There was a lot of speculation over what Facebook’s big announcement would be this past Thursday. While many predicted a Facebook phone, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social network planned to release an Android launcher called Facebook Home tha…
Watch the Latest Ad for Facebook Home
Facebook has unveiled a new ad spot for Home, the social network’s user-interface skin for Android phones, just two days after its launch
Called “Airplane,” the ad is running as part of Facebook’s first-ever television campaign across U.S. network …
Facebook Home ‘Airplane’ ad brings one traveler’s News Feed aboard — literally
Sure, Facebook had a weird ad with Blink-182 for the HTC Status, but its sneak peek at its newest TV spot for the First and Home is on another level. Posted today on its Facebook profile, the campy piece literally brings one traveler’s feed to life i…
Facebook Home Can be Disabled on the HTC First for Stock Android
It turns out the upcoming HTC First handset pre-loaded with the Facebook Home launcher is actually running stock Android as its base. A HTC spokesperson confirmed that a user can disable Facebook Home to run stock Android on the handset instead.
The H…
Facebook responds to Home privacy concerns, specifies what it will and won’t know
Some of the discussion about Facebook Home since its debut yesterday has related to concerns that it gives the social network too much access to user’s information, and now Facebook has responded. Its blog post specifies that Home is subject to the s…
The Daily Roundup for 04.05.2013
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpi…
Editorial: The imperialism of Facebook Home
Business battles are often ecosystem battles, in which brands develop a matrix of conveniently connected products and services, in an attempt to lock customers into a dependency. Offline companies follow this tack (think razors and blades). But the i…
