Facebook is in the news a lot recently, with the social network splashing the cash to acquire photo sharing platform, Instagram. One of the reasons the company was in the news last year, the new Timeline feature, is now the subject of a Microsoft-made website, too.
There was something of a bombshell greeting me when I awoke today, and it's probably fair to say that it is still sinking in. In fact, it is proving something of a big deal for many across the internet, if a quick skim of my Twitter and Facebook feeds are anything to go by.
A certain amount of hysteria has arisen today after a report suggested that a security vulnerability in Facebook's mobile apps could lead potentially to identity theft.
Although Ice Cream Sandwich has been slated somewhat for lack of compatibility and very limited reach, the new design has been loved by many.
They may be the world's largest social network with over half a billion active users, accounting for approximately one in thirteen on earth, half of which log in to the service on any given day, but that doesn't seem to stop Facebook from making continuing changes and improvements to their site with the intention of benefitting those users. Over the last few months; Facebook has undergone a number of notable aesthetic changes that affects the way a user’s data is displayed on their profile, with that change set to filter across to all business and fan pages by the end of March.
With our mobile devices' cameras improving year in, year out, and supplementary apps making editing and manipulating easy for essentially anyone to master, social networks from Facebook to Flickr see billions of images uploaded to servers each year.
Personally speaking, I am not a big Facebook fan, but there are millions upon millions of people all over the globe who can't go a day without logging into the world’s largest social network and checking out what kind of sandwich their old school friend had for lunch, or poking their best friend in an act of online bullying. Although already wildly popular, the whole Facebook experience may be a distinctly better one for a large portion of users if they didn't need to be constantly signed into the web service with a browser running all the time.
Oh dear, it seems someone not only got their facts all muddled up, but also managed to upset the world's largest social network in the process.
The regularity in which malware manages to keep infiltrating Android devices is gradually becoming something of a spectator sport; that is, of course, unless you happen to use one yourself.
There have been many tributes to Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs since his untimely succumbing to pancreatic cancer back in October of last year.
