During the #nomakeupselfie campaign that was set up in order to raise money for Cancer Research UK, women have been inadvertently adopting polar bears. The mistake occured when some generous donators’ smartphones auto-corrected the word ‘BEAT’ to ‘BEAR’, resulting in the message being sent to the World Wildlife Fund... Read more
LG Pocket Photo2 Announced
Internet December 28, 2013
Lots of people may not have known that LG had a Pocket Photo Printer; in fact you may be one of those people. I like to think I m not too far behind things when it comes to the latest tech, but I hate to admit it, I had... Read more
Is it worth the wait? After all, it has been a long time coming but Instagram has finally released a native app for Windows Phone. The long suffering of you out there that use Windows phones (sorry I’m an iPhone man myself), will finally be able to share pictures in new and... Read more
Snapchat Refuses Facebook’s $3 Billion Offer
Internet November 21, 2013
Latest reports say that the owners of the ever so popular photo messaging service Snapchat, have refused an acquisition offer from the social media giant Facebook. This offer would no doubt have turned Evan Spiegel and his colleagues into extremely wealthy people. According to the Wall Street Journal, which cited sources close... Read more
Qualcomm & Sandisk Support Plan To Unlock World’s Videos
Mobile October 31, 2013
There has been a boom in the number of mobile apps that allow users to shoot, edit and then share their videos. With the release of video for Instagram came a number of new social video apps, one of which was Magisto, who created an app that was designed... Read more
I have said it before and no doubt I’ll say it again: “In the end, it all comes down to money”. That is really a fundamental truth and it has not taken that long for Instagram to jump on the bandwagon. Instagram is getting the advertisement makeover and it’s... Read more
Ads Could Be Appearing On Instagram Within The Next Year
Internet September 9, 2013
Instagram has revealed it now has more than 150 million people visiting its site every month and that more than 60 percent of users are from outside the United States. It seems that in view of such results, Facebook are ready to to see a return on its investment... Read more
How many Windows Phone users do you know for real? I think I’ve said this before, and I can count them on one hand. That’s not to say that Windows Phone may not have its merits, but one thing we know is that there is a good number of... Read more
So everyone who said that the Facebook event was going to be all about Instagram video was right. The “big idea” from a “small team” indeed turned out to be video sharing via what used to be a photo-only platform. And yes, the filters are there. Of course, this... Read more
In a press event yesterday, the popular photo sharing app Instagram, announced the release of their new feature “Video on Instagram”. It’s not a huge surprise after all the recent speculation as to what the event was about. Kevin Systrom, CEO of Instagram, said in his speech that “the... Read more
Facebook Event is All About Video Instagram
Internet June 20, 2013
Last week, Facebook incited talk when it sent out “real” invitations to a “big idea” event. The invite reads: “A small team has been working on a big idea. Join us for coffee and learn about a new product.” Small team. Big idea. Coffee. New product. That sounds like a... Read more