Facebook today unveiled the much hyped and awaited major redesign to its News Feed at it’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
Facebook soon will have a bunch of new feeds for games, music, sports, photos, events, and news. It features bigger photos and videos, and the desktop version now has the same navigation as the mobile versions.
Facebook provided more details in a Blog Post :
Today [...]
Android’s share of mobile malware has increased by almost double in the last quarter, and now pegs in at 96 percent of the mobile malware market, according to a recent report by F-Secure
Android users may be wondering If android is vulnerable to attack due to it been the the most popular smartphone OS currently, or is it because it’s just fundamentally easier to attack. Whatever the reason, [...]
Apple leads the U.S. smartphone market according to a report by comScore on the mobile phone users for the November-January period.
Apple’s smartphone market share rose 3.5 percentage points between October and January, up to 37.8% of both U.S. smartphone platform and hardware sales. Samsung was second in hardware makers with 21.4%, up from 19.5% three months earlier. HTC and Motorola both [...]
Twitter rolled out a new version of its iOS and Android app, search feature gets improvements including additional topic and user suggestions when searching.
Twitter has removed video uploading support for Mobypicture, Posterous, and Vodpod. This will make TwitVid and YFrog the exclusive video uploading services via Twitter’s iOS app.
“We recently introduced the ability to see older Tweets [...]
Google updated Maps for iOS app. the company announced the the new features in a blog post and noted that it is rolling out the English version of the app to seven new countries
Google Maps for iOS gets the ability to search Google Contacts, quickly access search for local places, and select between Kilometers or Miles in an update to version 1.1 today.
What’s New in Version 1.1
* Search [...]
YouTube will be reportedly launching a subscription music service to take on the likes of Spotify and the rumoured Apple iTunes subscription service according to Fortune.
Ryan Bradley and Jessi Hempel, writing for Fortune:
The two new services are defined by their respective places in the Google empire: Google Play for Android is a digital locker for music – users buy, store, and sort a collection [...]
Google’s plan to take on Amazon and Ebay were earlier reported by The Wall Street Journal, Google is now reportedly preparing the launch of a same-day delivery service, Google Shopping Express according toTechCrunch.
TechCrunch’s report says that the Google’s service would cost between $10 to $15 less than Amazon Prime’s service of free two-day shipping for $79 per year.
Google’s [...]
Apple may launch the next version of iPhone, dubbed iPhone 5S in August this year, with an update to i Pad series including both a fifth generation 9.7-inch iPad and a second gen iPad mini in April according to sources familiar with Apple’s plans speaking to iMore’s Rene Ritchie.
iMore reports that the next iPhone will it will come with a better camera and a faster chip which is only natural, it [...]
Facebook announced yesterday that it has acquired of the Atlas Solutions marketer-side adserver business from Microsoft.
The Facebook-Microsoft deal does not come as a surprise, it has been anticipated for weeks after AllThingsD reported that the companies were talking in December and Ad Age reported that the acquisition was imminent earlier this month.
“Today’s marketing environment is [...]
Apple’s supplier Corning’s flexible Willow Glass won’t make an appearance in Apple devices until 2016 at the earliest according to a report by Bloomberg.
Below are the excerpts from the report:
Companies are yet to come up with products that can take full advantage of Willow glass, which can be made in a roll similar to newsprint, James Clappin, president of Corning Glass Technologies, [...]