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MediaFire, the file hosting and sharing service, has updated its Android cloud storage app to offer a host of new and improved photo and video services as well as new sharing options and a refreshed interface. The new 2.0 Android version is free on the Google Play Store. With this upgrade, Android users can now count on MediaFire to automatically store, access and share their mobile photos and videos. MediaFire has also improved performance for streaming music and videos and offers additional options for sharing documents and media directly from a mobile device via email, SMS or a chat app. Files are stored in the…
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If you’ve used Twitter for any length of time, you’ve come in contact with its massive underbelly of spam. Today, the company shared details of its BotMaker anti-spam system, which has contributed to a 40 percent drop in Twitter’s own spam metrics since it was introduced. As Twitter notes, one of the difficulties it faces in combating unwanted content is that spammer “know (almost) everything” about its counter-measures because of the developer API. The real-time nature of Twitter also means that any systems must operate without adding latency to the service. BotMaker is governed by three guiding principles, according to Twitter: “prevent…
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Pics.io, the company pioneering online upload and editing of raw photos in the browser, has announced a public beta of its new photo storage and management service based on Google Web services. Pics.io (pronounced Pixio) is a Web app that allows you to access, manage, edit and share photos from any device via your Google+ account with online storage in Google Drive. Offered as an ad-free alternative to Flickr, the service will feature Pics.io’s signature Raw uploading and editing capabilities in addition to new asset management functions. Photo storage features that include rating tools such as stars, flags and color labels, complement the…
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Google has announced a new update to its Google Glass firmware that will provide access to all your phone contacts on the headset. Your top 20 contacts will be available by voice command, and you’ll have to swipe to get to the rest. Earlier versions of the software only allowed you to store up to 10 contacts via Glass. Glass users will now have the option to choose between Hangouts, email and SMS when tapping on a contact. Android users can take advantage of the new features as soon as the Glass update is live, while Google is working on…
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