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Apple unleashes TestFlight to all iOS developers and beta testers

Oct23
by on October 23, 2014 at 7:32 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Product Updates

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The beta testing app TestFlight has been helping developers quickly and easily add new testers to an app. The service is so useful that Apple purchased its creator Burstly and built its own native version of the app for iOS developers. Today Apple announced that TestFlight is available for all iOS developers to download and use to roll out app testing to external parties. Developers can now add up to 1,000 users to a TestFlight beta app. Previously, the app only allowed in-house testers and topped off at 25 users. The app is now tightly integrated with iTunes Connect with developers…

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Apple unleashes TestFlight to all iOS developers and beta testers

Oct23
by on October 23, 2014 at 7:32 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Product Updates

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The beta testing app TestFlight has been helping developers quickly and easily add new testers to an app. The service is so useful that Apple purchased its creator Burstly and built its own native version of the app for iOS developers. Today Apple announced that TestFlight is available for all iOS developers to download and use to roll out app testing to external parties. Developers can now add up to 1,000 users to a TestFlight beta app. Previously, the app only allowed in-house testers and topped off at 25 users. The app is now tightly integrated with iTunes Connect with developers…

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Facebook and Yahoo team up to keep recycled email addresses from compromising other accounts

Oct23
by on October 23, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Remember when Yahoo released all those in-active email address? Yeah, that was kind of a mess because any accounts tied to those email addresses were now in the hands of the new owners. Well Facebook was watching and teamed up with Yahoo to make sure your old Hotmail, Yahoo or AOL account doesn’t offer a convenient way for your accounts to get hijacked. Today Facebook announced a new email standard called RRVS (Require-Recipient-Valid-Since). It inserts timestamps into emails to help determine if the account has changed hands since the last time the receiver got an email from said account. The RRVS standard will…

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10 startups you should meet at #TNWUSA

Oct23
by on October 23, 2014 at 6:02 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Voice

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Over the past few weeks, we’ve interviewed close to a hundred startups. And the next few weeks will see us interview almost a hundred more. With a maximum of 50 spots available for Boost – our early-stage startup growth program, co-hosted by WeTransfer – we can proudly say that the startups that will make the cut are bound to be brilliant. All successful companies will be exhibiting at this year’s The Next Web USA on December 10 in New York, and 15 of them will have the chance to pitch to our entire American audience on-stage. But Boost is more than…

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Facebook built a forum platform for your smartphone inside the new Rooms app

Oct23
by on October 23, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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In the 1990s and early 2000s I was the member of a couple car forums. First Honda forums and then a Subaru forum. I used these forums mostly for technical information. Where to buy used engines and transmission, the best gas for turbo-charged vehicles, how to remove the airbag on a Del Sol without it exploding in my face. Then Facebook appeared and I stopped visiting forums unless I absolutely needed to get some very specific information about a fuse or cable. Now Facebook, more specifically Josh Miller, the co-founder of Branch which was acquired by Facebook in January 2014, is launching Rooms,…

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