It's Christmas time, so in the holiday spirit a lot of websites, including ours, are doing plenty of giveaways and contests, but that doesn't mean you should trust every Facebook page out there.  In the lead up to this festive period, Kaspersky Lab has seen scammers trying to interest Facebook …

Looks like Facebook is going through some teething problems right now. While people are reporting the ability to view the site without difficulty and load times appear unaffected, nobody seems able to post status updates, upload images or comment on anything. It seems almost everyone is bumping into some variation …

If you aren't already a regular reader of our Facebook page then you don't know what you are missing – we have over 113,000 likes and counting! The social side of Kitguru is very interactive and we share funny tech images, with more serious stuff including competitions and reader rigs. …

Another nail has been put in the coffin of our future galaxy spanning civilisation using those space age sounding “credits,” to pay for everything. Facebook has completed its transition from using the non-localised currency back to real world money. While credits had its advantages, such as allowing Facebook users to …

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) have ruled that Unilever cannot use one of their Piri Piri Pot Noodle online advertisements in its current form and ordered the firm not to use ‘offensive images' in the future. The company caused an uproar on the Unilever Pot Noodle Facebook Page. They showed …

In an effort to increase its transparency as an organisation that reports to governments worldwide about its users, Facebook has published a report that tells us exactly who it's been talking to in the first half of 2013 and how often it complied with requests. The report lists countries in …

Plenty of people are addicted to Facebook. Just look around any restaurant and there will be at least one couple discussing their location on Facebook or even taking pictures of their dinner to upload. It is a clear indication how tightly integrated social networking is into every day life now. …

Facebook are planning to test a new mobile payments service to let the user base make payments inside mobile applications using payment information they have added to their Facebook account. Facebook said that they are working on a ‘very small test' however there is, as yet, no set time to …

Mario Kart 7 has sold well for Nintendo, topping the charts several times since it was released two years ago. The company have decided to launch a new Mario Kart 7 Community Facebook application to target a wide audience of gamers. The application will store the details of the best …

Facebook have acquired the company responsible for speech translation application Jibbigo. Mobile Technologies are based in Pittsburgh and it signals a move for Facebook into strengthening their platform. Facebook have said that they will continue to support Jibbigo for ‘the time being'. The application was launched in 2009 and allows …

Facebook have introduced a new feature, which lets organisations include status updates, videos and photographs in stories. The posts operate in a similar way to embeds from YouTube and Twitter. Once the account is enabled you will get the option to ‘Embed Post'. That then creates a code which you …

KitGuru was born in May 2010 and our team has worked very hard over the last 38 months to seek out the finest hardware on the market, review it and bring the results direct to you, our readers. Alongside the hardcore testing, we have also managed to find time to …

Facebook have added over 100 million mobile users with their ‘Facebook For Every Phone'. The company launched the software two years ago to attract non smart phone users to use their platform. The company have been working closely with phone manufacturers and carriers to ensure their software works on as …

A girl has been hit with a staggering £3,800 mobile phone bill, just by using Facebook. The Metro ran a story that said Casey Snook was sending updates to friends as she enjoyed a holiday in the Big Apple. She was visiting landmarks such as The Empire State Building, Times …

Six million Facebook users have been victims of a Facebook bug which has exposed their personal details to other people. The social media networking site have admitted that information such as a phone number or email address has been given out ‘once or twice' and that they were ‘upset and …

This was bound to happen at some point or another. People have been hashtagging on Facebook for a long time, simply because of the popularity of the practice on Twitter. Now the Zuckerberg owned social network has adopted the practice, giving a legitimate use on the platform, instead of just …

Cameron D'Ambrosio, 18 of Massachusetts, has been given a further month in jail without bail, after he was arrested on 1st May for a Facebook post that the prosecution described as a bomb threat. He will now be held until early July before facing trial. The comment came shortly after …

The prime minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has named social media as “the worst menace to society,” suggesting that it is a tool of liars, that is being utilised to bad mouth the government and support protests in the country. Protests have been taking place due to the proposed …

After communication from Women, Action and the Media, a women's advocacy group, suggested that Facebook did very little to prevent gender and sexual discrimination on Facebook, despite having clear policies for clearing out racial or religiously motivated hate groups, the social network has announced its intention to step up its …

The age old question of whether platform providers should be held responsible for how their services are used, has risen its ugly head once again, this time in the wake of a teen suicide in Italy, where a girl threw herself from a third story window after a video of …

Rupert Murdoch has compared Facebook to Myspace, suggesting the fall from grace for the social network could be already beginning, poking fun at the falling time spent by the average user through his Twitter account. “Look out Facebook!” begins the Tweet by the BSKYB owner. “Hour's spent participating per member …

To celebrate the announcement of its Z87 motherboard line-up, Asus has launched a competition offering a chance to win 3 of these ‘next generation' products. To enter the competition, simply visit Asus United Kingdom's Facebook page, answer an easy question and supply the relevant information. The page can be accessed via this link. For …

Looking at people while you talk to them is a dubious pleasure. A quick straw poll around the various KitGuru offices reveals that many of us have had video call capability built into our phones for a long while – but never really use it. Then along came Apple. And …

If you guys weren't annoyed enough at the incessant inclusion of video based adverts on sites like Youtube, then get ready, because your favourite social network is about to get them too. That's right, this summer, Facebook will be displaying 15 second video adverts within news feeds. But what could …

Facebook has announced a significant boost in earnings over the past quarter, after it saw a big jump in revenue from mobile advertising and perhaps more impressively, an increase in user numbers, seeing active users on the site reach 1.1 billion throughout the quarter. While Facebook has been the world's …

EA and Maxis have spoken up about the impending closure of three games featured on social network Facebook: Sims Social, Simcity Social and Pet Society. All of these games will no longer be available as of 14th June this year. But should this really surprise anyone? Free to play games …

Facebook has begun a trial of a new system that will see you charged a fee when you message a celebrity, with prices ranging from a few pence all the way up to over £10 for some of the more high profile names. This beta run is being conducted by …

Facebook were at the center of a controversial move recently when they removed a post featuring a mother in America, Sacramento breastfeeding her child. Kristy Kemp is in charge of a breastfeeding support group page on Facebook. She got angry when she realised that Facebook removed several breastfeeding images and …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the company want to be the home screen of any Android mobile smartphone. The Telegraph in the UK say “It is called ‘Home' because it is on the home screen of any Android phone'. Zuckerberg spoke at a recent event to say that the …

Facebook have produced four billionaires according to the latest Forbes List. Mark Zuckerberg is the world's youngest billionaire but there are three others to make the list. Zuckerberg, 28 and the founding chief of the company has a fortune of $13.3 billion and ranks number 66 on the 2013 list …