Thursday, July 2, 2015

Twitter Pushes Ads With A New Button Atop Mobile Users’ Profiles

twitter-earnings Twitter’s latest push to monetize its service has led to the rollout of a new “Twitter Ads” button, which is now prominently appearing on user profile pages on both the iOS and Android client applications. The newly added button, which some users may have initially mistaken as a shortcut to Twitter analytics, is found right next to the “Edit profile” button,… Read More


Source: TechCrunch http://j.mp/1RTQert

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Google Launches iOS And Android Apps To Help Developers Manage Their Cloud Platform Resources On The Go

Google Data Center If you’re in charge of managing apps on Google’s Cloud Platform, chances are you are intimately familiar with the inner workings of the web-based Google Developers Console. Until now, that was pretty much the only way to get a quick overview of the health of your system. Now, however, Cloud Platform users can also use Google’s new mobile apps to manage their Cloud Platform apps. Read More


Source: TechCrunch http://j.mp/1JwmIG7

Meet Crossroad, A Nifty Little App To Create Collaborative Photo Albums

Crossroad Chances are you recently went back from a wedding, a road trip or any other meaningful social event, and all your friends took a bunch of photos with their phones. And yet, you won’t ever see these photos again, as they will stay in your friend’s camera roll forever. Crossroad is a new app for iOS and Android that lets you create collaborative albums in a few taps. It’s… Read More


Source: TechCrunch http://j.mp/1Nw3ilZ

Developer Finds A Web Stream For Apple Music’s Beats1 Radio That Lets Android Users Tune In

beats1 One of the surprisingly better features found in Apple’s new streaming music service, Apple Music, which launched yesterday to much fanfare, is its human-DJ’d Beats1 radio station which broadcasts to 100 countries worldwide via the Music app on iOS devices and via iTunes on the desktop. But while the service will be made available to Android users this fall by way of a native… Read More


Source: TechCrunch http://j.mp/1JwWaHG

Q&A: A Mac-to-iPhone Handoff

How to set up hardware so that Macs and iOS devices share some tasks like phone calls and text messages from applications like Mail, Safari and Maps.











Source: NYT > Technology http://j.mp/1NvHWp5

Smart Android Launcher Yahoo Aviate Gets Overhauled, Accused Of Being A “Google Now Clone”

Screen Shot 2015-07-01 at 10.03.57 AM Yahoo’s Aviate Android launcher, which the company acquired for $80 million in order to own a piece of the growing mobile ecosystem, as it doesn’t have its own mobile operating system or hardware in play, has seen continued development in the months following the deal. The latest addition to this intelligent homescreen application is something Yahoo is calling the… Read More


Source: TechCrunch http://j.mp/1JwMnBl

Minute Is a Video Watching App For The ADD Generation

Viral video has become a bug business. Companies like Vodio and 5by have come into to serve this space, ‘viralising’ short form video, especially for mobile. Now Minute, a new startup, has developed a new Android and web application that draws on big data and crowd data to determine the most viral part of an online video. It then turns these moments into short Vine-like clips.… Read More


Source: TechCrunch http://j.mp/1FQIT4O

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