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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 - Leave a Comment

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

Saturday, Feb 2, 2013 - by Pete Railton - Leave a Comment

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 …

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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 - Leave a Comment

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
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Foursquare lets you check in with God in south London

Thursday, Oct 11, 2012Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 - by Lee J. - Leave a Comment

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. - Leave a Comment

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 - Leave a Comment

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
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See worldwide Twitter action plotted on a map in real time

Monday, Jun 18, 2012Monday, Jun 18, 2012 - by Lee J. - Leave a Comment

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 - Leave a Comment

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.

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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 - Leave a Comment

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 - Leave a Comment

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 - Leave a Comment

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. - Leave a Comment

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 - Leave a Comment

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

Monday, Mar 5, 2012Monday, Mar 5, 2012 - by Lee J. - Leave a Comment

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 - Leave a Comment

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

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