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Facebook games are an extremely popular way to waste time. Whether it’s Farmville, The Sims Social or Empires and Allies, Facebook games have become an excellent revenue source for developers who are managing to turn addicting games into profit. However, many of these developers are soon going to … [Read more...]
Android is the opensource mobile phone operating system which is a rival to Apple’s iOS, Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system and RIM’s Blackberry OS. Android is a very open platform meaning that it is available on a variety of phones, including the HTC Evo 3D and the Samsung Galaxy S2. … [Read more...]
A big part of the hacking community is the segment that deals with Jailbreaking devices. For those who are not aware of what this means, to jailbreak a device means to break open the operating system allowing you to bypass restrictions and install unofficial software. For a device that has a very … [Read more...]
The Olympic Games are the sports event held every four years which attracts viewers from all over the world, as the greatest athletes from every country on this planet compete for gold, fame and ultimately the opportunity to show themselves as the best at what they do. … [Read more...]
Everybody loves viral videos! They are a great distraction from your normal everyday working life, and they bring joy into people’s lives. Remember the spinning motorbike race crash video, or the breakdancing gorilla video? Click through to watch them if you haven’t already. … [Read more...]
Celebrities use Twitter as a way to promote themselves, their projects and to give their viewers a window into their lives. They therefore become massive targets for spammers and scammers who want to spread their piece of malware or their virus into people’s computers. The latest celebrity to fall … [Read more...]
Since the release of Angry Birds, which is arguably the first smash hit in terms of Smartphone applications, there have been hundreds and thousands of applications created and distributed across a number of Smartphone operating systems. However the problem for people like me is that they lack the … [Read more...]
When it comes to Facebook, public relations is not one of their strong points due to their insistence on opting people into their new features without telling them. As one of my Facebook friends recently posted “I'm sick of them rolling out new features, like face scanning, not telling me, and … [Read more...]
Everybody uses a web browser of some sort in order to connect to the internet. Google Chrome is a very popular browser, and one of the advantages of using this browser over its competition is the constant stream of automatic updates that the browser receives. Now Google is releasing the twelfth … [Read more...]
As a person who understands technology, and the need to constantly update my apps, devices, browsers etc in order to keep up to date with the latest firmware and features, nothing annoys me more than seeing my non techie friends completely ignoring the prompt to update their software! Google also … [Read more...]
When you become as big as Facebook, your users become targets for scams which attempt to get a hold of your personal information. Thankfully in the world of the internet, there are always people around to help point out these scams in order to protect them and get them banned. But what happens when … [Read more...]
When using a mobile device, the web browser is a gateway to many destinations. However, I also like looking up the latest news on Twitter, and I enjoy talking to my fans on Facebook. If only there was a mobile browser that allowed me to do all that in one application... … [Read more...]
Facebook is a big part of many people’s social lives, allowing us to keep in touch and communicate but it can also be an unwilling host to different scams trying to get a hold of information. This is why Facebook has an age limiter in place, denying access to anybody under the age of 13. … [Read more...]
Everybody loves Angry Birds! Whether it be Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio, or just regular Angry Birds, the mobile game has been a massive success, dominating the charts on many application marketplaces. … [Read more...]
Chances are if you own an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, chances are you use it to play video games on the go. Whether its Angry Birds or Fight Night Champion, mobile gaming on an iOS platform is a big hit. … [Read more...]
We here at Online Social Media love Angry Birds. Whether it be the most recent Angry Birds Rio, or the original smash hit, Angry Birds is a popular game and you can usually find it at the top of the charts on your Android phone, iPhone and Windows Phone 7 application marketplace of choice. … [Read more...]
If you are the proud owner of an iPad, you are most likely using it as a multimedia device. This could include games, video or even for learning. As we have seen with the app store, where there is a need for extra functionality for the tablet device, there will be an application created to provide … [Read more...]
Things move quickly in the world of web browsers. Less than a month since the release of Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4, Microsoft has already begun previews of the next version of their browser, named Internet Explorer 10. … [Read more...]
Films have not been kind to Mortal Kombat. If you’ve seen any of the Mortal Kombat films, you know that they don’t do justice to the source material. You may have seen the fight scene trailer for the new Mortal Kombat legacy series, but now the first episode has been released. … [Read more...]
Technology is awesome. It allows us to view movies in 3D, and it gives us a platform for political debates, but for technology to work we need power. Google, the search engine giant who brings you services such as YouTube and Gmail, has invested $168 million in a solar energy plant which will be … [Read more...]
Technology advances at a rapid rate, and governments in charge of education are struggling to keep up. In an age where pupils spend much of their time on Facebook, and where schoolyard issues are often broadcasted to the entire world, teachers are faced with a challenge- how to adapt their teaching … [Read more...]
If you are a PC gamer, chances are you have used Valve’s Steam service. Steam is a PC video game service which allows users to buy games, and then download them from the internet and play it on their computers with ease. These games are then tied to the users Steam account, and they can be … [Read more...]
If you use a computer, chances are you have used a USB device at one time or another. Previously on Windows machines, when you plugged in a USB memory stick, the functionality known as ‘Autorun’ was enabled, meaning that as soon as you plugged in the device, software could be automatically … [Read more...]
Companies are tracking your every move on the internet! It’s a scary statement but in many cases, Big Brother is indeed watching you! Otherwise known as ‘targeted advertising’, companies take information about you gained by bits of data saved on your computer called ‘cookies’, which often … [Read more...]
In the very profitable search engine market, two giants are going head to head. Google is currently the dominant search engine in the US and the UK, whilst Microsoft’s Bing service is attempting to gain a piece of that very valuable marketshare. … [Read more...]
