AT&T is planning to discontinue the HTC First, better known as the “Facebook Phone,” reports BGR. Released on April 12, the HTC First was touted as the first device to come with Facebook Home preinstalled, a feature that has not enticed buyers to purchase the phone. Our source at AT&T has confirmed that the HTC [...]
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iPhone Apps: Story, Facebook Pages Manager, Paper, Pulse
Posted by Gary on May 9, 2013
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Story 1.0.1 (Free) – Story by Disney is an app that automatically gathers pictures and videos together based on time (not unlike iPhoto’s Events view) and lets users collage them into a “story” with text, backgrounds, titles and themes. The stories can be shared to invited friends and family on story.us, embedded on websites or [...]
Jailbreak Hack Puts ‘Chat Heads’ on iPhone the Way Facebook Intended
Posted by Gary on April 19, 2013
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The Verge reports on a new jailbreak hack for the iPhone that puts Facebook’s new ‘Chat Heads’ feature above all other content on the device, similar to how Facebook Home works on Android. On Android, Facebook’s Chat Heads float above all other content so users can quickly jump in and out of conversations while they [...]
Briefly: Apple Camera Raw update, Yahoo weather, Facebook SDK
Posted by Gary on April 19, 2013
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Apple update adds support for four new Fuji cameras Just after updating both Aperture and iPhoto with various bug fixes, Apple has issued an update for its Digital Camera Raw Compatibility plug-in, which supplements both programs with additional support for Raw files produced by various cameras. The program, now at version 4.05, adds support for [...]
Facebook and Google Would Like Apple to Feature Them More Prominently on iOS
Posted by Gary on April 17, 2013
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At AllThingsD‘s mobile conference today, executives from both Google and Facebook said they would like to have deeper and more extensive integration with Apple’s iOS — and both would like to be featured more prominently in the operating system, though neither company seemed to think such a development was very likely. Google chairman Eric Schmidt, [...]
Facebook app for iOS gets Chat Heads, stickers, new News Feed
Posted by Gary on April 17, 2013
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Facebook on Tuesday rolled out an update for its flagship iOS app that doesn’t quite bring it in line with the capabilities of Facebook Home on Android, but does port over some new elements. Facebook version 6.0 brings the Chat Heads contact feature to Apple’s platform, though in a more limited capacity than they appear [...]
Facebook for iOS gets Chat Heads, News Feed improvements
Posted by Gary on April 17, 2013
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Company promises Home for international Android users ‘later today’ Facebook is today releasing a major update of its iOS app, v6.0. The biggest addition is Chat Heads, something recently introduced to Android via Facebook Home and an updated Messenger app. Unlike Android, the iOS Chat Heads can only run within the Facebook app, but do [...]
Facebook reportedly in discussions to bring ‘Home’ to Apple’s iPhone, Microsoft Windows Phone [u]
Posted by Gary on April 16, 2013
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Coming on the heels of Facebook’s debut of the Google Android-based “Home” app launcher earlier in April, the company is now said to be in talks with Apple to possibly collaborate on such an initiative for the iPhone. Update: A source with knowledge of the situation has told The Next Web that Facebook is not [...]