Monday, February 16, 2015

Do you know that WiFi is disabled when your phone goes into sleep mode?

Keep your WiFi alive and monitor WiFi connection state. 

Do you know that WiFi is disabled when your phone goes into sleep mode? If WiFi goes off while you download big size files like movies or listen to

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Twitter and Google reportedly strike deal to make tweets more discoverable in search

Twitter is reported to have struck a significant partnership with Google on the eve of its latest financial results. Bloomberg reports that the two companies have agreed to a deal to put real-time tweets from Twitter back into Google’s search results sometime “in the first half of this year.”

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Snapchat Lets You Add People Via QR Snaptags Thanks To Secret Scan.me Acquisition

Leaked emails from the Sony hack revealed Snapchat quietly acquired a QR code startup called Scan.me late last year, and now we know why. Yesterday alongside Discover, Snapchat launched a new feature called Snaptags that creates a unique QR code for every Snapchat user. When

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Twitter users can soon post 30-second videos, send group messages

As part of a tiered launch of new features on the social network, Twitter announced support for group messaging between 20 of your closest friends as well as a video recording function that’s built directly into the mobile application. Detailed within a post on the official Twitter blog, the new group messaging feature is now part of the direct

YouTube defaults to HTML5 on the web

If you've been hoping for YouTube to drop the notoriously buggy Flash video format as its default player, well, good news. Nearly five years after the streaming giant started supporting the HTML5 standard for its videos, it's finally now its player of choice. That means from now on, YouTube will use the HTML5 <video> format by default in most modern

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Coinbase Is Opening The First Regulated Bitcoin Exchange In The U.S.

Fresh from scoring a massive $75 million funding round, bitcoin payment firm Coinbase has revealed that it will open the first regulated bitcoin exchange in the U.S. on Monday.

The company, which added the New York Stock Exchange and USAA to its list of investors last week, told the Wall Street Journal that it has “regulatory

Friday, January 23, 2015

Twitter Adds Bing Translation Tool To Its Site And Mobile Apps

After toying with the feature for a couple of years, Twitter has officially added Bing Translator to its site, mobile apps for iOS and Android, and TweetDeck. Once users activate the tool in their account setting, they will see a little globe icon next to tweets in different languages. A translation appears below the original tweet once the globe is