Mobile application company, Sheena Allen Apps, has announced the release of its latest app, TwtBooth. TwtBooth is a new Twitter app that makes it easy for users to view photo that are tweeted, regardless of the photo sharing service used. ...
Tags: Sheena Allen Apps, TwtBooth, Twitter App, iPhone, iPad, Mobile application
Facebook has paid far lower than the announced $1 billion in cash and stock for photo-sharing app Instagram, following a drop in its share price. The social networking company said in its Form 10-Q quarterly report to the U.S. Securities ...
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CBR rounds up expert opinions on Instagram's recent change to user photo rights. The popular photo-sharing service received a backlash from its community of users after updating its terms of use to allow the company to own rights to ...
Tags: Julian Ranger, Instagram service agreement, Adam Leach, James Lusher
The Mars Curiosity Rover, a robot sent to Mars by Nasa principally to investigate the possibility of extra-terrestrial life on the planet, uses many technologies which will be familiar to those in the tech industry. It landed in a crater ...
Tags: Mars Curiosity Rover, robot, Nasa, CSC
Facebook has reinvented its Poke feature with a new standalone iOS app that lets you send messages,photos and videos to your friends on the social networking service that disappear within 10 seconds of someone opening them. While it might ...
Tags: Facebook, Poke App, David Petraeus, Snapchat
The photo sharing service has announced it will now keep the same advertising section in its terms of service it had in 2010. The announcement comes in response to the backlash the company has received when it made changes which would ...
Tags: photo sharing service, Instagram, Facebook, advertising section
After backing off a controversial change to its Terms of Use policy,Instagram may have avoided a debacle but is still taking a big hit to its once glossy image. Analysts,however,say users are probably too addicted to what is becoming one ...
Tags: Instagram, social media sites, Facebook
The micro-blogging site has gained 60 million new users in just 9 months. In March this year Twitter announced that the site had over 140m monthly active users. Twitter announced today that the number has now risen to over 200M monthly ...
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Instagram is preparing to start selling its users' own photos, according to its updated privacy policy published this week. The new policy for the photo-sharing service suggests that members' photos may be sold to advertisers in paid ...
Tags: Facebook, privacy policy, photo-sharing service, Twitter
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recent storm-related outage, which left Web sites including Netflix, Pinterest, and Instagram inaccessible, is just the latest in a string of costly cloud failures. Since 2007, a total of 568 hours of downtime at ...
Tags: AWS, Disaster Preparedness Questions, Cloud Services Provider, IWGCR
Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Camera, introduced at this week's IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, takes clear, colorful images but is buggy and slow. Samsung said that the Galaxy Camera is designed to combine the best features of a ...
Tags: Samsung Electronics, Galaxy Camera, LCD screen, Android 4.1
Lately, I've heard a lot about a new website that shows what percentage of someone's Twitter followers are "fake," "inactive" and "good." If the Fake Follower Check site is accurate, some of the biggest Twitter users, including President ...
Tags: new website, Twitter followers, software
INSTAGRAM has promised not to sell users' photos as a storm of outrage continues with celebrities among those dumping the photo-sharing service. Changes to the privacy policy and terms of service at Facebook-owned Instagram taking effect ...
SMARTPHONE photo sharing service Instagram has refined its privacy policy to clear the way for sharing data with Facebook, which bought the company earlier this year. "Nothing has changed about your photos' ownership or who can see them," ...
Tags: Instagram, Facebook, Data, Computer Products
MIT researchers have figured out a way to help developers more easily rearrange their image processing code so that it can execute faster and use fewer computational resources. Such a technique could prove especially beneficial for mobile ...
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