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  • Facebook Camera

    Facebook Camera: Another social network swallowed whole

    FEATURE The end of the Path 25 May 2012 11:47 GMT

    Facebook has launched yet another service in its bulging platter of offerings, this time aimed squarely at the mobile end of its equation.

    Facebook Camera is for those that just want the pictures. Whether that’s cruising those of your...

  • Foursquare talks TV Check-ins, badges, and the future. Apps, Internet, Features, Interviews, Foursquare, Social networking, Facebook, Facebook Places,  0

    Foursquare talks TV Check-ins, badges, and the future

    FEATURE INTERVIEW: Location-based social network looking to keep it real 3 February 2011 17:28 GMT

    How can we make the mobile experience more interesting in the real world? That’s the question Foursquare asks itself every day according to head of product Alex Rainert as he sits down with Pocket-lint to talk company mission and the future of...

  • Facebook Deals UK goes live

    Facebook Deals UK goes live

    I'll have a free cup of coffee please 31 January 2011 9:20 GMT

    Facebook has announced Facebook Deals in the UK on Monday morning, with a bevy of retail partners keen to offer UK Facebook users a chance to get deals if they fire up their Facebook app on the go.

    Facebook Deals (www.facebook.com/deals/) will...

  • How to explain technology to your family at Christmas

    How to explain technology to your family at Christmas

    FEATURE 10 questions you're going to need an answer for 23 December 2010 11:54 GMT

    You are the techno-gadget person in your family. There’s no two ways about it. You definitely are. That’s why you’re here at Pocket-lint in the first place. So as the expert, naturally you’re going to be the first port of call...

  • How to bluff technology to your Christmas guests

    How to bluff technology to your Christmas guests

    FEATURE 10 ways to impress your family with the gadget knowledge that you don't even have 22 December 2010 15:49 GMT

    Christmas is a time for giving and sharing. It’s also a time for total confusion for the non-tech savvy. Each and every time they get another year older and another whole 12 months further adrift of what the world of technology is up to. Christmas...

  • APP OF THE DAY - Facebook for BlackBerry

    APP OF THE DAY - Facebook for BlackBerry

    Hitting the town tonight? Check in with Facebook Places 12 November 2010 18:00 GMT

    For many, Facebook has become part of their daily lives. Not only has it gone and got itself its own movie, but Facebook continues to expand features across platforms. BlackBerry has long been savvy with Facebook, but isn’t always at the top...

  • Facebook left out key features from latest mobile announcement

    Facebook left out key features from latest mobile announcement

    More to come 5 November 2010 14:12 GMT

    Facebook has confirmed to Pocket-lint that the announcements it made on Wednesday, which saw the launch of Facebook Deals, Places and Groups come to iPhone and Android apps, are just the start of new features to come.

    “We had to remove...

  • Facebook Places could let you check in to your favourite TV show

    Facebook Places could let you check in to your favourite TV show

    Joanna Shields looks to the future at MIPCOM 5 October 2010 15:05 GMT

    Facebook may expand its Facebook Places location service to other things that aren't so local, according to comments made by the company's EMEA VP Joanna Shields.

    "Just like you could check-in to a location, theoretically you could check-in...

  • Facebook Places hits UK

    Facebook Places hits UK

    Geotag to your heart's content 17 September 2010 9:57 GMT

    Foursquare is probably quaking in its boots right now as Facebook Places has finally launched in the UK.

    Introduced in the US last month and Japan earlier this week, Facebook Places will be rolled out starting this morning (Friday) and should...

  • EXCLUSIVE: TomTom looking at social network location features

    EXCLUSIVE: TomTom looking at social network location features

    IFA 2010: "Definitely looking at it" says TomTom 2 September 2010 13:03 GMT

    TomTom has told Pocket-lint that it is, "Definitely looking at" the massive boom in location based social networking services like Facebook Places, Foursquare and Twitter.

    In an exclusive one to one interview with TomTom's GPS product manager,...

  • Facebook Places - How to avoid getting caught out by your partner

    Facebook Places - How to avoid getting caught out by your partner

    Your privacy on your social network 20 August 2010 15:00 GMT

    Before we begin this guide, Pocket-lint would like to suggest that perhaps the best way to avoid falling out with your partner over Facebook Places would be to have a healthy, open and honest relationship in the first place, where your loved one isn’t...

  • UK web users say Foursquare's days are numbered

    UK web users say Foursquare's days are numbered

    Survey finds people will switch to Facebook Places 20 August 2010 10:43 GMT

    Here's some worrying news for Foursquare in the UK. A whopping 82 per cent of users of the Myvouchercodes.co.uk website said they would ditch the location service once Facebook Places launched in the UK.

    The site surveyed 1184 British Foursquare...

  • Facebook Places is all four square

    Facebook Places is all four square

    New logo shows true influence 19 August 2010 11:53 GMT

    Eagle eyed journalists at the launch of Facebook Places on Wednesday night noticed something rather telling about Facebook Places new logo - it contains a four and a square in it.

    If those two elements ring any bells it's because Facebook's...

  • Facebook Places Twitter account opens

    Facebook Places Twitter account opens

    Just hours before imminent press conference 18 August 2010 17:53 GMT

    It looks like it's finally on the cusp of announcement, and we could very well have Foursquare rival Facebook Places by tomorrow. Or so says an eponymous Twitter account that's been created.

    Its first posting even claims that there's an official...

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