a horrible thing because its taste is so generically terrible. More »
Most Android users will tell you in a heartbeat that the Facebook app for their OS of choice isn’t quite up to par. In fact, it can pretty much be classified as terrible, while the iOS version provides an example of what the Android app should be. Facebook knows this, and as a result, it has started forcing its employees to use the Android app in an attempt to bring it up to snuff.
Apparently, this forced use of the Android app will continue until the app has been fixed too. This hasn’t been confirmed by Facebook – Business Insider has spoken to a “handful of ex-Facebookers and others familiar with Facebook’s plans” – but it wouldn’t surprise us if it ended up being true. After all, there really isn’t any denying that the Android app could use some work, and one of the best ways to inspire Facebook’s developers to fix it quickly would be to force them to use it while working.
If this is true, then it probably means that we can stop expecting updates to the iOS app for a while. That should be okay, seeing as how the iOS app is already pretty solid, not to mention the fact that it was just updated yesterday. It also means that we can expect the Android app to get updated quickly, because if Facebook’s developers are being forced to use it, you can bet that they’ll be working on getting an update out to door fast so they can stop using a sub-par version of the app as soon as possible.
This is bound to make Android users very happy, because the Facebook app for Android has been in a pretty sad state for a while now. Some were thinking that an update was never going to come, and it sounds like that may have been the case if Facebook hadn’t forced developers to begin using Android phones and leaving their iPhones at home. Hopefully we’ll be finding out soon if these rumors are true, so keep it tuned here to SlashGear for more information.
Facebook employees forced to use Android app until it’s better is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Facebook is one of the most downloaded apps in the world, but yet, it got fairly average app-store reviews for something that is so universally used. There are basically two main points of friction for mobile Facebook users: speed and battery usage. Facebook 5.0 is an attempt to fix the speed problem, and we can hope that some of the battery issues got better as well. (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Facebook for iOS gains a new Save feature, Former Apple software engineers reportedly working on a faster Facebook app for iOS,
Welcome to Thursday folks – just one more work day to go and another weekend will be here. Today a new video gave us a look at reported iPhone 5 parts, and it seems that the iPhone will be sporting a new look with the next iteration. Recent whispers are saying that Nokia will reveal a total of three new Windows Phone devices during its September 5 event in New York City, and today Microsoft updated its logo for the first time in a whopping 25 years.
Twitter has taken away Tumblr Friend Finder functionality, and the inexpensive T-Mobile Concord has launched to bring 4G to budget-minded consumers. It was recently discovered that the SMS security hole known to plague iPhones doesn’t affect other devices running a different OS like Android or BlackBerry, and LG has apparently started working on the screen that may end up gracing the iPhone 5. Speaking of the iPhone, it seems that production on the next model has slowed thanks to a shortage of supplies.
The FCC has approved Verizon’s bid to buy up additional 4G LTE spectrum, and the Xbox 360 will be offering users election coverage starting next week, complete with live streams of the three debates that are planned. A large percentage of consumers are saying that they don’t need 4G LTE service, despite the fact that carriers are advertising it like mad. There’s a new OS X Mountain Lion update on the scene, and it’s bringing some software fixes with it, while today we received word that Facebook’s storage requirements grow by 500TB each and every day.
Sony Mobile has announced that it will be laying off 1,000 employees by March 2014, and the jury that is deciding the Apple and Samsung patent case decided to put in a little bit of overtime today. Paypal will be teaming up with Discover to bring its service to a ton of retail locations, Nissan will be giving prospective buyers of its 2013 Pathfinder a virtual tour of the car with a little help from Kinect, and Amazon has a new event coming up next month, where we’re thinking it will announce a brand new Kindle Fire. It just so happens that we’ll be at that event, so if there is a new Kindle Fire announced, you’ll be able to read all about it here at SlashGear.
Finally tonight, we have a brand new hands-on with the Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0. Enjoy the rest of your evening everyone, and we’ll see you back here tomorrow night for Friday’s edition of the Wrap-Up!
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: August 23, 2012 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Shortly after letting the 10.8.1 Mountain Lion out of the bag, Cupertino’s now released the next dotted version of its feline OS X to members of the developer community. According to the seed note, this early release will be focusing on a slew of social areas as well as other handy applications, including Facebook, Messages, Game Center, Reminders and, of course, the company’s own web browser, Safari. As is usually the case with these young builds, Apple suggests you install it on a machine “you are prepared to erase if necessary,” though something tells us you were already well aware of that. But in case you do want to install v10.8.2, you’ll find the rest of the deets at the Apple Developer site linked below.
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