Facebook has just released the Facebook Messenger app for Windows Vista and Windows XP platforms and made it publicly available for download. The Facebook Messenger app has been available for Windows ever since its release in March followed by the first limited release in November last year but its compatibility was confined to Windows 7 [...]

Yesterday, Twitter publicly disclosed details on the amount of control government and governmental bodies have over our Twitter accounts. Shockingly, the government does much more than let the tweets flow on Twitter. It uses it as one of the means to gain access to an individual’s information. In a startling first revelation called the Twitter [...]

If you know about Facebook, you pretty much know the importance of keeping your online contacts safe, unaltered and precisely, the way you want them to be. But, a recent bug in the Facebook’s debacle-spelling email address rollout messed up emails of a muckle of users. Facebook users around the globe have been complaining about [...]

Joining Microsoft and Google in the social networking space, Microsoft announced its own social network. It’s called So.cl (read “social”). True to its name, Microsoft So.cl brings a whole lot of social features to your web. Basically, it’s a research project developed by Microsoft FUSE Labs. It combines the experience of the web and at [...]

Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site has now been showing vulnerability to unknown attacks that led some unsolicited and obscene content (Facebook Spam, to put it nicely) to be posted on user’s walls. This is one of the first attacks on Facebook that’s considered to be so widespread and unacceptable. Users infected with this [...]

Sean Garrett, the head of Twitter’s PR operations has just announced via Twitter that he’s leaving his job at Twitter for unobvious reasons. The person responsible for building up the Twitter’s PR team hasn’t announced what’s up his sleeve next. That’s a bit cryptic, just as his series of tweets that eventually revealed his plans [...]

Needless to say, most of us use Facebook and we all like to receive instant notifications from Facebook on our mobile phones, on the go. So d0 I, which is why I subscribed to text notifications on one of my other feature phones. This wasn’t the first time, though. But, this is the first time [...]

Microsoft today finalized its acquisition of Skype announcing a closure of the $8.5 billion deal. The deal was originally announced in May 2011 but was only complete today after it cleared regulatory approval. Now that Microsoft has completely acquired Skype, Skype’s CEO Tony Bates will be the President of the Skype division at Microsoft. He [...]

Apple, according to all fair reports, is prepping to release the next generation iPhone this October. Apple is also expected to publicly release iOS 5 around the same time. While that hype is building up incredibly strong, word is in the air that the Facebook folks may share the stage with Apple. This suggests that [...]

Google+, Google’s latest venture into social networking arena  recently went public, and before that happened, it already roped in as many as 10 million users. Recently, Google+ signup was made public, entirely, and reports reveal there’s been some good activity with regard to the stats. Google is now said to have about 43 million Google+ [...]