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Google increases Duo group calling limit from eight to twelve as Zoom damned over privacy concerns
computing / Google / software / video

Google increases Duo group calling limit from eight to twelve as Zoom damned over privacy concerns

Wednesday, Apr 1, 2020 - by mike s

With  the popular Zoom video conferencing software being described as “the Facebook of the video-conferencing world, sucking every piece of data it can from you and any device you install …

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http://allthingsd.com/20130201/twitter-hacked-250000-user-accounts-compromised/
web

Twitter gets hacked and 250,000 user accounts may have been compromised

Saturday, Feb 2, 2013 - by Pete Railton

Twitter has announced that its systems had been attacked in the past week by a bunch of unidentified ne’er do wells who had potentially gained access to the usernames, email …

Twitter gets hacked and 250,000 user accounts may have been compromised Read More
Watch an endless stream of generally pointless Vine Twitter video updates
mobiles / photography / video / web

Watch an endless stream of generally pointless Vine Twitter video updates

Saturday, Jan 26, 2013Saturday, Jan 26, 2013 - by mike s

Twitter’s new app, Vine, has been designed to let users “create and share beautiful, short looping videos,” and it’s already proved a big online hit.

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Foursquare lets you check in with God in south London
mobiles

Foursquare lets you check in with God in south London

Thursday, Oct 11, 2012Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 - by Lee J.

While walking around the mainly abandoned Heygate housing estate in Elephant & Castle, south London, we were surprised to come across a closed shopfront with a sign above declaring it to be the Foursquare …

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Android / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Pinterest rolls out Android, iPhone and iPad apps

Wednesday, Aug 15, 2012 - by Lee J.

Soaraway social networking website Pinterest continues its quest to become the next big thing with the release of apps for Android-based smartphones and the iPad and iPhone.

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Flipboard releases flipping great Android App
Android / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Flipboard releases flipping great Android App

Friday, Jun 22, 2012 - by mike s

We’ve been feeling the love for this fabulous social news reader ever since we got our hands on an early beta, and now all Android users can get their hands on …

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See worldwide Twitter action plotted on a map in real time
web

See worldwide Twitter action plotted on a map in real time

Monday, Jun 18, 2012Monday, Jun 18, 2012 - by Lee J.

This is kind of fun.  An Argentinean web developer called Dan Zajdband has created a novel way to show where people are Tweeting around the world.

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Twitter users blast out 400 million tweets per day, mostly mobile
mobiles / web

Twitter users blast out 400 million tweets per day, mostly from mobile phones

Thursday, Jun 7, 2012Thursday, Jun 7, 2012 - by mike s

The microblogging social network Twitter is now handling an astonishing 400 million tweets every day, a huge rise from the 340 million tweets recorded just a month ago.

Twitter users blast out 400 million tweets per day, mostly from mobile phones Read More
Flipboard is coming to Android - sign up for the beta program now
Android / mobile apps / mobiles

Flipboard is coming to Android – sign up for the beta program now

Thursday, May 31, 2012Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - by mike s

It’s been a monster hit on the iPhone and iPad and now Android owners will soon be able to frolic freely in the open meadows of the social newsreading app Flipboard.

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Twitter hits 10 million active users in the UK, Brits the biggest mobile users
mobiles / web

Twitter hits 10 million active users in the UK, Brits the biggest mobile users

Wednesday, May 16, 2012Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher

Twitter has confirmed that  there are now 10 million active users tweeting regularly in the United Kingdom – a hefty figure that makes us Brits the fourth largest tweeting nation on …

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Twitter starts sending out weekly digest of tweets. We quickly locate the unsubscribe option
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Twitter starts sending out weekly digest of tweets. We quickly locate the unsubscribe option

Tuesday, May 15, 2012Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - by mike s

Clearly looking for a new way to annoy users (and perhaps lay the groundwork for new monetisation possibilities), Twitter has started sending out unbidden weekly e-mail digests of the “most relevant” tweets …

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Facebook scoops up Instagram photo sharing network for a cool $1bn
Android / business / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles / photography

Facebook scoops up Instagram photo sharing network for a cool $1bn

Monday, Apr 9, 2012 - by Lee J.

Facebook has cranked open its jumbo-sized wallet and scooped up the Instagram photo sharing network for $1bn (£629m) in cash and stock.

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Say goodbye to Gowalla, as the service sees its final checkout
mobile apps / mobiles

Say goodbye to Gowalla, as the service sees its final check in

Sunday, Mar 11, 2012 - by mike s

Three months after being bought up by Facebook, Gowalla has registered its final check in. Launched in 2009, the location-sharing service for mobile devices vied for market space with the likes of …

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Facebook’s first desktop app for Windows released for free download
Windows

Facebook’s first desktop app for Windows released for free download

Monday, Mar 5, 2012Monday, Mar 5, 2012 - by Lee J.

Facebook has finally released its own dedicated messaging app for Windows, letting you access all the Facebook updates you could possibly want from your desktop.

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gaming / Google / web

Google shows off its Google Maps 3D maze challenge [video]

Sunday, Jan 15, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher

Google has  slipped out a promotional video showing off a Google Maps-driven game for the Google+ Games platform.

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