HTC and Facebook unveiled the new Facebook-HTC First smartphone. HTC First is a new integrated Facebook phone that is going to use the newly-revealed Facebook Home user interface.
The Facebook-inspired HTC First phone comes preloaded with the newly-announced Facebook Home, a new user interface overlay that replaces the Home screen of select Android smartphones such as the Samsung Galaxy S III, Samsung Galaxy S4, HTC One, HTC One X and HTC One X+ with Facebook’s software.

The HTC First smartphone features the Snapdragon 400 dual-core processor and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS. The device features a 4.3-inch display with 1280 x 720 pixels resolution. It has a 5-megapixel camera with 1080p HD video capture, a flash, and 4G LTE from AT&T.

HTC first will also come preloaded with Instagram, and will come in four different body colors. This mobile phone will be sold exclusively by AT&T in the United States for $99.99 with a 2-year contract.

HTC First Specifications

• 4.96 x 2.56 x 0.35 (in) (LxWxT)
• 4.3 inch, HD 720p, 341 PPI
• Weight: 4.37 oz
• Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
• Facebook Home UI
• Qualcomm 8930AA, dual core 1.4 (Snapdragon 400 MSM8930)
• Internal storage: 16GB, available capacity varies (this spec suggests different editions are on the way)
• NFC, Bluetooth 4.0
• 5-megapixel camera on back, 1.6-megapixel camera on front, both front and back with BSI sensor
• 2000 mAh battery

Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, today announced that its prepaid mobile customers can enjoy free access to the mobile application of popular social networking service – Facebook. As part of this limited period offer, prepaid Airtel mobile customers can now access the Facebook mobile application free of charge for upto 500MB of monthly data usage till 15th February 2013. External link(s) will be charged as per prevailing rates. Beyond free usage, prevailing rates will apply. Airtel prepaid mobile customers can now leverage the exciting ‘Free Facebook on Airtel’ limited period offer to post a status, upload a photo and do everything else on their favourite social network at no charge.

Headquartered in New Delhi (India), Bharti Airtel currently ranks amongst the top 4 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers, of which, 96% of its base are prepaid customers.

Airtel prepaid mobile customers can now download the Facebook application through www.d.facebook.com/install and get started. For more information, please visit www.airtel.in

If you Reliance telecom subscriber there is good news for you. Because Reliance has launched a new plan for all prepaid users. This plan will let them make unlimited usage of the Facebook Messenger app at Rs 16 per month only.

The offer is valid for Reliance GSM subscribers across the country. The Facebook Messenger Plan has a validity period of 30 days from the date of recharge and the plan is auto-renewed every 30 days unless you unsubscribe.

The Facebook messenger app is available for Android, BlackBerry and iOS users. Recently Facebook gave Android users in India the option to download the app and log in with just their name and mobile number. Previously you needed a Facebook account to use the app. App Is already made potion in top five Free Android app

Facebook the social-network giant bring Facebook Developer World HACK 2012 to India.Banglore is become witness of this event on September 17, 2012, The Facebook World Hack 2012 extravaganza will begin on August 23 in Austin, USA, and will culminate in Moscow, Russia on October 1, 2012.
The Facebook World Hack 2012 extravaganza will begin on August 23 in Austin, USA, and will culminate in Moscow, Russia on October 1, 2012.

The World Hack events will take place in these cities starting August 23:

• Austin, USA – August 23
• Mexico City, Mexico – August 27
• Buenos Aires, Argentina – August 29
• São Paulo, Brazil – August 31
• Berlin, Germany – September 11
• Taipei, Taiwan – September 11
• Jakarta, Indonesia – September 13
• Bangalore, India – September 17
• Barcelona, Spain – September 18
• Vancouver, Canada – September 20
• Warsaw, Poland — September 28
• Moscow, Russia – October 1

The 8-hour Facebook World Hack 2012 will cover the various technical nuances of development, including developing apps for Facebook, iOS and even Open graph. Also, the best developers will be rewarded.

The region-wise winners of the contest will get an opportunity to visit the San Fransisco Facebook office.

Register for World Hack 2012 here.

Facebook has officially launched a Messenger desktop client for Windows PCs.

The arrival of the standalone app, which was previewed late last year, follows the launch of chat-only apps for iPhone and Android smartphones.
Some of the more interesting features of the standalone client include an interactive news ticker and notification inbox to keep up to date on what your friends are liking every second. And in the end, that’s what Facebook is hoping to do with the client – get even more engagement from its users
Missing on the new client are video chat through Skype and group chat, both of which can be done on the Web version of the Facebook site.
Windows XP and Vista users are also out of luck as the client is only available for Windows 7 users.
Facebook says a Mac client is likely to arrive in the near future.

Via: VentureBeat

Manchester United the English football club launche its first facebook page. Now fans of Manchester United across the world will be able to interact with the club in a way that has never been experienced before with the introduction of its new Facebook Page.

With This initiative Manchester United is one of the first organisations in the world to showcase this new format with features like cover photo and Page timeline.
The new Facebook Page of Manchester United will bring the Reds closer to its supporters across the world, giving them increased levels of interactivity and exciting new content.
As well as keeping up to date with the latest news and developments at the club, fans will now be able to easily navigate over 100 years of United’s history through the timeline. From the birth of the club in 1878 to this season’s Barclays Premier League campaign, fans will now be able to interact with every moment of the Reds’ rich history.
United’s Facebook Page publishes in 18 languages and is followed by over 22.9 million fans worldwide. Over 300 pieces of new content have been added to the Page in anticipation of today’s launch, demonstrating the club’s commitment to creating dynamic and engaging new media.
Manchester United’s commercial director Richard Arnold commented: “Manchester United is proud to be one of the first global brands launching a new Facebook Page. We are committed to launching innovative digital services that enable our fans to get closer to the club and our new Facebook Page is an exciting example of these efforts.
“Manchester United has 134 years of history and being able to record those emotive and memorable moments is important to us. The Facebook Page enables

After Facebook Now Twitter in collobration with Airtel is offering free access to Twitter’s mobile version. Airtel customers can enjoy Twitter services on http://mobile.twitter.com without incurring additional data usage charges.
This offer is valid till March 1, 2012. Users will also be able to get Twitter updates via SMS for free. While Twitter usage will be free, opening other links shared by Twitter users will incur normal data usage charges. Airtel will alert users whenever they navigate away from Twitter to a different website.

Facebook, had in May 2010, teamed up with 50 mobile phone operators to offer cellphone users 0.facebook.com, a stripped-down version of the social networking site that can be accessed without incurring data charges.
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source:ibn

Facebook the social network giant launch their most anticipated iPad app on Monday. Along with this now it provide support for social games on the mobile versions of its online service also introduce.
ipad user get experience of facebook on their pad also. now user can get notifications, chat, the News Feed, photos, messages, groups,settings and search on their iPad app.

Facebook said the iPad app will offer enhanced photo-viewing capabilities and messaging capabilities.With their ipad app mobile user also get new experience when they are able to play facebook games on their mobile handset. Facebook users previously had to use their computers for most of their Facebook gaming and app needs, but now they should be able to play and participate from almost any device with a web browser — and they may get a better experience if it happens to be an Apple iOS device.
Now facbook user get similar experience of PC on mobile devices such as Apple’s iPhone and Android smartphones will receive alerts in their newsfeed when their friends play certain games or invite them to play along with them.
Facebook said that the mobile versions of its website will now offer tighter integration with third-party social games and applications. Those games, such as Zynga’s Farmville, are extremely popular among Facebook users who access the service on their PCs.
But before running facbook games you should confirm that your mobile support HTML5.
If you are using an Android phone, you will be taken to an HTML5 version in your mobile web browser.
Facebook said the specialized iPhone app version of its service would not support its Credits currency, in accordance with Apple’s terms of service.

If You like Google+ and you are not ready to leave facebook, then its very hectic to update status in both account one by one, here I provide a way to update your facebook and Google + status simultaneously without any extension . All you need to do is grab your Facebook mobile email address for posting, add it to its own circle, then include that circle whenever you post on Google+ and turn on notifications. This will cause notifications to be sent to the Facebook mobile email address and those updates will be posted to your Facebook account.

Follow simple step for Updating status simultaneously on facebook and google +

Facebook provides each user with a unique email that they can use to update their Facebook with. This way you can email a status update, picture, etc. without needing to access the site or the app, plus it works with any email address.
We can use that email address to cross post from Google+, here are the steps to configure it:
1. Login to your Facebook account and head to http://www.facebook.com/mobile/. In the middle of the page there will be an email address that starts with some random characters followed by “@m.facebook.com”. Copy it.

2. Go to your Google+ Circles page. Create a new circle (I just called mine “Facebook”) and add the email address that you just copied as the only person in the circle.

3. Now just post as you normally would but include your new circle in the post and check the boxes to notify by email.
You can use the same method to update Twitter as well.
Source :lifehacker

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