Articles tagged "Online services"

If you've ever wanted to add multiple photos on Instagram in the same post, like an album of sorts, well, then you'll be very happy to read about the social network's next feature. Instagram is in fact getting ready to allow multi-photo...

Viber has announced that in the light of the US immigration ban it will be offering free calls to the countries affected by this. This includes free calls to mobile and landline in the following countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,...

Earlier this month Uber added calendar integration, letting you quickly set a destination based on the location of your meetings or events. And now one of Uber's biggest competitors, Lyft, has replicated that exact functionality in its apps. For...

Today is a big day for Dropbox as it has announced two launches - a new service and a new feature. Dropbox Paper is this company's answer to the rise of Google Docs. It's a tool that's built for managing workflows that masquerades as a note-taking...

A twitter account that’s dedicated to reporting on new WhatsApp beta builds has tweeted of a new feature that its allegedly uncovered. @WABetaInfo tweeted a couple of screenshots of a newly spotted feature in version 2.17.3.28 for iOS and version...

We already knew it's coming, and now the Google Maps feature - dubbed 'parking difficulty' has been officially launched. Currently only available on Android, the feature lets you know in advance how difficult it'll be to park at the destination...

In November last year, Google pushed out an update to its Maps Android app. The update enhanced the app's Popular Times feature (which, allowed you to see how busy a place typically is on different days of the week) by adding real time...

Google has announced that its e-mail service Gmail will soon start blocking JavaScript (.js) file attachments, expanding its list of restricted attachment types that currently includes .exe, .msc, and .bat files. The restriction will come into...

Netflix pushed an update to its mobile app for Android that allows you the ability to store offline content to a microSD card. Only recently, Netflix updated its app for both iOS and Android to allow you to download and store your favorite Netflix...

Mobile carrier AT&T has one sweet deal for its customers who travel abroad more often. The Internationa Day Pass plan costs $10 a day and gives unlimited text and talk plus access to your data plan. The plan is available when traveling to more...

There’s been some speculation about Tidal’s performance - that’s the lossless music streaming service helmed by Jay Z - but it’s about to get an uptick in the user statistics. Specifically, Sprint users - the carrier announced that it acquired a 33%...

LinkedIn, that other social network, you know, the one that likes sending spam emails, is announcing a big redesign today. The Microsoft-owned service will be rolling out the new look to all of its users over the coming weeks. This apparently is the...

Today Google is reminding people that Google+ still exists. The not-really-successful social network that was once thought to take on Facebook has received a few feature updates, as any product that's definitely not dying would. First off, Events...

If you have an Android smartphone that's lucky enough to be among the 0.7% that currently run Nougat, and if you also use WhatsApp often, then surely you have noticed how messed up the messenger's notifications have been on the latest version of the...

Microsoft has pushed out a new update to Skype for Linux Alpha. The update bumps the app to version 1.15 and brings along some new features and improvements, including an auto-start feature, which you can access by heading to Tools->Launch at...

If you watch a lot of live streams on YouTube you know that the more popular a broadcast is, the less time a comment will be visible in the chat box that's next to the video. But what if you could change that? Well, now you can. YouTube has...

Google has rolled out an update for the YouTube app for iOS that bumps up the maximum resolution on some of the iPhones. While the largest 5.5-inch iPhones have had 1440p option for a while now, all the other iPhone models topped out at...

Do you hate those pre-roll ads on YouTube that start before the video you want to see and can only be skipped after a few seconds? Good news, then - Mark Zuckerberg hates them too. The bad news? Well, his social network is planning to introduce...

For all the amazing work and achievements Google can credit itself in the tech realm as a whole, there is one area which has seemingly and rather inexplicably always eluded the online giant. Social efforts in all shapes and forms, including...

New Year's eve saw people sending a total of whopping 63 billion WhatsApp messages, according to Facebook, which owns the mobile messaging service. Of the total, nearly 14 billion messages were sent in India alone. While images constituted...