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An application, all your news: News Republic 2.0
The free news application has been completely renovated for a more elegant, innovative tile interface and several new features, including photo galleries and video, enhanced customization options and social media function that allow users to express their states of mind on the articles they read. News Republic offers more than 10,000 full articles every day [...]
The five most popular photography apps from the App Store
The applications are one of the most attractive features of a smartphone. Its wide availability of various categories can cover needs and that are a contribution that makes mobile phones as useful devices. During these recent years has increased the demand for applications related to photography and the effects can be given, so here are [...]
Lifebrowser, history made in Microsoft
Among the various projects under development in laboratories of Microsoft is Lifebrowser, a system for creating a chronology of his life. Microsoft Lifebrowser is, as its name suggests, a browser. This is short of software that makes browsing on their main occupation. To differentiate it from the main field of application, however, is the place [...]
Android, advertising consumes the battery
The battery consumption of Android terminals would be determined primarily by the activity of advertising that accompanies the applications. A study at Purdue University in collaboration with Microsoft has measured how advertising can affect battery consumption on Android devices. The result was striking: as many as 75% of the average charge is consumed from advertising [...]
Dropbox, sharing travel on Facebook
The Dropbox team has announced the ability to share files and folders using a Facebook account, expanding the tools available to users. The acquisition of startup Cove, active in developing collaboration solutions, and the hiring of several former employees of Facebook by Dropbox now assumes a new significance in light of the announcement made by [...]
Rapidshare bandwidth cuts against piracy
Rapidshare want to delete the word “piracy” from their vocabulary. To do this, cut the free bandwidth users to discourage violations. Combat digital piracy: this is the categorical imperative imposed by many online hosting services that until now have represented an important pool for distribution of content protected by copyright. There are several precautionary measures [...]
Windows Live, video chat coming
A screenshot dedicated to the integration between SkyDrive and Windows 8 “confirm” the arrival of video-chat capabilities for Windows Live. There was some talk late last year in August for a possible inclusion of video-chat capabilities on systems compatible with the Windows Live online platform. Now virtually comes the “confirmation” and thank to some official [...]
Google Drive: image of the cloud storage service
The layout of the user interface of Google Drive may be similar to that of Google Docs, but instead of documents containing files and directories. The debut of Google Drive is fast approaching. A reader of the site GeekWire has in fact saved a screenshot of the cloud storage service that will likely be announced [...]
Google Docs all free
The Data Liberation Front announces the availability of Google Takeout option in order to “liberate” the data preservatives on Google Docs. The Data Liberation Front gets a new success: the “movement” that aims to facilitate the release of the data stored within the Google service that adds the important element of Google Docs to their [...]
Amazon updates Kindle app for the iPhone and iPad
The Kindle version 2.9 of the Amazon application for iOS allows the reading of magazines and newspapers and introduces support for PDF files. At the same time the announcement of the upgrade software for Kindle Fire, Amazon has released a new version of the application for the Apple devices. The Kindle app 2.9 for iPhone, [...]
MySpace changes in favor of music and Facebook
MySpace comes back with a radical change in strategy. The relaunch of the site, today, provides a series of important innovations that significantly change the face of the MySpace the social network, which almost does not want to be called such. The new MySpace, first integrates multimedia features, which allow the user to be able [...]