Posts Tagged ‘ social media ’

Google brings your Google+ photos right into Search, serves results via computer vision and machine learning

May 23, 2013
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Google brings your Google+ photos right into Search, serves results via computer vision and machine learning

Google on Thursday announced a very interesting integration between its main search service and Google+ Photos. The company now lets you find your photos both on Google+ and Google Search just by, well, searching for them. Assuming you’re signed in, all you have to do is search for “my photos” on google.com or directly on…

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Google debuts Chrome 28 beta with rich notifications for apps and extensions on Windows, coming to OS X and Linux next

May 23, 2013
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Google debuts Chrome 28 beta with rich notifications for apps and extensions on Windows, coming to OS X and Linux next

Just two days after releasing the stable version of Chrome 27, Google has announced the release of Chrome 28 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The biggest new feature is the addition of a notification center, although it’s only available on Windows for now. “We’ve designed these notifications to be beautiful, useful and engaging,” Google…

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Confirmed: Microsoft’s revamped Kinect for Xbox One will also come to Windows next year

May 23, 2013
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Confirmed: Microsoft’s revamped Kinect for Xbox One will also come to Windows next year

Microsoft has clarified that the next iteration of Kinect, the motion tracking peripheral unveiled alongside the Xbox One earlier this week, will be coming to Windows next year. We had previously known that the device would eventually be supported by Windows, but didn’t know when. Unfortunately, Microsoft is keeping quiet in regards to how developers…

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Shazam’s iPad app now features background auto-tagging, and maps to view most-tagged songs by region

May 23, 2013
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Shazam’s iPad app now features background auto-tagging, and maps to view most-tagged songs by region

Shazam, the music discovery and tagging service, has rolled out a major new update to its iOS app, introducing a single universal app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, as well as a slew of other new features specifically for the tablet version. Shazam has become one of the most well-known music-tagging apps, letting users…

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FidorPay-Konto: Smartes Girokonto mit 1,2% Zinsen p.a.

May 23, 2013
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FidorPay-Konto: Smartes Girokonto mit 1,2% Zinsen p.a.

23.05.2013 | 09:30 FidorPay-Konto: Smartes Girokonto mit 1,2% Zinsen p.a. | Mnchen (ots) -- kostenloses Girokonto mit 1,2% Verzinsung p.a. - smarte Konto-Nutzung: Finanz- und Service-Apps optional nutzbar - Partner-App-Angebot wird weiter ausgebaut Die in Mnchen ansssige Fidor Bank AG bietet ab sofort 1,2% p.a. Guthabenzins auf das FidorPay-Konto (www.fidor.de/produkte/fidorpay) und damit eines der attraktivsten…

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Rdio for Android and iOS adds Find People via Facebook and Twitter, record label Pages, new side navigation

May 22, 2013
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Rdio for Android and iOS adds Find People via Facebook and Twitter, record label Pages, new side navigation

Rdio on Wednesday announced it has updated its native Android and iOS apps with user interface changes and new features. You can download the latest versions now directly from Apple’s App Store and Google Play. First and foremost, the new “Find People” feature (available on the side navigation) gives you a curated list of recommended…

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Customer tweets complaint about bank, competing bank sends personalised video ball(ad) to swoon customer

May 22, 2013
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Customer tweets complaint about bank, competing bank sends personalised video ball(ad) to swoon customer

Mel Kirk, Managing Director of UK based Tribal Media, posted a tweet complaining about her bank, HSBC. Nothing out of the norm so far. However, within 24 hours, she’d received a video from a competing bank, Barclays, effectively singing for her business but also promoting Bespoke Offers, its new personalised UK shopping service. Watch: It was…

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Piictu joins forces with stealth Betaworks startup Kandu, will be closing its app on May 31

May 22, 2013
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Piictu joins forces with stealth Betaworks startup Kandu, will be closing its app on May 31

Photo-sharing app Piictu announced today that it’s joining forces with Kandu, a mystery startup owned by Betaworks, and will be closing its own service as a result by the end of the month. A blog post published by the Piictu team says that Betaworks “shares our vision and ideals of how technology is a catalyst…

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Speek easy: This startup wants to disrupt the conference call market with simplicity and WebRTC

May 22, 2013
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Speek easy: This startup wants to disrupt the conference call market with simplicity and WebRTC

There were somewhere in the region of 45 billion minutes of audio-only conference calls in North America in 2012, a stat that bodes well for the future of Speek. Work started on the Web app back in March 2012, and after a while in beta which has seen a couple of hundred thousand users join,…

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Google cuts the cost of Apps for Business in India by half, seeking to sign up more local SMEs

May 22, 2013
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Google cuts the cost of Apps for Business in India by half, seeking to sign up more local SMEs

As part of an effort to help small and medium sized enterprises in India, Google today announced it would slash the cost of its Google Apps for Business suite in the country by almost half. Citing the miniscule percentage of small businesses in the country that are online – just 1 percent of 47 million…

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