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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
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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

Apr16
by on April 16, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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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Livefyre releases Sidenotes, an annotation feature with in-line comments

Apr16
by on April 16, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Social conversation platform Livefyre released today Sidenotes, a new feature that lets publishers add in-line comment threads to their sites. Livefyre has also integrated Sidenotes into Storify, marking the first major product integration to the service, which it acquired last Fall. Sidenotes works by attaching comments to each paragraph of an article or piece of content. Users can highlight specific text to comment on or reply to other responses. The pop-up box updates in real-time and ranks comments based on the number of upvotes they have received. Annotations were one of the first products that Livefyre tested as a young…

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