Author: Ingram Sanders

January 7, 2013
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Ford have recently announced plans to integrate location-sharing appGlympse into its dashboard interface, SYNC. Users will press the voice command button on the steering wheel and speak the command "send Glympse" to share their location. The app will enable drivers to inform contacts of their whereabouts, their time of arrival, and their journey progress. The location will only be displayed for a designated period of time, and can include information on speed, location, and estimated arrival time. Read more by clicking here >>    ...

January 7, 2013
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YouTube has introduced a new 'send to TV' feature for smart TVs,allowing Android users to pair their device with the TV. Users of the Android YouTube app will be able to send videos to a TV on the same wifi, and queue up videos for later watching, in a bid by YouTube to change the small-screen centred view of the service. Shiva Rajaraman, YouTube director of product management, said "We'd like to be all things video, and that means getting video into all places". Read more...

January 4, 2013
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Facebook will integrate a feature into its Android and iOS apps whichwill allow users to send voice clips alongside regular chat messages. The feature will be available in a free update to its messenger app this Thursday. Users can send a voice message by tapping the existing + symbol and holding down the new record button until the message is over. Previews of the app show a user sending directions in a 42 second voice clip, removing the need for more lengthy text-based messages. Read the...

January 4, 2013
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"Tumblr" has overtaken "blog" in the list of the top ten most searcheditems on Google. Interest in Tumblr has never before overtaken those searching for general blogs, which rose sharply from 2005, and began to decline around 2010. Tumblr's popularity in Google searches remained relatively very low until 2010, when it began a steep rise. The decline in searches for the term "blog" has been said to reflect the wavering interest in personal blogging against more social media-leaning sites with sharing and passing on of content like...

November 23, 2012
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Facebook has announced plans to remove the option for user votes inimportant site decisions. User voting was introduced in 2009, but has seen very little user input and represents a very small percentage of active users. In a post on the company blog announcing the change, VP Elliot Schrage said the process was being abandoned 'in favour of a system that leads to more meaningful feedback and engagement.' The blog post also promised users new ways to field their queries and input on the site, including live...

November 23, 2012
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Former Apple engineer Patrick Gibson has joined Apple critics in sayingthat the company should buy Twitter due to poor understanding of web-based services. Other reasons for support of the proposed purchase have been that Apple's apps and services lack sociability, and that past attempts to offer online services (such as Ping and Game Center) have been ineffective. 'Google is getting better at design faster than Apple is getting better at web services. I'm a diehard Apple fan [but] almost anything Apple does which involves the internet is...

November 23, 2012
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A retinal prosthesis has allowed a blind patient to read letters with an89 percent accuracy, and two-letter words with 80%, as published by a team of neuroscientists at Brown University this week. The original prosthesis included a retinal implant and an eye-mounted camera, and allowed the patient to read words in less than half a second. An improved model, released since the paper's submission in July, has removed the need for the camera and relies solely on impulses from the implant to enable fluid reading. To read...

November 23, 2012
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An official badge has been made available for businesses and personalbloggers to promote their Instagram web profiles.   The badges feature a monochrome version of the photo sharing site's logo and will fit uniformly with other social networking site badges.   The introduction of the Instagram badge has come only two weeks after the previously mobile app-only service first introduced web profiles.   Read the full story here >>   Photo: Eric Ward  ...

November 23, 2012
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Apple have introduced significant one-day discounts on many of theirproducts in the UK and US for the Black Friday sale. UK deals include an 81 saving on MacBook Pro and 31 off the new iPad with Retina display. US Apple stores have offered $101 savings on their MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is observed in America as the first day of the Christmas shopping season, and some UK retailers have begun to introduce similar sales. Read the full story here...

November 22, 2012
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Facebook loading speeds will slow as the site will use the more secure'HTTPS' url rather than the current 'HTTP'. Facebook's Alex Rice posted on the switch on the official Facebook blog, saying, 'we feel that HTTPS is an essential option to protect the security of Facebook accounts'. HTTPS is currently widespread on websites that process online payments, and other sites that contain user details. Read the story in full here >>...

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