Instagram Photos Now Affect Your Klout Score

Now your Instagram photos will play a role in your Klout score. Klout has allowed users to connect their Instagram account to Klout for some time, however, those photos did not play a role in a person’s overall score. Now those photos will influence your score, and your most popular pictures will appear in the Klout Moments section of your Klout profile. In addition, Klout announced Thursday that...

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Social Sharing Buttons That Respect Your Visitors’ Privacy

Social sharing buttons — Facebook “Like” buttons and their ilk — are ubiquitous, but that doesn’t mean they’re a good idea. Designers tend to hate them, calling them “Nascar” buttons since the can make your site look at little bit like a Nascar racing car — every available inch of car covered in advertising. Others think the buttons make you look desperate — please, please like/pin/tweet me — but...

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Samsung Galaxy S4 US release news, price on AT&T

We have some good news for AT&T customers now, especially those who are planning to pick up the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone on day one at launch. The US carrier has now announced their release plans for the device, confirming a release date for when pre-orders will begin and the all-important price in which consumers will have to pay to secure one. It goes without saying...

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iMessage denial of service ‘prank’ spams users rapidly with messages, crashes iOS Messages app

Over the last couple of days, a group of iOS developers has been targeted with a series of rapid-fire texts sent over Apple’s iMessage system. The messages, likely transmitted via the OS X Messages app using a simple AppleScript, rapidly fill up the Messages app on iOS or the Mac with text, forcing a user to constantly clear both notifications and messages. In some instances, the messages...

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Popular aftermarket Android firmware CyanogenMod hits 1 million users

The Android development community continues to go from strength to strength after it was announced that third-party Android replacement firmware CyanogenMod has been installed on more than 1 million devices worldwide. The announcement was made by CyanogenMod team member and ClockworkMod creator Koushik “Koush” Dutta, who linked to its official statistics page, highlighting that 1,000,112...

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini specs compared with original

The highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S4 is scheduled to go on sale during April, but new information received suggests that we won’t have long to wait at all for a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini variant as well. Photos showing the bite size version have surfaced, giving you an early teaser of the size differences compared to its bigger brother. To refresh your memory, the Galaxy S3 Mini arrived around...

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Mozilla, Epic Bring Unreal 3 Gaming Engine to the Web (Video)

Mozilla has partnered with Epic Games to bring the Unreal 3 gaming engine to the web. The result is a high-end gaming engine that could change the way you think of web-based games. The Unreal 3 engine has previously been ported to Flash, but this is the first time a plugin-free (and therefore mobile-friendly) version has been built for the web. Mozilla is hoping this project will help turn the web...

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Inside the Biggest Cyberattack in History

A cyberattack originally targeting a single company is now being described by experts as one of the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in Internet history. The assault, which recently began impacting elements of the Internet's physical infrastructure, has been dragging down Internet speeds in Europe — but what makes this type of attack different from all other attacks? First,...

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Apple To Launch 4K Ultra HD TV With Voice & Motion Control In Early 2014 [Rumor]

Apple is gearing up to send its much-anticipated “iTV” into mass production during the second half of this year, according to sources in the Cupertino company’s supply chain, who have been speaking to DigiTimes. The set will reportedly boast a 4K “Ultra HD” display with a 3840×2160 resolution, and it’ll be controlled by voice and motion. Apple is already in talks with Foxconn and could launch the...

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New Evernote For Windows Phone Version Now Available

It was just a couple of days ago when we heard that Evernote announced Evernote 5 for Android, so where does that leave us folks who prefer to side with the Windows Phone platform? Well, version 3.0 of Evernote for Windows Phone is now available, and it certainly brings with it a slew of changes not to be trifled with. After all, Evernote CTO Dave Engberg did mention in the past that the average revenue,...

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Yahoo acquires news summarization app Summly — will be integrated in Yahoo’s mobile side

Yahoo has acquired Summly, a startup that has developed technology to automatically summarize news articles for mobile sites, the company announced this morning. Terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed, and Yahoo notes that it’s expected to close in the second quarter. The Summly team will be joining Yahoo and the existing Summly iPhone app will be shut down. Yahoo’s Adam Cahan, senior vice...

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As Windows Phone 8 fulfilled the Windows Phone promise, so will Blue complete Windows 8

This weekend brought a number of Windows Blue leaks that confirmed much of what we already knew: Windows Blue is not Windows 9, it is instead a bundle of feature improvements and general corrections to the operating system that has suffered from quirkiness its entire, short life. Windows Blue will contain new Live Tiles, in smaller and larger formats, improvements to current applications that...

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As Facebook hits 250m monthly gamers it starts rolling out a new Games feed on profiles

Facebook has released a whole slew of new figures at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today, showing significant growth in the number of people playing social games and completing microtranscations. The company also revealed that it will be launching a new Timeline section later this week, focused solely on video games. “The game section will give people a way to express their favourite...

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Will That Tweet Get You Fired? This App Warns You

If you've complained about your boss or job on Twitter, watch out for a warning from a new app called FireMe!. Ricardo Kawase and his team at the University of Hannover, Germany, created the tool, which tracks certain negative phrases about bosses and jobs and rates how likely they are to get the poster fired. When FireMe! flags such a tweet, it automatically sends a tweet to the user in question,...

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What's the Fastest Cloud Storage Service?

From Dropbox and Google Drive to SkyDrive, all of the major online storage services have their own unique strengths, but we wanted to answer one question: Who has the fastest cloud? After all, if you have to wait around for those photos to upload or to download that important presentation in a pinch, what’s the point? To find out which cloud service offers the best transfer speeds, we put five popular...

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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and its nonexistent S4 feature

Now Samsung has unveiled their Galaxy S4 all of those rumored features that were a no show kind of makes some of those predictions a little worthless. However, all is not lost, as a few of them could make it to the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, such as the “unbreakable display”. Those of you who expected to see a much stronger display on the S4 were left feeling a little disappointed, although that’s...

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Best iPad mini 2 conceptual videos

A few weeks ago we showed you some great concept videos of what the iPad 5 could look like if fans had their way, so we felt as though you would want to see some iPad mini 2 conceptions as well. However, because the current model is relatively new and the design is not that old, we cannot see Apple changing much. It seems as though the fans agree because the iPad mini 2 conceptual videos we have for...

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Google+ Now Lets You Use GIFs for Profile Pics

  Google+ announced Monday that it is now letting members use animated GIFs for their profile photos. The social network unveiled the update in a post on its Google+ page, alongside a link to a Google search for "How to create a gif." Matt Steiner, a software engineer at Google, first made the announcement on his profile page. He said GIFs will animate on both desktop and mobile views "like newspapers...

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Google Glass already facing driving ban as West Virginia preps law

Lawmakers in the US have proposed a bill outlawing operating a vehicle with head-mounted displays like Google Glass, even before the networked specs are commercially available. West Virginia Legislature Republican Gary G Howell last week proposed a bill that would prohibit "using a wearable computer with head mounted display", preemptively bringing Google's technology in line with existing state bans...

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Google's Android team reportedly working on smart watch as competitors do the same

Google's Android division is working to build a smart watch to create a new market, reports the Financial Times. The rumours of a Google watch come shortly after Samsung confirmed its plans to jump in the watch market earlier this week.   "We’ve been preparing the watch product for so long,” said Lee Young Hee, executive vice-president of Samsung’s mobile business. Google-competitor...

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Samsung’s New Galaxy Tab Could Have Extra-Large AMOLED Screen

Samsung loves it some AMOLED displays, but manufacturing quality AMOLED components has always been a little trickier than their LCD brethren, and the largest Samsung has managed to put on a tablet thus far has been the 7.7-incher on the appropriately named Galaxy Tab 7.7 (above). Now a new rumors suggests that Samsung has its eyes on something much larger, and could be delivering a full HD 1080p Android...

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BlackBerry To Release Four New Smartphones, Including Another ‘Exciting’ Flagship in 2013

In an interview today BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins revealed that the company will release four new smartphones this year, including a new ‘exciting’ flagship phone around the holidays. He said that he can’t say much about it at this point in time, but it is going to be a flagship device and will take BlackBerry 10 to a whole new level in terms of user experience. He did add that he wasn’t entirely...

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YouTube reaches 1 billion unique monthly users, almost 15% of planet Earth

Google has announced that YouTube is now at 1 billion monthly users. Assuming Wolfram Alpha’s estimate of 6.79 billion people on Earth, that means roughly 14.7% of the world watches something on YouTube every month. Take a moment to let that sink in. Google says that the video site reaches almost one out of every two people on the Internet. Its monthly viewership would make it the planet’s third-largest...

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Facebook Tests iOS Notification That Nags You to Post an Update

Facebook's modus operandi is that it tests all kinds of things all the time just to see what sticks. So, don't be too alarmed about this notification feature which Bijan Sabet, a general partner at Spark Capital, tweeted about this week: A Facebook rep says that the feature is in a "small test we're running." As Sabet's reaction illustrates, the feature has the potential to irk users. Facebook...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 And Galaxy Note III To Be Announced At IFA 2013 [Rumor]

Rumor has it that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 and the Galaxy Note III will be announced at IFA 2013, to be held on 6 to 11 September in Berlin. The source claims that no technical details about both of these devices is available as of now. It was said that Samsung will stop supporting software for the first generation Galaxy Tab, whereas the Galaxy Tab 2 will receive Android 4.2.2 update. There will...

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Sony PS3 update 4.40 hidden features likely

Out of nowhere, Sony has just issued a mandatory new firmware update for the PS3. PS3 update 4.40 is now available to download and all users will have to install it if they want to continue using online services via PSN. The strange thing about this particular update, is that there hasn’t been any information prior to be update landing, while Sony hasn’t given any indication whatsoever on what firmware...

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