30 million. 5 million. 1 billion. 18. These are the big numbers circulating around the net’s news sources discussions of Instagram this past week.With a long-awaited, and hotly-debated roll out on Android devices last week, and the announcement yesterday that Facebook plans to buy Instagram […]
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Facebook issued a press release stating that it has agreed to acquire Instagram , a photo-sharing app for mobile devices, for total consideration of “approximately $1 billion”, including cash and shares of Facebook. The transaction is expected to close later this quarter. Mark Zuckerberg, founder
Consumer Reports came out with their tablet ratings today and named Apple’s iPad the top tablet. The top rating was based on the new iPad’s Retina display, its 5-megapixel camera, long-lasting battery and dependable connectivity to Verizon’s 4G network. Other highly-rated tablets included the Toshiba
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A new version of this very good photo manager/editor freeware from Google has just been released introducing some brand new features: Share to your Google+ circles – If you’ve joined Google+, you can use Picasa 3.9 to share directly to the circles you’ve created in
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Today, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Apple‘s CEO Tim Cook introduced the new iPad, featuring a Retina display (2048 X 1536), the A5X chip with quad-core graphics and a 5-megapixel camera for capturing photos and 1080p HD video. The Wi-Fi + 4G
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In 1985, IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 update released. PC DOS 3.1 was the first OS to provide a network support. Learn more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_DOS In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone. The patent for the telephone became recognized as the most valuable patent in
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How much is your privacy worth? $10 per month? $25 per month? Would you just give it away for free? All of your private data? Information about what you like? Your shopping lists? Giving it away for free is exactly what you’re doing when you
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According to Nilay Patel at The Verge, Apple has announced the developer preview of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. It is the next iteration in the Mac operating system but ‘Mac’ is conspicuously absent in its name. Mountain Lion includes new features such as Notification
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Google is gearing up to take to the sky, according to the Wall Street Journal that is. It’s a case of better late than last. While Dropbox has been offering users free cloud storage since 2007, Google considered releasing a cloud drive that year as
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On January 20th we reported the closing down of massively popular file sharing site MegaUpload by US Federal authorities – you can read that full story HERE. Repercussions within the industry were almost immediate with many similar file sharing sites subsequently removing all content which
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