The INQ Cloud Connect has cleared the FCC, launching rumors of a late-summer launch with AT&T.
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Facebook-Enabled Phone One Step Closer To U.S. Launch
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Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. Prison Inmates Increasingly Access Facebook On Mobile Contraband
Alarming numbers of prison inmates have the ability to access Facebook via mobile devices, and corrections officials can’t confiscate the cell phones fast enough.
Windows Phone Has Facebook Places And Photo Tags
The Windows phone version of Facebook now includes Places and photo tagging.
Facebook Updates Mobile Dashboards To Adjust Privacy On The Go
Facebook just unveiled a new dashboard for mobile phone users to see what information they share.
Facebook Places Hasn't Gone Live in India and Israel, Despite Rumors
People can check in to Facebook Places in Israel and India, according to individuals in those countries.
Facebook Unveils New iPhone App With Social Inbox
As promised Facebook released the newest version of their iPhone app today, with several upgrades including their new Social Inbox feature.
Blackberry Users Finally Get Facebook Places
This morning Blackberry announced that they have developed a new version of their Facebook application which also includes support for Facebook Places.
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Pocket Life Brings Real-Time Location App to Facebook
Following Glympse into the integration of mobile location-sharing and Facebook, Pocket Web’s Pocket Life mobile social network now lets you see friends’ status updates and other information on a map in Facebook. There are a number of notable differences between Pocket Life and Glympse, addressed in the rest of this post.
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FaceMic Posts Audio from Your iPhone to Facebook
A new iPhone app allows you to record voice messages and post them directly to your Facebook profile. Called FaceMic, this new app takes advantage of the nifty new features of the iPhone OS 3.0 and provides a way for you to post updates, podcasts and other audio to your Facebook news feed. Just as with videos shared on your Facebook profile, the FacMic audio will play directly from your newsfeed.
Once you download the app to your iPhone (it costs 99 cents), there’s no registration necessary. FaceMic is integrated with Facebook Connect, so you can use your Facebook credentials to login. From there, you can pull up the app anytime, and start recording. Once you’re satisfied with the audio message, hit publish and it will appear on your Facebook profile.
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Access Facebook on Your Palm
For those Palm users that were jealous of Blackberry owners who are able to access Facebook right on their phone, your desires have now been fulfilled by the developers at Palm. A new application enables users to access Facebook directly on the Palm® CentroTM, TreoTM 755p, and TreoTM 680 smartphones. I’m not aware of the number of Palm users out there but I’m sure there is a substantial number.
I have a better recommendation for the Palm users: buy the 3G iPhone! Alternatively, you could switch to a Blackberry if you didn’t want a full touch screen. Mobile web use is on the rise and applications like this one are helping continue that trend. There’s no word on whether or not this application was developed in conjunction with Facebook but based on Facebook’s involvement with the development of the Blackberry application, I would guess Facebook was involved with this app.
Back in April I wrote that the Blackberry application has been installed 1 million times. That trend has continued and while less than 250 people have downloaded the Palm application, I would expect that number to increase rapidly. If you are a Palm owner and would like to access Facebook from your phone, go install the Facebook® for Palm application. You can also download the application directly to your phone by going to http://mobile.palm.com/facebook.
