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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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Google redesigns Play Store

by Russell Co on Apr 10, 2013 | No Comments

After a series of leaks, Google has officially announced the redesign of the Play Store. The Google’s app marketplace has done away with its dark theme in favor of a more colorful look. With a…

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Google Play Store cleans up act, boots 60k low-quality apps

by Russell Co on Apr 09, 2013 | No Comments

Google is known for periods of spring cleaning and now it has looked towards its own mobile application marketplace, Google Play, culling around 60,000 low-quality apps in February. Quite a large number of apps, considering…

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Microsoft working on Google Glass competitor for 2014

by Russell Co on Apr 08, 2013 | No Comments

Google Glass has been making waves over the past year and now everyone wants a piece of that pie, now that another round of new users have been selected. Not surprisingly, Chinese search giant, Baidu…

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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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Facebook Home announced, home screen replacement app for Android

by Russell Co on Apr 05, 2013 | No Comments

Facebook has announced its new home screen replacement app called Facebook Home. It replaces the standard Android homescreen with an immersive Facebook experience with full-screen cover feeds, status updates, and notifications. Shutting down phone rumors and confirming…

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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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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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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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