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Twitter to launch new music app after We Are Hunted acquisition

by Russell Co on Apr 12, 2013 | No Comments

Twitter seems to be moving into the music scene as the company confirms its acquisition of the team behind the music discovery site We Are Hunted. According to We Are Hunted “we will continue to…

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Google’s Inactive Account Manager takes over your digital afterlife

by Russell Co on Apr 12, 2013 | No Comments

Death is something we cannot avoid, but not many of us like thinking about it. But if and when we do, we leave behind a lot of things, including our digital presence. Now Google has…

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WikiLeaks reveals “Kissinger Cables”, over 1.7 million diplomatic records

by Russell Co on Apr 10, 2013 | No Comments

WikiLeaks has once again unloaded a large number of formerly confidential information from the United States government. Released over the weekend, the “Kissinger Cables” contain more than 1.7 million US diplomatic record from 1973 to…

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Google looking to acquire WhatsApp for $1 billion

by Russell Co on Apr 08, 2013 | No Comments

Another billion dollar acquisition may be in the works, as Google negotiates with messaging app WhatsApp. Sources tell Digital Trends that negotiations have been going on for the past few weeks, but the WhatsApp team…

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Mozilla partners with Samsung to develop Servo, next-generation Web browser engine

by Russell Co on Apr 04, 2013 | No Comments

Mozilla has announced a partnership with Samsung to develop a next-generation Web browser engine called Servo. Mozilla Research has been working on Servo as a research project in 2012, is written in Rust, a relatively…

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Dropbox partners with Yahoo Mail for attachments of any size

by Russell Co on Apr 03, 2013 | No Comments

Dropbox and Yahoo Mail have announced a new partnership to integrate the storage service into the mail service. It now becomes easier to send, receive, and manage attachments by removing the pesky 25MB file size…

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Twitter Cards expanded, displays multimedia content and app functionality

by Russell Co on Apr 03, 2013 | No Comments

Twitter has introduced a couple of new features to its “Cards” feature to help developers build new features for tweets. The new features allow developers to do more with a single tweet, display photo galleries,…

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Game of Thrones premier breaks BitTorrent records

by Russell Co on Apr 02, 2013 | No Comments

Quite a number of people have managed to download the season premier of the Game of Thrones on BitTorrent, around a million already in less than a day. Just hours after the first torrent of the…

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Google announces open-source patent pledge, won’t sue “unless first attacked”

by Russell Co on Apr 02, 2013 | No Comments

Google takes a page from Twitter and announced the Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge, a new initative where the company promises not to sue any users, distributors, or developers of open-source software using some of…

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HTC-built phone with Facebook Home to appear in Android event

by Russell Co on Apr 02, 2013 | No Comments

Even Facebook is going mobile, as it’s set to unveil a custom version of Android that’s deeply interconnected with the social network on an HTC-built phone at its upcoming event on April 4. Instead of…

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