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Retailing giant Amazon has launched its first ever smartphone in the UK, more than a month after the device was released in the US. The Fire Phone, which will be available exclusively on O2, includes a product recognition app that lets users find items...
Following the launch of Inbox on October 22, Google this week also quietly released a Chrome app for the service. You can download it now directly from the Chrome Web Store. The app was first spotted by Inbox Guru, which incorrectly referred to it as...
Requests by governments for Facebook's user data are up by nearly a quarter in the first half of this year compared with the previous six months. Global government requests were up by 24% to almost 35,000 in the first six months, the social media giant...
Everyone feels, deep in their gut, that WhatsApp and Facebook integration is only a matter of time. Some of you may have seen the recent alarmist propaganda that WhatsApp and Facebook were merging because the WhatsApp's alpha web page was showing a Facebook...
report commissioned by the Belgian privacy commission has found thatFacebook is acting in violation of European law, despite updating its privacy policy. Seven things we learned from Facebook's latest financial results Read more Conducted by the Centre...
On Friday, Jason Calacanis declared in a blog post that Apple will buy Tesla Motors in approximately 18 months for the whopping sum of $75 billion. Calacanis is not a shareholder in either company, nor does he have any inside information, but he gave...
In January, I deleted Twitter from my phone. The app was a charming distraction, I decided, and 2015 would be a year of productivity upgrades. Three weeks later, I cheated by opening Twitter on my iPhone browser. Four weeks later, I was refreshing the...
Last year, Twitch hit the impressive milestone of 100 million unique viewers per month, the games streaming service has announced. Twitch launched a little website yesterday highlighting that impressive number and other stats from 2014. Last year, the...
Apple Music vs Tidal vs Spotify: Will The Original Audio Streaming King Be Dethroned? Dustin Kemp The audio streaming industry is currently at war. Apple’s newest major enterprise, Apple Music, and Jay-Z’s streaming venture, Tidal, are both trying to...
Hip Aussie company Atlassian, which makes software development, project management and collaboration software, has had the hackers in. The company announced, on its HipChat blog, that up to 2% of the username-and-password database was stolen from its...
Facebook is turning Internet.org, its project to provide free internet to new users, into a platform. The move comes amid criticism of the program’s “walled garden” approach to hand-picking services, and claims that it violates the principles of net neutrality....
Hans-Holger Albrecht entered a crowded music-streaming market when he became CEO of Paris-based Deezer in February. A month after taking the helm, the relaunched Tidal in the U.S. and a month from now, Albrecht faces the prospect of Apple relaunching...
One of the companies in the frame as a potential buyer of Nokia’s Here mapping division has quietly inked a deal with the Finnish company to power mobile maps. Facebook is now using Here maps for its mobile web version, and it is also running a test for...
Jumio Inc., an online and mobile credentials management company has added enhancements to its proprietary ID card scanning service, Netverify, according to an announcement. Netverify provides businesses using mobile and online channels an accurate and...
Outside Apple Store, people excitedly line up to buy iPhone 6. The crowd is remarkably eclectic. Tattoos here. Mohawk there. Someone wearing a prim business suit chats with a burly biker wearing sleeveless T-Shirt. Everyone’s clothes beam bright, vibrant...
ew version of Atlassian’s HipChat team communications app designed to run on private networks has been released today. HipChat Server has been in beta testing since 2013 but is now officially available. The new implementation works behind corporate firewalls...
Earlier this week, the last of the Google Play edition Android phones in Google's online storefront were listed as "no longer available for sale." When contacted for comment, Google had nothing to say, but it's not hard to read between the lines here....
Of all the products that Apple makes, the least known is probably the Apple TV (reviewed here). Until recently Apple's set-top box was hidden away on the Apple Store in the iPod section, however, now the Apple TV got its own section of the store. The...
This past weekend, Rite Aid RAD -2.06% Pharmacy and CVS Pharmacy blocked Apple AAPL +0.37% Pay. Apple Pay is a new digital wallet service that allows users to pay for goods using certain Apple devices that wirelessly communicate with point of sale systems...
The dramatic slide in sales of PCs continues, but for one new player in this market this is an opportunity. Google has launched another of its Chromebook laptops this week - made by HP in this case - and is poised to grab a bigger share of a shrinking...
In December we learned that Facebook was "dead to teens", according to anthropological researchers from University College London, whose conclusions seemed questionable. Now this week we've heard from academics at Princeton University that Facebook is...
Facebook is 10 years old. Hard to believe in two ways - it seems to have been around forever, and yet to be something brand new and of the moment. And perhaps that is the secret of its success - the ability to weave its way into our lives while constantly...
The internet and TV is the marriage that has continually been put on hold. Back in 2012 I speculated that the long-awaited digital union would finally be consummated in British living-rooms that year - and yet viewers remained largely unmoved. Literally...
Predicting the future shape of technology is a fool's game. If you believed the forecasts of future-gazers when I was growing up, we would all be taking holidays on the moon, consuming our meals in tablet form and enjoying a 10-hour working week by now....
A number of tech pundits and helpful "you should install these apps" lists often feature uTorrent as a must-have BitTorrent app. Google, it seems, would disagree. According to a recent article from TorrentFreak, the search giant has allegedly placed the...
