Tag: Social networking
Twitter buy Cloudhopper SMS start-up
Twitter has bought the start-up company Cloudhopper, bagging their SMS infrastructure and specialists. The move will be a boon for Twitter's text messaging service. Twitter has always worn it's SMS roots on its sleeve, with the 140 character limit a…
Farmville headed to the iPad and to Android handsets?
Farmville is thought to be heading to a whole load of mobile platforms, after a string of telling web domains were recently bought up. Domain names farmvilleandroid.com, farmvilleipad.com, farmvilleiphone.com and farmvillesms.com have been discovered by website Superannuation. The domains seem…
Myspace update adds gig ticket sales
In a post that we could just have easily titled "You Should Have Been Doing That Years Ago", Myspace have today moved into the live music sphere, allowing artists using the site to sell tickets to events and shows on…
Microsoft's Project Pink handsets revealed as the Kin One and Kin Two
Microsoft's long rumoured Project Pink phones have been unveiled. Dropping the colour-coded working names, they have been revealed as the Kin One and Kin Two, two handsets which have a strong emphasis on social networking. However, the phones wont…
Gallery: Microsoft's Kin One and Kin Two
Microsoft's long-awaited Project Pink phones have been revealed. Now named the Kin One and Kin Two, you can read everything we know about the QWERTY sliders and their social networking focus by clicking here. But while you decide whether or…
O2 bag the Samsung Jet Ultra TV phone
O2 have announced that they will be the first UK network to provide Samsung's Jet Ultra Edition phone. The phone has a 5 megapixel camera and a 3.1 inch AMOLED optimised for watching TV on the go. There's 2GB of…
BBC spends license-fee on Facebook lessons for staff
The BBC is said to be spending thousands and thousands of license-fee payer's money by sending their staff on courses teaching how to use social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, The Sun newspaper has revealed. It's enraged not only…
Samsung's Diva handset released, "directly targeting young females"
Samsung's S7070 handset, otherwise known as the "Diva" has hit UK shelves. With a "girly" design that features diamond shaped buttons and a quilted back cover, the Diva also has a string of social networking tools built in, such as…
80 million now tend crops on Farmville
Farmville has reached the 80 million user milestone, AllFacebook's Applications Statistics has revealed. Farrmville lets players tend to a farm through their browser, and interact with other Farmville players too. The application's popularity is really booming at the moment, with…
MWC 2010: Day 3 Round Up
Day 3 of MWC 2010 draws to a close, and today surprisingly saw quite a few animal-inspired devices. Obviously yesterday we had the Puma Phone, but today saw Sonim launch the XP2 Spirit with its sturdy sheet of protective "Gorilla…
