Category: Apps
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Apple iOS 9 for iPad and iPhone Jailbreak may come soon
Apple has already released its first update for its new iOS 9 and now both iPad and iPhone users keep asking the same question: Can either iOS 9 or iOS 9.0.1 be jailbroken? First of all, for those of you who are not as familiar as the rest of us tech addicts, here’s a brief…
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Instagram now has 400 million users
Menlo Park, California – Instagram (NASDAQ: FB) Facebook-owned photo sharring application, has hit 400 million monthly active users, up from the 300 million in December of 2014. Instagram, Facebook’s only fully-owned platform, has reached 400 million users, beating its biggest rival, Twitter, as the now major social network plans to boost its advertising revenues from the service.…
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Microsoft Office 16 released worldwide: What’s new in latest Business productivity suite
For anyone of you who is 18 years old or older, we have to agree that Microsoft Office is undoubtedly the number one software thanks to which both minor and major businesses and giant corporations operate smoothly and in no time. With Microsoft Office projects can be completed within a matter of days or even…
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Skype’s outage is the latest high-profile one on the web
LUXEMBOURG CITY, LUXEMBOURG- Skype Technologies (NASDAQ: MSFT) Microsoft’s division faces a bug that prevents users from being seen online, thus being unable to make any voice or video calls. Skype is one of the most popular social networks, having roughly 300 million users and was bought by Microsoft for $8.5 billion in 2011. Now, a severe outage of this…
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Microsoft’s Cortana arrives to your car
REDMOND, WA- Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) The software giant announced that its digital assistant, Cortana, will be soon entering your car. A few days after Google announcing its self-driving cars project, Microsoft stepped up yesterday at a forum in Taipei (TechDays), and publicized a new project as well, according to which Cortana, the company’s famous…
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Snapchat charges $1 to replay 3 snaps
VENICE, CA- Snapchat, Inc.The renowned photo messaging app announced that it will allow users to replay three snaps for 0.99 cents. Snapchat has been dominating the social networking field for two years now. Its core feature is that the pictures you send can be viewed from the recipient only once and then boom, it is…
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Any lenghty password can bypass Android lockscreen
AUSTIN, TX- The University of Texas, Austin, recently published a research that shows an easy exploit for hackers who want to bypass lock screens of Android devices. The only requirement is to own a device with a 5.0 to 5.1.1 Android version – except the latest LMY48M build – which needs a password to unlock.…
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Microsoft’s Cortana comes to CyanogenMod OS
Cyanogen decided to implement a slew of Microsoft’s Windows features to its OS, among them being the digital assistant Cortana. Cyanogen OS is an open source operating system. The company hopes to enter the duopoly of the operating systems industry and go up against Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. For the record, Cyanogen OS depends on Android…
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Microsoft bought a popular lock-screen Android app maker
REDMOND, WA- Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) Microsoft seems to be after Google’s Android app makers for quite some time now. In this case, the company quietly bought Double Labs, the creators of the Echo Notification Lockscreen, an Android app that allows the user to personalize what appears on his phone or tablet when it’s on…
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Google launches Android Pay payment service
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA- Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) Google has announced its one-touch paying system called Android Pay, as an answer to Apple’s counterpart, the Apple Pay, that was released during WWDC 2015. Availability The search giant stated that Android Pay will be available in more than one million locations across the States, starting yesterday. The…