Facebook Introduces Moments

The American social network has introduced a new photo related feature.

Facebook has introduced a new photo related feature, called Moments. Facebook news informed that the product manager, Will Rubin, has stated that the released update is capable of arranging photos in one’s phone into groups. It is revealed that the application uses photographing occasions to arrange the stored pictures. It not only identifies friends in photos but also confidentially sends those photos to them.

Facebook news today reported that when the latest picture-related application is downloaded and operated, then it clearly mentions two catalogs for its users. One of them is known as private, while the other is called Sync. When a user begins using the new feature, he or she is asked for permissions whether to disseminate the stored pictures with the person, which the platform operator has studied and recognized in pictures.

The feature permits users to freely make decisions regarding their privacy issues, as they can toggle some pictures and keep others away from reach. An official has stated that tagging someone in a picture would not activate the feature. It follows its own notifying procedure; for instance, if a user, who has installed the application, takes some shots, then he or she would receive a notification regarding the sharing ability and the presence of friends in the photos.

Facebook breaking news informed that sometimes, the feature also asks its users if they want to share photos with one person or a group. If it fails to find a name or set of names, then the users are asked if they want to enter the name of any one or more of their friends in the provided space. This technology would improve the relationship between friends, as they would be able to share memorable events.

The update would enable people to share a significant number of photos and develop a set of photo albums including users and tagged friends. Market experts believe that the new technology would not only speed up the process of photo related communication but also improve the corporate giant’s reputation in the highly competitive world.

Facebook should now take measures to launch the new user-friendly update in the best possible manner to meet its claims for ‘connecting the world’. The social network giant is known for its dominance in the online world. Its recent application presents it with challenges regarding the privacy and security concerns of its users. Thus, the company is required to address it in the most adequate manner.

Twitter's "Experiments" Comes To iOS Users

Twitter has decided to take Experiments, the beta testing program to iOS platform now. It is in the early stage at the moment.

Back in 2013, the social network giant, Twitter unveiled a testing program, beta version. That beta program was made available to the Android users which let them try the new builds for the platform and also be able to test the features that are in the experimental phase before they could be released publicly. That program has now been made available for the iOS users. The reports had been confirmed by the social network’s representatives stating that some of the users had been receiving the invitation via the message in their app.

This latest Twitter news was reported to us by couple of users who expressed that they had been notified with the pop-up on iPhone app for the social network. It asked the users to join the “Twitter for iOS Experiments Program.” This program has been unveiled and made available so the company can be helped by the end-users in order to test the new features and also the fixes. It is distributed by the company’s Crashlytics service.

Crashlytics is a service for crash reporting that was acquired by the social giant back in 2013. It is the part of broader platform named Fabric which is for mobile development. The same year after acquiring this service, the company introduced “Beta by Crashlytics” which provided the testing platform for app beta.

Twitter news reports that as per the public documentation which details the iOS experiments program. The testers that are volunteering in the program will be given the access to the testing/experimental versions of the application. It shall include those features that are supposed to be confidential and secretive by the testers. This points to the fact that if the user participates in the volunteer testing program and see an interesting feature in the beta build for the app then you are not supposed to tweet about it or share it with others for that matter.

There had been a lot of rumors regarding the program coming to iOS, for instance, one of the Reddit users spotted that there had been a support documentation regarding this in March 2015. Furthermore, in April, there had been users that tweeted regarding the invitation being received from the social network to join the program however when they clicked on the link they discovered that the link was broken.

There had been a handful of reports being received regarding iOS Experiments by Twitter which points out to the fact that it is only in the early stages at the moment. According to people closed to the context, it currently includes participants in several hundreds but the company plans on involving more.

Uber's Efforts To Regulate Drivers In China

The company has taken a measure to regulate its drivers in the People’s Republic of China.

The American taxi service, Uber, has taken a measure to regulate its drivers in the People’s Republic of China. Uber news reported that its China unit has instructed its driving partners to ensure that they do not confront with competing drivers and law enforcing agencies. Experts stated that the guidelines have been issued to avoid regulatory problems in the territory, where officials are affected by instances of social instability.

Social media sources have reported that the transporter has asked its drivers in the eastern city of Hangzhou to maintain social stability and harmony after one of its passengers fought with a cab driver in an incident. The firm has maintained a controversial record in the second largest economy in the world, as the policing authorities have detained its drivers.

Uber news today informed that the targeted drivers have tried to seek help from other private car passenger. The company has threatened to terminate contracts of drivers whose GPS coordinators show that they have not left any dispute scene.

The private drivers have altered their routes to avoid confrontation. Since its entrance in the Chinese market, the authorities have never welcomed the cab service, as in April, its Guangzhou office was raided by the law enforcers. This presented many problems to the goodwill of the company.

The hostility of the Chinese officials has failed to halt the growth of the North American transporter, as its CEO has stated that riders are benefitting from 1,000,000 trips per day and its business has expanded by 100% in the last month. He added that the Asian giant represents one of the largest unexploited markets for the firm. It has been revealed that Uber intends to serve the residents of 50 more Chinese cities.

Uber intends to invest more than $1,000,000,000 in the Chinese economy. It is probable that if the enterprise expands successfully, then its expansion would not only satisfy commuter’s demands, but also create jobs for a significant number of people. Industry experts believe that if the drivers comply with the newly issued guidelines, then the relations between the Asian authorities and the organization might improve in the modern world.

Company sources have affirmed that the affordability of Uber has played a significant role in increasing its popularity in the Asian region. It should now take measures to ensure that its partners strictly follow its instructions; otherwise, it might suffer in the Chinese transportation market.

App-To-App Linking To Be Replaced By More User-Friendly One via iOS 9

Apple is not fond of URL scheme and wants developers to work on the Universal Links as it promotes user-privacy.

Latest Apple news is regarding the tech giant luring the developers away from URL scheme and its temptations which had been used by Twitter last year so it could be tracked what apps were installed on the users’ iOS devices. In order for this to happen, the company has unveiled a substitute in Universal Links. This alternative approach directs the users exactly to the relevant content within the users’ app, by using the web preceded links which are the standard, for example http:// or https://.

Apple news reports that the approach that has been proposed has couple of advantages. One of the first ones to mention is that this approach avoids the issues pertaining to privacy. It is because the usage of custom schemes does not inform the originating app regarding the fact if the user has the destination app in their phone or not. This also points out that the link opens in app which is correct, that is not true when it comes to URL schemes because that can be adopted by any app and can result in the conflicts between the apps if being selected for more than one app.

The Universal links provide the ability for the path of solid feature which does not result in not letting the users know if the app is not installed. Instead, the URL redirects the users to the companion website that shall be present for the particular app in Safari, either to the destination page for the installation of that app, if created by the developer or to the content that was being searched for.

Universal Link and the features that are related use http or https standard web links and also let the developers keep track of how much site section can be searched in the app and what should be done when the content being searched for is not in the app yet however can be found on the site.

Such Universal Links being set up that route the users successfully who click on the URLs to developer’s app expect some work to be done from the developer’s side as well. This includes the special json file that shall be created by the developer and will be residing on the developer’s website server. Through iOS 9, Apple has aimed to make this process easier. This has happened by removing the specification that the json file must be signed via SSL certificate from providers that are outside. There are other benefits to the Universal Links but the end-users are most likely to appreciate this change a lot.

Dropboxs Updated Extension Features and Security Measures

The service has been modified with additional features, accessible through the Dropbox icon and more

Dropbox news recently had announced an extension to Chrome, which integrated Gmail with online storage service. Recently the company has announced interesting new features, including the ability to send much larger files to anyone, even if they don’t utilize Dropbox.

It is nothing new, to notice that Dropbox supports data synchronization throughout the the devices irrespective of its type. Data synchronization is significant feature to consider in terms of online storage across all items. Which is why it is essential that the storage service are not only accessible through PC desktops and laptops only, but also via smartphones and tablets.

All in all, any devices portable or not, which works on iOS or Android will be able to fully access data from cloud storage and Dropbox will be completely accessible to it. 

Previously the extension allowed users to pull in files from the online storage, right into your Gmail account. But now the service has been modified with additional features, accessible through the Dropbox icon. Users will just have to select their files, or documents, and click insert link. Since users are just sending a link to access those files, it will not take up space from their Gmail storage.

The beta version of this Chrome extension has been rolled out today, and now it is no longer a hassle to send large files.l Dropbox for Gmai will easily allow users to add any document, and send them without having to waste time in uploading, or dealing with doc size issues.

Not only this but also according to latest Dropbox updates, the company has recently decided to take their security settings and privacy protocols to another level in order to make it more practical and ethically workable for corporate and business.

Other than this, users are now allowed to insert multiple files and folders, and also add files to their Dropbox within no time. The need to collect them all together before sending to another user has now been eliminated, as Dropbox enables users to attach any every file separately. In case any of your recipients is not using Dropbox or its extension, it is not something for you to worry about, the files will still be accessible to them.

Saving files have also become much easier, now all users have to do is to simply click save on any file that has been sent to you, and it will get stored, without the need to download, and then upload them onto your Dropbox account.

Microsoft To Launch Update For Skype In Summer 2015

The software company is planning to expand the translator feature to all the users of the software by updating it along with the launch of Windows 10

In the most recent Microsoft news update, it has been made evident that Microsoft Corporation has finally decided to launch an update for Skype that will bring about quite a useful change in the usage of the software. The software company has been working on the project for quite some time to bring about updates and the one update that it has been focusing on involves launching a special translator for video calls, a feature that has already been launched by the firm for a few selected customers. However, this new feature in Skype is not going to be limited for a few customers only and soon the tech company will be releasing a version of the software that will be for all kinds of users. This update is expected to take place in the upcoming summer of 2015, as announced by the tech giants.

Currently, it has been seen that the Skype Translator feature is made available to a few selected customers only, which have been specially invited by the software giant. The much awaited feature of the software works in an interesting way, as it translates video call conversations in quite a quick speed. The feature is presently compatible with a few languages only, which include English, Spanish, Mandarin and Italian for translation of speech in the video calls.

However, the users can translate their instant messages as well, and those can be converted into more than a 50 languages, as supported by the software, according to latest Microsoft news. Since the version that was presented to a few customers is being updated to software that will be in reach of everyone, more languages are also expected to be added to the list which has a limited number of languages only in which the conversations will be converted.

Microsoft business discussed in a press release that the usage of Skype Translator over the period of a few weeks only has increased by a massive difference which the firm believes to be coming around at an increase of 300 percent. Previously, the option to use the translator first had to be signed up for but since the past four weeks that the company has removed the option to sign up before use, the consumption of the new feature has shown an incredible rise in usage.

The much awaited Windows 10 that Microsoft is planning to launch in the summer season is going to come around in the same time as the Translator which is making the analysts believe that the new Windows will come with a complete package updated with the new features on Skype.

Twitter Is Making Itself More User Friendly

Twitter unrolled a feature that will make it easier for users to track back their conversations

Twitter Inc. is a very huge company now. In 2015, despite of not posting good results, it is growing substantially. The company also noticed a slower growth in increase in users as well as its monthly active users has declined. All of this has concerned the investors of the company regarding whether they should trust the company in the future or not. The company is making various changes to its interface as well in an attempt to make it more attractive and user friendly for its new and existing users, according to latest Twitter updates.

Recently as reported according to Twitter news, the company is removing features and tabs along with adding many new features and tabs. Moreover, it also added a ‘While You Were Away…’ feature that was targeted to keep those users updated that are away for the time being from Twitter. Now according to the latest update, the social media network is all set to make things more easy for social media addicts. There is no doubt in the fact that gradually Twitter is becoming the most favored social media forum when compared to Facebook and other competitors. But Facebook still leads the market by miles in terms of users, monthly active users, and revenues.

The company has now revealed another appealing feature for the lovers of micro blogging platform that will make it easy for them to follow and track conversations under various tweets. The new feature of Twitter will be available to users who use the service on Web. Previously, the product manager at the company, Akarshan Kumar expressed his concerns regarding tweets and following conversation surrounding it by saying “Conversations surrounding a Tweet, particularly if they’ve sparked lots of replies and disparate conversations, can be hard to follow.”

This point made the company to work on it and make it easy for everyone to keep a track of their conversations under any tweet. Hence, the company is now grouping all conversations together as well as highlighting other interesting and related conversations around that tweet too.

According to The Next Web “Twitter will decide what tweets get highlighted by taking a number of factors into account, like whether the original poster has replied. Conversational tweets are connected by a line and there’s a button you can click to ‘View other replies’ as well.”

Twitter has confirmed that this feature will be available to all users starting today that will be using the social media network today on Web. However, the company plans to introduce this in mobile apps in the near future.