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Pause literally puts the music into music magazines

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by on July 22, 2015 at 10:00 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Last time we caught up with music discovery app Pause, it had just arrived on Android following its iOS launch. It was evolving into a music magazine, with the promise of platform supporting a range of publishers. Now that platform has arrived. In practice, that means there’s now more content on offer. The Pause team has worked with publications including Drowned in Sound, FACT and Dummy, allowing them to create ‘magazines’ containing written articles with musical accompaniment. So, while reading Joanna Gruesome‘s views about mysogyny in music you can listen to her songs, too. Pause has also created genre guides, so you can listen…

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Don’t know how much money to take on holiday? This iOS and Android app will tell you

Jul22
by on July 22, 2015 at 9:45 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, UK

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Apparently, 50 percent of British people don’t know how to budget when they travel abroad. But, consider this, the survey was conducted by Travelex, the foreign exchange company, which coincidentally has an app to hawk. The company only surveyed 2,000 travellers to come up with its figures but, despite the relatively small sample, the app that has sprung from the thinking is a pretty good idea. The company claims the Travelex Money App (free on Android and iOS)  – nice, simple name there – will “ease the stress” of deciding how much money to spend abroad. The trick is that it shows you how much…

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WhatsApp for Android now makes sure you never miss a conversation

Jul22
by on July 22, 2015 at 9:40 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, messaging, whatsapp

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WhatsApp has been updated on Android with a few useful new features, including an option to mark conversations as unread, as spotted by Android Police. Tap and hold on any conversation pane and you’ll spot the new feature at the bottom of the menu. It adds a green circle to your selected chat so it’s easier to spot — but it won’t affect the read status on messages within each conversation. The new version also lets you set custom notifications for contacts and groups. Open any contact’s details and you’ll be able to configure specific tones for calls and messages,…

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Deezer has integrated with IFTTT to turn your listening habits into actions

Jul22
by on July 22, 2015 at 8:57 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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There’s a real battle among music streaming services to stand out in the post-Apple Music, still-laughing-at-Tidal world. Spotify’s latest move is bringing a weekly personalized playlist into the mix. Now Deezer’s doing it with If This Then That (IFTTT) integration. The music subscription service will now allow users to hook up their accounts to IFTTT’s automation service and build recipes that trigger actions based on their listening habits. Examples include: automatically sharing a track via Facebook or Twitter when you favorite it in the Deezer app, changing your device’s wallpaper to match your current most listened album’s artwork, and adding artists…

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Five arrested in connection to massive JP Morgan bank account leak

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by on July 22, 2015 at 8:29 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Cyberattacks, Insider, JP Morgan Chase & Co

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Five people were charged in a federal court in New York on Tuesday in cases related to the cyberattack on JP Morgan Chase & Co. last October, which exposed some 83 million bank account records of US households and small businesses, reports the Wall Street Journal. JP Morgan officials argued last year that the Russian government was behind the hack, which was recorded as one of the largest US bank breaches in history. Three of the individuals were accused of operating a pump-and-dump scheme to manipulate stock prices, while the other two were arrested for running an unlicensed Bitcoin exchange.…

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