Inside App Links, Facebook’s open-source effort to make mobile apps more like the Web

Earlier today at F8 2014, Facebook unveiled App Links, a new open standard for deep linking across different mobile apps. The official App Links website has yet to go live, but it will eventually be located at AppLinks.org. Mobile apps are the future, but, up until now, the increasingly siloed nature of the ecosystem has been its biggest weakness. The interconnectedness of the Web – its webbiness – helps keep it open and serendipitous as we jump from page to page. The mobile platforms themselves have tried to implement deep-linking into their own products, but Facebook believes it’s in a...



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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: A ‘whisper mode’ would encourage friends to privately discuss public conversations

Twitter is looking to encourage more private discussions on its service. CEO Dick Costolo would like to have a “whisper mode” that allows users to take public conversations and discuss them solely with friends, according to a video interview with Bloomberg. While the social network is public-first, meaning content is shared with everyone by default (unlike Facebook, where friends are the default), it does have a direct message (DM) feature for one-on-one chats. This potential new feature isn’t likely to replace that, but rather allow users to pick a tweet or set of tweets and use them as a jumping-off...



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Everything Facebook announced at F8 2014 in one handy list

At today’s F8 conference, the focus was on developers. If you’re building for Facebook, today was chock full of news nuggets. If you’re just a regular user, there was at least one refinement to make the apps you use with Facebook less intrusive. Bookended by Mark Zuckerberg, the keynote was used to share information about three key areas: Build, Grow, and Monetize. The overarching idea is that, now that Facebook has stabilized its platform, it’s investing in tools for developers to grow and make money with their apps. Here are the announcements that will help developers (and users) get the...



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Bloom.fm to shut down after investor pulls funding: ‘This is a poetically crappy turn of events’

Bloom.fm is shutting down its mobile-focused music streaming service, after its investor decided to “unexpectedly” cut off funding. In a short statement, the company said it was “shell-shocked” and unable to find new investment at such short notice. The company described its fortunes as “poetically crappy” after surpassing over a million registered users in the UK. “A massive thanks to everyone that helped us get this far,” the blog post reads. “We’re absolutely gutted. But it’s been a real pleasure.” Earlier this month, Bloom.fm said it was blocked from using Apple’s iAd mobile advertising network because its service was in...



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Facebook unveils Audience Network, its mobile ad network for third-party apps

As expected, Facebook today announced its mobile ad network, Audience Network, with three formats: banner, interstitial and native. The service brings Facebook’s existing targeting features to third-party app developers. Marketers already running News Feed ads can push out to third-party apps through Audience Network with a single click. Test partners of Audience Network included Target, Vinted and Audible.



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Facebook launches FbStart, a program providing up to $30,000 in free tools and services for app developers

At its F8 conference today, Facebook announced FbStart, a new program to help app developers. The program provides up to $30,000 in free tools and services “to get your app up and running fast.” The program wasn’t created by just Facebook. Partners include Parse (naturally), as well as Adobe, Appurify, Asan, BlueJeans, Salesforce Desk, MailChimp, Quip, Proto.io, Survey Monkey, userTesting, and Workable. FbStart includes two tracks. The Bootstrap Track is for developers just starting out. It includes a free package of tools and services worth up to $5,000, including: Access to Facebook Start to Success Program Parse credit Adobe Creative...



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Parse announces Local Datastore SDKs for using apps in offline mode

Parse co-founder and Facebook Platform chief Ilya Sukhar announced at F8 today a new set of SDKs, dubbed Local Datastore, designed to store data locally so apps can function while a user is offline. Sukhar also revealed more affordable pricing for Parse and new analytics dashboards for tracking growth and user retention. Head over to our F8 2014 tag for all of our coverage of the event.



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Facebook announces two-year stability guarantee for core APIs, SLA to fix all major bugs within 48 hours

At the F8 conference in San Francisco today, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a two-year stability guarantee for all of the company’s core APIs and platforms. In fact, every API launched by Facebook will now be versioned, and developers will be able to choose which version to build on. In other words, Facebook will now give developers plenty of notice before breaking the functionality of their apps. At the same time, Zuckerberg committed that his company will fix all major bugs within 48 hours as part of a new service level agreement (SLA). He noted that Facebook usually...



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At F8, Facebook will launch a new way to link between mobile apps: AppLinks.org

With Facebook’s F8 conference almost upon us, a slew of interesting nuggets are sure to emerge from today’s event. But we’ve gotten wind of what one of these announcements is to be. According to a blog post (since pulled) from Songkick, Facebook is creating a new way of linking between apps on mobile devices, with a number of launch partners to be announced today. More details of the initiative will be available at AppLinks.org, which currently redirects to Facebook’s open-source virtual machine HHVM portal. While details are currently scant, it seems this open initiative will be all about creating a...



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Microsoft updates Bing Smart Search to use natural language, fix common spelling mistakes, show more apps

Microsoft today updated Bing Smart Search in Windows 8.1 with a series of improvements that allow you to find what you’re looking for and take action even faster: natural language understanding, fixes for common spelling mistakes, and the ability to showcase more apps. These updates are rolling out “this week” – make sure you run Windows Update if you don’t see them yet. The biggest is naturally the first one: you can now ask questions like “how do I take a screenshot?” or “how do set-up a printer?” – Microsoft says it is adding results based on the most common...



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This is PayPal’s new logo

PayPal today introduced a slight logo redesign for its online and mobile payments service. In all honesty, it’s not too far removed from the logo that preceded it, with the same overall design that shows two ‘P’ characters resting on top of one another. PayPal is using a darker blue now for the highlight, but it’s the same name in italics underneath. Each ‘P’ in the monogram is also filled in the center now, which should make it more noticeable from afar. On its site, PayPal admits that the new logo is a small refinement on the one that came...



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Yahoo Screen arrives on Android

Following the arrival of Yahoo Screen on iOS in September, Yahoo Screen is finally available for Android users too. Yahoo Screen lets you stream skits from the likes of Saturday Night Live, Comedy Central, and Yahoo original programming. The native mobile apps basically brings together what’s already available in the browser. Following its arrival on iOS last year, Yahoo Screen later launched on Apple TV, followed by Roku too. ➤ Yahoo Screen | Google Play



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Hulu preps a free ad-supported service for mobile, as Hulu Plus passes 6 million users

As digital TV platform Hulu announces that its subscription-based TV service Hulu Plus has now passed the 6-million subscriber mark, it seems the current free Web-based offering will be arriving on mobile devices soon too. The US company says that it will begin offering ad-supported TV shows on smartphones to free users this summer, followed by a “next generation of the Hulu Plus iPhone app.” Founded in 2007, Hulu is an online TV service that helps users discover premium content from around the world, and its ownership is shared between Hulu, NBCUniversal, Fox and Disney, with support from Providence Equity...



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IDC: Samsung shipped more smartphones in Q1 2014 than Apple, Huawei, Lenovo, and LG combined

Apple may be smartphone king in the US, but Samsung is absolutely undisputed worldwide. In Q1 2014, the South Korean company shipped more smartphones than the next four vendors combined: Apple, Huawei, Lenovo, and LG. Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 281.5 million smartphones worldwide last quarter, up 28.6 percent from the 218.8 million units in Q1 2013, but down 2.8 percent from the 289.6 million units shipped in Q4 2013. Smartphones accounted for 62.7 percent of all mobile phone shipments in Q1 2014, up from the 50.7 percent of all mobile phone shipments in Q1 2013. The latest quarterly...



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Britain’s Mint.com, Money Dashboard, rolls out mobile apps to help you track your finances

Way back in May 2010, we queried whether Money Dashboard could become the UK’s answer to Mint.com, a question we were still asking by the time of its relaunch two years later. Now, the Edinburgh-based startup has answered at least some of these questions with the launch of its very first native mobile apps, available for Android and iOS. A mobile-optimized site actually went live last month, and we knew these native incarnations were on the way, so this doesn’t come as a completely surprise. But with so much emphasis these days placed upon managing one’s finances on the move,...



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BT Sport will be free to UK broadband subscribers for a second football season

Good news for UK football (soccer) fans – BT Sport will remain a free add-on for both new and continuing BT Broadband customers for at least another season. Though BT covers a number of sports including Moto GP, it’s the coverage of the English, Scottish and other European football leagues that will perhaps appeal to most people. The company says that three million homes now subscribe to BT Sport directly from BT, be it through BT TV or the BT Sport mobile app, and around two million more access the service via deals struck with partners including Virgin Media. ➤...



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Google stops scanning emails for Education users, and permanently removes ads option too

Google Apps for Education users will no longer have their emails scanned for use in advertising, according to an announcement from the Internet giant earlier today. To recap, Apps for Education is used by K-12 schools around the world, and it delivers free online applications including Gmail, Docs, Spreadsheet and more. Around 30 million students, teachers and administrators use the service today, according to Google. Although Google has always disabled ads by default in Apps for Education, and ads were removed completely in Google Search last year for signed-in K-12 users, it was still possible to enable ads via the...



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Want real-time alerts for all your favorite sports? Check out Score Alarm for Android.

As we approach the end of another football (soccer, if you must…) season, and the World Cup is almost upon us, how do you plan to keep tabs on all the key moments in the vital games? Well, Score Alarm for Android is one option. Though there are other great apps for tracking specific events within each match such as One Football, and BBC Sport also recently rolled out push notifications for goals and results, Score Alarm goes the extra nine yards by letting you set alerts for red cards and lineup announcements across more than 540 leagues and tournaments...



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Google denies alleged leak claiming AdSense is stealing money from publishers, calls it ‘complete fiction’

Earlier today, a huge allegation was made regarding AdSense and Google’s practices surrounding the program: “a former Google employee” claimed the company was and still is stealing money from publishers. Google has denied the whole posting, which has resulted in a heated discussion on many sites including Hacker News. The supposed Google scheme involved shutting down AdSense accounts without explanation, as well as banning sites that were earning $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 per month. The whistleblower says the whole scandal started in 2009, but he or she chose to wait until it was possible to come forward without being identified....



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Twitter passes 255m monthly active users, 198m mobile users, and sees 80% of advertising revenue from mobile

While sharing its financial results for its first quarter, Twitter today announced a number of new milestones that showed the service’s user growth has slowed while its mobile advertising share has grown. The social network has now passed 255 million monthly active users, 198 million of which were monthly active mobile users as well. The company also revealed that it generated $250 million in revenues, $226 million of which came directly from advertising. Of the latter, a whopping four-fifths came from mobile. Here are the numbers as they appeared in the release: Average Monthly Active Users (MAUs) were 255 million...



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Google Glass update adds photo and video backup, option to clear media from timeline, smarter phone answering

Google today announced the latest update to its Glass project, adding three new features for those who have shelled out $1,500 for the wearable device. The new additions include photo and video backup, an option to clear photos and videos from the timeline, and smarter phone answering. The first of three works exactly as you’d expect: backing up photos and videos can take a lot of bandwidth, so Glass only backs up when you’re plugged in and on Wi-Fi. That being said, you can also now can force a backup whether you are using your cellular connection or Wi-Fi. Just...



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Yahoo Mail for iOS updated with news, search, and personalized snapshots of weather, sports scores, and stocks

Yahoo today updated its Yahoo Mail app for iOS with a slew of non-email features. You can download the new version now directly from Apple’s App Store. The new Yahoo Mail app not only shows your Yahoo Mail inbox when you fire it up, but also a new panel with icons for Mail, News, and Today at the bottom of the screen. Nothing has changed in the first tab. The second tab has a “personalized, visually rich news stream” that shows everything from “celebrity gossip to the latest political news.” The third tab meanwhile offers a snapshot of “the information...



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Microsoft updates Office for iPad with AirPrint support, AutoFit in Excel, and SmartGuides in PowerPoint

Microsoft today released the first update to Office for iPad, adding printing support to all three apps. You can download the new version now directly from Apple’s App Store: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. First and foremost, you can now send Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations to an AirPrint printer. This was probably one of the biggest requests from Office for iPad users, so it’s nice to see the feature arrive in the first update (just over a month after initial release). More to follow.



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Adblock Plus drops support for IE6 and IE7, citing complicated development and low market share

Adblock Plus today announced it is finally dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7. As a result, the next version of Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer will no longer install unless the Windows computer has at least IE8. Furthermore, the company says it will start removing hacks that were required to make its site display correctly in older IE versions. This includes deactivating the SSLv3 protocol on its download servers, meaning that IE6 will not be able to connect unless TLS 1.0 is enabled manually. The outdated SSLv3 protocol was originally used because the more secure TLS...



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Square announces three new seller tools: Pre-order and pickup, offline mode, and inventory tracking

Square today announced three new tools for sellers: Pickup, Offline Mode, and Inventory tracking. The trio is meant to help them drive more customers to their business and simplify their operations. The first is very straightforward: Square now lets sellers offer customers an option to pre-order and pick up their purchase. The new pickup tool on Square Market integrates with Square Register and is available to all sellers at an 8 percent processing fee per order. Like all Square tools, access and setup are free, and sellers receive payment the next business day. Offline Mode meanwhile enables sellers to use...



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Amazon’s new Wearable Technology hub showcases the latest smartwatches, activity trackers, and more

Amazon is dedicating part of its store to the ever-growing number of wearable devices on the market. The online hub, simply called Wearable Technology, covers smartwatches, wearable cameras such as the GoPro, healthcare devices and fitness trackers. Given the space is relatively young, Amazon is also educating customers with an area called Learning Center. It includes buying guides for a few different wearable categories (activity trackers, smartwatches and wearable cameras) and a library of videos that demonstrate some of the retailer’s most popular products. Amazon is promising a large range of brands to choose from, including smaller companies such as...



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A year after its Kickstarter debut, Ghost reveals what’s in store for its open-source blogging platform

Ghost pitched its open-source blogging platform on Kickstarter exactly one year ago and today, company founder John O’Nolan has detailed what’s next in the pipeline. In a blog post, he said the non-profit would be adding support for multiple users, third-party extensions and integrations. The team will also be adding a one-click upgrade system for its premium Ghost(Pro) service, as well as a simpler import process from other blog platforms. Over the next 12 months, Ghost will receive a new dashboard for accessing analytics and other administrative tools, as well as a new API which “massively opens up the potential...



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Firefox 29 arrives with revamped Sync tool, customization mode, and Mozilla’s user interface overhaul Australis

Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 29 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. This is a massive release: Firefox Sync has been revamped and is now powered by Firefox Accounts, there’s a new customization mode, and the company’s major user interface overhaul Australis has finally arrived. Firefox 29 has been released over on Firefox.com and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. As always, the Android version is trickling out slowly on Google Play. Jonathan Nightingale, Mozilla’s Vice President of Firefox, told TNW that users found Sync really difficult to set up. Mozilla has also made it...



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Finally! Clear brings reminders to its simple to-do list app

Realmac Software has finally updated Clear, its gesture-based task management app for iOS and Mac, with support for reminders. Similar to other to-do list services, Clear now lets you set a custom time and date to keep you notified when an important deadline is approaching. The feature is free on both platforms, although there are two optional sound packs that’ll set you back an extra $0.99 each on iOS. They’re called sci-fi and 8-bit, and mark Realmac Software’s first foray into in-app transactions. Both packs are available for free on desktop, however. Clear has a beautiful design and its reliance...



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Word up: Vocabulary.com brings its addictive word-learning app to Android

If you frequently while away a few hours playing Angry Birds, Words With Friends, or Candy Crush Saga, there’s every chance you engage without even a glimmer of guilt. However, if you do often feel like you’re being just a little bit unproductive with your time, well, you could check out Vocabulary.com’s mobile apps. Kicking off on the Web back in 2011, Vocabulary.com‘s mission from the start has been to help you improve your, well, vocabulary. It analyzes books, periodicals, and more, pulling out the “most essential English vocabulary words”, ones that you may use in an academic or business...



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You can now use Paym to transfer money with just a mobile number in the UK

Right on schedule, the Payments Council today launched its new Paym mobile-to-mobile bank transfer service in the UK. Once you’ve contacted your bank and registered your phone number, other people can transfer money into your account without specifying a sort code or account number. Likewise, you can send money to any contact in your address book that has already paired their bank account with Paym. Thankfully, all Paym-supported transfers are conducted through existing payments and mobile banking apps in the UK, so there’s no need to download yet another rarely-used app for your smartphone or tablet. Most major UK banks...



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Coursera launches a program to crowd-translate its online classes into new languages

Coursera is launching an initiative to help expedite the translation of its online learning platform into non-English languages. The Global Translator Community (GTC) is a program that essentially allow volunteers to crowdsource translated subtitles for the 600-plus video courses on its site. “Like many things here at Coursera, the GTC emerged from our learners. In classes ranging from Machine Learning to Social Psychology, we noticed learners spontaneously organizing to translate lecture subtitles for the benefit of their classmates. At the same time, we heard many Courserians asking us for even more translations,” the company explains on its blog. Initially, Coursera...



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Strategy Analytics: Samsung market share slips as Apple continues to miss out on entry-level sales

Samsung lost global smartphone market share for the first time in four years, but the company continues to lead its competitors after shipping an estimated 89 million devices during the first quarter of 2014. Those figures come from analyst firm Strategy Analytics, which released its own market figures after each vendor published their quarterly reports. Samsung’s loss of market share is perhaps surprising, since it increased its shipment numbers from 69.4 million one year ago, but fit is growing below industry rate. Apple also grew slower than the market — despite surpassing analyst expectation with 43.7 million iPhone sales last...



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Yelp can now show you if a business accepts Bitcoin

Yelp today announced an update that Bitcoin fans will absolutely love. The company has added a new “Accepts Bitcoin” attribute to business listings. Business owners can let their customers know they accept the digital currency by logging into their business owner tools and updating their payment attributes. Bitcoin joins a long list of options offered by Yelp business listings, that aren’t just limited to payment: whether the business is currently open, offers delivery, pet-friendly, what their phone number is, and so on. Here’s Yelp explaining why it is making this addition: Why does this matter? For those who haven’t heard...



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Facebook Messenger for iOS gets more ways to chat, video sharing, faster photo sharing, better search, and more

Facebook today updated its Messenger app for iOS with a slew of new features. You can download the new version now directly from Apple’s App Store. Here’s the Facebook Messenger 5.0 for iOS changelog: More ways to message: Everything’s front and center, so it’s easier to send photos, voice messages and more. Video: Send videos from your phone’s camera roll and when people send you videos, play them right in the app. Instant photo sharing: Take a photo and send it in just one tap, without leaving the conversation. Shortcuts to stickers: When someone sends you a sticker, press and...



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Microsoft increases OneDrive for Business storage from 25GB to 1TB per user, including for Office 365 ProPlus

Microsoft today announced it is increasing OneDrive for Business storage from 25GB to 1TB per user. This also affects all Office 365 ProPlus customers: they will now get 1TB of OneDrive for Business storage per user as part of their subscription ($15.20 per user per month). The company also said “over the coming months” it will start helping organizations migrate data to OneDrive for Business. If you don’t currently subscribe to OneDrive for Business, or have it as part of your Office 365 subscription, you can take advantage of the company’s promotional pricing: $2.50 per user per month in all...



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Facebook open sources Pop for iOS, the extensible animation engine behind Paper

Facebook today open sourced Pop, the engine behind Paper’s smooth animations and transitions, over on GitHub. Pop uses dynamic instead of traditional static animations to control the scrolling, bouncing, and unfolding effects in the social news app. Facebook software engineer Kimon Tsinteris, who co-founded Push Pop Press before joining the social networking company in August 2011, notes that iOS has always excelled at supporting static animations. “The Apple-provided Core Animation framework makes linear, ease-in, ease-out, and ease-in-ease-out animations simple to leverage,” he explains. Tsinteris adds, however, that his animation engine goes a level higher: “With Pop, we are able to...



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Facebook launches Business Manager, a tool for advertisers to manage ad accounts, Pages, apps, and permissions

Facebook today launched Business Manager over at business.facebook.com, a new tool that lets large advertisers manage all of their ad accounts, Pages, apps, and permissions from one place. Business Manager is currently available to a “limited number” of US advertisers, but the company says it plans to it roll out internationally “within a few weeks.” Since Business Manager integrates all your Facebook advertising campaign management efforts into one tool, here’s what it will show you if you’re advertising for your own company: The Pages, ad accounts and apps linked to your brand. The people on your team who can access...



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Adobe issues fix for Flash flaw allowing attackers to remotely control Windows, OS X, and Linux computers

Adobe today released a security bulletin addressing a critical vulnerability (CVE-2014-0515) in its Flash product that could allow an attacker to remotely take control of an affected system. The company says it is aware of reports that the security hole is being exploited in the wild for Windows machines, but notes Macs and Linux computers are also vulnerable. Affected versions include Flash Player 13.0.0.182 and earlier versions for Windows, Flash Player 13.0.0.201 and earlier versions for Mac, as well as Flash Player 11.2.202.350 and earlier versions for Linux. As such, Adobe recommends that users update their product installations to the...



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Strategy Analytics: Android tablet shipments up to 65.8% in Q1 2014, iOS fell to 28.4%, and Windows secured 5.8%

Global tablet shipments in Q1 2014 reached 57.6 million units, up 19 percent from 48.3 million in Q1 2013. Breaking those numbers down, Android secured 65.8 percent global share, iOS grabbed 28.4 percent, and Windows secured 5.8 percent. Here’s the full breakdown: The latest figures are from Strategy Analytics, which says Google is making steady progress as it now commands two thirds of the tablet market share. Apple, meanwhile, has changed its product release cycle to the holiday timeframe, so iPad losing share is to be expected until the final months of the calendar year. In short, the Android-iOS war...



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Microsoft details 12 projects for its Xbox Originals initiative, which will kick off in June

Microsoft is preparing a bevy of original TV shows to attract new users to its Xbox hardware. The scheme, aptly called Xbox Originals, will launch in June and offer exclusive content on Xbox 360, Xbox One and other Microsoft devices. The company revealed the first of these projects, a TV show based on the first-person shooter Halo franchise, at E3 last year. A documentary about Atari games discarded in a US landfill site was announced in December, followed by sc-fi drama Humans in April. Today though, Microsoft detailed nine other shows currently in development. Every Street United is an eight...



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Skype makes group video calling free on Windows, Mac, and Xbox One; coming to all platforms ‘in the future’

Skype today announced it is making group video calling (GVC) available free of charge on Windows desktop, OS X, and the Xbox One. At the same time, the company is also promising it will enable group video calling across all platforms at no cost “in the future.” We talked to Phillip Snalune, Skype’s General Manager of Consumer Product Marketing, to learn more, and he specifically listed apps for the following platforms: Windows modern (read: Metro app), Windows Phone, Android, and iOS. Unfortunately, he refused to share exact timing details. Snalune also wouldn’t disclose how much revenue the feature has generated...



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Microsoft’s first Nokia ad uses a splash of color to show it’s ‘Not Like Everybody Else’

Nokia’s devices and services unit is now owned by Microsoft and to celebrate the company has released a new advert on YouTube. Sporting the tagline ‘Not Like Everybody Else’, it uses a track by English rock band The Kinks to highlight Nokia’s expertise in industrial design. In a street drained of color, one brightly dressed pedestrian grabs his yellow Lumia 1020, adorns a matching pair of headphones and strolls down the road – causing passersby to be paralyzed by sheer shock and awe. It’s a slick advert that embraces the position of the Windows Phone platform. Microsoft’s mobile OS is...



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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

Staying in touch with the fast moving world of technology can be a little harder than usual at weekends, but thankfully you have friends like us. So, if you were out having fun (or painting the spare room) rather than glued to your screen, here’s a handy little list of some of the things you missed from the last two days. Make a coffee, leave your inbox unattended for just a few minutes longer and play catch up on everything you missed now. News from The Next Web over the weekend Facebook Suffering ‘No Content in This Feed’ Error Twitter...



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Cyber Europe 2014 kicks off today to test EU’s readiness for cyber threats

The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) will today be running a series of simulations to test European nations’ preparedness for cyber attacks and threats to critical national infrastructure. In total more than 200 different organizations and 400 cyber-security professionals will take part in the Cyber Europe 2014 simulation involving 29 different countries. As in previous years, the simulation today calls upon participants to attempt to mitigate and resolve highly technical cyber-security attacks, including “scenarios which could impact the confidentiality, integrity or availability of sensitive information or critical infrastructures”. While this is the third such test (the...



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How Brewster Kahle is using open-source principles to build affordable housing for non-profit workers

Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive has been charting the Web’s evolution since 1996. Anyone wishing to return to the Yahoo of the mid-1990s or the Google of the early noughties merely has to punch the desired URL into the wonderful Wayback Machine, and boom. There it is, in all its (former) glory. But the Internet Archive is much more than a visual public record of the Web of yore. It provides permanent storage of, and free public access to, collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and around three million books. Besides the gargantuan digital repository, however, Kahle was...



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Twitter tests ‘Significant engagement’ notifications in its iOS app

Twitter is testing a new feature called “Significant engagement” in its iOS app. The company describes these achievements as “Important or higher than usual engagement with your account or Tweets.” Not all iOS users have the new option in their Twitter settings, which explains why it’s not mentioned in the changelog on Apple’s App Store. Two staff members at TNW do, however, have the new option: The feature is on by default for these two individuals, but as you can see above, it can also be turned off. If you keep it on, however, you will start to get notifications...



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7 interesting startups from TNW Europe 2014′s Boost program

We’ve already picked the winner – Pocket Anatomy – of our Boost early stage startup program at TNW Europe 2014, but here are a few companies from the demo floor that piqued my interest. CompanyMatch Most recruiters look at your experience and skills when evaluating candidates for a job, but CompanyMatch wants to add a third dimension: cultural fit. The startup has designed a proprietary quiz that companies can embed on their job pages. For those firms that place a huge priority on cultural fit, CompanyMatch takes a quantitative approach to the challenge. ➤ CompanyMatch Iwaku If you suffer from...



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Microsoft completes acquisition of Nokia’s Devices and Services business, price ‘slightly higher’ than $7.2B

As expected, Microsoft today announced the completed acquisition of Nokia’s Devices and Services business. Originally announced back in September, Nokia’s devices and services business was valued at €3.79 billion ($5 billion) and Microsoft also said it would spend a further €1.65 billion ($2.2 billion) to license Nokia’s patents — making the total cost €5.44 billion ($7.2 billion), to be paid in cash. Yet that price is not the final one: “The estimate of the adjustments made for net working capital and cash earnings was slightly positive for Nokia, and we currently expect the total transaction price to be slightly higher...



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15 brilliant hacks from the TNW Conference Kings of Code Hack Battle

The ‘Kings of Code Hack Battle‘ is always a highlight at TNW Conference. The projects – developed over 30 hours – are often quirky, inventive, beautiful, or a mixture of all three. The batch this year were equally impressive, stunning the crowd and our expert jury. We had nine API partners for the hackers to utilize this time around: SendGrid, Deezer, Pearson, Mashery, Spotify, Interoute, Verisign, Twitter, PayPal and Push.co. Below, we’ve selected a handful of hacks that really stood out. 1) HipsterCity This website is the ultimate travel guide for trendy travellers. It taps into Instagram and Twitter to...



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Hulu Plus Remote Control lets you navigate the TV with your mobile device, switch between the two on the fly

Hulu today announced the first release of the remote control experience for Hulu Plus. As its name implies, the new function lets you use your mobile phone or tablet to control the Hulu Plus app on your living room device, including the Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4. All you have to do is launch the Hulu Plus app on your Android or iOS device, and your gaming console system will be detected directly through the app (the console must be turned-on and logged into the same Hulu Plus account). Once detected, a “cast” button will appear on your...



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Etsy launches a new iPhone app to help sellers do more on the go

The wonderful world of artisinal wares available on Etsy just got a bit more mobile for sellers. Today Etsy released Sell on Etsy, an iOS app for managing a seller’s account. Here’s you can do with your store that sells obsidian jewelry or sock monkeys. Manage their shop activity feed with purchases, feedback and favorites. Manage open orders and review completed ones. Create, edit and publish listings directly from their phone. Communicate with buyers. Access their shop stats such as views, favorites, orders and revenue history. Receive notifications from Etsy when they get a sale or feedback. For anyone insterested...



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Mozilla offers special $10,000 security bug bounty for certificate verification in upcoming Firefox 31 release

Mozilla today announced a new certificate verification library in Gecko, the web browser engine used in many of the company’s applications. At the same time, the company is also offering a special $10,000 security bug bounty specifically for certificate verification in Firefox 31, which is currently a Nightly release but is scheduled to launch on July 31. Here is how Mozilla describes the updated library: The new code is more robust because certificate path building attempts all potential trust chains for a certificate before giving up (acknowledging the fact that the certificate space is a cyclic directed graph and not...



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IFTTT lands on Android with fresh channels for notifications, SMS, photos, and more

IFTTT (If This, Then That) is a delightful tool that helps people use their favorite Internet-based services in conjunction with one another. By defining custom rules and effects, you can quickly automate complex and laborious tasks. After launching an iPhone app in July last year, the company is back with an Android incarnation. Available for devices running Android version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and higher, the app is well-designed and stocked with useful features. You can review your existing “recipes” and see when they were last activated, as well as search for new ones and set them up from inside...



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Facebook acquires activity-tracking app Moves, will keep it separate and promises not to ‘commingle data’

Facebook has acquired Moves, the iPhone and Android app that tracks your everyday life and exercise. In a blog post, the Finnish startup said it would be working on Facebook’s own products and services, but refrained from giving any specifics. If you’re a fan of Moves, fear not. The company said both the service would continue to exist as a standalone app. “There are no plans to change that or commingle data with Facebook,” it added. Moves started out as an iPhone app that automatically tracked walking, running, cycling and other movements. The team released an Android version in September...



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PastBook makes it easier to create and print collaborative photo albums directly from your iPhone

Netherlands-based PastBook has come a long way since since it upped sticks from Milan and closed a seed funding round from its base in Amsterdam. In a nutshell, the startup offers users a way to capture and relive key moments of their lives that have been shared across a variety of social networks. Those ‘digital memories’ can be printed out in book form, but can also be centralized online, or offline as a PDF file. In November last year, PastBook rolled out a new collaborative Web-based platform designed to help you manage photo albums in groups. Though PastBook already worked...



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Twitter expands its TV conversation targeting tool, giving advertisers more viewers to connect with

Many of us live tweet while watching our favorite TV shows. Twitter is hoping to capitalize on that engagement with a broader roll-out of its ‘TV conversation targeting’ tool, which allows networks and brands to target viewers with Promoted Tweets. Starting today, the advertising tool will support Twitter users in Brazil, Canada, France and Spain. So when locals tune into the 2014 FIFA World Cup this summer, for example, Twitter advertisers will be able to reach them and ultimately sell products with coordinated tweets. TV conversation targeting was launched in the US and UK last November; Twitter says it’s now...



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Wist for iPhone now recommends the top 5 best places to eat and drink anywhere in the world

Following a ‘soft launch’ in a handful of US cities late last year, Wist is rolling out its personalized travel recommendations iPhone app globally from today. Wist actually began life as Triptrotting before its pivot and re-brand back in November, a move that saw it shift from more of a traveler/host matchmaking service to one that simply taps local and friends’ knowledge to learn where all the best places to visit are. Less ‘cultural exchange’, more brass tacks. Though Wist was available in Miami only originally, it has since been rolled out to LA, Santa Monica, Boston, Chicago, Washington DC,...



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Codecademy leads by example, unveiling a gorgeous redesign of its ‘learn to code’ site

With each passing year, the ability to understand and write code becomes increasingly valuable. The demand for competent developers is growing and the required skill set is seeping into professions where it simply wasn’t relevant a decade ago. Codecademy has built an unparalleled reputation around its free platform for learning programming languages such as Ruby, Python and JavaScript. The courses are plentiful, accessible and modern, with a strangely addictive system for tracking, sharing and comparing progress. With over 24 million users, Codecademy is seeking further growth with a radical site redesign. The screenshots I was sent in advance look gorgeous,...



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