Keep Your Facebook Chats Secure With Encryption
Facebook wants to take your personal messages and use them as a way to target you with more advertising. Let’s try to stop them. Check out this article from MakeUseOf.com
Google quietly announces a spec bump to Glass
We’re less than 24 hours away from the Google I/O kickoff keynote, but the company has already made some minor announcements that are already rocking the boat. Check out from Greenbot.com
Microsoft ups free OneDrive storage: Office 365 users get 1TB, everyone else 15GB
Realizing that business users and consumers alike are producing far more digital content than a few years ago, Microsoft has increased the amount of free OneDrive cloud storage available to Office 365 subscribers by 500 times. Great news on this article from PCWorld.com
Watch out Google: Firefox OS-powered Chromecast competitor in the works
Google’s nifty Chromecast dongle may be getting some competition from a similar device powered by Mozilla’s Firefox OS. On Thursday, Mozilla developer evangelist Christian Heilmann tweeted an image of a TV casting dongle loaded with Firefox OS. Get more info on this article from TechHive.com
Facebook Paper Updated With Trending Section, Mentions, Hashtags, And More
Remember Facebook Paper? It’s the application released for iPhone recently by the social networking giant that is aimed at changing the way users browse content on their smartphones by featuring themed sections based on different interests and topics. Facebook just released a large update for the application that is designed to make it a little more functional for users. Check out this article from MakeUseOf.com
Google adds music deep-linking to search on Android
Let’s say, for argument’s sake, that you’re not sick of Pharrell Williams’s “Happy.” You might even want to listen to it right now. Sure, it’s a modern pop version of “If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands,” but it’s also a great way to annoy your coworkers. Check this out from Greenbot.com
BlackBerry Messenger coming to Windows Phone in July
As BlackBerry’s phone sales and overall revenue continue to freefall, the company’s push to reimagine itself as a cross-platform business software provider continues. BlackBerry brought its iconic Messenger service to iOS and Android late last year with great success, and in an earnings call Thursday morning, CEO John Chen provided a more concrete timeline for the instant messaging service’s Windows Phone debut.
Check out this article from PCWorld.com