{"id":649582,"date":"2013-03-29T11:44:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T15:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=403378"},"modified":"2013-03-29T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T15:44:42","slug":"wsj-facebook-plans-to-clog-up-android-home-screens-with-status-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649582","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Facebook plans to clog up Android home screens with status updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/29\/facebook-android-home-screen-software-403378\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"382\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/facebook-sign-screen.jpg?w=650&amp;h=382&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Facebook Android Home Screen\" title=\"Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/center>Mercifully, it seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=fb\">FB<\/a>) has no plans <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/29\/facebook-mobile-event-smartphone-rumor-403038\/\">to produce its own smartphone<\/a>. What it is planning, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2013\/03\/29\/facebook-preparing-more-visible-embrace-of-android\/\">unnamed sources have told <em>The<\/em> <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>, is &#8220;new software for mobile devices powered by Google\u2019s Android operating system that displays content from users\u2019 Facebook accounts on a smartphone\u2019s home screen.&#8221; So in contrast to your typical Facebook app that exists as a compact icon that must be clicked to be used, the new Facebook app will act as more of a widget that gives you access to Facebook status updates directly from your home screen. Or as one source tells <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, the new initiative is about &#8220;putting Facebook first&#8221; on Android smartphones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/29\/facebook-android-home-screen-software-403378\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/I1sdILHMRGA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercifully, it seems that Facebook (FB) has no plans to produce its own smartphone. What it is planning, unnamed sources have told The Wall Street Journal, is &#8220;new software for mobile devices powered by Google\u2019s Android operating system that displays content from users\u2019 Facebook accounts on a smartphone\u2019s home screen.&#8221; So in contrast to your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}