Boy-o-boy! There seems to be an app developed specially to mock US Republican presidential hopeful Donald J Trump which completely behaves like the businessman himself. The new parody app about Donald Trump is becoming a hit climbing to No. 5 on the list of most downloaded apps in the U.S. iTunes App Store.The one of the objectives of the game is to build a wall as huge as you can. However, it’s not being built on the U.S-Mexico border. It will be built on the front of a building that somehow looks like the White House with Trump’s name fully embedded across it.
WhatsApp has just rolled out a native desktop app for both Windows and Mac users. Essentially a mobile-oriented application, WhatsApp still requires users to synch in their phones as a protection from potential hacking.
Seems like WhatsApp now have plans to make a standalone access for PCs too. And not just that, the social media giants Facebook have a lot of stuff planned and are under development. Which means there might be more features added to the app in the near future.
How often have we a lot of time to spare to actually chat with your friends? If you’re an entrepreneur like me, you might as well have nil time to actually interact with your friends in the form of a text. But now, there’s a chat bot that does the job for you. It’s now really boring to access Facebook which is why I in fact have deleted my personal profile too. It’s just not that productive anymore.
A new study reveals people’s sleeping patterns worldwide using the data collected from a mobile app. The researchers warn that not getting the recommended eight-hour sleep poses health risks as it increases the likelihood of obesity, diabetes, and heart-related diseases.
Responding to the growing demand of a permanent save feature in its livestreaming platform, Periscope announced a beta trial which sees the addition of #save to make users’ video broadcasts stay online forever. This puts the Twitter-owned app against Facebook’s very own platform ‘Live’ integrated within its 1.6 billion-strong social networking ecosystem.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is purportedly getting a desktop client version after tweeted snaps of coding translations for the insanely popular messaging app have been making rounds online. If rumors prove accurate, it will be a game-changing inroad as it challenges the dominance of Skype and other leading messaging platforms.
Wizard Gandalf in “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, Sir Ian McKellen, is working on a project that will make Shakespeare more comprehensible to the common people.
Snapchat is currently facing a lawsuit after a teenage user of its ‘speed filter’ crashed and injured another person. The 18-year-old teenager was allegedly trying to record the speed of the car she’s driving at more than 100mph using the app and share it on Snapchat.
Apple App Store generates more revenues than Google App Store, despite registering fewer downloads than the latter, according to a report by analytics firm App Annie.
To celebrate Google Calendar’s 10th year, Google rolled out ‘Goals’ – a mobile feature that helps people hyper-organized goals in their already full and most oftentimes cluttered schedules. The app is pretty self-learning as it analyzes and learns from the user’s previous interaction with goals.
Aipoly, an image-recognition app, makes easier for people with visual disability to recognize their proximity. The users have to just point the camera on their phones for the app to identify the objects it sees and then show the object on the phone’s display.
Instagram shifts to Facebook-like personalized newsfeed to make content more relevant to users. However, the image-sharing platform may run the risk of alienating a segment of its diehard users who prefer the chronological order of posts.
Skype users will now be able to call landlines and cell phones directly with their Skype for Business and Skype for Web services.
Facebook Exec Mark Zuckerberg is currently ‘obsessed’ with livestreaming service which would enable users to live broadcast videos to families and friends.
09 Aug '24 16:35PM
