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Castround for Android lets you view tweets by location

Sep10
by on September 10, 2014 at 4:25 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches, Product Reviews, Social Media

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If you’re a heavy Twitter user, you may well have noticed a shortcoming in the platform – it’s really hard to search for tweets according to where they originated. And that’s exactly the problem that Castround for Android has been designed to fix. Why might you want to do this? Well, perhaps you just want to see what people are tweeting about at a specific spot in town, or perhaps you just landed in a new city on vacation, or maybe you just want to see what people in Scotland are tweeting about this week ahead of the independence referendum. Castround’s…

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Google Hangouts now offers free voice calls to numbers in the US and Canada

Sep10
by on September 10, 2014 at 4:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Product Updates

Earlier today, Google started offering Google Voice users the option to migrate their accounts to Hangouts. Now, we know the full extent of the update: As well as integrating Google Voice accounts, all Hangouts users (iOS, Android and Web) can now make voice-only calls to one another, as well as free calls to regular numbers in the US and Canada. In addition, Google is promising “really low” rates for international numbers. The updated Android app, version 2.3, will be rolled out over the next few days, however iOS and Web users should be able to access these features by simply relaunching…

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4.93 million Gmail usernames and passwords published, Google says ‘no evidence’ its systems were compromised

Sep10
by on September 10, 2014 at 4:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Approximately 4.93 million Gmail usernames and passwords were published to a Russian Bitcoin forum on Tuesday, as first reported by Russian website CNews. That’s the bad news. The good news is that this leak doesn’t seem as massive upon further inspection. First off, we got in touch with Google regarding the issue. The company does not believe this is the result of any sort of security breach on its end. “The security of our users’ information is a top priority for us,” a Google spokesperson told TNW. “We have no evidence that our systems have been compromised, but whenever we…

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Apple launches native TestFlight beta-testing app globally, open for in-house testers only initially

Sep10
by on September 10, 2014 at 3:48 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Seven months after Apple acquired Burstly, creator of popular app beta-testing service TestFlight, the Cupertino company has officially unveiled the first official native version of the TestFlight app, available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and opened it to a small number of in-house testers. In the wake of the acquisition back in February, it was revealed that TestFlight would drop its support for Android apps, but in the iOS realm the move meant that developers would soon be better equipped for testing and debugging apps before pushing them live in the App Store, letting them work with up to…

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Facebook is testing a feature that lets you schedule the deletion of your posts in advance

Sep10
by on September 10, 2014 at 3:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Facebook is trialing a new feature that lets you schedule the deletion of your posts in advance. A handful of users noticed the feature in the Facebook iOS app earlier this week, and we reached out to Facebook to seek clarification. A spokesperson said: “We’re running a small pilot of a feature on Facebook for iOS that lets people schedule deletion of their posts in advance.” Facebook is no stranger to new features, and the social networking giant regularly introduces fresh facets to the service on a restricted basis, to garner feedback and assess user reaction. Based on the screenshots…

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