Facebook Graph Search Privacy Tips
Facebook has now unveiled its Graph Search tool, which turns the personal information people have shared on the social network into a powerful searchable database. While it is only rolling out on a limited basis in the U.S. right now, ultimately it will allow everyone to search easily across the…
Silent Circle Adds Android For Encrypted Voice And Video Calls
Silent Circle announced today that they have released Silent Phone for Android users which is now available for download in Google Play. As the Apple iOS version has already been available, this new release is good news for the many business users that require a cross platform communications solution. However…
CES 2013: HDTV and connected devices roundup
As you may have guessed by scanning our CES 2013 coverage, HDTV — particularly of the Ultra HD variety — was kind of a big deal at this year’s show. In fact, UHDTV’s omnipresence fanned so much reader interest this year that we penned a feature article to put the LG…
Viber 2.3 For BlackBerry Launches With Emoticons, Revamped UI, And …
Viber has just announced a relatively vanilla update to its BlackBerry app, but with a pretty awesome cherry on top. With over 100 million registered users (since we last checked), Viber has managed to offer HD VoIP calls, texts, and MMS messages for free across both Android and iOS, regardless But…
Simple launches Android app designed from scratch so more people can …
Eight months after arriving on iOS and one month after teasing us with mockups, Banking startup Simple has finally launched on Android. To create the app, Simple says it needed to rely on an “outside perspective,” and did so by recruiting mobile product development rm Two Toasters the same firm…
foursquare for Symbian fixes SSH woes
foursquare for Symbian has always been a very polished piece of work, with almost all 4sq features and a modern interface, including NFC checkins where appropriate if your phone has this functionality. However, security changes at foursquare’s end have kept Symbian users out recently, with a barrage of ‘SSL handshake…
BlackBerry 10 ‘port-a-thon’ adds 15000 submissions to App World
The number of apps submitted to the BlackBerry 10 App World store grew by 15,000 over the weekend, following an online community ‘port-a-thon’ designed to encourage developers to make their apps compatible with the upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform. The event, which overran slightly, began on Friday and was scheduled to run for 36 “Well…
Rwandans to navigate Windows 8 in native language
Consumers of Microsoft products in Rwanda will now be able to navigate the company’s latest operating system in their native language. Kinyarwanda is one of 14 new languages that have been incorporated into the latest version of Microsoft’s Operating System (OS), Windows 8. The announcement made Friday last week now brings the…
Foursquare update to check-in pages on mobile Web, adds more details
Foursquare announced a redesigned check-in page today to its mobile Web app, which has design elements from social photo apps like Instagram. Foursquare has moved beyond the check-in ever since the app pivoted and took on Yelp with a social and location-based twist. With that said, Foursquare announced an update…
Five Things BlackBerry 10 Needs to Beat Apple’s iPhone
Investors love to fulfill their own prophecies. In 2011, they believed in Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), bought into the company’s story and turned it into one of the most successful stocks of the year. In 2012, they expressed doubt and abandoned the stock even as new Apple products continued to break Now investors…
