Social Media Archive
23 Mar 2015
Revamped Apple TV will be unveiled at WWDC 2015
Revamped Apple TV will be unveiled at WWDC 2015 While Apple Watch is yet to hit store shelves, reports about a new Apple TV to be launched in June have started circulating on the web. According to Buzzfeed, the Cupertino Company will showcase its revamped Apple TV at the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC)
23 Mar 2015
Amazon’s ‘Unlocked’ service will give away paid apps for free
Amazon’s ‘Unlocked’ service will give away paid apps for free Amazon may soon introduce a new service dubbed ‘Amazon Unlocked’ which will offer paid apps for free. Along with free apps, the service will also make in-app purchases free. The report added that developers can leave Unlocked and when they do, users will have to begin paying
23 Mar 2015
Google exec: Here’s where Glass went wrong
Google exec: Here’s where Glass went wrong Google’s Astro Teller was on hand at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas recently to give a talk on the value of failure. It’s something he knows a bit about as the head of Google’s secretive Google X department. Teller, sometimes jokingly called “Captain of Moonshots,”
23 Mar 2015
Facebook now lets marketers target ads at its 92 million expats
Facebook now lets marketers target ads at its 92 million expats Facebook has announced a new targeting feature that allows marketers to reach expats with their ads on the social network. You can now target expats living within a given country and even those originating from a specific country. So, if you wanted to display ads
23 Mar 2015
Facebook Testing Phone App for Android
Facebook Testing Phone App for Android Facebook phone? No, we’re not talking about a new Facebook-branded smartphone (and we’re happy that we’ll likely never see those rumors again). We are, however, talking about a potential app that Facebook is allegedly testing out—the details of which were accidentally leaked via a server-side update to the Facebook
21 Mar 2015
How to Delete Your Facebook Account
How to Delete Your Facebook Account If you’re ready for a Facebook break, you have two options: deactivate or delete. Deactivating your account couldn’t be easier. On the desktop, click the drop-down menu at the top-right of your screen and select Settings. Click Security on the left, and you’ll see a “Deactivate My Account” link at
21 Mar 2015
BitTorrent-like P2P software updates could be coming to Windows 10
BitTorrent-like P2P software updates could be coming to Windows 10 If you’ve ever impatiently watched the progress bar fill for a Windows update, salvation is on the horizon. Leaked screenshots of an unreleased Windows 10 build show that peer-to-peer software updates are coming to Redmond’s next major OS release, so hopefully the patching process will
21 Mar 2015
Amazon is reportedly working on a ‘Prime for apps’ subscription service
Amazon is reportedly working on a ‘Prime for apps’ subscription service While Amazon has worked hard to promote its Android app store, let’s face it: if you’re not on Fire OS, you’ll use the Google Play Store almost all the time. But it looks like Amazon may have a trick up its sleeve to get
20 Mar 2015
New Facebook Marketing Tool Chews Up Data, Spits It Out
New Facebook Marketing Tool Chews Up Data, Spits It Out Facebook last week launched Topic Data, a new service that reveals to advertisers the subjects users discuss, the brands and products they use, and the activities they follow. Marketers will be able to sift through data compilations of what users say about events, brands, subjects
20 Mar 2015
How to Get Loopy With Vine
How to Get Loopy With Vine How clever can you be with six seconds of video footage? That’s the Vine challenge, and many users of the Twitter app have undertaken it, albeit with mixed results. Some Vines are so mundane, they make six seconds take too long. Some are so obscene you might turn away