Instagram disables photo integration with Twitter

10 Dec, 2012, 11:59 am IST Aaron Almeida Social Networking 2 Comments

Images from social photo sharing app Instagram have disappeared from Twitter as the developers of Instagram have turned off support for the micro-blogging... More

Woman Tattoos Her Facebook Friends on Her Arm

08 Jun, 2011, 6:09 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Weird 2 Comments

Her arm is basically a collection of 152 thumbnails now. More

Zynga Brings 'Words With Friends' to Facebook

12 Aug, 2011, 4:54 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Weird 2 Comments

Zynga has announced that their mobile word game, 'Words With Friends' is now available on Facebook. More

Facebook changes your e-mail ID without asking you

26 Jun, 2012, 12:02 pm IST Rossi Fernandes Weird 2 Comments

Facebook is an extremely popular phenomenon and they have a bunch of services, one of which is the free e-mail service. The e-mail service that was launched More

The mobile web gets Google's +1 buttons

03 Sep, 2011, 11:17 am IST Padmini Harchandrai Weird 2 Comments

Google's intent on getting its +1 button everywhere, and an update brought the buttons over to the mobile web. The +1 button that allows users to share More

Round Table: Will the Nokia Asha 501 help revive Nokia's fortunes?

10 May, 2013, 12:52 pm IST tech2 News Staff Mobile phones 2 Comments

Nokia re-launched the Asha platform in Delhi yesterday and unveiled their $99 phone, the Nokia Asha 501. While the launch generated a sufficient amount of More

Turns out, Facebook acquiring WhatsApp was just a rumour

04 Dec, 2012, 10:46 am IST Aaron Almeida General 2 Comments

One of the hottest rumours doing the rounds the last couple of days was about Facebook looking to acquire messaging service WhatsApp. However... More

Pinterest starts weekly newsletter

04 Jun, 2012, 10:10 am IST Padmini Harchandrai General 2 Comments

Pinterest, the social network that currently drives more traffic to other sites than any other social network, snuck ... More

Facebook's emoticon status composer coming to users in the USA soon

10 Apr, 2013, 4:40 pm IST tech2 News Staff General 2 Comments

Facebook has confirmed with Mashable that it will soon be letting users in the USA update their statuses with emoticons via a new status composer. We have... More

Plingm introduces free VoIP calls for Facebook users

15 Oct, 2012, 4:24 pm IST tech2 News Staff iOS 2 Comments

Plingm, the Swedish mobile VoIP app, has introduced free phone calls for Facebook's one billion users. Plingm users with an iPhone can call their contacts on Facebook directly. More

Facebook quietly launches "Find Friends Nearby" feature

25 Jun, 2012, 5:07 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai iOS 2 Comments

Facebook's launched a sneaky update to its mobile apps as well as its mobile site with a feature called "Find Friends Nearby". As the name suggests, the More

Facebook Ticker makes a 'blink and you’ll miss' appearance

29 Aug, 2011, 1:43 pm IST Anuradha Shetty iOS 2 Comments

Twitter went abuzz about Facebook’s latest update, Ticker. More

Google Temporarily Stalls its Realtime Feature

05 Jul, 2011, 4:40 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Web services 2 Comments

At least for a while, users availing the real-time updates from Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed on Google will not be able to do so.  More

Facebook And Microsoft Join Hands Against Child Pornography

20 May, 2011, 7:48 pm IST tech2 News Staff Web services 2 Comments

Will use Microsoft's PhotoDNA program. More

Valentine's Day inspires Facebook viruses

13 Feb, 2012, 4:44 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Web services 2 Comments

It's the eve of Valentine's Day and scammers are spreading the love. According to Trend Micro Researchers, ... More

Official Facebook App Coming to iPad

17 Jun, 2011, 10:39 am IST Aaron Almeida Web services 2 Comments

After a year and a half long wait, an official Facebook app seems to be coming to iPad. More

Happy birthday, Facebook! You're nine today!

04 Feb, 2013, 11:06 am IST Nishtha Kanal Web services 2 Comments

The biggest, most densely populated social networking website ever, Facebook turns nine today... More

Airtel Starts USSD-Based Access to Facebook

17 May, 2011, 5:29 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Web services 2 Comments

Airtel enables Facebook access without GPRS, or internet usage. More

Facebook testing new ‘Want’ button plugin

30 Jun, 2012, 12:10 pm IST Ramkumar Iyer Web services 2 Comments

Facebook is apparently testing a new feature that enables users to ‘want’ a product on the social network. The new plugin is similar to the More

Facebook gets bigger and faster photos

27 Aug, 2011, 12:43 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Web services 2 Comments

Back in February, Facebook revamped its photo viewer, adding a black lightbox and the ability to upload high res images. Photos were uploaded as 720 pixel More