Tag: users
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Amazon launches “Login with Amazon” account service
Amazon has today launched a brand new Login with Amazon feature to the world which will allow users on registered websites to use their Amazon account details to login and use services without going through the annoying sign up repeatedly on every website. The system is akin to the way Facebook allows certain websites to…
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Facebook now has more than 250 million active gamers
At yesterdays Gaming Developers Conference, Facebook took to the stage and announced that around 200 games on the social network boast more than 1 million active gaming users. What this equates to is more than $2 billion being paid out to game developers throughout 2012. This, compared to 2011’s figures, sees a massive 30% rise…
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Facebook tops 1 billion monthly active users
“You don’t get a billion users without your share prices dropping.” Facebook has announced that it has one billion active monthly users in an official Facebook blog post today, and to celebrate Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shared the news: “This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month. If you’re…
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Adobe Ends Windows XP Support for Photoshop
It has been announced today that Adobe will no longer be supporting the aging Windows XP operating system after the company’s latest version of Photoshop – CS6. Windows XP was released back in 2001 and is arguably the most popular Windows operating system to date. At one point it had a market share of 76.1%…
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Facebook Goes Offline Temporarily
If the fact that Facebook shares have seen sharp falling isn’t bad enough for the company, the social networking site suffered severe service disruption to its service too
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New Cookie Law Set To Come Into Force
Today is that day that new European legislation comes into force which defines what details a website can store about its visitors in text files which are commonly known as Cookies.
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China Mobile in Talks with Apple to Get iPhone
The world’s largest mobile network may finally be about to get on board with the iPhone…
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Apple’s iCloud Hits 125 Million Users
The online storage and syncing service which ensures that your iOS devices are up-to-date and sync’d across all your Apple products, has reached the 125 million user milestone..
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Facebook Surpasses 900 Million Active Users
Ahead of its IPO Facebook released quarterly results which reveal the social network has now got 901 million active monthly members, which is up from 680 million in 2011.
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Apple Bid Fails To Restore Push Mail To German iCloud Users
Apple has failed to try and reinstate its Push Mail service for users of iCloud in Germany. Back on the 24th of February this year, Apple lost in court against Motorola Mobility who claimed that Apple’s push email service infringed on a patent owned by them. The court agreed and Apple was served an injunction…
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BBC iPlayer Launches on Xbox Today
Microsoft today announced that the BBC’s 7-day catchup service iPlayer will be available to download from today, the free service is now available on all three consoles, with the PS3 and Wii both having it since 2011. The application will be rolled out from today and is expected to be with all UK users by…
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Former Facebook Moderator Dishes Dirt on Social Content Policies
A former Facebook moderator has given a “unique” insight into the social network’s policy when it comes to obscene, offensive or graphic content and the unnamed employee’s rant is quite an eye-opener.. Claiming that the staff involved in Facebook’s content filtering is made up from third-party firm workers in developing countries and that these mods…