Answering critics who said Google+ was among the walking dead, Google this week announced that it has some 100 million active users among the 400 million that have signed up for the social network that turned a year-old in June. The ...
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For over 50 years,America has had its eye on Santa Claus.Since 1955,NORAD(North American Aerospace Defense Command)has been running a volunteer service and hotline to track the bearded gift-giver across the night skies. NORAD's legion of ...
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Instagram has denied that it will start selling its users' photos, and tried to explain its updated privacy policy as it aims to put its disillusioned user base at ease. The website, which has about 100 million users, with roughly a third ...
Instagram can drive data to its computing systems on Amazon.com's EC2 service 20 times as fast with solid-state drives, a co-founder of the photo-sharing service said on Thursday at the GigaOm Mobilize conference in San Francisco. Rather ...
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Two digital rights group urged Facebook on Tuesday to halt changes to its governance and data use policies, warning the modifications could increase privacy risks. Facebook said last Wednesday it would no longer allow users to vote on ...
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Facebook, under extreme pressure to cheer up its disappointed investors, posted revenue growth of more than 30 percent in its third quarter on Tuesday, and beat Wall Street expectations, but also recorded a loss. Facebook’s revenue ...
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Computerworld-Instagram has alerted its users to a change in its Terms of Use policy,and users are in an uproar about it. The popular photo-sharing app,which was recently acquired Facebook,said in its new policy that it has the option to ...
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After coming under loud and unrelenting fire from angry users,Instagram announced late Tuesday afternoon that the company is going to try to clarify changes it's making to its Terms of Use policy. And the company's co-founder is trying to ...
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Instagram has seen a huge spike in popularity among mobile device users over the past six months, pushing it past Twitter for the first time. Instagram, which is just two years old, went from 886,000 daily mobile users in March to ...
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A security researcher published on Friday another attack on Facebook’s Instagram photo-sharing service that could allow a hacker to seize control of a victim’s account. The attack was developed by Carlos Reventlov around a ...
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Apple and Microsoft are embroiled in a fight over the SkyDrive app for iPhones and iPads, a skirmish that has left users caught in the middle. According to The Next Web, Apple has blocked updates to the SkyDrive app ever since Microsoft ...
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Photo Grid is a free Android tablet and smartphone app that lets you create beautiful collages from your favourite photos.It's simple to use,and can even output in a size suitable for Instagram. To begin using Photo Grid,simply launch the ...
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Facebook,which had been in the doghouse with Wall Street since it went public,wowed investors with its third-quarter report on Tuesday,in particular with its improvements and early results in the crucial mobile market. Facebook ...
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Despite Facebook users losing out on a privacy policy vote earlier this week,the social network moved today to make its privacy tools easier for users to take advantage of. Facebook updated its privacy settings,adding shortcuts,an ...
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TWITTER has added smartphone photo sharing features after Instagram blocked internet users from integrating its images into tweets. "Starting today, you'll be able to edit and refine photos, right from Twitter," the globally popular ...
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