iDubba, a TV programme recommendation guide has teamed up with television channel ZCafe to launch a mobile app for Android users. Dubbed as ‘iCouch‘ the free app enables users to interact with each other in real time via an interactive chat room. The social TV app will showcase popular American Drama Series ‘Grey’s Anatomy’  on 1 May. The service lets you chat while...

Social blogging platform Tumblr has finally launched a dedicated  Windows Phone 8 app. The app enables Tumblr users to experience the social blogging platform on Microsoft’s mobile operating system, complete with live tiles as well as most of the features that other mobile Tumblr users have been enjoying. The new Tumblr for Windows Phone 8 app lets you post “just about anything from just...

Nokia has unveiled the latest device in its Asha family, the Nokia Asha 210. Available in single- or dual-SIM variants, the phone with qwerty keyboard is the first to have a dedicated WhatsApp button for fast access to the instant messaging app. Nokia touts that the 210 is “the most social Asha yet“. WhatsApp has been available on Asha devices for sometime, but the partnership between...

CCAvenue, a popular payment gateway provider has announced a new payment system which will allow sellers to quickly sell and collect payments from social platforms. Called SNIP, it stands for Social Network In-Stream Payments. The idea is nice as it reduces the setup for the merchant and gives an easy way to monetize social for brands. The company says that its product will enable users to sell their...

Popular cross-platform messenger WhatsApp has found a home on hundreds of millions of smartphones. Now, the global smartphone messaging service is claiming to have more than 200 million monthly users. WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum revealed that the smartphone app is even more popular than microblogging site Twitter. It currently has over 200 million monthly active users, who send out and receive over 20 billion...

In this age of free web services, ads have become the number one source of revenue. However, these ads have evolved. They are no longer static and but have been made to become smarter (or creepier) so that said service can learn more about your behavior, even outside the site. While the need for revenue is understandable, retargeting and behavioral analysis of a person’s web browsing habits even...

Facebook recently revamped its timeline by making it easier for us to share richer stories about the books, movies, TV shows and music in our lives. The social network has made it easy to update the About Page on your Facebook Timeline which shows sections like movies, music, books and more. For example users can add movies to their “watched” or “want to watch” lists directly from News Feed....

Facebook Gifts which was launched as a way for consumers to buy physical and digital gifts for their friends has now expanded to India, UK and Canada. However, users can only send gifts to their friends who live in the U.S. The service launched in September 2012, rolled out to all U.S. users by mid December, but it was not available in other countries until now. I tried to send a gift to my brother...

In its quest to juice as much revenue as possible, Facebook has now started charging its UK users money in order for them to be able to message celebrities who have an account on the social network. According to a source in the British press, the price for messaging a celebrity was around 10 pounds i.e roughly Rs. 800. Facebook has also started charging users for messaging people who are outside their...

Facebook announced its new experiment called Facebook Home yesterday. Last week, speculation was rife among silicon valley tech pundits about Facebook’s event and what ‘Come see our home on Android’ meant. Facebook phone and custom android OS were some of the possibilities being discussed. What Facebook ended up showing was – to put it frankly – pretty okay! Facebook home is what...