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Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
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Friday, 26 December 2014

Facebook Messenger Tops iOS Charts.


 
The Messenger app by Facebook is currently ranked among the most popular apps for iOS. 

As the year comes to a close, companies are counting out their "best of" winners, annual chart-toppers, and "most popular" lists.

Thursday, 30 October 2014

Was your car stolen? Stop the thieves in their tracks with a simple SMS.

Kelvin Macharia Kuria is the founder of Sunrise Tracking, a car security company based in Kenya. What would you do if your car had just been stolen? Take out your phone and call the police? Sure, you could that, but what if instead of asking authorities for help you simply sent a text message? Moreover, what if that SMS went straight to a hidden device inside your car and immediately immobilized the vehicle's engine?

Friday, 24 October 2014

Fondation Louis Vuitton unveils Paris' latest landmark.

Fondation Louis Vuitton -- the philanthropic wing of luxury conglomerate LVMH -- is opening a new contemporary art museum in Paris, designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry. Luxury enthusiasts, rejoice: Louis Vuitton is bringing its upscale sensibilities to the art world.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, the philanthropic wing of luxury goods conglomerate LVMH, is opening a 41,441-square-foot art museum in Paris to share its cultural values with the general public.

Facebook wants to bring back the anonymous chatroom.

Facebook has released a new chatroom app called Rooms where people can talk about shared interests under fake names.
Facebook has released a new chatroom app called Rooms where people can talk about shared interests under fake names.

Thursday, 23 October 2014

iPad Air 2 teardown: in pictures.

Apple’s latest iPad Air builds on everything that made the first one great. The most powerful to date, the iPad Air 2 packs in an A8X processor, 8 Megapixel camera, faster Wi-Fi and Apple’s Touch ID

Beyond tweets: Twitter aims for mobile domination.

The days of Twitter as a mere social network are over, says Sophie Curtis. The company's new suite of developer tools hints at its ambition to become a platform for mobile servicesTwitter's $10bn valuation seems in part aimed to counter some of the hype that surrounded Facebook's flotation.

Twitter is setting its sights beyond tweets. At the Flight mobile developer conference in San Francisco this week, Twitter launched a new mobile development platform called Fabric, with which it hopes to infiltrate all the apps on your mobile phone.