Tag: Text
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Whatsapp is Now Subscription Free – But There’s a Small Catch
WhatsApp has announced that it will be making a change to its business model and will be going subscription free from today onwards. However, there is a small catch which is being introduced in place of the minimal annual fee. Jan Koum the CEO of Whatsapp, the popular Facebook-owned text-replacement service which currently tallies up…
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How to (Temporarily) Fix the Apple iPhone Message Bug
Earlier this week Apple’s messaging service was found to be vulnerable when a user’s iPhone received a specific string of unicode characters. Apple acknowledged the iMessage problem which was causing mobiles to completely shut down when opening the malicious mail and has now worked out a temporary fix which we will share with you now.…
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New Kindle Tool Lets You Copy Real Books
For those of you who have a large, well-maintained library of vintage novels, the prospect of being able to convert said novels into a digital medium should be a happy one. Unique and vintage copies of books can be backed up for posterity, and additionally being able to read through easily damaged or fragile old…
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WhatSIM – Dedicated WhatsApp SIM Card Goes on Sale
A dedicated WhatsApp SIM card has been launched offering unlimited chat for a whole year at a cost of just €10. ZeroMobile has produced the WhatSIM which has no network allegiances and can work from almost anywhere. It does this by automatically seeking out and piggybacking a connection off of more than 400 mobile carriers…
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Facebook Messenger to Add Voice to Text Feature
Facebook is looking to add a new feature to its Messenger app for iOS and Android devices which will allow us to record small snippets of speech that will be converted into readable text. The Vice President of Facebook Messenger, David Marcus (not Captain Kirk’s son) has been caught loose-lipped on his own profile on…
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Skype Debuts Real-Time Translation
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Skype’s revolutionary translation system is about to go live in a public test initiative. The system is designed to translate what people say to each other into the other’s native language as it’s said, hopefully breaking down language barriers and subsequently making it a lot easier for people to communicate worldwide. The translation system went…
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Apple TV Receives Cosmetic Improvements
Apple is constantly updating the look and aesthetics of it’s operating systems. Take a look back every year and you’ll see what we’re on about. With the ever-changing face of iOS and Mac OS it only seems natural that Apple TV’s operating system should get updated too. Together with a new beta launch for mobile…
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OKCupid Experiment Alters User Profiles
Dating website OKCupid has been doing a little social media manipulation, making tech fans recall when Facebook also performed some news feed manipulation in the name of research. OKCupid has revealed today that they have been matching up certain people deemed incompatible by their systems in order to test if they would connect. “If you…
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WhatsApp, BBM and iMessage Free messaging more popular than SMS Text
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Research group Informa have revealed that more smartphone users use in-app messaging services now than the traditional network operated text messaging. Services such as WhatsApp, BBM, iMessage and Facebook have overtaken the traditional network text message for the first time ever. Informa claims that 17.6 billion mobile phone text messages were sent worldwide on average…
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Google to buy WhatsApp messenger service for $1 Billion?
Google is reportedly looking to purchase the mega popular cross platform messaging service WhatsApp at the moment, if reports from news site DigitalTrends are to be true. This purchase could see the messaging service snapped up by Google for a cool 1 billion dollars! The news has a firm foot in speculation but if any part of the…
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Peaches Geldof Flips Baby While Taking a Call on Apple iPhone
Are we becoming iPhone slaves? Bob Geldof’s girl proves this could be true by dropping this shocking phone clanger..