Facebook one of the leading Social networking site is trying to be more social by trying to take over Blackberry Messenger.

A couple of days back 'Facebook Messenger' was launched on iPhone and Android which is a standalone app for messaging your Facebook friends and mobile contacts. Yesterday the app was launched for Blackberry in US only. Blackberry Messenger also known as BBM have more than 45 million users around the world while Facebook with more than 750 million users worldwide. Facebook will be hoping to steal away some of the market share in the growing mobile instant messenger market.

Facebook Messenger app is available on both Android and iOS devices, but there are no dates set for when it will be available outside US.

"More and more of us rely on our phones to send and receive messages. But it isn't always easy to know the best way to reach someone on their phone. Should you send an email or text? Which will they check first? Did they even get your last message?" wrote Facebook engineer Lucy Zhang in a blog post explaining the new service. "We think messaging should be easier than that. You should be able to write a message, click 'Send' and know that you will reach the person right away."


On Wednesday, however, just one day after the launch of Facebook Messenger, the app was already the number one most popular in the Apple App Store among all free apps. Customers had posted 929 ratings already, delivering a 3.5 star rating out of a possible 5.

It cost Amazon $209.63 to build one Kindle Fire, which means that the company is loses $10 on each tablet sold by them.

Research firm IHS offers a rundown of the device’s components on its site. Materials for the Kindle Fire, which retails for $199, cost $191.65, but with factory expenses, that comes to $209.63. However, despite the apparent loss, IHS estimates that Amazon is “likely to generate a marginal profit of $10″ on each Kindle Fire sold, when you take into account sales of digital content with the device.

Chris Auyeung and Vijay Mathews, the makers of the BeardMe iPhone App (iTunes link) believe everyone has the right to luxuriant, well-groomed facial hair. BeardMe gives people the chance to put really well-designed, old timey, classy beards and mustaches on themselves and everyone they know. Because really who doesn’t love a Daniel Day-Lewis in “Gangs of New York” mustache on babies or coworkers or pets?! Plus, there really is something about a nice beard or mustache that adds a certain I don’t know what to one’s personality and general outlook on life.

Jan-Michael Cart has create a concept for iOS 5 that shows how Apple should allow for widgets on the home screens. The idea reveals home screens to the left of the main screen. Normally when swiping that way, you simply get the search function. This concept adds more screens to the left allowing widgets to be installed on one side while keeping all the apps grouped to the right of the search screen as demonstrated in the image below:
Although Apple will probably introduce widgets another way, Jan-Michael certainly has an idea that could work well when iOS 5 is released.

This week the new Blackberry OS 6.0 was unveiled showing a new user interface and improved features to various functions such as email, messaging and other parts of the OS.
No firm date for launch was set for the new Blackberry operating system although a time frame of 2 - 3 months is to be expected. For those of you who cannot wait that long a Blackberry OS 6.0 theme has been created called "I Dream of 6".

Amazon and Best Buy are now accepting pre-orders for the various Google Chrome Books. At the moment, models from Samsung and Acer are available for pre-order and each have a shipping date of 15 June according to Google.
The Samsung Chromebook is called the Series 5 and there are four versions available although each based around one of two models. There's the 3G model that costs $499 that is available in Arctic White and in Titan Silver. The WiFi version also comes in the same two colour options, Arctic White here and Titan Silver here. The WiFi models cost $429.99 each and the 3G models are $499.99 each. Remember that you need connectivity to the internet to be able to use Chrome OS, so if you can't tether from a smartphone while on the move, you might be best opting for the 3G model.
There are also two Acer models which are the same 3G and Wireless models. The 3G model costs $449.99 and is available here while the Wireless only model is the cheapest of all Chrome OS netbooks and costs $379.99, available here.
Technical specs of each model show that the Samsung Series 5 has a 12.1 inch screen that has a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. It has 8.5 hours of battery life per charge, uses an Intel Atom Dual-Core processor, has a HD webcam and a full sized keyboard.
The Acer models are a little different in that they have a slightly smaller 11.6 inch HD display. Battery life is lower at 6 hours. This particular model runs the Intel Atom Dual-Core CPU. A HD webcam is included and it has a full sized keyboard.
Full details available for each Chromebook over at Amazon on the links above.

A virtual keyboard has been found for Google Chrome. The keyboard is pictured below but can also be found at the chromium website. It isn't known exactly what the keyboard is for. One website asks if it's a virtual keyboard for Chrome OS... ie, touchscreen chrome OS devices. Or perhaps it's for Android based tablet computers.