The Famous app got itself banned from Apple’s App Store about a month ago. They sidestepped the ban by promptly launching an Android version instead, and is today back on an iOS device near you in the form of a web app. The Famous interface, in which your correspondent is the world’s biggest fan of Twitter. Which […]
Here at Mobile World Congress 2016, the annual Barcelona-based flesh-pressing of the telco industry, Google and a bunch of carriers have put out a press release talking up how they are apparently ‘aligning’ to try to drive adoption of RCS. Aka the Rich Communications Services interoperable messaging standard that carriers have been trying to push for years. Carriers’ aim with RCS […]
Apple faces off against the FBI The FBI has demanded that Apple unlock a terrorist’s phone for law enforcement and the company has refused. At stake is Apple’s fear that a special version of iOS to do what the FBI wants will be bad for all iPhone owners should it get out in the wild. […]
The iPhone SE will go on sale in France, Germany, and the UK on March 24. Image: CNET Apple’s new iPhone SE might be smaller and cheaper than the iPhone 6S, but it’ll still set Europeans back well over $400 to buy one. In the US, the new iPhone SE is launching with a nicely-rounded […]
Apple doesn’t like to talk about specs. But it turns out my boss Matthew Panzarino already has review units of the new iPad Pro and iPhone SE. So nobody is going to stop us if we want to run Geekbench on these new devices. The result is both interesting and unsurprising. While the 9.7-inch iPad […]
In yet another example that maintaining dominance within a space cannot be taken for granted, Flickr announced earlier this month that they are only allowing auto-uploads from the desktop for paying customers. Wired declared “Time to Give up on Flickr, Everybody.” The Smithsonian has just announced the winning photos of its 13th annual Smithsonian.com Photo […]
Google rolled out a small but useful update to its Google Photos service today, which will allow the creation of what Google calls “smarter albums.” These are photo albums automatically created on users’ behalf, following an event or a trip, and will include a curated selection of your best shots, along with details like how far you […]
Microsoft today announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation — the open source group that’s probably best known for its Eclipse IDE, but which also offers a number of other developer tools. With this, Microsoft is joining other Eclipse sponsors like Google, Novell, IBM, Debeka, and Oracle. Given that Microsoft offers its own IDE […]
It’s hard to believe that Twitter turns 10 years old today, given that still so many people seem to misunderstand its purpose and appeal. Twitter is not Facebook – it’s not a place for socializing among friends, but rather delivers a feed of information that matches up with your own interests. In fact, some of […]
“Since then, I’ve been interested in this idea of virtual reality. Now today, thanks to this partnership between Samsung and Facebook, this is now possible. And it will be possible to deliver this experience at this scale and this price without Samsung’s experience in hardware.” Source link