If you’ve been cursing Facebook this morning, you’re not alone. We’re hearing from users on our Facebook page and on Twitter complain about site load time, 404 errors, issues with image uploading, CSS load-time issue and mobile performance errors.


We’re running into plenty of errors when trying to load the Facebook.com/mashable page and are also experiencing slowdown on the site itself.

We’ll continue to investigate the issue and provide any updates as we find them.

Right now, the most common issues that we’re seeing are:

No CSS on certain pages

Failure to Upload Photos

Lots and Lots of Random Errors

Status Update Errors on the iPhone and BlackBerry apps

Very slow performance

Crashing Firefox 3. Full story…

by Jamie Lendino

Amazon has unveiled Kindle for BlackBerry Beta, a free e-book app that lets users read over 420,000 books, including over 100 New York Times bestsellers, on various BlackBerry devices.

The app uses Amazon’s Whispersync technology to save and synchronize bookmarks across all Kindle-capable devices, including the Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, PC, and BlackBerry, plus upcoming Mac and iPad apps.


The app also lets users read the beginnings of books for free before purchase, access their entire existing libraries, adjust the text size, and read compatible books in full color. It’s available now for free download from www.amazon.com/kindlebb.

Amazon has been under fire from various publishers recently, all of whom are looking for more flexible (read: higher) pricing structures than Amazon’s standard $9.99 charge–a development that mirrors record label frustration a few years ago over Apple’s fixed 99-cent song pricing.

Apple later relented; the company now charges $1.29 for the latest major label singles, and theoretically also charges 69 cents for tracks that no one can ever seem to find.

 By: Michelle Maisto


The Motorola Backflip will be the first Google Android phone to arrive on the AT&T network, though the carrier has four more arriving soon, along with two Palm webOS phones and a few with Windows 7. The Backflip features Motoblur and the introduction of Backflip, for navigating without blocking the view.

AT&T has announced that the Motorola Backflip will arrive in its stores nationwide March 7.

Though AT&T has four Google Android-based smartphones in the wings, the Backflip will be the first on its network and the eleventh smartphone to enjoy its newly updated HSPA 7.2 technology and 20,000-plus hotspots.

The flexible phone features a 3.1-inch HVGA high-resolution touch screen, a full HTML browser and Backtrack - which, using a touch panel behind the screen, lets users navigate through Web sites, menus, emails and more without blocking any part of the screen.

The Backflip also, yes, flips backward into a table-top mode that lets it look and pose as a bedside alarm clock, as well as offers users a hands-free way to watch videos, listen to music or flip through pictures.

Motorola’s Motoblur software is also included. Grabbing contact information, social networking details, Twitter feeds and more, it funnels everything together to offer a comprehensive profile of each contact on the device.

Texting and multimedia messaging is supported, along with POP3 and IMAP e-mail accounts, Push Gmail and support for corporate email synch. Motorola hasn’t offered which version of Android the Backflip will run, but regardless it offers all the Google perks, such as Google Talk and IM, and quick access to the Android Market.

The camera is a 5-megapixel with autofocus and LED flash, and a-GPS, an accelerometer and a compass are all included, along with a microSD slot - with 2GB of preinstalled memory, but support up to 32GB - and a USB 2.0 slot.

The Backflip will be available in AT&T online and retail stores for $99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and with a two-year contract and data plan.

Earlier this week, AT&T executives announced that carrier will also soon support two smartphones running Microsoft’s Windows 7 series operating system.

by Dan Moren, Macworld.com

The first inkling we had that something was off between longtime friends Apple and Google came last July when Apple pulled existing third-party apps for Google’s Voice service from the App Store. Six months later, Google’s finally remedied the situation by adding a dash of HTML5 into Voice’s Web interface.

On Tuesday, Google unveiled the snazzy new interface for Google Voice for the iPhone and Palm Pre. In addition to a mobile-optimized version of your Voice inbox, you can place calls using the service (including cheap international calls), send and get text messages, and play back voicemail messages. Your Voice number will show up as the caller ID, so people can call you back there instead of on your mobile number.

As Google points out in its tutorial video, it’s a snap to add the Google Voice page to your iPhone’s Home screen, which really turns it into a viable replacement for the iPhone’s own phone service.

Of course, you’ll still need a Google Voice account in order to take advantage of the new features, so if you don’t have one yet, go ahead and request an invite. If you’re wondering what all the hubbub about Google Voice is, be sure to check out our primer on the service.

While it seems like an almost impossible task, the Motorola Droid has managed to beat Apple’s iPhone and take the title of Time Magazine’s 2009 Gadget of the year. That being said, Droid is new and exciting, and this year Apple’s iPhone still came in fourth, which just goes to show that the competition in the mobile phone scene, and in the hearts and minds, is really heating up. The bad news for Palm fans is that the Pre didn’t make it into the top 10 list.