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08 Sep 2015
The Best Free Antivirus for 2015
The Best Free Antivirus for 2015 Maybe you think your computer doesn’t need antivirus protection. You don’t keep important information on it, you just use it to surf the web and watch funny cat videos, so why spend money on an antivirus utility? Then one day you turn the PC on and find that it’s
07 Sep 2015
WhatsApp Tops 900M Monthly Active Users
WhatsApp Tops 900M Monthly Active Users WhatsApp creator Jan Koum today announced that the messaging service now has 900 million monthly active users. First to offer his congratulations was the head of Facebook, which acquired WhatsApp last year in a $16 billion deal. “Congrats! Here’s an action shot of you writing this update,” Mark Zuckerberg
07 Sep 2015
Chrome 45 to Use Less Memory, Power
Chrome 45 to Use Less Memory, Power Google Chrome is about to get a speed bump. With Thursday’s launch of Chrome 45, Google is promising “a ton of improvements to make your browsing use less memory and power.” Chrome lets you “continue where you left off,” or return to the tab you were looking at
07 Sep 2015
Is it Time for Twitter to Ditch its Limits?
Is it Time for Twitter to Ditch its Limits? Twitter: a great tool for messaging friends, reading random strangers’ musings on life’s daily events, and having conversations with brands and people you might never engage with otherwise. (Great for poking fun at others, too.) However, most Twitter users have felt the frustration that comes
05 Sep 2015
5 psychology secrets for great interaction design
5 psychology secrets for great interaction design It’s becoming more important every day for your designs to connect more with users and include a “human element.” Website and user experience design needs to feel real, from aesthetics to interactions to motion (perceived and real) to emotional connection. The problem designers most often encounter when
05 Sep 2015
Facebook’s newest product helps educators track students’ progress
Facebook’s newest product helps educators track students’ progress For the past year, Facebook has been working with a group of public schools to help improve the software they use to monitor students’ progress. Now, it wants to give it away for free to schools across the US. The social network says its dedicated team partnered withSummit
05 Sep 2015
Samsung Teases ‘Galaxy View’ Tablet
Samsung Teases ‘Galaxy View’ Tablet REPORTING FROM BERLIN—Samsung had a little surprise at the end of its Galaxy Gear 2 launch presentation: a tease of what appeared to be a large tablet, called the Galaxy View, coming next month. According to the 20 seconds of video (below), which is pretty much all we know
04 Sep 2015
BlackBerry just bought a mobile security company for more money than you thought it had
BlackBerry just bought a mobile security company for more money than you thought it had BlackBerry isn’t doing so well these days, but it turns out it has more money than you might have thought. Today it’sacquired a California-based mobile security company calledGood Technology for $425 million in cash. Good Technology was a competitor of
04 Sep 2015
These Are the Most Popular iOS Apps, Games Ever
These Are the Most Popular iOS Apps, Games Ever More people around the world have downloaded Facebook than any other app available for iOS devices, according to a new report from App Annie. In anticipation of Apple’s big media eventnext week, the app analytics firm took a look back at the most popular apps and games
04 Sep 2015
Hands On With the Sony Xperia Z5
Hands On With the Sony Xperia Z5 REPORTING FROM BERLIN—Sony’s new Xperia Z5 stands as the company’s most advanced smartphone in terms of its camera functions, but it doesn’t stop there. It’s getting two siblings, one of which boasts a full 4K screen; we tried them out here at IFA. The Xperia Z5 has