Thursday, 04 August 2016 13:24
LinkedIn ventures into user video content
Professional social networking platform LinkedIn has ventured into featuring video content, created by users and hosted by the platform itself. LinkedIn hopes to engage its 433 million users more by introducing the engaging tool. The first videos are to be created by LinkedIn’s ‘Influencers’ – an invitation-only group of about 500 users who have a significant following and who regularly post content. The new videos to feature on LinkedIn will be short, 30-seconds-or-less responses to questions posted to Influencers specifically…
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Thursday, 21 July 2016 11:32
Facebook Messenger is the second most popular iOS app ever
Facebook is celebrating the sweet taste of success, after announcing that one billion people are now using its instant messaging app Facebook Messenger every month, making it the second-most popular iOS app of all time, second only to its big brother, the Facebook app. “We are announcing that more than one billion people now use Facebook Messenger every month, making messenger one of only a handful of apps worldwide that touch so many lives,” Facebook said in a post. “We…
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Monday, 18 July 2016 06:54
Android Pay officially launched in Australia
At the end of 2015, Google announced that Android Pay would make its debut Down Under in Australia in 2016. Seven months later, that time has come. After the launch of Android Pay in Australia, residents can now use Google’s latest mobile payments solutions to make purchases using their smartphones. Prior to its release in Australia, Android Pay has been launched in Singapore, which was the first country in Asia to receive the service. Shortly after the Singapore release, Android…
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Monday, 18 July 2016 06:49
Hacker group takes down Pokemon Go servers through DDOS attack
In just a couple of weeks, the Pokemon Go online app has amassed a mammoth amount of popularity around the world. On Saturday, July 16, Pokemon Go servers appeared to crash, leaving millions of gamers unable to play the augmented reality game. A hacker group called PoodleCorp claimed responsibility for taking down the servers through a Denial of Service (DDOS) attack. User of Pokemon Go across Europe and the U.S. reportedly began declaring problems with the game shortly after 2pm…
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Monday, 18 July 2016 06:46
Copia: The ingenious app combating hunger and food waste
In an age when about one-third of all food gets wasted in food production, according to the UN Environment Program, one Silicon Valley entrepreneur has established a new mobile app to demonstrate her best way to combat hunger and food waste. The app is called Copia, a platform for businesses to declare excess food which is picked up and given to those in need. For founder and CEO of Copia, Komal Ahmad, giving food waste to people in need wasn’t…
Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:19
Pokémon Go app skyrockets to success – but will it last?
Pokémon Go, a new gaming app launched last week, has skyrocketed to success, boosting Nintendo’s share price 24.52 percent on Monday, June 11, to ¥20,260 ($193) which is the highest single day surge the company has seen since 1983. The surge singlehandedly added $7.5 billion to Nintendo’s market value. But how long will the sweet taste of success last for the new app? Topping app download charts in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, Pokémon Go, according to researchers…
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Monday, 11 July 2016 08:45
Facebook faces lawsuit over allegations of selling user information
Facebook Inc. faces a class-action lawsuit in California over allegations of systematically scanning users’ private messages going through the social network without the users’ permission. Facebook then reportedly makes a profit from the data it obtains by sharing the information with advertisers and marketers. There’s a chance that Facebook has violated federal privacy laws. There have been several reports shared on social media outlets recently warning users of Facebook’s alleged misuse of private information. The company has the ability to…
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Tuesday, 05 July 2016 08:23
Apple accused by Spotify of attempting to squash competition
Tension has risen between the two leading music streaming operators. Spotify recently accused Apple of making it difficult for the music streaming company to compete by blocking a new version of its iPhone app. In a letter to Apple’s top lawyer, Spotify says Apple is “causing grave harm to Spotify and its customers” by rejecting an update to Spotify’s iOS app. The letter to Apple’s lawyer was sent by Spotify general counsel Horacio Gutierrez, detailing how Apple rejected an updated…
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Monday, 04 July 2016 08:04
Brazil freezes Facebook funds following WhatsApp encryption case
Despite the fact that Facebook, which owns WhatsApp messenger, cannot read its users messages because of end-to-end encryption on its messages, on Thursday, June 30, a Brazilian court blocked 19.5 million reals ($6.07 million) of Facebook funds after the social media giant failed to reveal messages related to a drugs case. It’s the latest in a long-running feud between Brazil and WhatsApp, after a Brazilian judge shut down the messaging service for 72 hours in May, affecting Brazil’s 100 million…
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Thursday, 30 June 2016 09:45
Seven-year-old Facebook hoax continues to trap users
Social media has provided a means for people to communicate with one another like never before – but with platforms like Facebook used by over one billion people, information spreads like wildfire – and there’s no guarantee that it’s true. For example, many Facebook users have been taken in by a seven-year-old Facebook hoax. Users are spreading a false message about Facebook introducing payment subscription. The hoax, which has been around for about seven years now, even has its own…
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Thursday, 30 June 2016 06:04
Google Maps and Google Earth get graphics upgrade
Have you noticed anything different about Google Maps? Perhaps the images you’re looking at look creepily real? That’s because Google has deployed new imagery from NASA’s Landsat 8 observation satellite in Google Maps and Google Earth, according to a blog post by Chris Herwig, Program Manager, Google Earth Engine, on Monday, June27. Landsat 8 launched into orbit in 2013 and is the newest sensor in the USGS/NASA Landsat Program. Herwig said it is “superior to its predecessors in many ways,”…
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Monday, 27 June 2016 09:09
Mobile users check their phone over 80 billion times a day says Deloitte report
Deloitte’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) practices highlight the increasing trends for connectivity and mobile phone usage across the board in Deloitte’s latest report entitled: Global Mobile Consumer Trends. Both intensity in usage and ownership rates are increasing―in some categories more than doubling―pointing to dramatically changing consumer behaviors, and a shift towards non-voice communications such as text and instant messaging (IM). Deloitte conducted a survey designed to gather information regarding consumer behaviors, trends and opinions for a broad range of…
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