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Facebook App Center for desktop, iOS and Android gives developers a central store to promote and distribute their applications and games.

Olympic challengers spark outrage by posing with heavy weapons in gun shop.

List of top 10 features that a user will want to have on a smartphone.

Apple to bring more Siri features and deeper Facebook integration with iOS, according to CEO Tim Cook.

Shares in Opera have surged 25 percent following talks of a potential buyout by Facebook

Wives are divorced for posting their pictures on Facebook without the husband's permission.

A report claiming Facebook could be ready to take over browser company Opera, suggests the social network is set to create its own browser.

Analysis shows security mistakes allowed LulzSec to steal sensitive information of more than 170,000 MilitarySingles.com members.

Nasdaq chief executive Robert Griefeld has admitted embarrassment as technical problems caused Facebook's IPO to be delayed by 30 minutes.

Facebook shares have closed at $38.23 after its first day of trading on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange

As Facebook floats on the New York Stock Exchange, we look at five ways it can get even bigger.

A two-second clip of a Diego Maradona look-a-like cleaning floors in a Carlsberg advert has sparked outrage in Argentina.

Samsung Omnia M runs on Windows Phone 7.5 Mango operating system.

Oxford University neurologist Baroness Susan Greenfield claims that mobile phone technology changes the way our brains work.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did not attend the second day of his company's IPO roadshow, disappointing investors.

Apple iPhone 4S has been hogging the limelight ever since its introduction seven months ago and one good reason for its popularity is obviously Siri onboard. Non-iPhone 4S users, however, have been scavenging for proper Siri server software to facilitate Voice Activated Personal Assistant functionality on their older iOS devices.

We look at the good and bad points HTC's flagship phone, the One X.

Facebook shares will hit the Nasdaq on 18 May, after two weeks of presenting itself to investors.

Samsung set to unveil next flagship smartphone, under presumed name of Galaxy S3, in London.

Agriculture developed in the Middle East about 11,000 years ago, say researchers.

Activists angry at budget measures to fund online privacy crackdown and call for protesters on the streets.

Wall Street responds positively but CEO Thompson remains unsatisfied.

Restrictive rules are stopping freedom, while activist Ai Weiwei claims government computers have one button; delete.

This time a developer - @HomeSchoolDev - is offering a solution by creating a nifty little tweak called Fusion. Going by its name, the tweak enables you to use iOS's native Twitter page to post updates/messages to other social networks.

We investigate why the social network paid so much of a mobile phone app.

Social networking site will pay $1bn in cash and Facebook shares to take over photo-sharing service.

About.me is a free app for the iPhone which allows the user to create a beautiful one-page website with strking features.

A recent report from Cult of Mac, about an app called "Girls Around Me" has made some shocking suggestions .

A well-made smartphone with a 4in touchscreen, 8 megepixel camera and quality design for those on a budget.

It is a wearable device that pokes you physically whenever you are poked on Facebook, no matter where you are.