Think the HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa are the only Facebook phones in town? Think again. Mark Zuckerberg just popped up in the middle of the HTC press conference at Mobile World Congress to tell us there are “dozens” of Facebook phones coming this year.
Tagged ‘Mark Zuckerberg’
Previously Mark Zuckerberg has tried to downplay The Social Network (aka “that Facebook movie”) in the past but it seems the Oscar nominations for the flick mean he’s realised that strategy won’t work. So this weekend on Saturday Night Live, Mark Zuckerberg met a pair of fake Zuckergs – Jesse Eisenberg who played Zuck in The Social Network and SNL’s Andy Samberg who mocks the Facebook CEO on SNL. See what went down after the break…
Word on the street, HTC is prepping two Facebook handsets, set to be unveiled at next month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. According to British newspaper, City A.M., the Facebook phones run a “tweaked” version of Android, complete with the Facebook logo and coloring. The newspaper was spot on with the Nexus S, could they be right about the Facebook phone?
Sound the irony alarm! Facebook head honcho Mark Zuckerberg appears to have had his profile hacked. Last night a mysteriously badly spelled message popped up on the Zuckerberg fan page seemingly penned by Mark Zuckerberg himself. Read on to see the bizarre message…
In a move to make tagging multiple photos of the same person easier, Facebook has taken a page from Apple’s playbook, introducing facial recognition. Similar to the way Apple “faces” works, Facebook facial recognition will compare freshly uploaded pics to older, tagged ones. Should we celebrate or run and hide from the new feature?
This year has been strong for the big guys: Steve Jobs brought out the iPhone, Steve Ballmer did Kinect and Windows Phone 7 within the space of a few months. Google has launched its second phone, and a raft of other services and improvements, and Zuckerberg was immortalised on the silver screen. But who’s the tech don of 2010? Click and tell us who you think is the most important tech personality of 2010…
We’ve made it through the midpoint of the week, but that isn’t stopping the onslaught of tech news from barging through the front door. In today’s morning round up, the recap we like to call the US Update, we break down the latest and greatest.