FACEBOOK PHONE TO DISPLAY ITS SOCIAL NETWORK

With the popularity facebook has gained, been known as the world’s largest social network and it’s frequent photo uploads, status updates, comments on status updates and likes that comes more often from mobile devices.  The interest of unveiling a smart phone that would have it’s social network activities on the core parts of a mobile device and thereby making it easier to carry out facebook services.

Facebook is set to reveal it’s own smart phone which will display it’s social network and rumors say the smart phone is to make use of the Google’s Android platform and be manufactured by HTC.

In the year 2011, INQ Social mobile unveiled a phone that had most facebook’s services integrated into the home screen- INQ CLOUD TOUCH, and after bagging awards for “The best value phone”; “Best Social Networking Handset” and “Best Android Phone” for the year 2011 at the mobile choice consumer awards but made limited progress and got frustrated off the market by the present world’s largest smart phone manufacturer, Samsung mobile.

The California based social network company has between the year 2011 and present added some amazing features such as the facebook messenger, that allows free text messaging and free voice calls; camera apps that also aids in tagging and uploading photos directly to facebook and also the poke app- a private messaging service. The social networking company has been advised by Mr Meehan to work hard on introducing better apps that could increase it’s social network activities and well embedded into the Android and IOS platforms instead of revealing an HTC android phone with its social services integrated on it.

 A great idea by Mark Zuckerberg but some factors should be considered such as the success of the product in the midst of Samsung and apple products and the choice of the consumers. Telecommunication analyst, Jan Dawson said at ovum that the concept was a solution to a non-existing problem. 

The Big Question is do we want a Facebook phone said gigaom.com? Why a facebook phone when we are satisfied with the facebook apps?

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U.S ANTITRUST AUTHORITIES APPROVES THE TRANSACTION BETWEEN FACEBOOK AND MICROSOFT

The

 adverts business transactions between Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. has gained approval from the U.S Antitrust authorities as Googcle In. is set to stand strong competition from Facebook.
Facebook, on the 28th of Feb., proclaimed it's interest in acquiring Microsoft's atlas advertising platform in order to create it's advertising network that would incur an in-depth competition with Google in the online adverts displaying.

INCREASE THE BATTERY LIFE OF YOUR ANDROID PHONE

Microsoft acquired atlas in the year 2007 as part of it's purchase of aQuantitative for the sum of $6billion and after talks with facebook are ready to run a partnership deal with the California based company, so as to create a strong rivalry for Google Inc. According to Dave o' Hara, microsoft still remains an Atlas user.
 The director of monetization products marketing- Brian Boland said in an interview, that with this deal, facebook  would be able to maintain the performance of their ads-services on both it's own services  and other third-party websites to aid advertisers in creating better campaigns inclusive of it's own service as Mark Zuckerberg yearns towards  increasing the company's revenue. 

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AIRTEL MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION NOW AVAILABLE FOR WHATSAPP

Airtel in collaboration with whatsapp has made it possible for airtel users to send sms, share multimedia and stay in touch with friends.
Whatsapp is a mobile application that runs on various platforms such as Android, Ios, Blackberry, Nokia symbian, Nokia S40 and Nokia windows and aids in keeping in touch with friends by sending of sms but makes use of data plans. The application has helped slash down the rate of phone calls.

 The Exclusive collaboration between Airtel Nigeria and whatsapp which happens to be one of it's kind in Nigeria has made it possible for whatsapp users to share files and stay in touch with friends and family for a length time of 30 days(1 month) at a flat rate of N100.

INSTALL WHATSAPP ON ALL NOKIA S40 (JAVA) PHONES AND KEEP IN TOUCH WITH FRIENDS.

To subscribe to this package, dial *948# and get unlimited access to whatsapp for 1 full month. Customers who possess a data plan of 200 and above can also have access to same unlimited acces and also enjoy their data plan with no interference.

Which is better- !month subscription at the rate of N100 or the normal consumption of data plan?

WHATSAPP MESSENGER NOW AVAILABLE IN BLACKBERRY 10

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KNOW THE ACTOR/ACTRESS IN THAT MOVIE- GOOGLE PLAY MOVIE/TV APP

Wish to know that actor/actress and his biographies as you watch a movie? Google has made it available. Information's about the movie are displayed while watching your favorite movies on the Google play movies or Tv android application.

You certainly don't need to visit the Google search engine for the actor/actress of that movie you watched to have a knowledge of the actor, get to know him as you watch. Google displays info cards on the movies or Tv apps when it is paused.

Information such as the actor/actress name, their roles played in the movie, biographies, name of the song played in the movie and related movies acted by individual actors/actress are displayed. By tapping on a certain actor/actress face, his/her profiles are displayed

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CHECK- PRINT FILES/IMAGES DIRECTLY FROM YOUR ANDROID AND IOS DEVICE

This feature is made available to U.S residents who posses android devices running the android 4.0 (ice cream  sandwich) platform and above. This feature would soon be made available to other devices and countries as posted by the product manager for Google play- Ben Serridge.
Why not Zoom to Google play store and check it out.

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GOOGLE UNVEILS SAME DAY DELIVERY E-COMMERCE SHOPPING

Google unveiled a same day delivery shopping express in San Francisco region, which allows local residents place orders on their desired items and get it delivered same day.
Google who is with this, pulling up a competition with the world's largest online retailer- Amazon .com by acquiring a company that delivers e-commerce goods to retailers(BufferBox) in November last year are so desperate in  expanding their line of business in service to humanity and stay glued in touching the globe with it's home of technology.

Google has offered a 6 months free delivery for purchased goods but yet to reveal the price at which the delivery would be made available to local retailers.
 With the inclusion of Raley's Nob Hill Foods, the Francisco's blue bottle coffee, american Eagles, Walgreens, Palo Alto sport shop and toy world in the google shopping express service, local retailers can now place orders and be sure of their goods been delivered same day. As time goes on, the service would be expanded to a wider coverage as stated by the product management director, Tom Fallows.

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PRINT FILES/IMAGES DIRECTLY FROM YOUR ANDROID AND IOS DEVICE

Surprised?   Pondering on how possible it is to print out your files and images from your android and IOS devices without needing to transfer them to your personal computer or removing the SD card? This process has been a great disadvantage to  mobile users but with google’s innovation- the Google cloud print, printing from your mobile device directly to your local printer is life at it’s peak.

                To carry out this task, a local printer should be made available and connected to a computer with google chrome installed on it. Sign into your google and if you have none, then you will need to sign up.  Go to your google chrome, click on the google menu icon on the toolbar.  

        

Click on settings => Advanced settings. Locate the google cloud print at the bottom of the list and click on the add printers button.  Options are given on the type of printer to be used but to make use of your local printer, classic printer is selected.

                After the selection of the classic printer, the next page would reveal where to  add your printers,  click on add your printer and google would automatically acquire the printers installed on your computer and notify those online or offline. Now your google cloud print is set up and you are ready to print your documents.  Click on the print button on the screen to select a document to print or select other ways to print and this will re-direct you to a page that would reveal the applications that can be used to google print  with either your android or IOS device.

APPLICATIONS THAT SUPPORT PRINTING FROM YOUR ANDROID DEVICES.

These are few of the apps that you would find in your google play store, that could help in printing your documents directly from your android device-:

i)                    PRINTER SHARE- This application  supports the printing of webpages, text messages, contacts, emails, photos, google docs ,e.t.c

ii)                   EASYPRINT- This is a print application that supports the use of more than one google account simultaneously.  It stores list of printers in local storage of the device.   With easy print, you can print out your emails, webpages, photos, pdf files,e.t.c

iii)                 PRINTJINNI- it is a wireless  mobile printing application that also supports the printing of pdf files, Ms office docs, emails, photos, e.t.c

APPLICATIONS THAT SUPPORT PRINTING FROM YOUR IOS DEVICES.

PRINTCENTRAL PRO- It is an application tha supports the printing to a number of services, inclusive of  google cloud print and wi-fi printing. It allows the printing of contacts, text messages, web pages, emails and attachments, e.t.c

Google cloud print is an ease to the stress of printing.  With less configurations, you are connected to your local printer and can print your documents wherever you are on the globe.

                                You have any mobile printing or mobile printing apps you know or make use of? Share with us.

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Increase the battery life of your android phone

It's a well known fact that android phones posses a low battery life. Almost all android users are interested on how to increase the battery life of their devices and i want to share a little secret on it.
From my experience gathered in the use of Android phones such as google 1(G1), samsung galaxy S1 and S3, i could tell you that i have been able to conserve my battery usage with these few tips even with my constant internet access, calls, messaging,audio listening and games. it has helped grown a productive web presence.

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HOW TO INCREASE YOUR ANDROID PHONE BATTERY'S LIFE

i) Get some free apps from the android market such as 2x battery and advance task killer for battery management and task management.
ii) Always kill the task usage of your device with the aid of advance task killer.
iii) Clear the RAM as frequent as possible.
iv) Disable blue-tooth and wi-fi when not in use.
v) Disable background apps. { Go to MENU=>SETTINGS=>ACCOUNTS AND SYNC=>BACKGROUND DATA. Then un-tick the box}
vi) Be conscious of the applications installed by installing only very important apps. Also ensure less apps are installed on your device.
vii) Avoid the use of live wallpapers. This consumes much of your battery and could also crash your device.
viii) Turn off your data connection when retiring to bed.
ix) The use of pattern lock should be enabled in securing your device.
x) Adjust your screen's brightness to a lower resolution { Go to MENU=>SETTINGS=>DISPLAY=>BRIGHTNESS}

     These few tricks has helped a lot in conserving my battery life and if adhered to, will aid increase the battery life of your Android device.

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