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Brits Show Their Love of Booze With iPint Being Most-Downloaded iPhone App in UK

Over in Europe, the most downloaded iPhone app is the music-detecting Shazam. In the US, it’s the Facebook app. And those soggy Brits…? In the UK, the Carling branded iPint has snagged the crown of most downloaded app, according to ComScore’s Alistair Hill’s presentation at the Mobile Games Forum in London. Hic! [Mobile-Ent] Image Credit:…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 19

AT&T Fixes Mobile Facebook Problems

AT&T has fixed several problems that caused some AT&T customers to log into the wrong Facebook account when using their mobile phones, an AT&T spokesman said on Monday: “In a limited number of instances, a server software connectivity error resulted in some AT&T wireless customers being logged in to the wrong Facebook account when they…

Social Media CNET Jan 18

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why)

In today’s Remainders: AT&T users log in to Facebook only to find unfamiliar faces; iPhone 4G rumors abound while AMOLED Apple Tablet rumors get shot down; and Northwestern’s StatsMonkey robot takes hard stats and churns out baseball narratives. Unfamiliar Faces Over the weekend, some AT&T customers logged into Facebook only to find that they faces…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 18

Facebook-Taunting Criminal Caught

Remember Craig “Lazie” Lynch, the British criminal who escaped prison last September, and then spent months taunting the police via Facebook? The assclown has been caught by Scotland Yard. [Fox News]

Social Media Jesus Diaz Jan 13

Facebook’s Universal Password and Other Unsettling Insider Info

This interview with an anonymous Facebook employee spills some beans about the inner workings of the ‘book. One of the juiciest is that there was once a universal password that let them log in as anyone. Chuck Norris? Really? To be fair, the password only worked from within the Facebook offices, so you couldn’t just…

Social Media Adam Frucci Jan 11

Follow the Gizmodo CES Crew Twitter List, See Through Our Eyes Tweets

What’s it really like to be working CES for Gizmodo? Follow our Gizmodo CES Crew Twitter List and find out how we really feel about the show. We must warn you though, this place is fucking crazy. The sights, sounds and thoughts of working CES can be pretty entertaining at times. So if you want…

Social Media Christopher Mascari Jan 7

Satan and Jesus Fighting for Your Facebook Soul

And now we interrupt our CES 2010 programming for some new Facebook religious jibba-jabba. We will resume the gadget spam in the next post. Thank you, thank you. p.s. Satan gives free beer and he has lots of hot jacuzzis. https://gizmodo.com/jesus-wants-to-be-your-friend-5332424

Social Media Jesus Diaz Jan 7

Facebook 3.1 iPhone App Brings Push Notifications and Contact Sync

Finally! We’re getting word that the Facebook 3.1 iPhone app now has push notifications and contact syncing, something that was a shortcoming of previous versions. You should be able to download the update through the App store soon. [Thanks, Shawn!]

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jan 6

Twitter/Facebook Integrating Internet Radio Tells Your Social Networks That You Buy Stupid Things

Witness convergence in its dumbest form: the Pure internet radio that has Facebook and Twitter integrated right in. You know, for when the world needs to know that you’re really fiscally irresponsible. Do you know what else is an internet radio with the ability to post to Facebook and Twitter? Any computer with speakers. And…

Social Media Adam Frucci Jan 5

Peek Sort of Getting Facebook

The Peek will get Facebook updates via email soon. That makes it somewhat more useful, I think, than twitterpeek. But how about a peek that does the full web so you can check out twitter and facebook and email and all the links there? Oh wait, that’s a smartphone. [Peek via Engadget]

Social Media Brian Lam Dec 28

Fan Giz Facebook, Follow Giz Twitter

Did you know Gizmodo has a Facebook and Twitter page? Depending on which site you use the most, our Facebook and Twitter pages are a great way to see Gizmodo’s most interesting stories. Here’s what you need to know: Don’t worry, we never spam our Facebook or Twitter pages with a crazy amount of updates.…

Social Media Christopher Mascari Dec 23

Criminal Escapes Prison, Taunts Police Via Facebook

Say hello to Craig Lynch. He’ll give you the finger. The police has been hunting him since he escaped from prison last September, and now he’s using Facebook to taunt them. He seems like a very charming man: About me: You’ll have a laugh with me but it will end in tears. It always does…

Social Media Jesus Diaz Dec 23

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why)

Today’s Remainders are gelled, tanned, and fist-pumping: Dell pulls ads from World’s Greatest TV Show (Jersey Shore); Facebook tempts spouses to cheat; Apple approves, pulls an NES emulator; and a recipe for bacon cups. That’s right, cups made of bacon. Dell Boycotts Jersey Shore, Has No Taste Jersey Shore is great. It’s the trash TV…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Dec 23

AT&T’s Warped View of the Internet

Did you know? Unless you have a 3Mbps internet connection, you can’t use Facebook. Without 12Mbps internet, you can’t even email files! And just forget streaming video without at least 18Mbps internet. Welcome to the internet, according to AT&T. This chart for AT&T U-Verse internet makes no sense whatsoever. For one, what’s the difference between…

Social Media Matt Buchanan Dec 21

Is the Nook Officially a Tablet?

The NookDevs just got a full web browser up and running on the Nook, alongside Android Twitter/Facebook apps. At what point does the Nook cease to be an eBook reader and start to be something more? [Twitter via Android Guys]

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 17

What Would Books About Twitter, Wikipedia and YouTube From The 1960s Look Like?

Fortunately we don’t have to think too hard about what they’d look like, because French artist Stéphane Massa-Bidal has designed a series of book covers for 10 of our favourite web services. Massa-Bidal sells some of his designs on his online store, but these terrific book covers aren’t available just yet. Perhaps if we all…

Social Media Kat Hannaford Dec 11

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why)

Today in the last frontier otherwise known as Remainders, we’ve got a mysterious (possibly viral) video involving an apartment stowaway, a prank featuring gay porn and an LCD TV, and a surefire way to kill your Facebook self. Video Shows Mysterious Stranger Hiding Out in NYC Apartment Crawlspace This is a video that’s been making…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Dec 11

Pingo the Robot Penguin is a Facebook Friend Who Won’t Ignore Your Event Invites

I want an army of MyDeskFriend Pingo robot penguins. They’ll dance around alerting of Facebook updates, read news, sing songs, and give weather forecasts. We’ll be bestest friends and play together until they decide to kill me. Updated: In-Action Video While we’ve gotten a look at the MyDeskFriend gadgets before, Pingo is the first one…

Social Media Rosa Golijan Dec 8

Google’s Real-Time Search Adds Streaming, Twitter to Results

At an event today in San Fransisco, Google announced a new service that will offer streaming results for searches, incorporating real-time updates from web pages and social networking partners. It will be rolled out over the next couple of days. The new search mode comes with partnerships Google announced today with Facebook and MySpace. Feeds…

Tech News Brian Barrett Dec 7

Apple’s Phil Schiller and I Have Something In Common

Sadly, it’s not bank accounts. It’s Shazam. The iPhone app that listens to tunes and tells you what they are. Schiller and I list it as our favorite. Emboldened, I feel as though I could deliver an Apple keynote tomorrow. Of course I couldn’t, not really, not with my penchant for socially awkward faux pas…

Tech News Jack Loftus Dec 6

Brits Show Their Love of Booze With iPint Being Most-Downloaded iPhone App in UK

AT&T Fixes Mobile Facebook Problems

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why)

Facebook-Taunting Criminal Caught

Facebook’s Universal Password and Other Unsettling Insider Info

Follow the Gizmodo CES Crew Twitter List, See Through Our Eyes Tweets

Satan and Jesus Fighting for Your Facebook Soul

Facebook 3.1 iPhone App Brings Push Notifications and Contact Sync

Twitter/Facebook Integrating Internet Radio Tells Your Social Networks That You Buy Stupid Things

Peek Sort of Getting Facebook

Fan Giz Facebook, Follow Giz Twitter

Criminal Escapes Prison, Taunts Police Via Facebook

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why)

AT&T’s Warped View of the Internet

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Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why)

Pingo the Robot Penguin is a Facebook Friend Who Won’t Ignore Your Event Invites

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