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Facebook announced its rumored Snapchat competitor on through a blog post Friday , the app is named Poke. Not ununike Snapchat’s app, Poke, lets you send a message, photo or video to Facebook friends. The messages expire after 1, 3, 5 or 10 seconds, though. The Poke app, which will be available in the Apple iOS App Store on Friday. ‘With the Poke app, you can poke or send a message, photo, [...]

Want to send a Facebook message to a person who is not your Facebook friend? Pay up.  Facebook on Thursday starts testing if it can monetize and cut spam at the same time by asking you to pay to ensure the recipient sees it. Facebook’s also changing everyone’s privacy settings into dynamic filters that let “relevant” messages through. Facebook says the changes are primarily designed to let [...]

Twitter may not have reached Facebook’s landmark of a Billion users, but, it’s growing at a steady pace, the popular micro-blogging service now has more than 200 million active users around the world, with some 10 million of those in the UK. What’s notable is that it has seen more than 45% growth in the last 8 months, it had around 140 million in May with major events such as the [...]

Apple has few hours ago  released iOS 6.0.2 for the iPhone 5 and iPad mini , which fixes a software bug which hampers the connections and speeds of the WiFi connection. Apple has already tried to fix this once before with iOS 6.0.1, but it seems that the problem has persisted.   Users can plug their iPhone 5 or iPad mini into iTunes to install the update, or wait for the OTA system to be activated. [...]

Facebook today announced an update to Facebook for iOS and Android that lets the mobile users discover new places their friends like, with this revamp Facebook seems to be getting ready to compete even more closely with Foursquare and Yelp.   The updated version of the app features a refreshed Nearby tab, which, according to a post on the Facebook Newsroom website, now shows recommendations [...]

Everyone knew it was be popular, but Google Maps for iOS was downloaded an incredible 10 million downloads in its first two days of release on iOS. That accounts for roughly 2.5% of iOS devices sold. “We’re excited for the positive reception of Google Maps for iPhone around the world,” writes Huber. “Congratulations to the Maps Team on the recognition for the passion and hard work they poured [...]

Dropbox reported  on its blog on Friday the launch of new iOS app that introduces a redesigned, streamlined UI, a new Photos tab that allows you to scroll through a timeline of your automatically uploaded photos, and improvements to the photo-viewing experience. Dropbox boasted that uploads have now been improved, allowing users to ” tap the ‘+’ icon to upload something or create a new folder.” We’ve [...]

 Google Maps app for the iPhone made a reappearance in the App Store earlier on Thursday morning U.K. time and was greeted positively by Apple device users going by the number of downloads and reviews on Internet.Google Maps for iOS  became the most downloaded free app in the Apple App Store. ” Better than apple maps –     I almost died in Australia, thank god this is out. ” [...]

Apple on Thursday published its best of 2012 selections on the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBookstore — and there are a few surprises. Last year, Instagram received iPhone app of the year, while Snapseed got the best iPad app. The “Best of 2012” rankings include winners in a variety of mediums among multiple categories. Below are a list of the biggest overall winners: iTunes Store Music Best [...]

Google Currents for Android has received a new update which makes it easier to scan through categories and editions from Google publisher partners like The Guardian in the app. Official Android Blog detailed the release Currents is filled with great editions like The Los Angeles Times, CBS Sports, Android Central, The Guardian, Shortlist, and Forbes. Today, we’re revamping Currents to make it even [...]