All the stories tagged with Facebook
Facebook is a Social Networking service launched in 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. At first, only students from Harvard could join the service, but over time more users were allowed to join. Today, Facebook remains the leader in social networking, but most importantly, it is the top online identity provider as the overwhelming majority of Facebook users have registered using their real identities.If you have a Facebook account, you can use Ubergizmo’s Social Reader.
Gameloft N.O.V.A. Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance: Elite now on Facebook
04/20/2011, Gameloft, the creator of many mobile phone games for different platforms has decided to expand its horizons and create games for Facebook. One of their established 3D first person shooter franchises, N.O.V.A. has made the transition from the tiny screen [...]
Royal Navy Engineer Officer Challenge app wants undergrads to join the Royal Navy
04/20/2011, The military seems to be relying a lot on games recently. It was only the other day where they released ACTUV Tactics, a tactical submarine game/crowdsourced simulator for them to collect data about tactics that work and don’t work. Now, [...]
T-Mobile Bobsled – the free Facebook calling app
04/19/2011, T-Mobile has just announced a new app called Bobsled by T-Mobile. Similar to Jajah that was announced last week, Bobsled will allow users to make calls to their friends on Facebook for free. But instead of making calls from a [...]
Earth Day Network and Facebook release Billion Acts of Green app
04/19/2011, Earth Day Network and Facebook have announced in a collaborative effort, they have created an app to inspire people around the world to take actions to reduce their impact on the environment. Called Billion Acts of Green, the app has [...]
Mom gets 10 years in prison for playing a Facebook game and neglecting her drowning baby
04/15/2011, A woman from Colorado has been sentenced to serve 10 years in prison for the death of her 13-month-old son due to neglect. Her reason? She was playing Café World on Facebook while she left him to bathe on his [...]
Reebok Promise Keeper app uses peer pressure to help you stay fit
04/14/2011, Reebok has just launched a new app that attempts to help you stay fit through the power of social networks – and peer pressure. Called The Promise Keeper, you use the app to schedule when you plan to have your [...]
Jajah brings phone calls to Facebook
04/13/2011, One of the main problems about free VoIP or phone call solutions nowadays is that it requires both parties to have the same app in order to work. Well the folks at Jajah have come up with an interesting solution [...]
Facebook wins in lawsuit that enforces court settlement
04/11/2011, It does seem as though Mark Zuckerberg and gang can go on with their billionaire lives, as Facebook Inc. picked up a victory in a court decision that enforces the settlement of a lawsuit which claims company founder (Mark Zuckerberg [...]
INQ Cloud Touch phones now on sale
04/08/2011, The so-called “Facebook phone” from UK has finally gone up for sale. After being previewed and then officially announced in February, folks in the UK can now get their hands on the device. This Android 2.2 phone packs a 3.5″ [...]
Facebook goes green with worldwide data centers
04/07/2011, Social networking giant Facebook has plans to go greener, and they intend to do so by increasing the energy efficiency of its data centers worldwide thanks to the Open Compute Project. The Open Compute Project is actually an initiative that [...]
US Homeland Security to alert the public through Facebook and Twitter
04/07/2011, According to reports online, the US federal government is getting rid of the 5-color terror alerts and replacing them with 2 levels: elevated and imminent. In addition to simplifying the warnings given out, they will be resorting to communicating with [...]
LinkedIn gets new recommend buttons
04/06/2011, LinkedIn, the “professional’s Facebook”, looks like it’s attempting to challenge Facebook’s dominance over online identity and the internet. A new platform for LinkedIn announced today adds new features to turn the site into a more social networking-oriented service. Websites and [...]
Facebook app for iPhone updated
04/05/2011, Facebook has just released an updated version of their app for the iPhone. Bringing the app up to version 3.4, Facebook adds some interesting features to the iPhone. Users can now access a Map View for Places, and the ability [...]
