Is jailbreak developer extraordinaire Chpwn looking for a new challenge? After releasing some of my favorite jailbreak tweaks such as Zephyr, Grant 'Chpwn' Paul has accepted an intern position at Facebook.
So what is Chpwn going to do at Facebook? Work on the mystery Facebook phone? Bring some Apple sauce to the company? Fix the plumbing? We have absolutely no idea what he's up to but we sure wish him well in his new endeavors...
You must have heard rumors of Facebook poaching former and current Apple hardware and software engineers to work on its not-so-secret phone project. So, a Facebook phone.
We're still scratching our head over this rumored device. Why on Earth Facebook won't Facebook focus on perfecting its subpar mobile apps rather than waste its energies cracking the hardware biz it literally knows nothing about?
Regardless of the hearsay, here's a really interesting mockup which depicts perfectly what a Facebook phone might look like...
Much of the talk concerning rumored Facebook integration in iOS 6 is centered around debating whether or not the feature will be baked deep into the bowels of the operating system. According to sources who spoke to 9to5Mac, that seems to be the case as Facebook integration in iOS 6 is said to be system-wide and apparently very similar to Twitter’s integration that launched with iOS 5...
Following months of rumor mongering and speculation, it would seem that one of the headline new features of iOS 6 indeed is system-wide Facebook integration, TechCrunch has learned from sources. This capability will reportedly work as seamlessly as Twitter integration in iOS 5.
You'll simply provide your Facebook account credentials in Settings and then approve apps to automatically use your account when needed. The report jives with news of apps, not the OS itself, being the focus of iOS 6 that iDB broke today.
As our credible source with deep connections at Apple pointed out, big stuff is expected in stock apps across the board as Apple has apparently re-written them from the ground up to take advantage of new iOS features.
At this point, there's no reason to doubt that Facebook sharing will be rolled out across Apple's apps in iOS 6,, much like Twitter comes enabled in Safari, YouTube, Maps and so forth...
So what's up with that unpleasant Apple-Facebook fallout? Here's another video highlight of Tim Cook's yesterday's talk at the Wall Street Journal's D10: All Things Digital conference. In this particular segment, Apple's head honcho explains the Apple-Facebook relationship, touches upon why Facebook isn't more fully integrated into iOS and mulls how Cupertino can "do more with them". Deep Facebook integration with iOS 6, anyone?
An interesting scoop over at the New York Times, citing "people close to the company" as saying that Facebook is looking to launch its own smartphone by next year, apparently tapping the collective talent of Apple's former hardware and software engineers.
The social networking giant has already poached a bunch of engineers who worked on the iPhone and iPad projects. It's Facebook's third attempt at making a phone, one that'll undoubtedly add to bad blood that's been brewing between Facebook and Apple for quite some time now.
That said, a Facebook phone makes sense to us. The company pretty much sucks in mobile. Up until recently, they've been releasing and updating native applications for smartphones at a snail's pace. If a phone is what they need to gain more credibility in mobile, so be it - though Tim Cook won't like this.
This not-so-secret plan might also explain why a system-wide Facebook integration was a no-go in iOS 5, though code hooks are still in place. Let's also not forget that Facebook pulled integration from Apple's Ping social network for iTunes music.
Yup, looks like Apple can safely put Facebook on its growing list of powerful rivals, right below Google and of course Samsung...
As noted by The New York Times, Facebook has announced a new standalone application for the iPhone and iPod touch called Facebook Camera. The app is intended to make it easier to take and share photos on the social network.
Facebook members will be able to use the new software to upload high resolution photos — up to 2048 x 2048, choose from a selection of 15 filters (makes sense), and pipe the images directly into their Facebook photo albums...
We told you five days ago that Facebook was rolling out a brand new iPhone app to manage your Facebook Pages. The software originally landed on the New Zealand App Store and it obviously took longer than expected, but here it is finally so grab it quickly.
The app should be indispensable to anyone managing their own Pages on Facebook.
Unlike the official Facebook for iOS client, the free Pages Manager app lets you check out comments, drill through logs, post updates, get notifications on new activity and so forth...
This über-cool status update on Facebook will be tough to beat. The social networking behemoth co-founder and CEO posted this morning the following status update. It reads: "Mark Zuckerberg listed a company on NASDAQ".
The 29-year old entrepreneur has timed the post just ahead of the opening bell this morning so yeah, this particular status update has been conceived with today’s special occasion in mind.
That's as awesome as awesome gets, if you ask us. Think you can do better than that?
As the name suggest, Facebook has launched a brand new iPhone app that allows you to manage Facebook Pages on your iPhone or iPod touch, wherever you go.
The social networking behemoth bills the program as a way to “help you keep up with your Page and connect with your audience in one place”. We've got release notes and nice screenshots...
With one in two in the United States now owning a smartphone (was 40 percent of mobile subscribers in 2011), app downloads are on the rise, too.
Compared to last year, the average smartphone consumer in the U.S. now has 41 apps on their home screen, a 28 percent increase from 32 apps in last year, according to a Nielsen study released this morning.
Here are the top five downloaded apps across the iOS and Android platforms...
Such is the confidence Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has in the leadership abilities of Facebook’s boss Mark Zuckerberg that he would buy shares of the social networking giant when it goes public on May 17 no matter the opening price.
The famous engineer who created the Apple I computer and co-created the Apple II system in the mid-1970s also sees the 28-year-old Facebook CEO closer to the combination of himself and Steve Jobs.
Specifically, Wozniak called Zuck a "real acute" businessman who mixes technical ability with the vision and corporate acumen of Steve Jobs...