Rumours of a Facebook phone have been doing the rounds for a couple of years. Now HTC is rumoured to be cooking one up for the middle of next year.
What’s even more promising, the handset was originally scheduled to launch at the end of this year, but was pushed back to give HTC time to work on other products, according to people familiar with the matter.
Apple’s hardware is second to none, but it’s not known for its great social media skills. Remember Ping? (It was Apple’s attempt to share with everyone what you’re listening to on iTunes.)
But this lack of social aspect wasn’t necessarily down to incompetence. Steve Jobs’ biographer has said Jobs was so in awe of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, he didn’t try and compete. Coming from such a fierce businessman as Jobs, that’s quite an accolade.
Last night, news broke that Facebook’s moving towards launching a Facebook Phone of its own. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Zuckerberg’s team is hiring up mobile players all over the US, but is any such Facebook Phone doomed from the start? Read more
If you’ve seen the film The Social Network, you may be in two minds about Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg. Is the company actually as fun, cool and full of moxy as you’d originally thought? The answer is: it certainly wants you to think so. Zuck’s just let a huge, 42-foot wide QR code to land on the company HQ’s roof. Nothing says ‘zany’ like a massive QR code, does it? What does it open? Read on to find out… Read more
William Shatner’s Google+ account was suspended on Monday for reasons Google has declined to revealed. Luckily, the Star Trek star has since rematerialised on the site again after speculating on Twitter that it was his habit of saying “hello” to every new follower that got his page vaporised. He posted a Google+ update saying: “I am back plusers. I still do not know what happened but I will refrain from saying hello again for a while just in case. My best, Bill.”
If the comings and goings of Captain Kirk don’t interest you, we’ve tracked down 10 other celebrity Google+ users to follow. Since some have suggested it was doubts around Shatner’s identity that got him shoved off the social network, we’ve applied our ultra-scientific authenticity meter to each one…
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has revealed what went on when he and fellow co-founder Evan Williams met Mark Zuckerberg. The trio met at the Facebook offices when Mark Zuckerberg was toying with making an offer to buy Twitter but the talks were hampered by a lack of chemistry.
Interviewed by NPR, Stone agreed with host Peter Sagal when he compared the Facebook CEO to a Vulcan and declared that during the meeting “every joke I said landed like a dead fish on the ground”. Read on for the full story and to decide whether Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t have a sense of humour or Biz Stone just isn’t that funny…
Rumours of a Facebook music service have been around for months with plenty of talk of a Facebook/Spotify partnership in the pipeline. Now code that seems to point to just such a plan has been discovered lurking in the code for the new Facebook Skype calls feature.
Click through to see the evidence that Facebook video chat could soon be joined by Facebook Vibes…
There’s been clamouring for a Facebook iPad app ever since Apple launched the original iPad. Facebook seemed to be ignoring the device entirely with Mark Zuckerberg curiously branding it “not mobile” and so not in need of a dedicated app. But it seems that’s about to change.
The New York Times reports that a Facebook iPad app has been in development for more than a year with Zuckerberg taking a personal interest in its production. It claims that the app sees Facebook Chat and Groups completely overhauled for the larger screen.