BlackBerry (formerly RIM) CEO Thorsten Heins is not happy. And there’s no better way to vent his frustrations than to criticize rival smartphone maker Apple’s iPhone, the industry’s leading smartphone in terms of revenue.
Placing third on the list of the world’s top smartphone makers apparently gave the chief executive officer an advantage: to point out how outdated the iPhone user interface has been as of late.
While Heins continues with his onslaught to promote the new …

Google has announced that Android division head Andy Rubin will leave his role as Senior Vice President of Mobile and Digital Content at Google.
Andrew E. Rubin co-founded and was the CEO of Android, Inc., a software company acquired by Google in 2005.
Rubin will no longer helm the Android division, but he will stay in the company and wait for his yet unspecified new assignment.
Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page personally wrote words of praise to Rubin in a blog post.
Andy has surpassed the …

Facebook still mulls over support for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protecting Act (CISPA), a moot bill reintroduced by the U.S. Congress.
The social network has not completely dropped support for the controversial bill, because it wants to take caution on how lawmakers navigate CISPA.
The bill debuted last year, and Facebook was on its initial list of warm supporters. But the updated list of firms that fervently endorse the bill no longer includes the social network and a few other …

Google recently announced the imminent July 1 retirement of Google Reader, arguably the world’s most popular RSS reader, because of the decline in usage. But thousands of petitioners beg to differ, as they go online with a signature campaign to save the service.
The company has now decided to close a total of 70 features as part of its “spring cleaning” under the helm of CEO and co-founder Larry Page.
The chief executive, who took the seat from current Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, …

Google has announced its second spring of cleaning under CEO and co-founder Larry Page. And it sadly includes RSS feed organizer Google Reader.
The rapid change rate in Google products and services is unprecedented for the company, wrote Google Fellow and SVP of Technical Infrastructure Urs Hölzle as he unveiled the bad news in a post on the company’s official blog.
He said changes in the computing environment, with almost everyone owning at least one device, triggered the company to …

Facebook will hold a conference for mobile app developers later this year.
Dubbed as the Facebook Developers Mobile DevCon 2013, the gathering encourages all mobile app creators to join a series of three events in London, New York, and Seoul.
The social network wants to use the conference as a medium for mobile app developers to see and understand how the Facebook platform works on smartphones and tablets. It clears their mind when creating apps with deep integration to the site.
With more than …

Netflix today introduced new social aspects to give users an easier way to search for a TV show or a movie and discuss it with friends.
The Internet television network now offers its streaming members who live in the U.S. the option to link their Netflix account to Facebook.
Consolidation with the world’s largest social networking site allows Netflix members to see what TV shows and movies their friends watched in the past.

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A new research on Facebook behavior has found surprising proof on how “likes” are connected to someone’s personality, perspectives, and sexuality.
Cambridge University researchers published on Monday a study (PDF) on the significance of each Facebook Like to a user’s identity. Oddly, they found that users who like curly fries over straight fries on the social network tend to have high IQs.
People make shady pictures of themselves on Facebook, even without a filled up profile on …

Facebook has acquired for an undisclosed amount a younger social networking site that focuses on storytelling.
On Friday, Storylane unveiled in an official blog post the “acqui-hire” with social networking giant Facebook. Its acquisition means the service on storylane.com will shut down, as the team behind it will work on new projects with Facebook.
Storylane CEO and founder Jonathan Gheller wrote in the post about longstanding negotiations with Facebook on how both teams can work together. …

Cardinal Luis Antonio “Chito” Tagle could be the successor of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. That’s if social media was a standard to choose the next pontiff.
Tagle is the second-youngest member of the College of Cardinals at age 55. And he is the most active and prominent Roman Catholic church leader on Facebook.
Italian startup Decisyon found that the cardinal, often called the “Asian Karol Wojtyla [Blessed Pope John Paul II],” has amassed more than 127,000 “Likes” on his …