Top tech headlines: Facebook launches Camera app, Yahoo! unveils Axis web browser
Facebook introduces Camera mobile app
After its acquisition of virally popular photo filter app Instagram, Facebook took the wraps off its own standalone camera application. The app is a lightweight photo manager that provides Facebook users with a centralized place to find and browse through Facebook friends’ photos. The app makes it easy to share multiple photos at once. There are also basic editing features built into Facebook Camera including Instagram-like filters, cropping and zoom.
https://www.facebook.com/mobile/camera
Facebook's IPO problems
Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO) has been surrounded by controversy. Less than a week after Facebook launched on the stock market, investors sued underwriters including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over claims they were “misled in the purchase of the social network firm’s stock.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-23/morgan-stanley-goldman-sachs-sued-over-facebook-ipo.html
Yahoo! launches new browser for PC, iOS with built in search prediction, syncing
Yahoo! joined the browser game with Axis, a new internet browser that aims to redefine search. What makes Axis different from other browsers is its built-in search prediction capabilities and across-the-board content syncing. As users enter their search, Axis returns visual results (thumbnail sized web pages) which dynamically change as the user refines his or her search. Axis also makes it easy for users to start browsing with one device and continue with another. Axis is available as a standalone browser on iOS and as a browser plug-in that works with Firefox 7+, Safari v5+, Internet Explorer 9 and all versions of Chrome.
http://axis.yahoo.com/
Next generation iPhone to sport a 4” display rumor
Bloggers were commenting on suggestions that the next generation iPhone will sport a 3.999” display with a high definition 1136 x 640 resolution. According to reports the new display will be “very close to a 16:9 screen ratio.” The iPhone itself will still have a home button but will feature a much smaller dock connector.
http://9to5mac.com/2012/05/22/likely-next-generation-iphone-with-3-9-inch-display-1136-x-640-resolution-in-testing/
Microsoft launches social network So.cl
Microsoft quietly took its social network, So.cl, out of beta and opened it up to users around the globe. So.cl (pronounced “social”) is an experimental research project developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs that was designed to help students study by “exploring the possibilities of social search for the purpose of learning.” It offers Google+ Hangout-like “video parties” and visually rich media montages that take strong cues from Pinterest and combines social networking and search for collaborative Wikipedia-like search results where users can add their own spin on specific topics (aka “riffing”).
http://www.so.cl/
