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Advertisers on Twitter can now target you based on the types of apps on your phone

Jun10

by Sindy Cator on June 10, 2015 at 5:55 pm

Twitter is constantly trying to make making it easier for brands to cater ads to the right audience – and now it’s using the types of apps you have installed to do so. For example, you might have a ton of productivity apps on your phone, so a brand making brand making to-do list apps.can now more easily know to target you. The same company might also know that people who’ve downloaded a lot productivity apps tend to use finance apps as well, so they can now choose to target their finance-related software at to them as well. It’s worth…

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└ Tags: syndicated, twitter

How to launch an app in China

Jun10

by Sindy Cator on June 10, 2015 at 5:28 pm

Posted In: app, Apps, Around the Web, Asia, launch

China represents a massive, un-ignorable opportunity for app makers across the world and has reigned as the world’s top mobile market for two years. It topped 500 million smartphone users in 2014, far surpassing the U.S.’s 163.9 million, and accounted for over 15 percnt (or $7 billion) of global mobile Internet ad spend in 2014, representing an astonishing 600 percent growth. Despite its promise as a goldmine for mobile apps, the Chinese market has been held back by a number of factors, including regulatory barriers, device fragmentation, fraud, and low-spending customers. While many of those issues have improved significantly in the past couple…

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└ Tags: china, syndicated

Twitter now lets you share a list of blocked accounts with others

Jun10

by Sindy Cator on June 10, 2015 at 5:17 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Twitter is making it a lot easier for users to protect one another from abusive accounts: you can now share your blocklists. To export your list or import someone else’s, you simply need to go to your blocked account settings on twitter.com, click on the advanced options menu on the top-right, and select import or export from the drop down menu. It’s a particularly useful feature for communities on Twitter who may suffer from frequent harassment by the same Twitter accounts – Gamergate comes to mind. This way, users can simply share a list of the misbehaving accounts with others…

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└ Tags: syndicated, twitter

Bug in iOS Mail app lets hackers send fake password collector as a pop-up notification

Jun10

by Sindy Cator on June 10, 2015 at 5:16 pm

Posted In: Around the Web

The next time you’re asked for log-in credentials when using an iOS device, think twice before answering. An exploit in Apple’s Mail app has been discovered, and it could pinch the very info you don’t want anyone to know. In the stock iOS Mail app, hackers can create a pop-up that asks for various log-in credentials. It looks legitimate, and happens because the Mail app allows a line of code to load when it should be ignored, which loads remote HTML content. That HTML code can be used to bring up a very plain password collector, which can be created…

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└ Tags: apple, syndicated

Disco Dog is possibly the greatest pet product ever but you can’t buy one

Jun10

by Sindy Cator on June 10, 2015 at 5:13 pm

Posted In: accessories, Around the Web, cute, Dog Disco, Gadgets, Insider, smartphones

The dachshund in the video above is called Lolli. She’s the official model for Disco Dog, an LED vest for your pooch that can be controlled using your smartphone. Party New York, the creative agency behind Disco Dog, just closed a successful $22,527 Kickstarter campaign to create 45 vests for a select band of backers. Bad news though! It has no plans to make more. That means you won’t be able to dress your beloved canine up in colored lights or make use of the iPhone app which lets you choose colors and design custom patterns. There’s even a ‘lost dog’ mode…