Facebook will launch its long-awaited iPad app at Apple’s iPhone 5 launch event on Oct. 4, Mashable has learned. In addition to the iPad app, Facebook is also expected to release a revamped version of its iPhone app and may unveil an HTML5-based mobile app marketplace.
Thought this was quite funny, what happens when Facebook changes its layout… Image from: Endless Origami
Global search corporation Google, Inc. added to its already hefty empire when it announced its planned acquisition of Motorola Mobility the morning of August 15. The purchase marked Google’s most expensive acquisition to-date at a staggering $12.5 billion.
Google has acquired more than 100 companies over the past ten years.
Source: Mashable
Google announced Monday morning that it will acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.
Motorola is one of 39 manufacturers of handsets that use Google’s Android operating system. Continue reading
A report from one Japanese website marks September 8 as the date of Apple’s next media event, at which some expect the company to launch the iPhone 5.
The company has historically released its new phones at its summer Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). This year, in the wake of the Verizon iPhone 4 release, that tradition failed to pan out.
Apple’s annual September media event seems like a logical alternative, although it has in the past been reserved for iPod launches. Continue reading
Over at Smashing Magazine, they have compiled a comprehensive list of conferences and events for designers and developers for the year 2011. Check it out at SMASHING Magazine!
Sources reveal that Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Fan page was hacked earlier today, the page has now been taken down but you can see a screenshot of the page just before it was taken down over at Tech Crunch or for the lazy ones, the status message read:
Let the hacking begin: If facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook let its users invest in Facebook in a social way? Why not transform Facebook into a ‘social business’ the way Nobel Price winner Muhammad Yunus described it? http://bit.ly/fs6rT3 What do you think? #hackercup2011
Came across this over at Mashable…. using the new Facebook Profile you can generate some wacky creative pages for yourself, started by a French artist – Alexandre Oudin, more and more people seem to be getting involved.
Check out more examples of creative profile pages at Mashable
We’ve all enjoyed a taste of Starbucks coffee during our time, whether it be during our lunch breaks or the 10 minutes before getting into work. 40 years since it took over the world, they have changed their logo, notably the black has been removed and predominantly just green. See what you think. I’m liking it! You can view the full story and its history over at starbucks.com Continue reading
Fed up with using the same old font? Now you can use your own custom fonts with Typekit, the fonts are hosted on their own servers, and providing you know HTML and CSS you can customise them as you would with regular web safe fonts using custom classes and id’s. You can sign up for a 30 day trial at Typekit.
An alternative solution is to use Google Font Directory which hosts a fair amount of custom fonts already for free, or you can also choose to submit a font…