Is Facebook Endangered?

Will Facebook sit right next to Yahoo, MySpace and hi5 among social networks abandoned by users after only a few years? According to American analyst Eric Jackson, this scenario is not very hard to believe.
The lifetime of a social network is a hard to predict matter. Historically, it seems that every website in this category had a period of glory, even of astronomical growth, followed by an inevitable decline. This was due to factors related to technological …

Yahoo Axis: The New Browser from Yahoo or How Haste Makes Waste / image via axis.yahoo.com

Yahoo’s recently launched browser managed the “performance” to receive, from its very beginnings, a black ball in terms of security!
Trying to divert attention from the recent dismissal of its executive director, Scott Thompson, Yahoo hastened to release on the market its new browser – Axis. But the proverb ‘haste makes waste’ proved to be perfectly true in this case, as users quickly passed …

CrowdCloud LLC, a subsidiary of digital media technology company Adiant, last month released the final version of its CrowdCloud app, which uses a patent pending technology to search social media and provide curated reports for users in the 41 U.S. cities it currently covers. Other Adiant brands include the Adblade Ad Network, OptiServe ad platform, CrowdCloud Mobile Community platform, and Mani Rewards.
 
The CrowdCloud app, available for free on the iTunes store, is also now available in …

Google with its Android mobile operating system and Apple with its iOS-powered iPhone lineup have gained over rivals during December to February, new data says.
The data comes from comScore which says that Android now has a 50.1 percent market share in the U.S. smartphone arena followed by iOS which has a 30.2 percent market share.
This means that Google has gained 3.2 percentage points in the U.S. smartphone market share race while Apple has gained 1.5 percentage points.
This marks a milestone …

For the first time in history, China has exceeded the number of activations in the U.S. of Apple iOS and Android devices, a report notes.
The information comes from Flurry Inc., a firm which specializes in tracking software for mobile devices.
Flurry has revealed that there were more activations of iOS and Android devices in China than in the U.S. for the month of February.
Flurry’s report indicates that 23 percent of all activations of iOS and Android devices in the world came from China for …

Playhaven, the real-time mobile game marketing platform launched in May, 2010, announced it has expanded to the Android platform and added other new features.
 
Playhaven, which boasts 30 million unique users, driving a whopping 350 million game sessions every month, has enjoyed a 150 percent increase in users and game sessions in the six months since it introduced a new platform that let developers create customizable HTML5 pop ups in order to engage the user in real time by activating …

Apple iOS devices have been proclaimed to beat Android in running HTML5, a new report reveals.
The information comes from the inaugural Spaceport.io PerfMarks report which says that iOS runs HTML5 applications three times faster than Android.
Spaceport.io is a social games technology firm incubated by YouWeb. The firm hopes that the PerfMarks report will be “a bellwether for mobile browser and operating system creators who hope to better serve the HTML5 game development community.
The March …

A security loophole in Apple’s iOS mobile operating system is compromising the photos and location data of users, a new report says.
According to Nick Bilton in a report from The New York Times’ blog Bits, app developers have discovered a loophole with iOS which lets developers as well as Apple and in this case, anyone knowledgeable enough to take advantage of the exploit, to have access to the location information and the whole photo library of a user.
Apple’s iOS system powers the iPod …

Mozilla has just launched its roadmap for 2012 and one of the big issues in it is the Mozilla App Store that is soon to be launched. The Mozilla Roadmap, which itemises issues the organization will focus on, highlights the issues that Mozilla will be laying emphasis on going forward.
The Mozilla Apps 2012 Roadmap is one of these issues and targets a number of significant issues that Mozilla plans to target in the year. This includes “dismantling” the closed app store ecosystems …

Web traffic going through Apple’s iOS platform has surpassed the web traffic from the Cupertino, California-based company’s Mac OS X, a new study has found.
The news comes from data gathered and analyzed by analytics company Chitika which says that iOS now generates more web traffic than Mac OS X.
This means that more Apple users are surfing the web through iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads than though Mac computers.
In a summary of their data, Chitika says that “The data shows that the …