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Rhapsody expands its music streaming into Latin America and Europe, as it reaches 2m users

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by on July 29, 2014 at 4:01 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Established in 2001, Rhapsody helped start the music streaming business before Spotify, Rdio, the iTunes Store and even the iPod. And while the latest services have been waging a battle of gaining subscribers via ad-supported subscriptions, Rhapsody has remained true to its original business plan of paid subscriptions only. Now over a decade later, Rhapsody is announcing that it has hit two million total international subscribers. In addition to the milestone, Rhapsody has teamed up with carriers to offer the music streaming service as a pre-loaded feature mobile phone customers. The success of that business plan has led the company to expand further in Latin…

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Report: Xiaomi pips Apple to rank 2nd in China’s smartphone sales share, but threatens Samsung more

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by on July 29, 2014 at 3:37 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia

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There’s more evidence of Xiaomi’s rapid growth in popularity in China, despite releasing its first smartphone only in 2011. According to data from a Kantar Worldpanel ComTech report from January to May 2014, Xiaomi unseated Apple from its second place in the country, accounting for a 21 percent share of smartphone sales, compared to Apple’s 16 percent share. In the meantime, Samsung continued to remain on top with a 23 percent share of smartphone sales — though as the figures show, Xiaomi is close behind the first ranker now as well. Kantar runs a continuous research panel of 15,000 individuals — which…

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Instagram planning to complete HTTPS rollout ‘soon,’ after developer exposes iOS flaw

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by on July 29, 2014 at 1:19 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger has responded to the publication of a potential vulnerability on the app’s iOS version by noting that the company plans to finish upgrading to HTTPS for the entire service “soon.” Developer Stevie Graham went public with the vulnerability after Facebook failed to fix the issue. According to a Hacker News comment, Graham discovered the issue years ago and was shocked when he realized it hadn’t been fixed. The issue exposes users of the iOS app to attacks via man-in-the-middle because Instagram sends some unencrypted data with the session cookie. A malicious actor could then use those cookies to spoof the account…

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500px launches Insights for iPhone to help photographers track their stats

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by on July 28, 2014 at 11:26 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches

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500px, the photo portfolio website, has launched 500px Insights, a free iPhone companion app that lets you track your stats while on the go. Insights is designed to assist with a variety of research-based photo routines related to your posted 500px portfolio. For example, you can view a map of all your geotagged photos, determine your most-used tags and categories, and even use information to decide the best time to upload your photos to the site. The app also lets you track colleagues in the 500px community by accessing the most viewed, commented, liked, favorited and highest rated photos. Information is available on…

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Facebook is killing messaging in its main mobile app and pushing Facebook Messenger

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by on July 28, 2014 at 10:07 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Facebook is completing the separation of its main social network and its messaging service. If you want to send messages via Facebook on mobile, you’ll need to download the Facebook Messenger app soon. First reported by TechCrunch, this shouldn’t surprise anyone that uses Facebook Messenger app on iOS or Android. While messaging with a person that is still using the messaging feature in the main Facebook app, you get a pop-up to tell your friend to download Facebook Messenger app. Plus, Facebook has already separated the feature from the Facebook app in several European countries. Facebook sent TNW the following statement: In the next…

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