Amazon is reportedly building its own messaging app called Anytime that will function like WhatsApp, with added extras to make group chats and video chatting way more exciting. According to the Amazon-centric site AFTVNews, Amazon let ...
Skype is getting a new update that makes the app more of a social network than a video calling service. Detailed in a post on the Skype Blog, the new update is designed to encourage users to use Skype with the same frequency they use ...
Essential, the start-up founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, made its official entry onto the global tech stage this week, but attention is already turning the company’s next potential launch. Just days after the Essential Phone ...
Tags: Google Glass
Microsoft Research is developing augmented reality glasses that will offer vision correction, among other features. When Microsoft announced HoloLens in 2015, it committed itself to pushing AR into the mainstream. Now, the company has ...
Tags: Microsoft, reality glasses
Pepsi has announced the launch of its newest limited-edition beverage, Pepsi Fire. Beginning May 22, Pepsi Fire – the refreshing cola with a cinnamon flavored twist – will be available in stores nationwide for an eight-week ...
If you thought Apple's last couple of years were big, just wait for 2017. The launch of the large-screen iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in late 2014 sent Apple's fortunes soaring. Apple became the most profitable company in the world, and the ...
Remember that time long ago when mobile apps were really good at one thing? Cool, wasn’t it. Well, Instagram’s latest attempt to be everything to everyone will involve live video streaming. Not content with knocking off ...
Tags: Instagram, mobile apps
Twitter has abruptly killed off its short video sharing service Vine. The app, which enabled looping clips limited to six seconds to be uploaded and shared on social media, will be discontinued in the coming months. The decision ...
It’s been an action-packed week, here’s what’s coming up on the Refresh. Both Microsoft and Apple launch exciting new flagship products and Microsoft weren't finished there as it reveals Windows 10 Creator's Edition. ...
Tags: Surface Studio, Macbook
Snapchat has launched its first-ever physical product: a pair of sunglasses. Today, Snapchat announced ‘Spectacles’, a pair of glasses with a built-in camera and, of course, Snapchat integration. At the touch of a button, you ...
Tags: Snapchat, physical product
The 2016 South by Southwest (SXSW) conference is a wrap, but the marketing world is still buzzing about it. One of the most talked-about marketing masterpieces at this year’s SXSW was the astonishing installation of a 100-foot Ferris ...
Tags: SXSW, Coney Island, Ferris wheel
For each act of friendship shared using #FriendshipisMagic or #FrienditForward, Hasbro will make a $1 donation to GenerationOn. Hasbro is set to celebrate this year’s International Day of Friendship (July 30th) with a special ...
Tags: Hasbro, My Little Pony, Walmart
Most of us are wondering when Snapchat is going to get bought out, but the company is making its own acquisitions in the meantime. Snapchat has agreed to buy a start-up that designs personalised avatars, a new report claims. ...
Tags: Snapchat, Aquisitions
Users can now keep up to date with Prime's stream of selfies by following his official Snapchat account: OptimusPrime. Optimus Prime, star of Hasbro's Transformers brand and leader of the Autobots, has joined the messaging app Snapchat. ...
Tags: Transformers, Optimus Prime, Snapchat
Microsoft has just revealed the number apps available on Windows and Windows Phone stores. The Redmond-based firm has updated its ‘by the numbers’ page to reveal that both stores now boast a combined total 560,000 apps. This ...
Tags: Windows, Apps, Consumer Electronics