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Facebook Gave Away Large Amounts of User Data to Device Manufacturers
Most recently, The New York Times published a report accusing Facebook of giving away too much user information to various device manufacturers such as BlackBerry, Microsoft, Apple, and Samsung. According to the report, over a decade ago the social media giant started collaborating with device manufacturers. It helped them create Facebook applications for their devices…
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Sharing a Photo Of a Cat Via PM Gets Your Facebook Account Disabled
Update: 03/10/16 Its been over a day since the bug has been fixed. All the affected accounts have been reinstated. Yes! You read the title right. Sharing the photo of a cat in a suit (via a private message) is all it takes to get locked out of your Facebook account. I did not buy…
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Facebook Addiction Control Part 3: Remove Facebook Ticker
This is the third post on our ongoing series on Facebook Addiction Control – How to Remove Facebook Ticker. Have a look at the first and second post. The reason behind the massive success of Facebook that it has mastered the art of productivity-killing by being the best procrastination tool out there. Apart from News Feed…
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Facebook Messenger is now available for iPad
Facebook’s dedicated chat app, Facebook Messenger, is finally available for the iPad. The news comes three years after Facebook acquired group messaging app Beluga and later built that technology into Messenger. The iPad app looks almost exactly like the iPhone app, except that it’s formatted to fit the screen. The list of all your conversations with different friends…
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Facebook Addiction Control Part 2: Clean Up The Facebook News Feed
This is second post in our on-going series of Facebook Addiction Control, see the first post here. In our last post we covered about the technique to completely get rid of your Facebook account instantly. We received a lot of messages and emails from the readers saying that they do are troubled by Facebook but…
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Facebook Addiction Control Part 1: How To delete Facebook account Instantly
So, you are fed up with Facebook? It is consuming a lot of your time and having a serious effect on your productivity? Do you want to delete your Facebook account right at this moment? Well, that’s not so easy, Facebook has made a lot of effort to make you keep using your account. 1.…
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Facebook Officially Launches Slingshot
Facebook has officially announced Slingshot, one week after accidentally releasing an early version on Apple’s iTunes App Store. Slingshot is a messaging app that lets you send your friends an ephemeral photo or video. The app packs in all the usual standard messaging features, like options to overlay text or doodles. But there’s a catch — if you want to…
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Man Faces Arrest For Anti Modi Comments On Facebook
We at Techzei cover news from the tech world but at times there are political issues which directly or indirectly affect the freedom we enjoy across the internet. We have previously covered about congress trying to “censor” the internet and also innocent people getting arrested for exercising their fundamental rights. This is one such situation,…
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Everything you need to know about the Facebook’s Whatsapp Acquisition
Facebook has a huge wallet and Zuckerberg likes spending money from it. The biggest news from today is that Facebook bought WhatsApp. The news has blown up, almost everyone knows about this now. It is not because of the acquisition, but the price. A lot of eyebrows were raised back when Facebook bought Instagram for…
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Story behind How Facebook Paper App was developed
One thing I know for now is that Facebook developers use Quora. When a question like “What was it like to help develop Paper?” is posted on Quora, it is answered by five different developers from the already small team. But, one answer by Jason Barrett Prado, Engineer on Paper had an extremely detailed answer…
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Could this be Facebook’s New Font ?
Facebook is always dropping new updates to the public, like the New Login page which was spotted while back .Today it was noticed that facebook was using a new font, when checked with the CSS Styling it was true. “Helvetica Neue” and “Helvetica” have been added to the facebook’s font list. Facebook showed me what I think might…
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Facebook Introduces Alpha Build App Testing For Android
Facebook has done something interesting for all Android app testers, the ability to test an app in its alpha stage.Facebook App for Android is probably the first major app to have alpha builds tested with the public.The alpha testing program will be similar to the beta program, but just that the app will be at…
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Chennai Gets Its Own Facebook User Group Community
Chennaities are no strangers to Facebook, many developers from chennai are actively involved in the use of facebook technologies and also other open source projects available on developer.facebook.com One thing that the city lacked was a community to bring together all the like minded individuals, It would be real cool to actually have a functional group…
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New Facebook Login Page Appears Again
Facebook showed me the New Facebook Login page again which I had reported over a month ago.Only this time I waited and refreshed the page a few times until they stopped showing me the new login page and also this time the background image kept changing after a few minutes of refresh. This is how…
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Tech News Round Up – Week 5
Facebook’s Gold Standard Facebook is now putting restrictions on the ads that are being displayed on their site after companies like Marks and Spencer and BSkyB had complaints filed against them for placing ads on pages with offensive material. “We recognize we need to fo more to prevent situations where ads are displayed alongside controversial Pages…