Facebook on Tuesday rolled out an update for its flagship iOS app that doesn’t quite bring it in line with the capabilities of Facebook Home on Android, but does port over some new elements. Facebook version 6.0 brings the Chat Heads contact feature to Apple’s platform, though in a more limited capacity than they appear [...]
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Facebook app for iOS gets Chat Heads, stickers, new News Feed
Posted by Gary on April 17, 2013
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Facebook for iOS gets Chat Heads, News Feed improvements
Posted by Gary on April 17, 2013
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Company promises Home for international Android users ‘later today’ Facebook is today releasing a major update of its iOS app, v6.0. The biggest addition is Chat Heads, something recently introduced to Android via Facebook Home and an updated Messenger app. Unlike Android, the iOS Chat Heads can only run within the Facebook app, but do [...]
Editorial: Apple’s market disruption savvy is bad news for Android
Posted by Gary on April 7, 2013
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There’s more than one way to disrupt a market’s status quo, and all forms of disruption aren’t equally valuable, as indicated by the value created by Apple’s iPhone compared to Google’s Android platform. Is Google disrupting Apple’s disruption? Every startup and business initiative likes to describe itself as being “disruptive,” that is, an interrupting force [...]
Yahoo acquires mobile news reader Summly for $30 million
Posted by Gary on March 26, 2013
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Deal closes Summly app immediately, content absorbed into Yahoo soon London based news reader developer Summly has been acquired by Yahoo. The deal, said to be worth $30 million will see the Summly app close, and Yahoo says that “we will acquire the technology and you’ll see it come to life throughout Yahoo!’s mobile experiences [...]
Apple takes password reset functionality offline after news of serious vulnerability
Posted by Gary on March 23, 2013
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Earlier Friday, The Verge reported on a significant security exploit with Apple’s “reset password” functionality for Apple IDs. Armed with only your email address and date of birth, a hacker could tweak a specific URL to reset the password for your account. If you’ve already enabled Apple’s just-launched two-step verification for your account, you shouldn’t [...]
IDC projects Android tablets will pass Apple’s iPad this year, sees little good news for Microsoft
Posted by Gary on March 13, 2013
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The year 2013 will be the one in which shipments of tablets running Google’s Android operating system will pass those of Apple’s iPad, according to a new analysis out from IDC. IDC’s newest report sees smaller, lower-priced Android devices accounting for 48.8 percent of total tablet shipments for 2013, while Apple’s iPad will slip from [...]
Site News: Mac Bundles tab added to Price Guide; $283 off loaded 13″ MB Pro Retina
Posted by Gary on January 12, 2013
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Over the past week, AppleInsider has expanded its Apple Price Guide to include a new tab for Mac Bundles, where readers can find — and request — exclusive Mac hardware bundles at significant discount (currently up to $450 of list price). Separately, readers can take advantage of our 3% coupons and a price drop on [...]
Site News: 3% coupons on Apple’s entire MacBook family are back
Posted by Gary on January 6, 2013
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The New Year has seen Apple’s resellers drop pricing on Macs to levels below those offered during the holiday shopping season, and when coupled with the return of AppleInsider’s 3% coupon codes, readers have access to the lowest prices available in months for the entirety of Apple’s MacBook family. As we hinted in the hours [...]