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Facebook starts auto-enhancing photos
Facebook will now auto-enhance newly uploaded photos via mobile. The feature, which rolls out on iOS today and is set to come to Android…
Smartphone sales grew by 20 percent in third quarter of 2014
Smartphones have been around for a good few years now, but there’s no sign that their growing popularity is on the wane. In fact,…
Apple halts online sales in Russia over ruble fluctuations
Apple has halted online sales on all off its products in Russia due to fluctuations in that country’s currency. This is one of the…
Facebook ditches Bing, plans to introduce own search tool
Quite out of the blue, it seems that Facebook is removing Microsoft’s Bing as its search provider. Today the social network plans to launch…
New Facebook buttons let you make reservations, use external apps, shop now
Facebook has rolled out call to action buttons which enable users to book reservations, use an app, go to a non-Facebook website, sign up…
Spotify curates “Top Tracks In Your Network” playlist from what the people you follow listen to
Imagine a Facebook News Feed but for music. This is what Spotify has done with the “Top Tracks In Your Network” feature, a personalised…
YouTube introduces video offline playback for Android
Google has introduced offline video playback for YouTube mobile users. This feature is only available on Android devices in India, Indonesia and the Philippines…
Have Spanish publishers shot themselves in the foot with Google News shutdown?
Google has shut down its News offering in Spain. The decision follows a ruling in a Spanish court that would compel Google to pay…
Google mobile results are now 100-150 milliseconds faster on Chrome for Android
Google search results are getting faster than you can say ‘Google it’. According to IIya Grigorik, a developer advocate at Google, when you tap…
Amazon announces 4K streaming for Instant Video service
There is nothing worse than watching movies that appear as if they had been shot in the dark on a camcorder at the cinema…
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