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Superb, formerly Grubwithus, releases an iPhone app for finding new places to go to with friends

Apr16
by on April 16, 2014 at 1:58 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Superb has successfully completed its pivot away from social dining service Grubwithus after officially launching its new iPhone app for finding new places to visit with friends. An early version of the app with basic functionality has been in the App Store for some time now, but the firm’s latest release adds the messaging and social features needed to complete the product. Conceptually, Superb functions as a “Tinder for places” by showing you cards of nearby places and then having you swipe left to dismiss or swipe right to mark as “to do.” Once you’ve expressed interest in a place,…

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Superb, formerly Grubwithus, releases an iPhone app for finding new places to go to with friends

Apr16
by on April 16, 2014 at 1:58 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

superb
Superb has successfully completed its pivot away from social dining service Grubwithus after officially launching its new iPhone app for finding new places to visit with friends. An early version of the app with basic functionality has been in the App Store for some time now, but the firm’s latest release adds the messaging and social features needed to complete the product. Conceptually, Superb functions as a “Tinder for places” by showing you cards of nearby places and then having you swipe left to dismiss or swipe right to mark as “to do.” Once you’ve expressed interest in a place,…

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Indie Phone: The ‘Silicon Valley dream is part of the problem’ when it comes to data privacy

Apr16
by on April 16, 2014 at 1:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Mobile, Profiles and Interviews

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With revelations about mass spying and a crippling widespread security flaw affecting two-thirds of the Web, it’s little surprise services and devices that put security and privacy before all else are seeing a groundswell of support. However, despite there being a number of smaller name mobile makers nibbling away at the corners of the market, many of them – even the open source efforts like Firefox OS and security-focused Blackphone – aren’t designed in a way to fix the essential problem: the user never really owns or has control of their data. Aral Balkan, founder of Indie Phone and upcoming speaker…

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Indie Phone: The ‘Silicon Valley dream is part of the problem’ when it comes to data privacy

Apr16
by on April 16, 2014 at 1:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Mobile, Profiles and Interviews

mobile_security
With revelations about mass spying and a crippling widespread security flaw affecting two-thirds of the Web, it’s little surprise services and devices that put security and privacy before all else are seeing a groundswell of support. However, despite there being a number of smaller name mobile makers nibbling away at the corners of the market, many of them – even the open source efforts like Firefox OS and security-focused Blackphone – aren’t designed in a way to fix the essential problem: the user never really owns or has control of their data. Aral Balkan, founder of Indie Phone and upcoming speaker…

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Fleksy eyes international growth with AZERTY, QWERTZ and QZERTY keyboard support on Android

Apr16
by on April 16, 2014 at 1:00 pm
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Fleksy is making a bigger push for international markets with the latest version of its smart keyboard app for Android. With version 2.1, Fleksy now caters for additional keyboard layout options including AZERTY, QWERTZ, and QZERTY, while it’s also adding Swedish, Hungarian, Danish, Slovak, and Czech to its arsenal of supported languages. This takes its total number of tongues to fifteen. Additionally, QWERTY-alternative keyboard layouts DVORAK and Colemak are also now supported.     Fleksy says two thirds of its downloads have come from outside the US, and it has been adding support for one new language a week since launch,…

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