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Facebook Home has been downloaded to various Android devices a little under a million times since its launch last month. The software suite comes pre-installed on the HTC First, which has been facing lackluster sales and recently received a price drop from AT&T. A million downloads may seem like a lot, but compare that to…
The creaters behind the well-known photo sharing app, Hipstamatic has announced the release of a new app called Oggl. Oggl is basically the same app as Hipstamatic, but with a bevy of new photo editing options. Oggl is free to use, with the free version coming pre-loaded with five “favorites” for shooting, including nightlife, food, portraits…
SoundTracking, an awesome music sharing service has added Instagram support today, which allows users to share their Instagram photos directly to their posts on the SoundTracking app. Users can also share their SoundTracking posts to Instagram as a “music postcard” image. The update is available for both the Android and iOS versions of the Soundtracking…
The HTC First has received a price drop from AT&T today, making the device available for $0.99 with a new two-year contract, or $350 off- contract. The handset was previously $99 with a two-year contract and $450 off contract. Although official sales figures for the device have not been revealed, a price drop this significant…
Tired of having to tag your friends in Instagram by typing their name into the comments? I know I am. Instagram has a new feature coming up that will allow users to tag themselves as well as friends in their snazzy snapshots. The new feature, called “Photos of you” will be available in version 3.5 of Instagram’s…
Last week, Facebook rolled out some updates to its Home software directly to users, bypassing the Google Play Store. Normally, updates to Android apps are pushed through the Play Store. Users who had the “Unknown Sources” box checked on their devices received an update straight from Facebook, without passing through the Google Play Store. Currently,…
If you’re a huge Chat Head living in the U.S., Facebook has just made your day. Facebook is rolling out free VoIP calls to Android owners today, allowing free video calls through their Facebook Messenger for Android and Facebook Home’s Chat Heads. The update will be coming out over the course of the day and will not…
Here it is. The moment you’ve all been waiting for. Or maybe not. Either way, Zuck’s new Facebook Home launcher has just gone live on the Google Play Store, allowing owners of the Samsung Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note 2, HTC One X and One X+ to play with the new Facebook interface. The Galaxy…
Ugh, dating. It’s an awful enterprise, fraught with awkwardness and hangovers. A company called Hinge is trying to change all of that, by tapping into the biggest repository of potential dates imaginable; mutual friends on Facebook. Hinge is one of the SXSW Accelerator finalists, and is part of 1776, a new startup campus in Washington DC. It makes…
A few years ago, Facebook got together with HTC and the Status was released, a handset that featured a QWERTY keyboard and a dedicated Facebook button that was poised to revolutionize social networking on mobile devices. The result? Well, the Status didn’t take off like expected. At all.w Facebook is not taking this sitting down however, as a…