Senior Vice President of Engineering for Google, Vic Gundotra, has announced that Google+ has reached 400 million users total with 100 million of those active per month. This news comes at the one year mark of the social media’s debut to the public. While 100 million users sounds impressive, it dwarfs in comparison to the 955 million active… Read more
Mark Suckerberg took the stage at the TechCrunch dispute conference today, speaking a bit on their mobile approach. Over the past few years the admittedly lackluster Facebook app was based on HTML5, making it much slower than it needed to be. Zuckerberg went on to say that they will be redesigning the app native to Android, though no ETA was given…. Read more
It’s done. Instagram is now owned by Facebook. The deal is complete, and Instagram isn’t that little hipster company anymore. What a tragedy! Not according to the two companies, it isn’t. The Instagram team may be already moving into the Facebook offices, but they say that the “Instagram app and its features will stay the same one you know and love.”… Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNX-dEsf-sk&feature=player_embedded This cute little video by Rovio seems to be teasing a possible spinoff with the pigs as the main characters. Something PIG is coming, and we’ll keep our eyes peeled for more information. For now, hit up their Bad Piggies Facebook page, just… Read more
Plume, arguably the best Twitter client for Android (my personal favorite), has been updated with some pretty big changes. First of all is a revamped UI. The first “Home” column is no longer there, replaced by a new slide out page opened by clicking the arrow at the top left. To teach new users how to do this, on the first start there is an amazing… Read more
Everyone knows that Facebook for Android sucks, pretty bad. It’s slow, sometimes unusable. Not a good experience considering a massive amount of Facebook’s traffic is from mobile devices. The app is so bad, people use the mobile site instead. And that means something is seriously wrong. Well Facebook understands that, and is now forcing the Android… Read more
Facebook users, be on the lookout for a small, but semi-important update hitting your Android devices. This new revision of Facebook’s Android app now allows users to easily create events from their smartphones, share photos faster and add emoji icons to their posts ala iOS. The update does require manual update permission since version 1.9.8 will… Read more
Samsung put this image (and another) up on their Facebook, in an Olympics-themed album. None of us thought much of them. There was a little while before the launch of a man unboxing a gray Galaxy S III, and Samsung said it was nothing but the lighting. So seeing a black S III didn’t really shock us, probably some mess up on Samsungs end. The thing… Read more
We should emphasize right from the get-go that just because HTC says updates will be finalized before the end of August, that doesn’t mean that’s when the carriers will start pushing them out. HTC’s comment came in response to an inquiry regarding a possible Ice Cream Sandwich update for the HTC Thunderbolt update on their Facebook page: Yes, The… Read more
We’ve already seen red, white and blue variants of the Galaxy S III arrive in the US, and now the company’s own Facebook page unveiled the device in black with not one, but three photos. Unfortunately, that’s about all the details we have for this color variant of the Galaxy S III, except for Samsung using these images as part of their Galaxy S III… Read more
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