Google added Free SMS Chat feature for Gmail in India

Google has launched 'Free SMS Chat' service for its free email service Gmail and paid email service Google Apps customers in India along with 51 other countries in Asia, Africa and North America. This feature allows users to send SMS to mobile phones from gmail chat windows from 10, October. Users just need to add friend's mobile numbers of their contacts in the email address book.

The service starts with free 50 SMS credits for each user and every sent SMS costs one credit. Every reply received adds on 5 credits subject to the maximum level being 50 SMS at any given time. If no replies are received to any of the sent 50 text messages and the credit balance come down to zero, then Google will add one credit after 24 hours. This credit limit was intended for preventing misuse of this service or spamming.

The Gmail Free SMS service is now available on eight Indian Mobile operators Aircel, Idea, Loop Mobile, MTS, Reliance, Tata DoCoMo, Tata indicom and Vodafone. BSNL, MTNL and Airtel are not supported yet.

The SMSes sent from Gmail chat are delivered to mobile phones while replies from the mobile phone come into the chat window. For the mobile phone user, the reply is charged at local SMS rate as per her/his normal billing plan.

If you want to block SMSes from GChat from a particular contact, you can just reply to the message with 'BLOCK', later if you wish to continue receiving messages have the option of sending 'UNBLOCK'.

Gmail Indian users can totally block this service, if they don't wish text messages from any Gmail user, just by sending 'STOP' SMS to +918082801060 and to reactivate the service they can SMS 'START' to the same number.

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Facebook Bug - Likes Count Increasing Automatically without User Clicks

Facebook 'likes' are automatically being added to web pages even if a user has not clicked a like button, or even visited the page in question, it has been revealed.

A security researcher site found that simply sending a web address to a friend using Facebook's private messaging function would add two likes to that page.

The site said that leaving a comment on a story within Facebook also adds to the tally, the BBC reports.

"Many websites that use Facebook's 'like' or 'recommend' buttons also carry a counter next to them. This counter reflects the number of times people have clicked those buttons and also the number of times people have shared that page's link on Facebook, the site explained.

"When the count is increased via page shares, no user information is exchanged. We did recently find a bug with our social plug-ins where at times the count for the Share or Like goes up by two, and we are working on fix to solve the issue now," it added.

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Government ordered to block Facebook, YouTube Social Sites in Kashmir

Internet users in Kashmir are unable to access Facebook and YouTube. The government had issued orders to Internet service providers to restrict access to the websites. This move is believed to be in response to the protests against the anti-Islam video on YouTube.

It was previously reported that the certain URLs with offensive content had been blocked, but it now seems that access to the entire websites have been restricted. Last month the Government of Jammu & Kashmir had directed service providers to ensure that the controversial YouTube video was not accessible from the state.

The order was issued by the state Home Department, invoking the powers conferred under section 5(2) of the Indian Telegraph Act 1885.

"In the interest of public safety and for maintaining public order, the government directed all licensed Telecom Service Providers and Internet Service Providers to make arrangements to ensure that their subscribers in Jammu and Kashmir should not be able to download or upload the contents" with regard to the video, the order said.

The order also emphasised that if necessary entire domains could also be blocked by service providers. "If necessary, due to technical reasons, the Fully Qualified Domain Names shall be blocked viz www.youtube.com, www.facebook.com etc," the order read.

Greater Kashmir quoted executives from telecom service providers in the state who confirmed that there was indeed a block in place, but when Greater Kashmir contacted Aga Ruhullah, Jammu & Kashmir's minister for information technology, he claimed ignorance. "There is not any ban on these websites. I don't have proper information of it. I can't confirm whether there is any technical snag in it," Ruhullah said.

Meanwhile, the Government of India has asked private telecom operators in Jammu and Kashmir to provide at the earliest a mechanism for fool-proof monitoring of real-time Internet traffic in the state.

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Facebook launches service to send real-life gifts to Friends

Facebook is rolling out a service called Gifts which, as its name suggests, lets users send chocolate, coffee, socks and other real-life presents to one another.

Facebook Gifts launched Thursday to a subset of users in the U.S. and will roll out to more over the coming months as people begin to send gifts to each other.

Users will be able to click on a "gifts" icon on their Facebook friends' pages on Facebook's website or on Android mobile phones. (iPhone and iPad versions are coming soon.)

The icon will also show up on the right side of users' Facebook pages with the notifications for friends' birthdays, weddings and other life events. For example, if your friend's birthday is coming up in two days, you'll now see a "give her a gift" link and the gift icon next to her name and photo.

Clicking the icon will display presents you can buy, such as a Starbucks gift card, cupcakes or a teddy bear.

The recipient will be notified through Facebook to enter a shipping address for the presents. In some cases, they'll be able to select their own cupcake flavors or size and style of socks. They can also exchange gifts for other items if they don't like chocolate or don't wear socks.

The move represents Facebook Inc.'s first real foray into e-commerce. The company will take an unspecified cut from each item sold. On Thursday, possible gifts included gourmet ice cream, Andy Warhol prints, flowers, organic dog toys and spa packages.

Facebook Gifts is the result of Facebook's acquisition of Karma, a 16-person startup based in San Francisco. Facebook bought the company on May 18, the day of its rocky initial public offering. Karma's mobile app let people send gifts to their friends on the go. Facebook Gifts, of course, works both on computers and mobile devices.

Lee Linden, the former head of Karma, is now head product manager for Facebook Gifts, which he says incorporates "the heart and soul of the Karma experience."

"We think gifting is a form of communication," he said.

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Facebook apps updated brings Automatic Photo Uploading for Android

World most popular giant, Facebook, is rolling out a new feature that will enable you to automatically upload any images you've taken on your Android phone's camera. So, now users can share new clicked images directly to their private Facebook album.This new auto-upload feature appears to be inspired from the Instant upload on Google+ and Apple's Photostream feature. Facebook has named this feature as "Photo Sync".

To start syncing your photos, make sure you have the latest version of Facebook for Android installed on your phone.

From the Android app:

• Logged in with your Facebook account, hit the main menu button in the top-left.
• Tap Photos
• Tap Sync at the bottom of your photos section.

From your computer:

• Logged in with your Facebook account, hit the main menu button in the top-left.
• Click Photos
• Click Synced From Phone at the top of your photos section. Follow the step-by-step instructions.

You can save upto 2GB of photos per account using the Photo Syncing feature. If you don't want to sync photos when you take them you can also turn off within Facebook for Android.

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Twitter Redecorate apps brings new features expanded content, adds header photos and more

Twitter on Tuesday unveiled a series of design updates, a new app for the iPad and new versions of the application for other mobile devices that dropped support for third-party image hosting.

"Starting today you can make your presence on Twitter more meaningful with new Twitter profiles," the company blog said.

"Upload an all-new header photo on mobile apps for iPad, iPhone and Android or twitter.com, and the same image will appear whenever anyone views your profile on the web or these apps. You can upload your header photo, which appears above your Tweets, to express yourself instantly, anywhere."

Twitter's Jaikumar Ramanathan said one of the features is improved photo sharing.

"Photo streams for profiles display the images people have shared on Twitter," he wrote.

"Whenever you see a photo stream, swipe left or right through the thumbnails or tap to view photos in fullscreen mode. Android users can also get closer to photos with pinch-to-zoom."

As expected, Twitter apps for iOS and Android have removed the option to upload images to third-party sites like TwitPic. Uploading videos to third-party services is still supported.

Twitter, which allows its members to post brief comments, links or pictures, claims to have more than 140 million active users, with the largest number being in the United States.

A recent survey found one in seven Americans who go online use Twitter and eight percent do so every day.

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Facebook released new update to v3.2 for BlackBerry Smartphone

Facebook for BlackBerry has been updated to version 3.2 that brings new exciting features for the BlackBerry users. This update includes refreshed navigation icons, Facebook's friends birthday alerts, Facebook event support and more.

New features in Facebook for BlackBerry v3.2 -

• Updated icons with your most current Facebook profile picture
• Facebook Events support lets you view event information, post to the event's wall, view profiles of invited guests, and receive event notifications
• Enhanced Calendar Integration for friend's Birthdays with alerts

Download Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones v3.2 from the BlackBerry App World for free.

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FarmVille 2 available on Facebook and Zynga Online in 3D

Zynga announced the global launch of FarmVille 2 Wednesday, the next generation of the company's popular Facebook-farming game.

"FarmVille 2 offers players a new way to farm by delivering an immersive experience, rich characters, and new social features that make game boards come to life with their friends," said Tim LeTourneau, vice president of games at Zynga.

Zynga's first game to be built entirely in 3D, the game lets players not only grow and harvest crops but also use those crops to do things like feed chickens on their farm or bake treats they can then take to market and sell.

With FarmVille 2 Zynga has also made it easier to plant and harvest crops. Now rather than clicking multiple times on each square of a crop in order to plant and harvest, you can instead drag your mouse over a large area and plant or harvest over that entire space at once.

The game also includes a number of decorations you can interact with, ranging from a wind chime that actually plays to a rocking chair you can move back and forth.

Zynga hopes that all that will be enough to have new players come to the game, and for FarmVille enthusiasts to build a whole new farm in FarmVille 2 while continuing to maintain their farm in the original version of the game. Zynga plans to continue to support the original FarmVille, and keep adding expansions and new features to the original game to keep people interested.

"We can't wait to see the farms that players create. We also want dedicated players of FarmVille to know that we remain fully committed to bringing them new reasons to play the original game they love," says LeTourneau.

FarmVille 2 is live now on Facebook.

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Bing Integrated Search for Facebook's Friends Photos Feature

Microsoft's search engine, Bing, has added a new feature for Facebook that lets users search friend's photo collections on Facebook. World popular social network, Facebook has over 900 million users, and has the largest photo database on the Internet.

"Everyday more than 300 million photos uploaded on Facebook, photo viewing is one of the most popular things people do on Facebook," Bing social team senior program manager Ian Lin said in a blog post.

If you go to www.bing.com/friendsphotos and login to your Facebook account and do a search, you can search and find your photos or your friends in seconds without having to try to go directly through Facebook. 

So when you are trying to find that one photo that you can't remember what photo album it's saved in, just do a Bing search and the problem will be solved.

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Facebook Redesign Messages for Easy to Manage

Facebook recently updates its iPhone and android apps and now they changing look and feel for Facebook Messages page on the site. 

The revamped look for Facebook messages has a side-by-side layout that means, the left hand side has a list of all the most recent conversations and messages, while the right has the entire conversation. Users now also have the option of adding multiple photos and emoticons to their messages.

Other feature that allow users to search messages for a specific friend via a search bar in left-hand side on the layout. Also users will be able to see the full list of available shortcuts, by typing Alt+Q on a PC or Control+Q on a Mac.

These updates will be available soon for all facebook users in coming weeks.

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Oovoo Apps Updated brings Video Group Chat for iOS and Android

Social video-chat provider, OoVoo, has been updated with 4-way video chat means now four people can chat in group  for Android and iOS applications. So now use OoVoo as a video conference calls for free. It will work nicely if you have faster and better internet connection.

New features of OoVoo apps allow users to-

• Host four simultaneous video streams at once on screen for free on iOS or Android mobile devices in high quality (over 240 devices supporting 4-way)
• Gain deep integration into the native Android address book using the Google Social API
• Take advantage of ooVoo’s Android widget that shows online friends, missed calls and enables one-touch chat session starts plus calls straight from their phone or tablet home screen
• Enjoy the first optimized, multi-party communications experience for new, high-speed LTE mobile networks
• Stay always available -- the new ooVoo mobile app provides subscribers with push notifications, making them always on and always reachable
• Text chat with anyone during a video call on both iOS and Android
• Get improvements to the user experience that make ooVoo easier and fun to use

Download Oovoo app for Android from the Google Play Store and for iOS from Apple iTunes Store.

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Facebook Launched new Faster, Improved Version 5.0 Apps for iPhone and iPad

World most visited social network website, Facebook has been updated its iPhone and iPad apps to v5.0 that is run two times faster and easier to use than previous versions. Facebook also added some new features.

Facebook's product manager Mick Johnson said, The new app is "a major update to the Facebook for iOS rebuilt from the ground up, to focus on one thing, performance".

New features of v5.0 apps for iPhone and iPad -

• News feed and notifications load faster
• New banner lets you tap to quickly see more stories – no need to refresh
• Photos and comments also load fast
• Allow to "Like" comment on users photos
• More user-friendly
• Allow to create a Timeline profile page for iPad

Download facebook's new apps for iPhone and iPad from Apple iTunes Store for free.

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Facebook's Android Apps Added Easier Event Creation, Improved Photos Sharing and More

Facebook has been updated it's Android apps with v1.9.8 that brings new features for users to create events easily, Share photos quickly with new upload UI to select multiple photos at once and more new feature.

New Features of Facebook for Android v1.9.8 -

• Easily create events by selecting location, time, people and data at a single screen
• Share photos faster with a new upload flow that lets you select multiple photos at once
• Add photos and emoji to messages

Download Facebook for Android from the Google Play Store for free.

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Pinterest Launches iPad and Android Apps

Social networking giant Pinterest has launched it's apps for Android-based smartphones and for the iPad. Pinterest has also announced to launch an app for the Kindle Fire, which should be available on the Amazon Appstore "later this week."

An online scrapbook where users can "pin" images and share them with others, Pinterest has grown to about 23 million users in July from about one million a year ago, according to online analytics firm comScore.

Version 2.0 of the Pinterest iOS app brings performance and stability improvements to the iPhone, along with a new two-column layout. The iPad version, meanwhile, includes an embedded, Pinterest-centric web browser, as well as a shortcut that allows users to view any other items that have been pinned from a given page. Both Android and iOS apps offer essentially the same functionality, enabling users to pin and re-pin content, browse categories, and follow other users from their mobile devices.

Download pinterest apps for iOS from Apple iTunes Store and for Android from Google Play Store.

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Google Adds Custom URLs Feature to Google Plus Profiles and Pages

Google's product Google+ is now offering custom URLs to profiles and pages, similar to the vanity URLs provided by Facebook and Twitter. A custom URL is a short, easy to remember web address, and will make it easier for people to find a brand or a profile on Google+

Google+'s custom URLs is currently available to a limited number of verified profiles and pages. The service, however, will be soon rolled out to more brands and individuals. Google revealed that few celebrities such as David Beckham and pop singer Britney Spears, along with brands like Toyota, Delta, and fashion brand Hugo Boss have already received the custom URLs. Google says the custom URLs will make it easier to find profiles on Google+.

The new scheme will display the user's name and a '+' sign directly behind the Google.com domain. For example, David Beckham has registered the +DavidBeckham address, changing the football star's Google+ URL to google.com/+DavidBeckham.

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Get Best Deals on Brands You 'Like' in Facebook, Using 'Facial Recognition Camera'

Now, a new app is being developed that can check in people on Facebook and send them the best deals and offers using facial recognition cameras, a report has said.

The new app called Facedeals will be installed at various shops' and bars' front doors to scan people's faces as they enter.

In order to use this feature the customers must authenticate the app on Facebook when they walk into any store, which has installed Facedeal facial recognition camera.

Once the facial recognition is complete the users receive notifications on their smart phones regarding the deals being offered on their favorite brands, which they have liked on Facebook.

According to the Herald Sun, the new app could draw criticism over concerns that it might violate people's privacy.

Facebook has already been criticized for using facial recognition technology as a way of offering its users recommendations on people to be friends with.

Last month Facebook discontinued the service only a month after acquiring the technology after being bombarded with complaints regarding privacy.

Source- Yahoo news

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Facebook Launches Mobile App Ads for Developers

Facebook launched a new advertising service, that allows app developers to advertise their products in the social network's mobile news feed. Application developers can advertise their programs to Facebook users, who will be directed to the app store for their mobile handset when they tap on the advert. Facebook will charge developers for each 'click' on the ads.

Vijaye Raji, a Facebook engineer, said: "Facebook has increasingly become a way for iOS and Android developers to grow their apps. In the past 30 days, we have sent people to the Apple App Store and Google Play 146 million times, via clicks from channels such as news feed, timeline, bookmarks and App Center."

Developers will be able to target advertising at Facebook members based on the apps they have downloaded for their Facebook page. Facebook is inviting developers to sign up to a beta test of the new service. The company did not say when the service is likely to open to all advertisers.

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Facebook Gambling App Evokes Public Outcry

The first Facebook app to allow players to gamble with real money has provoked an outcry from Christian groups, the Telegraph reported Tuesday.

Bingo Friendzy, developed by the British online gambling company Gamesys, was introduced on Facebook Tuesday. It allows players to stake cash in 90 bingo and slot machine games.

The app is marketed with cartoon graphics featuring characters that have been compared to those on Moshi Monsters, the popular children's social network.

It has evoked anger from Christian groups, who called on the Advertising Standards Authority to act, according to the newspaper.

"Gambling is age-restricted for a reason: children are excluded because they are vulnerable," said Toby Scott, director of communications for the Methodist Church. His concerns were echoed by the Mother's Union, a Christian charity.

"With the appealing fluffy animal imagery, the site is clearly designed to appeal to a young audience," a spokesman said.

Facebook said Bingo Friendzy players would be subject to "strict account acceptance controls verifying their identity, and that they are over 18 and located in the UK".

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Facebook Timeline will be Mandatory from August 8

Social networking site, Facebook announched that Timeline profile page will be compulsory for all users from August 8. Until now, the change to the new-look Facebook, has been voluntary. But Facebook’s 800 million users around the world no longer have a choice as Timeline has been made compulsory starting from August 8. 

Timeline allows members to tell the story of their life on a single page. Timeline allows users a much more visually impactful profile and the ability to share the story of their whole lives. 

Users who have yet to switch to the new look are being served a preview of their redesigned profile before it goes live to their friends on in six days time.

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Facebook Has More Than 83 Million 'Fake' Users

Facebook has revealed that it believes there are now more than 83 million fake users on the social network.

In company filings published this week, it said 8.7% of its 955 million active users might not be real.

Duplicate profiles made up 4.8% of the fakes, user-misclassified accounts amounted to 2.4%, and 1.5% of users were described as "undesirable".

The estimate came at a time of growing concern about the value of marketing on the platform.

In total, the company said it estimated there were 83.09 million fake users, which it classified in three groups.

The largest group of "fakes" were duplicates, which the company defined as "an account that a user maintains in addition to his or her principal account."

Others were described as "user-misclassified" where, Facebook explained "users have created personal profiles for a business, organisation, or non-human entity such as a pet".

Finally, "undesirable" accounts were profiles deemed to be in breach of Facebook's terms of service. Typically, this means profiles which have been used for sending out spam messages or other content.

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