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Steller, a beautiful storytelling iOS app, makes it easier to find stories and interact with users

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by on August 21, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Steller, a beautiful storytelling iOS app developed by Mombo Labs that lets you create photo and video stories with an emphasis on design, has gotten a much-needed refresh that makes it easier to search for stories and interact with other users. The update finally lets you add comments to stories. It has also introduced hashtags, so you can use them in stories and comments, and in turn search for content through hashtags and keywords. To catch the eyes of fellow users, you can also @Mention them now. There is also a new ‘Explore’ page displaying a selection of stories that you may be interested in,…

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Drync for Android now lets US oenophiles pay for wine using Google Wallet

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by on August 21, 2014 at 12:59 pm
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Drync is about as all-encompassing a wine app as you can get, letting you track your top tipples, discover new bottles, create notes, peruse reviews, and even order in-app. Indeed, all you need to do is take a photo of a wine’s label, and the Drync app finds its availability, price, ratings and more. Having been available for iPhone since the early days, Drync finally arrived for Android back in 2010, and today this version that’s getting a cool new feature: Google Wallet integration. This makes Drync the first wine app to introduce Google Wallet, as far as we know….

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Ticketfly snaps up fellow live-music ticketing company WillCall to help take on Ticketmaster

Aug21
by on August 21, 2014 at 12:58 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Social-focused ticket-distribution company Ticketfly has announced it has acquired WillCall, a live-music discovery app that makes it easy to find tickets for live shows in NYC, San Francisco and LA. We first covered Ticketfly way back in 2010, calling it the “fastest growing ticketing company in the market,” at a time when it was shifting north of 1.2 million tickets a year. Ticketfly started operating in 2009 however, and has been growing rapidly ever since – it was one of Facebook’s early Open Graph partners, letting users buy tickets directly through the social network. It went international with the acquisition of…

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WeTransfer now lets Android users send files of up to 10GB in one go too

Aug21
by on August 21, 2014 at 12:49 pm
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Back in March this year, WeTransfer launched its app for iOS devices, thereby allowing people to send files of up to 10GB for free without the need for any sort of registration. Now, the app is available for Android devices too. While it follows in the footsteps of the iOS launch, the app is actually a little more permissive on Android; specifically, it allows you to send pretty much any file from within the OS via the ‘Share’ button, rather than needing to launch the WeTransfer app specifically first. In addition to basic file sending support, the Android app also…

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Let there be Li-Fi: Meet the man who’s bringing connectivity to the world through LED

Aug21
by on August 21, 2014 at 10:33 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Profiles and Interviews, PSF, scotland

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Sir Alexander Graham Bell may be better known as the guy who invented the first ‘practical’ telephone, but the Scottish scientist laid claim to an arsenal of additional innovations. Among these were the photophone, a wireless telephone of sorts that enabled sounds (including speech) to be transmitted via light. It’s said that Bell actually valued the photophone more than the telephone from his lifetime achievements, even though it never quite took off and is now consigned to the footnotes of history. However, more than 130 years after the photophone first came to light, Professor Harald Haas is pioneering his own…

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