Tag: facebook
Free Facebook initiative hopes to bring in-flight internet to the mainstream
'I'm cruising at 30,000 feet' – how's that for a status update? This month you can tell your Facebook friends about bad airplane food and poor legroom free of charge, following an initiative from seven US airlines. While in-flight…
Facebook Deals launches in the UK
Using Facebook while on the go will no longer just keep you up to date with every banal detail of your friends lives, but will also save you a bit of cash now thanks to this morning's announcment of the…
Mark Zuckerberg gets "F'raped": Is no-one safe from Facebook privacy flaws?
Mark Zuckerberg, the multi-billionaire king of the Facebook empire, had his own personal fan page attacked last night, calling further into question the security of the world's largest social networking site. The hacker left the following status update whilst under…
Facebook-branded HTC phones for MWC 2011 reveal
Facebook and HTC are to enter into a mobile hardware partnership according to City AM. Bearing the Facebook "branding and colours", the HTC smartphones will be optimised for use with the world's largest social network. While it's a very-possible partnership,…
Introducing…TECH DIGEST LIVE!
Welcome to the first ever Shiny Live discussion! We're hoping to get to know you all a little better by regularly running these live chats with you, our faithful readers, on all that is exciting and new in the world…
Facebook U-turn on mobile and address info app access
Remember the slightly troubling news that Facebook wold be offering up your mobile phone number and address details to third party app developers, should you choose to allow it? Well, the world's leading social network have now backtracked on the…
Facebook apps now have access to your phone number and address
Third-party Facebook apps will now be given access to a users phone number and address as part of the User Graph object, should a user choose to submit the info. As you'll have to explicitly allow access for the application…
BREAKING: Facebook down for over five hours in many territories
News coming in of some serious down-time issues being experienced by some Facebook users. Twitter is buzzing with reports from Sweden, Norway and other European nations that the social network is firing-up blank pages for the many, many users in…
MySpace sale rumours pick up pace as News Corp lay-off staff
Another day, another set of MySpace sales rumours. The flailing social network is once again on the ropes after owners News Corp sacked nearly half the site's staff, and are now apparently looking for buyers to take on the brand….
Tatty Teddy takes on Farmville in new Facebook social game
Looking for a new Facebook game that doesn't involve ploughing fields or sheep dipping? Then take a look at the cutesy Me To You: My Place game, looking to lure players away from their homesteads and into the arms…
