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Outside of their official Facebook app, Facebook has had a rough go when it comes to the mobile scene. (HTC First, anyone?) The company is looking to change all that by launching a new app for iOS called Paper, which is a news aggregator of sorts. Paper commands your device’s screen real estate and provides…
The personalized magazine space is about to get even more competitive with Facebook apparently looking to enter the space. According to Re/code, the social networking giant will launch its news reader app called Paper in the coming weeks, with features that are comparable to the one Flipboard is offering. In other words, except the app…
Popular social sharing app Snapchat has been hacked, and the account info for 4.6 million users has been released online. Usernames and a partial phone numbers were available for download on a website set up by the hackers. The phone numbers and account information was posted to SnapchatDB.info. The site was suspended by late Wednesday…
Tweetbot for iPhone continues to be one of the best third-party options to run your tweets through, as the Twitter client just updated its app today. Now users gain support for viewing photos sent by way of the service’s direct messaging feature, similar to what the official Twitter application added earlier this month. However, Twitter…
Facebook for Windows Phone just got updated with some impressive features. Version 5.2.1 refines many of the features that came in the last major update such as Live Tile support and push notifications. Facebook 5.2.1.0 Faster and more reliable notifications Toasts for Facebook chat Redesigned primary tile Redesigned secondary tiles for chat, events, groups, pages,…
Twitter today announced that its letting Vine users register for their own vanity url’s for their profiles. With this addition the clip sharing app joins other social networking platforms who also have custom url’s such as Facebook, Google+, and Twitter. The mad dash to grab your vanity url for your profile begins Friday, December 20…
BlackBerry device owners are in for a treat today, as Twitter has updated their BlackBerry app with some awesome new features. Twitter now includes BBM integration, allowing users to Tweet and update their BBM status at the same time. Here’s the full changelog from BlackBerry World: Larger Home Timeline Photo Preview – Tweets with Twitter…
Instagram just updated its app on Windows Phone with some basic features found on both Android and iOS. Version 0.2 brings the ability for users to tag people in photos and now the option to use locations and add photos to maps. This isn’t anything new but they’re much-needed features; being able to upload content…
Skype has announced another update to its Windows Phone app that adds some much-requested features. Skype version 2.13 is live now on the Windows Phone store and it adds several bug fixes as well as the ability to copy and paste IMs. The users have spoken and the dev team has listened. Copy and paste for…
Keeping up with the changing nature of social networks and microblogging, Twitter has updated both their Android and iOS apps today introducing a whole new look and feel as well as introducing some nifty features such as sending and receiving pictures in DMs and swipeable tabs available from the feed. DMs can now be easily…