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Facebook reportedly building Flipboard-style mobile reading app

There have been murmurs of Facebook building a mobile reading app; tonight, that talk is getting a little louder. The Wall Street Journal claims that the social network has spent the past year working on a dedicated story browser, codenamed Reader, that would curate articles in a Flipboard-like interface. While most other details of the rumored project aren’t available, it’s reportedly important enough that Mark Zuckerberg is closely involved. The company isn’t commenting on its plans, but there’s reason to believe that Reader is more than just idle speculation: Facebook recently added hashtag support as a “first step” toward helping users track topics. Accordingly, the company’s Graph API includes some unused RSS code that could prove relevant for browsing story feeds. There’s no guarantee that we’ll see the app soon, if at all. When mobile is becoming the cornerstone of Facebook’s business, however, we wouldn’t completely rule out Reader’s existence.

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Source: Wall Street Journal

There have been murmurs of Facebook building a mobile reading app; tonight, that talk is getting a little louder. The Wall Street Journal claims that the social network has spent the past year working on a dedicated story browser, codenamed Reader, that would curate articles in a Flipboard-like interface. While most other details of the rumored project aren’t available, it’s reportedly important enough that Mark Zuckerberg is closely involved. The company isn’t commenting on its plans, but there’s reason to believe that Reader is more than just idle speculation: Facebook recently added hashtag support as a “first step” toward helping users track topics. Accordingly, the company’s Graph API includes some unused RSS code that could prove relevant for browsing story feeds. There’s no guarantee that we’ll see the app soon, if at all. When mobile is becoming the cornerstone of Facebook’s business, however, we wouldn’t completely rule out Reader’s existence.

Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Internet, Mobile, Facebook

Source: Wall Street Journal

Vine for Android adds Facebook sharing, searches for hashtags and users

Twitter isn’t about to let Video on Instagram go completely unanswered — it just posted an update to Vine for Android that could offer a few reasons to stay with the earlier service. Short-form movie makers on Android now have more of the features we’ve seen on iOS, including Facebook sharing as well as searches for hashtags and users. The release also smooths out the rough experience that has characterized the Android experience since launch, boosting both capture speeds and the final video quality. The app may still fall short of the newer Instagram release in a few areas, but those who prefer Vine’s approach can grab its refresh at Google Play.

Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, Mobile, Facebook

Via: Vine (Twitter)

Source: Google Play

Twitter isn’t about to let Video on Instagram go completely unanswered — it just posted an update to Vine for Android that could offer a few reasons to stay with the earlier service. Short-form movie makers on Android now have more of the features we’ve seen on iOS, including Facebook sharing as well as searches for hashtags and users. The release also smooths out the rough experience that has characterized the Android experience since launch, boosting both capture speeds and the final video quality. The app may still fall short of the newer Instagram release in a few areas, but those who prefer Vine’s approach can grab its refresh at Google Play.

Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, Mobile, Facebook

Via: Vine (Twitter)

Source: Google Play

HTC First with Facebook Home announced, coming to AT&T in the US, EE in the UK and Orange in France

HTC and Facebook has partnered for the HTC First, the first phone to feature Facebook Home, an Android Launcher with Cover feed that offers photos and updates from your newsfeed, Notifications, Chat Heads, App Launcher to launch Facebook apps and also comes pre-loaded with Instagram. The HTC First has a 4.3-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1.4 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It would run on 4G network in the U.S. with AT&T, France with Orange, and EE in the UK.
HTC First specifications
4.3-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) capacitive touch screen display
Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) OS
1.4 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor with Adreno 305 GPU
5MP auto focus camera with LED Flash, BSI sensor and 1080p Full HD video recording
1.6MP Front-facing camera
1GB and 16GB internal memory
4G LTE, 3G, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS + GLONASS, NFC
2000 mAh battery (non-removable)
The HTC First comes in Black, White, Pale Blue and Red colors. It is now on pre-order from AT&T in the U.S. for $99.99 with a two-year contract and would cost $449.99 with a regular monthly contract. It would be available exclusively in AT&T stores and online starting from April 12th.
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HTC and Facebook has partnered for the HTC First, the first phone to feature Facebook Home, an Android Launcher with Cover feed that offers photos and updates from your newsfeed, Notifications, Chat Heads, App Launcher to launch Facebook apps and also comes pre-loaded with Instagram. The HTC First has a 4.3-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1.4 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It would run on 4G network in the U.S. with AT&T, France with Orange, and EE in the UK.
HTC First specifications
4.3-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) capacitive touch screen display
Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) OS
1.4 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor with Adreno 305 GPU
5MP auto focus camera with LED Flash, BSI sensor and 1080p Full HD video recording
1.6MP Front-facing camera
1GB and 16GB internal memory
4G LTE, 3G, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS + GLONASS, NFC
2000 mAh battery (non-removable)
The HTC First comes in Black, White, Pale Blue and Red colors. It is now on pre-order from AT&T in the U.S. for $99.99 with a two-year contract and would cost $449.99 with a regular monthly contract. It would be available exclusively in AT&T stores and online starting from April 12th.
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Facebook Messenger on Android loaded with free voice calls for Canadian users

Android’s flavor of Facebook Messenger has just been updated with VoIP functionality for the social network’s Canadian users. There’s no word when Android faithful in the US will snag the functionality, but Cancuks can at least ring their American counterparts who wield the iOS app. Version 2.3 of the mobile messenger also makes group conversations accessible in the sidebar, allows them to be named from the top of a talk and makes them searchable by name and friends. Hit the neighboring source link to grab the revamped software.

Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Software, Mobile, Facebook

Via: TechCrunch

Source: Facebook Messenger (Google Play)

Android’s flavor of Facebook Messenger has just been updated with VoIP functionality for the social network’s Canadian users. There’s no word when Android faithful in the US will snag the functionality, but Cancuks can at least ring their American counterparts who wield the iOS app. Version 2.3 of the mobile messenger also makes group conversations accessible in the sidebar, allows them to be named from the top of a talk and makes them searchable by name and friends. Hit the neighboring source link to grab the revamped software.

Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Software, Mobile, Facebook

Via: TechCrunch

Source: Facebook Messenger (Google Play)

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LG reveals 5.5-inch Optimus G Pro design with curved glass

Clearly, a lot of us wanted LG to reveal the design of the 5.5-inch Optimus G Pro as quickly as possible: just a day after a teaser, we’re looking at the complete picture. And it’s quite a looker, by all counts. While it has the familiar digital cube pattern on the back, it’s also using curved glass in black or white, which LG says produces a “2.5D” effect. Those other details that LG is willing to divulge are largely what we expected based on the Japanese edition, including a full HD (1080p) display and a quad-core processor that’s likely the Snapdragon S4 Pro. LG expects the larger G Pro to launch in late February, although it didn’t say whether or not this is limited to South Korea; based on the timing, though, we might get a peek at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Gallery: LG Optimus G Pro 5.5-inch

Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, LG

Source: LG Electronics (Facebook), Korea Newswire (translated)

Clearly, a lot of us wanted LG to reveal the design of the 5.5-inch Optimus G Pro as quickly as possible: just a day after a teaser, we’re looking at the complete picture. And it’s quite a looker, by all counts. While it has the familiar digital cube pattern on the back, it’s also using curved glass in black or white, which LG says produces a “2.5D” effect. Those other details that LG is willing to divulge are largely what we expected based on the Japanese edition, including a full HD (1080p) display and a quad-core processor that’s likely the Snapdragon S4 Pro. LG expects the larger G Pro to launch in late February, although it didn’t say whether or not this is limited to South Korea; based on the timing, though, we might get a peek at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Gallery: LG Optimus G Pro 5.5-inch

Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, LG

Source: LG Electronics (Facebook), Korea Newswire (translated)

Instagram rolls its ToS back to the previous version after uproar, will ‘take time to complete its plans’

After upsetting users with changes to its Terms of Service, Instagram announced tonight that it’s discarding some of them for now, rolling back the advertising section to the ToS in place since 2010. Reiterating his previous statement that Instagram never had any plans to sell user photos, company co-founder Kevin Systrom explained in a blog post that instead of trying to create terms shaped around “possible advertising products it had not yet developed” it would come back with complete plans and explain to users “how we would like our advertising business to work.” There are still changes to the ToS and privacy policy coming effective January 19th, 2013, which can be reviewed on its website.

Also apologizing for a failure to clearly communicate the company’s intentions, Systrom noted that any distribution of user photos has been and still is governed by the separate privacy policy. Instagram’s changes came as part of its acquisition by Facebook, and the change-policy-face-backlash-then-apologize dance step is a classic Zuckerberg move. So in light of this backtracking, are you going to watermark all your brunch pics before uploading, jump ship to competing services like Flickr or just keep using / not using the service as usual?

Filed under: Mobile, Facebook

Source: Instagram

After upsetting users with changes to its Terms of Service, Instagram announced tonight that it’s discarding some of them for now, rolling back the advertising section to the ToS in place since 2010. Reiterating his previous statement that Instagram never had any plans to sell user photos, company co-founder Kevin Systrom explained in a blog post that instead of trying to create terms shaped around “possible advertising products it had not yet developed” it would come back with complete plans and explain to users “how we would like our advertising business to work.” There are still changes to the ToS and privacy policy coming effective January 19th, 2013, which can be reviewed on its website.

Also apologizing for a failure to clearly communicate the company’s intentions, Systrom noted that any distribution of user photos has been and still is governed by the separate privacy policy. Instagram’s changes came as part of its acquisition by Facebook, and the change-policy-face-backlash-then-apologize dance step is a classic Zuckerberg move. So in light of this backtracking, are you going to watermark all your brunch pics before uploading, jump ship to competing services like Flickr or just keep using / not using the service as usual?

Filed under: Mobile, Facebook

Source: Instagram

Instagram rolls its ToS back to the previous version after uproar, will ‘take time to complete its plans’

After upsetting users with changes to its Terms of Service, Instagram announced tonight that it’s discarding some of them for now, rolling back the advertising section to the ToS in place since 2010. Reiterating his previous statement that Instagram never had any plans to sell user photos, company co-founder Kevin Systrom explained in a blog post that instead of trying to create terms shaped around “possible advertising products it had not yet developed” it would come back with complete plans and explain to users “how we would like our advertising business to work.” There are still changes to the ToS and privacy policy coming effective January 19th, 2013, which can be reviewed on its website.

Also apologizing for a failure to clearly communicate the company’s intentions, Systrom noted that any distribution of user photos has been and still is governed by the separate privacy policy. Instagram’s changes came as part of its acquisition by Facebook, and the change-policy-face-backlash-then-apologize dance step is a classic Zuckerberg move. So in light of this backtracking, are you going to watermark all your brunch pics before uploading, jump ship to competing services like Flickr or just keep using / not using the service as usual?

Filed under: Mobile, Facebook

Source: Instagram

After upsetting users with changes to its Terms of Service, Instagram announced tonight that it’s discarding some of them for now, rolling back the advertising section to the ToS in place since 2010. Reiterating his previous statement that Instagram never had any plans to sell user photos, company co-founder Kevin Systrom explained in a blog post that instead of trying to create terms shaped around “possible advertising products it had not yet developed” it would come back with complete plans and explain to users “how we would like our advertising business to work.” There are still changes to the ToS and privacy policy coming effective January 19th, 2013, which can be reviewed on its website.

Also apologizing for a failure to clearly communicate the company’s intentions, Systrom noted that any distribution of user photos has been and still is governed by the separate privacy policy. Instagram’s changes came as part of its acquisition by Facebook, and the change-policy-face-backlash-then-apologize dance step is a classic Zuckerberg move. So in light of this backtracking, are you going to watermark all your brunch pics before uploading, jump ship to competing services like Flickr or just keep using / not using the service as usual?

Filed under: Mobile, Facebook

Source: Instagram

Instagram rolls its ToS back to the previous version after uproar, will ‘take time to complete its plans’

After upsetting users with changes to its Terms of Service, Instagram announced tonight that it’s discarding some of them for now, rolling back the advertising section to the ToS in place since 2010. Reiterating his previous statement that Instagram never had any plans to sell user photos, company co-founder Kevin Systrom explained in a blog post that instead of trying to create terms shaped around “possible advertising products it had not yet developed” it would come back with complete plans and explain to users “how we would like our advertising business to work.” There are still changes to the ToS and privacy policy coming effective January 19th, 2013, which can be reviewed on its website.

Also apologizing for a failure to clearly communicate the company’s intentions, Systrom noted that any distribution of user photos has been and still is governed by the separate privacy policy. Instagram’s changes came as part of its acquisition by Facebook, and the change-policy-face-backlash-then-apologize dance step is a classic Zuckerberg move. So in light of this backtracking, are you going to watermark all your brunch pics before uploading, jump ship to competing services like Flickr or just keep using / not using the service as usual?

Filed under: Mobile, Facebook

Source: Instagram

After upsetting users with changes to its Terms of Service, Instagram announced tonight that it’s discarding some of them for now, rolling back the advertising section to the ToS in place since 2010. Reiterating his previous statement that Instagram never had any plans to sell user photos, company co-founder Kevin Systrom explained in a blog post that instead of trying to create terms shaped around “possible advertising products it had not yet developed” it would come back with complete plans and explain to users “how we would like our advertising business to work.” There are still changes to the ToS and privacy policy coming effective January 19th, 2013, which can be reviewed on its website.

Also apologizing for a failure to clearly communicate the company’s intentions, Systrom noted that any distribution of user photos has been and still is governed by the separate privacy policy. Instagram’s changes came as part of its acquisition by Facebook, and the change-policy-face-backlash-then-apologize dance step is a classic Zuckerberg move. So in light of this backtracking, are you going to watermark all your brunch pics before uploading, jump ship to competing services like Flickr or just keep using / not using the service as usual?

Filed under: Mobile, Facebook

Source: Instagram

Instagram rolls its ToS back to the previous version after uproar, will ‘take time to complete its plans’

After upsetting users with changes to its Terms of Service, Instagram announced tonight that it’s discarding some of them for now, rolling back the advertising section to the ToS in place since 2010. Reiterating his previous statement that Instagram never had any plans to sell user photos, company co-founder Kevin Systrom explained in a blog post that instead of trying to create terms shaped around “possible advertising products it had not yet developed” it would come back with complete plans and explain to users “how we would like our advertising business to work.” There are still changes to the ToS and privacy policy coming effective January 19th, 2013, which can be reviewed on its website.

Also apologizing for a failure to clearly communicate the company’s intentions, Systrom noted that any distribution of user photos has been and still is governed by the separate privacy policy. Instagram’s changes came as part of its acquisition by Facebook, and the change-policy-face-backlash-then-apologize dance step is a classic Zuckerberg move. So in light of this backtracking, are you going to watermark all your brunch pics before uploading, jump ship to competing services like Flickr or just keep using / not using the service as usual?

Filed under: Mobile, Facebook

Source: Instagram

After upsetting users with changes to its Terms of Service, Instagram announced tonight that it’s discarding some of them for now, rolling back the advertising section to the ToS in place since 2010. Reiterating his previous statement that Instagram never had any plans to sell user photos, company co-founder Kevin Systrom explained in a blog post that instead of trying to create terms shaped around “possible advertising products it had not yet developed” it would come back with complete plans and explain to users “how we would like our advertising business to work.” There are still changes to the ToS and privacy policy coming effective January 19th, 2013, which can be reviewed on its website.

Also apologizing for a failure to clearly communicate the company’s intentions, Systrom noted that any distribution of user photos has been and still is governed by the separate privacy policy. Instagram’s changes came as part of its acquisition by Facebook, and the change-policy-face-backlash-then-apologize dance step is a classic Zuckerberg move. So in light of this backtracking, are you going to watermark all your brunch pics before uploading, jump ship to competing services like Flickr or just keep using / not using the service as usual?

Filed under: Mobile, Facebook

Source: Instagram

Leaked BlackBerry 10 screenshots reveal new UI, Siri-like voice interface

It’s a little over a month until BlackBerry 10‘s official introduction, but that hasn’t stopped leaked screenshots of the OS from circulating on the web. Some folks on the Tinhte Vietnamese forums, which also revealed hands-on video and gallery of the BlackBerry 10 L-Series, have just released pictures of RIM’s revamped phone UI. Most notably, the images provide a sneak peek at a new “BlackBerry Hub” all-in-one message center along with an intriguing voice interface that reminds us a lot of Siri. We also get a preview of how apps like Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare will look; unsurprisingly, they seem pretty similar to their Android and iOS cousins. It certainly looks as if the redesign is a complete overhaul rather than just a quick paint job, but we won’t know the full details until we see it for ourselves early next year. Until then, head on over to the source to get an early look at what could be RIM’s savior.

Continue reading Leaked BlackBerry 10 screenshots reveal new UI, Siri-like voice interface

Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, RIM

Via: The Verge, BGR, CrackBerry

Source: Tinhte

It’s a little over a month until BlackBerry 10‘s official introduction, but that hasn’t stopped leaked screenshots of the OS from circulating on the web. Some folks on the Tinhte Vietnamese forums, which also revealed hands-on video and gallery of the BlackBerry 10 L-Series, have just released pictures of RIM’s revamped phone UI. Most notably, the images provide a sneak peek at a new “BlackBerry Hub” all-in-one message center along with an intriguing voice interface that reminds us a lot of Siri. We also get a preview of how apps like Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare will look; unsurprisingly, they seem pretty similar to their Android and iOS cousins. It certainly looks as if the redesign is a complete overhaul rather than just a quick paint job, but we won’t know the full details until we see it for ourselves early next year. Until then, head on over to the source to get an early look at what could be RIM’s savior.

Continue reading Leaked BlackBerry 10 screenshots reveal new UI, Siri-like voice interface

Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, RIM

Via: The Verge, BGR, CrackBerry

Source: Tinhte