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Was That An iPhone 8 That Tim Cook Was Carrying In His Pocket

29Aug By PriyankaNo Comments

Tech, USA

Was That An iPhone 8 That Tim Cook Was Carrying In His Pocket

People have been going crazy ever since last year to get a peek of Apple's new iPhone 8. The internet has been taken over with dummies of the iPhone 8 model and there are about a thousand videos describing about the probable specs of iPhone 8 alone. It is understood that the device is somewhere being tested in Apple's labs and very much exists. However, Apple CEO Tim Cook might be using one and he might have flaunted us a glimpse of it. Tim recently uploaded a picture of him with team members at CTS in Cincinnati, where he seemed to carry an iPhone 8 in his pocket. Besides there was no confirmation about it, people realized that the phone was too tall to be an iPhone 7 and too narrow to be a 7 Plus. "Looks like Tim Cook is carrying an iPhone 8 in his pocket. It is too tall to be an...

Facebook Users Face Outage; Company Restoring Services

27Aug By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

News

Facebook Users Face Outage; Company Restoring Services

Social networking site Facebook said a "technical issue" had caused some of its users to face troubles in accessing its platform. Yesterday, a section of Facebook users across the US, Europe and India had reported experiencing an outage as they "struggled" to access the popular social media platform. Some said they were facing log-in issues, while others had difficulty in uploading videos, liking or commenting on posts, loading pages, or saw error messages. There were also reports of some users of Instagram -- another Facebook-owned app -- facing issues. However, the number of users affected overall could not be ascertained. "....a technical issue caused some people to have trouble accessing Facebook services. We quickly investigated and are currently restoring service for eve...

LinkedIn Launches Its Lite App Specially For India

20Jul By AnkitaNo Comments

News

LinkedIn Launches Its Lite App Specially For India

LinkedIn has also unveiled a Lite Version of its App finally long after Facebook and Twitter, as the professional networking platform attempts to bring in more users on board. The new LinkedIn Lite Android app is designed to reduce data usage by 80% and is less than 1 MB in size. In September last year, LinkedIn had launched a lightweight version of its mobile website. "LinkedIn Lite app is first being rolled out to members in India... LinkedIn plans to roll out the mobile web version and the Android app in over 60 countries shortly," LinkedIn said in a statement. Keeping in mind the Indian users, where the smartphones often come across problems like less space or network issues, this app will surely help LinkedIn find more space in smartphones. Also, with a significant chunk of the ...

Twitter Uses AI Technique Twitter To Show Tweets on Your Timeline

11May By kriti singhNo Comments

News

Twitter Uses AI Technique Twitter To Show Tweets on Your Timeline

Twitter has started using a trendy type of artificial intelligence to figure out which tweets to show on the timeline of its over 300 million monthly active users. The popular micro-blogging site is evaluating and scoring thousands of tweets per second to determine what is worth recommending on timelines, taking into consideration an increasing number of factors, including whether tweets contain images or videos, the number of retweets and likes, and your previous interactions with other account holders, Twitter software engineers Nicolas Koumchatzky and Anton Andryeyev wrote in a blog post, CNBC news reported. Tech giants like Facebook, Google and Microsoft among others have previously attempted to improve various products using deep learning, a trendy type of artificial intelligenc...

Google Acquired Twitter Mobile App Developer Platform Fabric

20Jan By AnkitaNo Comments

ACQUISITION

Google Acquired Twitter Mobile App Developer Platform Fabric

Google is acquiring Twitter's mobile application developer platform Fabric, a move which could give some breathing room for the social network after charting an independent path without a suitor. Terms of the deal were not announced. Twitter last year was in talks to sell itself with several firms including Google parent Alphabet, but without a deal decided to continue on an independent path, cutting jobs and refocusing on its core services. The sale of Fabric will shift to Google the platform used by developers for mobile apps. "When we launched Fabric in 2014, our goal was to provide the best tools to help developers create amazing apps," the Fabric team said in a blog post. "Today we enter the next chapter for Fabric and are pleased to announce that we've signed an agreement for ...

2Jan By AdityaNo Comments

CHINA

A Tweet That Shake Twitter Business in China

Twitter's manager for China, whose appointment just eight months ago sparked controversy, has announced her resignation but welcomed the growing number of Chinese advertisers even though the service is blocked by Beijing. Kathy Chen, appointed in April as general manager for the China region comprising mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, made the announcement yesterday evening on her own Twitter account. "Now that the Twitter APAC team (Asia-Pacific team in Singapore) is working directly with Chinese advertisers, this is the right time for me to leave the company," she said. Like other Western platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, Twitter is inaccessible in mainland China, blocked by the communist regime's vast system of internet censorship. Unable to reach l...

Social Media Ads to Touch $50 Billion By 2019: Zenith

5Dec By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

ANALYSIS

Social Media Ads to Touch $50 Billion By 2019: Zenith

The amount of money spent on advertising on social media is set to catch up with newspaper ad revenues by 2020, a leading forecaster said on Monday. The rapid expansion of social media platforms on mobile devices, as well as faster internet connectivity and more sophisticated technology, has triggered a huge shift in the way many people get their news. Advertising agency Zenith Optimedia, owned by France's Publicis, predicts global advertising expenditure on social media will account for 20 percent of all internet advertising in 2019, hitting USD 50 billion and coming in just one percent smaller than newspaper ads. It expects social media to overtake newspapers comfortably by 2020. "Social media and online video are driving continued growth in global ad spend, despite political thr...

Vine a Mobile App For Video Sharing Will Be Discontinue

28Oct By reutersNo Comments

News

Vine a Mobile App For Video Sharing Will Be Discontinue

Twitter Inc announced Thursday that it would discontinue the video-sharing mobile app Vine, as it moves to cut 9 percent of its workforce worldwide to keep costs down after beating Wall Street quarterly earnings expectations. In the post twitter said, "Since 2013, millions of people have turned to Vine to laugh at loops and see creativity unfold. Today, we are sharing the news that in the coming months we’ll be discontinuing the mobile app." The decision comes on the heels of a failed attempt to sell Twitter as it fights against stagnant user growth and mounting competition from other social media platforms. In a post published jointly by Twitter and Vine to the blog platform Medium, the social media services said that the Vine website would stay live even after the mobile app is...

17Oct By NitishNo Comments

Story

Decoding: Why Pierce Brosnan aka James Bond Endorse Indian Tobacco Brand Pan Bahar?

Why Pierce Brosnan is desperate enough to endorse a Pan Bahar brand? My friend asked after seeing the full page Pan Bahar ad on newspaper. Is he lost the shine in Hollywood or Indian company are capable enough to convince him for this ad? The choice of pan masala ad from Brosnan might be because of his Bond films gaining a lot of traction in India. Rural folk in India love uncomplicated spy thrillers and action films with fight sequences (A market discovered unintentionally by Mithun Chakraborty)- which is never in short supply from the English movies from US and UK. Most of such English films are dubbed to Hindi and other regional languages for the benefit of the rural audience. The rural men are the prime focus of business for this company. Pierce Brosnan is not new to the Indian adver...

Twitter Discontinue Engineering Tasks in India, Lay Off Employees At Bengaluru Development Centre

20Sep By AnkitaNo Comments

News

Twitter Discontinue Engineering Tasks in India, Lay Off Employees At Bengaluru Development Centre

Microblogging site Twitter has decided to discontinue engineering tasks in India, a move that will lead to lay offs at its development centre in Bengaluru. The company, however, did not disclose the number of people being handed pink slips. When contacted, Twitter in an emailed statement said: "As part of our normal business review, we have decided to stop the global engineering work at the Bengaluru development centre. We thank the impacted individuals for their valuable contributions and are doing as much as we can to provide them a respectful exit from our company." The company "remains committed to India as a strategic market for users, partners and advertisers," it added. The company further said: "Today, India is one of our fastest growing markets worldwide and we continue to...

IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Faces Flak Over Twitter To Rope in Pvt Cloud Firms

6Sep By AdityaNo Comments

INDIA

IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Faces Flak Over Twitter To Rope in Pvt Cloud Firms

IT Ministry reported plan to rope in private companies like Microsoft and IBM for providing cloud computing services to government departments has come under flak from cyber security experts. "I think by using cloud services of foreign companies like Microsoft and IBM, IT Ministry has decided to throw all Data and National Security concerns into a dustbin. What has happened to the National Cloud Project of government? We appeal the Prime Minister to intervene and stop this else this will send a wrong message," Indian Infosec Consortium (IIC) CEO Jiten Jain said. IIC is Indias cyber security group which has around 4,000 members. "If the worlds software super power (India) does not have the capacity to even build its own Indigenous cloud infrastructure then where is Make in India," Jain s...

Facebook CEO Says Group Will Not Become a Media Company

30Aug By reutersNo Comments

News

Facebook CEO Says Group Will Not Become a Media Company

Facebook will not become a media company, its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday, telling students the firm would remain a technology platform. An increasing number of users are turning to social media networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, to find their news, but Zuckerberg said his firm had no ambitions to become a content provider. "No, we are a tech company, not a media company," said Zuckerberg, after a young Italian asked him whether Facebook intended to become a news editor. While acknowledging the role Facebook has in supplying users with news through their connections and stressing the advantages of obtaining information from different parts of the world, Zuckerberg said Facebook was "a technology company, we build the tools, we do not produce any content". ...