Articles tagged "Online services"

Google has revealed the brand new version of Gmail, which comes with more than just visual changes. There are dramatic updates that have been made to the usability and most importantly, the security of the service. One of the biggest changes is...

It's time for users of Amazon Alexa on Apple's iPhone X to breathe a sigh of relief. Almost six months after the notched Apple flagship launched and a month after Amazon promised the change, the Alexa app has been made compatible with the...

Microsoft has introduced a major change in its OneDrive app for mobile platforms. As part of its effort to bring unified sharing experience across all platforms, the company has updated the app with new sharing UI. The new sharing experience...

According to a new report, Google Play Music service will be killed by the end of 2018. It'd be a forced end, meaning all Play Music users will have to give up the service. So what's replacing Play Music? Well, an upcoming service called YouTube...

WhatsApp will update its terms and conditions of service to reflect the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) standards that were passed for the European Union. Basically, these rules say that services which collect data from users should have...

Looks like Facebook now has plans to design its own semiconductor chipsets. There's a job listing on the social-networking company's corporate website that says Facebook is looking to hire a manager in order to build an "end-to-end SoC/ASIC,...

Instagram has revealed plans of allowing users to download a copy of their data, according to a report by Techcrunch. An Instagram spokesperson responded to Techcrunch after the latter published an article about the lack of data portability on the...

A second generation version of the Snapchat Spectacles has seemingly passed through FCC for certification. While the FCC documents don't name them as such, the leaked packing label and the fact that it's called 'Wearable video camera 002' in the FCC...

A new report from Bloomberg Technology claims that Spotify is going to update the free tier of Spotify. This is the ad-supported version of the music streaming service, one that 95 million people use regularly and Spotify expects to 109 million by...

Spotify has sent invitations out to the press for an announcement that’s taking place in New York City. The event invitation only says “Spotify invites you to a news announcement. Morning of Tuesday, April 24 New York City”. The invitation has a...

A couple of weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg made a statement following the realization that Facebook's platform was used to influence the outcome of the 2016 United States election. Today, Facebook offers a more specific look at how exactly it is...

Apple's expansion efforts for its digital payment platform might have slowed down a bit, but it is still scoring important wins, nonetheless. After Denmark, Finland, Sweden and the United Arab Emirates joined the Apple Pay ranks, last year, now...

Update: It appears the channels have been fixed. Original story follows below. Many folks are tweeting that they are unable to see any YouTuber's channel pages, only to be met with an internal error 500. Wowww I can’t go into any channel on...

Google is gearing up to officially launch its Home and Home Mini devices in India next month. The news was originally picked up as part of a communication by Redington India with its retail partners. This move has been widely anticipated, since the...

When first launched, Google received some pushback about the smart home speakers not being able to pair to an outside audio source like Amazon Echo. There was not even an AUX-out port so you could not even use an external speaker through a...

Google images is great, isn't it? There's really no competing with the web titan's vast catalogue of indexed pictures and its cutting-edge searching algorithms. However, it's not really most people's first choice for sourcing a great animated GIF....

Google has added support for dozens of new languages to its Maps service. A total of 39 new languages have made it to the list, that Google says are spoken by an estimated 1.25 billion people worldwide. The new entries include Afrikaans,...

Google has paused the roll out of Duo update (version 30) due to bugs. Justin Uberti, who is creator/lead engineer at Google Duo, revealed this in a tweet yesterday, blaming low call volume problem for the step they took. Some Android users have...

Instagram has announced new changes to the timeline based on user feedback. One of these changes is the introduction of 'New Posts' button that lets you manually refresh. This prevents the previous automatic refreshing of the timeline that had a...

In case you missed what's going on with Facebook, here's the low down. A data mining and analytics firm called Cambridge Analytica took Facebook user data and misused it in violation of Facebook's terms and guidelines. This misuse of data played a...