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Social media websites including Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr have all adopted the "clickable hashtag" widely popularized by Twitter, and on Wednesday Facebook joined the proverbial club. "To date, there has not been a simple way to see the larger view of what's happening or what people are talking about," explained Greg Lindley, a product manager at Facebook.
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Facebook Pushes Public Conversations with New Clickable Hashtags
Posted in Technology by elecsl 4 days ago (http://www.technewsworld.com)
Inside The Storenvy Pop-Up Shop, Where E-Commerce Meets Brick And Mortar [TCTV]
Posted in Technology by nisansala 4 days ago (http://techcrunch.com)|
Some people are afraid that online shopping will lead to the death of brick and mortar retail (and a spate of empty storefronts on our streets.) But Storenvy, the online marketplace that lets independent merchants sell their wares in their own digital storefronts, is one of a number of web companies that's making a reverse commute of sorts -- bringing their web businesses into meatspace.Storenvy
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Blue Microphones' Nessie now available, promises enhanced sound in real time
Posted in Technology by nandun 4 days ago (http://www.engadget.com)|
Blue Microphones' Nessie is now out on the market, months after we took it for a spin at this year's CES. Named after a cryptid like its older sibling the Yeti, Nessie comes with three modes -- one for raw audio, another optimized for richer vocals and one that enhances instrumental music. The company claims the USB microphone delivers studio-enhanced sound in real-time, and you don't need to go
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Teens Starting to See Facebook as Old and Creepy
Posted in Technology by elecsl 26 days ago (http://www.technewsworld.com)|
Facebook may have a budding problem on its hands with its teenagers, suggests a report released Tuesday by Pew Research Center. Teens expressed waning enthusiasm for Facebook in focus groups, according to Pew, saying they disliked the growing number of adults on the site, were annoyed by "inane" status updates, and viewed the drama commonly played out on Facebook as draining.
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New Drive Aims to Stamp Out Smartphone Crime
Posted in Technology by elecsl 4 days ago (http://www.technewsworld.com)|
A coalition of United States officials, institutional investors and consumer advocates on Thursday launched the Save Our Smartphones Initiative nationwide. With smartphone-related crimes, some of which are shockingly brutal, on the rise in the U.S., law enforcement officials have cranked up the pressure on the cellphone industry to come up with technologies to deter theft.
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What Sets The Google Cloud Platform Apart From The Rest
Posted in Technology by nisansala 29 days ago (http://techcrunch.com)|
There is a misperception about the new Google Cloud Platform that the company put into general availability last week at Google I/O. It's not a brand new platform. It's what Google has used for years. It is Google's foundation. It is what makes Google, Google. And now it's open for the first time to developers and businesses.Google Platform is new in the sense that anyone can now use it. But unti
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Kim Dotcom Claims He Invented Two-Factor Authentication, Has A Patent To Prove It
Posted in Technology by nisansala 26 days ago (http://techcrunch.com)|
Oh, Kim Dotcom. You just never stop surprising us.Just hours after Twitter finally rolled out its long-awaited Two-Factor authentication, the Megaupload founder is claiming to have invented the entire mechanism… and he's got a patent to prove it.
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Qualcomm Puts Super High-Res Mirasol Magic on Display
Posted in Technology by elecsl 26 days ago (http://www.technewsworld.com)|
Qualcomm, which has been struggling to market its futuristic Mirasol display technology, demoed the product at the 2013 Display Week conference being held in Vancouver, Canada. The company displayed a 5.1-inch panel with 2,560 x 1,440 pixel resolution. It also put demoed a 1.5-inch panel embedded on a smartphone and on a smartwatch, but these were apparently mockups.
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