Facebook Adds Voice Messages, Video Recording On iOS App

Updated to version 5.4.2 over the weekend the Facebook iOS app for iPhone and iPad now brings in more fun and solidarity to the things you can do within the app. Facebook iOS users can now use the app to send their friends recorded messages and photos right from within the app. The Facebook messenger users were already using the voice recording feature and now the app itself has it.  The Android app was already updated a few days back with...

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Decline of Localized Networks ?

People are still getting used to it and there are still calls about it being a ghost town. But with the social network now getting out of its infancy and some real good updates on its web version and some fruitful, easy to navigate and user friendly updates on its mobile app; Google' social network has been reported to be world' no. 2 social network based on the active users report. The report published by GlobalWebIndex is based on the data from...

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Google Dumping Passwords

Your laptop, a browsed website and a tap, possibly with your ring, is all that it will take for you to login to Gmail. And possibly to other websites, if the prototype currently being developed by Google comes comes to be a reality. Google' security team is currently working on a prototype that will enable web users to be able to shun their passwords and instead use a physical key to login to websites. The research details are said to be publishing...

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Facebook Graph Search Takes On Google

So when was the last time you decided to search the web and went somewhere other than Google? For most of you the answer would be a quick no, unless of course the You in this case are people you prefer Bing or Yahoo search more than what the search giant has to offer. For those who almost always use Google' web search, there is yet another option getting out of that cracked egg. Facebook announced its search product today. The search lets you find...

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Viadeo Acquires Pealk

From the "#1 hunting app for LinkedIn" to a "#1 hunting app for Viadeo". Yes we know that isn't what the home page for Pealk says for now, but it may not be the case a few days from now. Viadeo, the French based PSN, announced today via a press release that the acquisition has been completed.   Pealk has been a real favorite app for the recruiters, mostly for its ability to search through the user base on LinkedIn. But that was sometime back...

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200 Million Members Now Onboard LinkedIn

Not a surprise we are sure but it is a milestone nonetheless. And a rather impressive one at that. LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network site, recently announced via a blog post that the site now has 200Mn members onboard. The site has presence in around 200 countries and territories and operates in 19 languages around the world, as declared by Deep Nishar; senior VP LinkedIn on his blog post. As far as the members in each country...

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Sound Search For Google Play Widget

Ever listened to a song while traveling in the train or a bus or in your car and wanted to download it once you gt time only to realize that you forgot what it was? Well, that happens to quite a few of us. And this isn't a surprise since through the day we go through so many things, forgetting the tune or words of a song is not a big deal. The Android team of Google seems to have a few members who face the same. And they have come up with a widget...

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