Articles tagged "Online services"

For Facebook users who are also a fan of GIFs, here's some good news: the social networking service may soon start supporting animated GIFs. To begin with, users would be allowed to post GIFs in comments. "Everyone loves a good GIF and we know...

Google is announcing several changes to its suite of messaging platforms. Hopefully by the end of this post, you’ll have a better understanding of what Google is actually trying to do. TL;DR available at the end of this post. If you remember,...

Facebook's Messenger is continuing its quest to add as many features as possible. The latest additions are reactions (which was in testing for a while) and mentions. Both of these will be rolling out across the world "in the coming days". You'll...

It was back in August last year when Google revealed that its video calling app Duo will soon start offering audio-only calling as a feature. For those who have been waiting for the functionality all this while, you'll be glad to know that the roll...

Photos isn’t the only app that Google has updated today. Along with an update on Google Maps that lets you privately share your precise location and Google Allo getting document support, Google Photos also gets an update on iOS and Android that...

Facebook Live, the social network's live streaming functionality, became available for the masses last year. However, since then it's only been usable on mobile devices - so if you wanted to broadcast a live stream, you had to do that from a phone...

Here's some good news for fans of the long-dead Google service called Latitude. Google Maps is soon getting real-time location sharing abilities. This new feature will be rolling out worldwide to all of its users on Android and iOS. When you get...

The Instagram app has started receiving a new update that bumps the version to 10.12 and brings along the ability to save live videos. Specifically, the service now lets you save your live videos once the broadcasting has ended. To use the...

In case anybody had any doubts in the past, we feel it is now pretty safe to historically name YouTube as the next big multimedia content revolution. Sure, "online video" might be a more technically correct and inclusive, but let's be real, with...

At the beginning of this month Gmail started supporting attachments of up to 50MB at long last, and today's feature addition to the web-based client probably has something to do with that. Rolling out in the next 15 days to all Gmail users is a...

The main Amazon app for iOS is getting a big upgrade today (though it is a staged rollout so it will take a week to show up for everyone). Alexa, the company's very own virtual assistant, is now integrated into the app. You can use it by tapping the...

It was only a matter of time, right? Google, an ad company (based on its main revenue stream), is serving up ads - phrased like that it doesn't seem like a big deal. But how many of you would have expected the much-lauded Google Assistant to start...

The Google Assistant has been in the works for some time now. The helpful AI made its debut in Google Allo and then lingered for a while as a Google Pixel exclusive. Thankfully, the online giant decided to give its partners some love and the ...

Starting today, you can send and receive money through the Gmail app for Android. This works because of a tie-in with Google Wallet, which was previously only available in the web version of Gmail. To use Google Wallet for sending money to a...

Google has split up its Hangouts messaging platform into two services, targeted primarily at business users. Called Meet and Chat, the two services will aim to offer video conferencing and group messaging for businesses and take on rival services...

Every US carrier has a threshold for customers on unlimited data plans. Usually, the threshold is around 22GB within a single billing period. What this means is once you hit the threshold, your data session will be set to a lower priority than...

Samsung will launch its mobile payments service Samsung Pay in Sweden this year, according to fresh reports out of the Scandinavian country. Invitations were sent out for a March 9 event, where more details related to Samsung Pay Sweden launch are...

Google has added another name to the list of markets where its mobile payments service Android Pay is now available. The company has launched the service in Belgium, making it the tenth country in the world to support Android Pay. The service...

Apple Pay has been closely watched as the payment service is expected to make its way to Taiwan, Germany, and Italy in 2017, with Taiwan expected earlier than the rest. 9to5Mac reports of two sources that say Apple’s Payment service will...

Just last week, Samsung started accepting registrations for early access to its mobile payments service Samsung Pay in India, and today the service has been officially launched - those who registered for the early access program can use Samsung Pay...