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The iOS Facebook App 5.0 is Now Faster

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The Facebook app for iOS has been used begrudglingly by Facebook users for two reasons. It’s a completely free app (other apps that access Facebook are paid apps or ad-supported), and it’s the official app of Facebook. Unfortunately, the Facebook app is largely considered a broken app. It takes a long time for things to appear on the display – not just the photos but sometimes even the text. Scrolling through the news feed is also molasses slow. [Read more…]

Originally posted on August 25, 2012 @ 6:00 am

Video Chat Service ooVoo Now Offers Four-Way Video Chat

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Social networking services have been popping up all over the place, with most of them presenting their own take on the social networking game. Of course, with so many services out there, features are bound to overlap one another.

One social networking service that’s trying to catch people’s attention is the weirdly named ooVoo. It’s a social video call app that is available for both the Android and iOS operating systems. OoVoo is getting very popular. [Read more…]

Originally posted on August 21, 2012 @ 8:56 pm

AT&T To Release App To Discourage Texting While Driving

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Texting while driving is a very real problem. At best it’s an annoyance to other motorists who have to contend with a person who’s probably driving too slowly at worst this habit can lead to accidents, with some of them proving to be fatal.

AT&T is addressing the problem of texting while driving behavior by releasing a new app that has been specifically designed to prevent or discourage texting while driving. The app is actually geared towards parents, who can control their children’s phones remotely by giving them access to their children’s cell phone service, allowing them to cut off the phone’s texting and internet browsing features and even the ability to receive and make calls when their children are driving. [Read more…]

Originally posted on August 15, 2012 @ 10:29 pm

Flipboard Reveals Impressive Stats to Show Its Success

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If you own a smartphone, or better yet, a tablet, then one of the most essential apps that you should install on your device is Flipboard. The social news reader is arguably the most popular news reader in the market, with the company reporting that it already has 20 million users. Flipboard has also reported that one new user per second gets Flipboard, that’s impressive growth right there. [Read more…]

Originally posted on August 29, 2012 @ 10:46 pm

Google Play Gift Cards Released

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Gift cards for the Android Market (now called Google Play), similar to the cards that Apple sells for its iTunes/App Store, has been requested by Android users for a long time now. After years of waiting, Google has finally addressed this request and has released Google Play gift cards.

The release of the Google Play gift cards came a few days after the Google Play Android App received an update that allowed for gift cards support. The cards come in both $10 and $25 denominations, but you can expect to see cards with higher denominations at some point in the future. The card itself has an ubiquitous Google Play logo in the front, you won’t ever mistake what it is, even from afar. [Read more…]

Originally posted on August 16, 2012 @ 10:40 pm