Google is reportedly negotiating with messaging app WhatsApp over a possible takeover worth nearly $1bn (£655m) According to an inside source, the negotiations started more than a month ago, says DigitalTrends. Further reading ...
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To see what Facebook has become, look no further than the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer. Sometime last year, people began sharing tongue-in-cheek online reviews of the banana-shaped piece of yellow plastic with their Facebook friends. Then ...
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Feedly, which today announced it has added more than 3 million new users to its free RSS service since Google decided to retire Reader, said that it plans to offer a paid option this year. "Over 3 million new users have joined Feedly ...
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Former Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch will serve as Apple's Vice President of Technology. (Image: Adobe) Computerworld - Apple's hiring of Adobe's former CTO Kevin Lynch opens some intriguing possibilities for the Cupertino, Calif. company's future ...
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Could anonymous chat be the next big thing? At this year's South by Southwest Interactive, the place that helped put Twitter and FourSquare on the map, a fledgling app for anonymous chatting is gaining some traction. GhostPost is giving ...
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Microsoft's top Office executive yesterday dodged questions about plans to bring its lucrative suite to Apple's iPad. Talk of Microsoft porting its Office franchise to iOS -- or at least the most popular applications in the bundle, like ...
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IBM is making a renewed push into the burgeoning market for all things mobile, saying it can help its corporate customers grow revenue and become more competitive through mobile app development. The effort pulls together a raft of IBM ...
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The administrators of a popular iOS developer Web forum called iPhoneDevSDK confirmed Wednesday that it had been compromised by hackers who used it to launch attacks against its users. Security experts believe the site served as a gateway ...
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Nikon calls this an entry-level camera but the specs are high-end. The D5200 features a new DX-format CMOS sensor with 24.1 million pixels and an optimised EXPEED 3 image processing system. We present a selection of the latest in hi-tech ...
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Norwegian web browser provider Opera Software has announced its acquisition of California-based mobile video optimisation provider Skyfire Labs in a deal that could be worth up to $155m (£100m). The move comes after Opera revealed ...
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The pace of development in the Google ecosystem means that Apple is fast losing it's first-mover advantage in mobile, with sales of Android apps in the Google Play store booming in the fourth quarter of 2012, while the growth in sales of ...
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Microsoft will reap a windfall of revenue as soon as it introduces versions of its Office productivity suite for iOS and Android, but that window of opportunity is quickly closing, an analyst said today. "The day they introduce Office for ...
Microsoft will reap enormous revenue when it introduces mobile versions of its Office productivity suite for iOS and Android, an analyst said on Friday, despite warning that the window of opportunity is quickly closing. “The day ...
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Pixelle Designs announces the release of Tab Bar Icons For Mobile Apps collection, a royalty-free library of stock images for application developers and web designers. The new set includes over 759 icons drawn in according to Apple ...
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Crazed Kitty Software's newest iOS app,Pint Size,enables consumers to buy clothes with the knowledge of when and how long their child may fit a particular size,allowing the consumer to take advantage of today's end-of-season sales on ...
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